Reading Time: 3 minutesTraditional Sichuan Opera face-changing becomes a powerful metaphor for fractured identity. Digital projections and electronic soundscapes collide with ancient motifs, visualizing the tension between cultural heritage and global ambition.
Reading Time: 2 minutesNew musical JACKIE!!! tells the glamorous and scandalous life story of the legendary Jacqueline Kennedy. Combining sharp political exploits with vibrant musical numbers to unpick the complexities of one of the 20th century’s most influential women entangled in the ‘Kennedy curse’.
Reading Time: 5 minutesI Was A German is an autobiographical journey by writer and performer Clare Fraenkel, exploring her quest to reclaim her grandfather’s lost citizenship.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Winter's Tale Directed by Yaël Farber for RSC, and featuring double Olivier and Tony Award-winner Bertie Carvel (Matilda The Musical), Madeline Appiah, Aïcha Kossoko and John Light this reimagined tale is brought vividly to life through Soutra Gilmour’s elemental set and costume design, and striking lighting design by Tim Lutkin.
Reading Time: 6 minutesCharlotte and Sam played Indira and Mohandas in Make Good: The Post Office Scandal, both making their debuts as performers in a musical. The musical, developed over three years, was written by Jeanie O’Hare (book), Jim Fortune (music and lyrics), and Maimuna Memon (additional music), and was developed with affected sub-postmasters.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs You Like It follows the success of last year’s Much Ado About Nothing and the company’s Offie Award-nominated A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Romeo & Juliet. This joyful, family-friendly outdoor production blends contemporary London culture with the Bard’s wit, romance, and secret identities.
Reading Time: 3 minutesOnBook Theatre presents “Red Peppers” by Noel Coward and “Aged in Wood” by Cian Griffin.
Set in a theatre dressing room in 1935, “Red Peppers” is one of Noel Coward’s most celebrated comic one act plays.
The play depicts a second-rate music hall double act, a husband and wife team, who perform two musical numbers, in between which they bicker in their dressing room and quarrel with colleagues.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWise Children return to HOME with a reworking of Alfred Hitchcock's classic spy film, adapted and directed by Emma Rice.
Reading Time: 3 minutesHalf fictional and half factual, Singaporean playwright Joel Tan‘s Scenes from a Repatriation imagines the many tangled narratives surrounding a British Museum artifact - a Northern Song dynasty (960–1127) stoneware Guanyin statue
Reading Time: 3 minutesWritten by Samuel Rees and Gabriele Uboldi Lessons On Revolution brings to life the 1968 student led activism demanding London School of Economics to cut ties with apartheid-era Rhodesia