REVIEW: Ghost Stories

Reading Time: 2 minutesGhost Stories at the Peacock Theatre delivers exactly what it promises on the tin: jolts, jumps, and plenty of shrieks designed to send your pulse soaring. And in that sense, it succeeds.

Reading Time: 2 minutesGhost Stories at the Peacock Theatre delivers exactly what it promises on the tin: jolts, jumps, and plenty of shrieks designed to send your pulse soaring. And in that sense, it succeeds.

Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter what author Michael Morpurgo aptly termed a “pandemic pause,” War Horse has returned to the UK stage with renewed urgency and emotional relevance.

Reading Time: 2 minutesSunshine, sweat and sound. When Harry Wayne Casey, a record shop staff in Hialeah with an obsession for rhythm, he didn't know Miami would become the centre of disco and dance music because of him.

Reading Time: 3 minutes‘Boys’ by Ella Hickson is a play about masculinity, friendship, adulthood, and taking a stand for what’s important. First performed in 2012, this 2025 performance by Northern Assignment held its audience captive throughout its two-hour run, and is performed by a cast you don’t want to miss.

Reading Time: 2 minutesWalking into the Oxford Playhouse for The Party Girls, I had no prior knowledge of the Mitford sisters, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. What I found was a piece of theatre that was visually slick, tightly performed, and thematically challenging in all the right ways.

Reading Time: 2 minutesAn evening of amateur dramatics from EUTC at Bedlam Theatre, Endgame by Samuel Beckett, felt like an interesting choice of production.

Reading Time: 2 minutesA breathtaking history of some of ballet’s most radical choreographers The English National Ballet’s R:Evolution is a quadruple bill of some of ballet’s most innovative works. It takes us through a brief history of four of the art form’s…

Reading Time: 2 minutesMax Webster’s production of Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ is a reiteration of the same version at the National Theatre last year, which starred Ncuti Gatwa and Hugh Skinner.

Reading Time: 4 minutesWe sat down for a quick chat with the writer Abigail Hood about her latest London project, Monster. 1.What first drew you to the subject of children who kill, and how did your research into cases like…

Reading Time: 2 minutesA comedic revelation of how beliefs and truths are manipulated over time Religion has become a point of contention in our postmodern society. Once taken as absolute truth, the renowned (and still, often culturally referenced) stories in…