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Review: THE INVENTION OF LOVE, Hampstead Theatre
by Alexander Cohen - Dec 17, 2024

Don’t be fooled. It’s midwinter and a rotund man with a big white beard is centre stage. But this is no schmultz-fest panto. It’s Simon Russell Beale as A.E Housman in Blanche Mcintyre’s sober new production of Tom Stoppard’s portrait of the artist as an old man, The Invention Of Love.
Photos: Brie Larson, Stockard Channing, and More in ELEKTRA
by Stephi Wild - Dec 16, 2024

All new photos have been released from the rehearsal room of ELEKTRA, the UK Premiere production of the translation by award winning poet Anne Carson of Sophokles’s play. Check out the photos here!
Review: ALICE IN WONDERLAND, Brixton House
by Franco Milazzo - Nov 27, 2024

Alice In Wonderland? More like Alice Goes Underground as Poltergeist Productions’ take on the Lewis Carroll classic sees our heroine trapped on a tube.
Photos: National Youth Theatre's TWELFTH NIGHT in Rehearsal
by Stephi Wild - Nov 18, 2024

New rehearsal photos have been released of Twelfth Night, a National Youth Theatre production performed by the NYT REP company. Check out the photos here!
Review: WOLVES ON ROAD, Bush Theatre
by Gary Naylor - Nov 17, 2024

Director, Daniel Bailey, follows up his hit Red Pitch with a play that cannot locate the detail it needs to step out of a generic plot
Photos: ODD AND THE FROST GIANTS In Rehearsal At Unicorn Theatre
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 6, 2024

See photos from inside rehearsal for Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman, adapted for the stage by Robert Alan Evans, and directed by Rachel Bagshaw.
Review: BRACE BRACE, Royal Court Theatre
by Katie Kirkpatrick - Oct 12, 2024

Digging deep into human nature, Oli Forsyth’s Brace Brace combines the pace and excitement of a thriller with an unexpectedly perceptive intelligence. Ambitiously designed and skillfully directed, it’s a deeply engrossing piece of theatre writes our critic.
Review: KING TROLL (THE FAWN), New Diorama
by Josh Maughan - Oct 9, 2024

This co-production between the New Diorama Theatre and Kali Theatre is a visceral investigation of how migrant communities transform under the layers of anger, fear, and resilience they adopt - products of survival in a vexatious state.
Review: NOWHERE, Battersea Arts Centre
by Cindy Marcolina - Oct 5, 2024

The world is a dark place. Every day, we seem to edge closer to the start of another global conflict. Nowhere is safe. War and destruction have become steady protagonists on our television screens, to the point where we’re growing increasingly desensitised to violence.
Review: THE REAL ONES, Bush Theatre
by Katie Kirkpatrick - Sep 13, 2024

At once intimate and expansive, The Real Ones follows the friendship of Zaid and Neelam from age nineteen to thirty-six. Once kindred spirits, moving in sync, they fall out of step when the harsh reality of adult life sends them in different directions. Waleed Akhtar (Olivier winner for The P Word) pens a sharply observed look into whether platonic love can last.
Photos: Vasco Emauz, Cory English, and More Lead BACK TO THE FUTURE in the West End
by Stephi Wild - Sep 9, 2024

All new production images have been released for the critically acclaimed BACK TO THE FUTURE The Musical in London's West End. Check out the photos here!
Review: DEATH OF ENGLAND: CLOSING TIME, @sohoplace
by Alexander Cohen - Aug 29, 2024

It only premiered last October, but Death of England: Closing Time, the final chapter in Roy Williams and Clint Dyer’s state of the nation triptych, not only retains its spine-frosting freshness, but feels more dangerous than ever.
Review: DEATH OF ENGLAND: DELROY, @sohoplace
by Alexander Cohen - Jul 31, 2024

Some actors can play a role. Sure. Only a handful can inhabit it living and breathing. Even fewer are so convincing that you can’t imagine anyone else in their shoes. Paapa Essiedu is the latter. Without a doubt. Not even a second of doubt.
Review: DEATH OF ENGLAND: MICHAEL, @sohoplace
by Alexander Cohen - Jul 31, 2024

The guns fire loud and sonorous for the opening salvos of Clint Dyer and Roy Williams’s Death of England trilogy. A staggered premiere over four years at The National Theatre from 2020, new kid on the theatreland block @sohoplace (it’s really called that) have collated the trilogy (Michael, Delroy, and Closing Time) in rep in the West End.
Review: THE PROMISE, Minerva Theatre, Chichester
by Debbie Gilpin - Jul 30, 2024

'To promise nearly fifty million people truly universal health care - ‘cradle to the grave’ - is crackers.' Despite this quote featuring quite prominently in promotional material, and the poster image showing a pair of midwives, The Promise isn’t wholly about the founding of the NHS. Paul Unwin’s new play instead depicts the rise of Clement Attlee’s Labour Party in the wake of the Second World War, and their attempts to create unity and growth in the years that follow.
Review: THE HOT WING KING, National Theatre
by Alexander Cohen - Jul 19, 2024

When food takes centre stage, it is usually as a conduit for humanity. Somewhere in the pseudo religiosity of ritual and the flurry of flavours we summon stories of cultures, families, histories across time and geography.
Photos: THE HOT WING KING at the National Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Jul 18, 2024

The National Theatre has released first look production photos for the UK premiere of Katori Hall’s  Pulitzer Prize-winning The Hot Wing King. Check out the photos here!
Review Roundup: SLAVE PLAY Arrives in London
by Nicole Rosky - Jul 11, 2024

Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris, and  directed by Robert O’Hara, has arrived in London! Let's see what the London critics are saying about the play...
Review: SLAVE PLAY, Noël Coward Theatre
by Alexander Cohen - Jul 10, 2024

For a play that wears controversy as a badge of honour the last thing I expected to feel was slightly bored
Review: SKELETON CREW, Donmar Warehouse
by Alexander Cohen - Jul 8, 2024

It takes its time to warm up. But when this American four hander stretches its dramatic muscles a pummelling emotional workout results

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