Reading Time: 2 minutesA table, four Nigerian aunties and one countercultural Black woman disregarding expectations. Presented by Olúwatósin Omotosho at Dancing City festival, The Aunties: House of Masks does not fail to entertain while comically criticising the traditional Nigerian aunties.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor a play about what cannot be said, Holy Fool says too much. Set at the height of Stalin’s regime, Holy Fool follows composer Dmitri Shostakovich as he attempts to survive under a system in which artistic…
Reading Time: 3 minutesA powerful, largely overlooked story of Irish gay community and chosen family in the AIDS crisis, undercut by weak, unfocused direction. There have been many plays and musicals exploring the harrowing years of the AIDS crisis in…
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘This intimate staging brings the iconic tale of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra to life, exploring the political intrigue and tragic tensions of Handel’s classic opera.’ Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto is a classic Baroque opera, full of political intrigue,…
Reading Time: 2 minutesOsman gives a dynamic and powerful performance in this warm and witty autobiographical exploration of identity, dreaming and bodily fluids. Razak Osman really can do it all. He’s an actor, rapper, dancer and comedian, all wrapped into…
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Lunatics' Common Room is the first solo exhibition by photographer-artist Yoanna Walden. Featuring 15 carefully staged photographic works, Walden aims to create a shared space for those historically deprived of their autonomy within psychiatric institutions, while interrogating systems of control and the social construction of madness.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThree years after Punchdrunk closed the doors of its vast Woolwich production, audiences are being invited back into its labyrinth for the world premiere of Persephone, a new film following The Burnt City through the eyes of one of its…
Reading Time: 3 minutesHigh School Musical is a comeback done perfectly at The Lowry this summer.
Reading Time: 3 minutesOpening at London’s annual Grimeborn Opera Festival on Tuesday 25 August, Mozart’s The Magic Flute feels right at home in Dalston’s intimate Arcola Theatre.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWritten and performed by Frank Murdocco, the play follows Ethan, a recently divorced gay T-shirt maker, who one day receives a phone call from a mysterious client.