Reading Time: 2 minutesI arrived at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith expecting a lively panto, but Jack and the Beanstalk turned out to be far more ambitious. It was a sharply conceived, high energy production that reimagines the familiar tale through a surprisingly effective dystopian lens.
Reading Time: 3 minutesMarking Time delivers three fiercely distinct visions of how sound and movement bend, stretch, and disrupt our sense of time. Earlier this year, I saw Outlander at Kings Place and was fascinated by the musical chemistry between…
Reading Time: 5 minutesJason Donovan has returned to one of his most famous roles: playing Frank-N-Furter in Richard O’Brien’s anarchic musical, The Rocky Horror Show. So, the question has to be: why?
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe sat down with Elliot Baker to talk about their latest show Jack and the Beanstalk: Adults Only. It's a full-on, no holds barred spectacle packed with show tunes, slapstick and a cheeky twist on traditional pantomime fun! King’s Head Theatre returns after 2024’s five-star Cinderella for North London’s most scandalous panto.
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘The Thing With Feathers’ explores the lives of Emily and Sue, a poet and artist who have been married to each other for 60 years. Its episodic structure alternates between their younger and older selves, allowing us to see their personalities and their relationship changing over time.
Reading Time: 3 minutesPerfect Show For Rachel is easily one of the most joyful and entertaining things I have seen in ages. It has this brilliant, playful energy that makes you feel like you are stepping into a family who love nothing more than a bit of chaos and a lot of laughter.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down with Holly Freeman, one of the performers in the electro-folk musical Precipice. Playing at New Diorama Theatre (NDT), marking the bold debut production from boundary-blurring new company Timelapse, this show is developed through a uniquely collaborative creative process.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA witty tragicomedy about the struggles of immigrants and the absurdity of the British government This hilariously-named play by Vivek Nityananda, I Dream of Theresa May, follows five years in the life of a gay Indian man named Nikhil. Set…
Reading Time: 3 minutesA hilariously unhinged academic turf war where dinosaurs, egos, and alternative facts collide. Jurassic, written by Tim Foley and produced by Ransack Theatre, is currently running in Soho Theatre’s Upstairs Studio. A sharp, absurd, and strangely familiar…
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down for a quick chat with Sarah Hyojin Kim, artistic director of Peculiar Matter, Theo Ambrosini and Jerry Faderer about Unfinished Business. This is a devised work rooted in Sarah’s personal experience of being by…