Review: GRUD, Hampstead Theatre
by Katie Kirkpatrick - Jul 9, 2024
Sarah Power’s Grud is a show about space – in more ways than one. When Bo joins an after school club mission to send a model robot into the stars, it causes the space between her home life and the rest of the world to narrow until it disappears completely. Grud follows sixth form student Bo (Catherine Ashdown), who’s whip-smart but something of a loner.
The Yard Reveals Two World Premieres For 2024
by Stephi Wild - Dec 7, 2023
The Yard Theatre follows its run of James Fritz's The Flea, which saw a record-breaking number of people attend a new production at the venue, by announcing two world premieres for 2024. Learn more about the upcoming shows here!
Hampstead Theatre Announces New Spring Season
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Nov 23, 2023
Spring 2024 will see four world premieres, one UK premiere, and one English language premiere by acclaimed writers including April De Angelis, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Christopher Hampton and Richard Nelson alongside rising playwrights Sarah Power and Richard Molloy.
Review: PARADISE NOW!, Bush Theatre
by Paige Cochrane - Dec 13, 2022
It all starts with a friend request out of the blue. Welcome to Paradise, the latest multi-level marketing scheme for every girl boss in need of a financial lift. Who could argue a £250 start-up fee and enough essential oils to fill a swimming pool when you’re so close to paving the way to self-employed luxury?
Cast and Creatives Announced For PARADISE NOW! at the Bush Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Oct 4, 2022
Paradise Now! a funny and raging new play about ambition, exploitation, and kinship in a world that wants to keep us strangers, opens at the Bush Theatre on 2 December (press night 8 December). This new Bush Theatre commission by Margaret Perry (Collapsible) is an exciting collaboration with director Jaz Woodcock-Stewart (Civilisation) and features an all-female ensemble cast.
Shoreditch Town Hall New Leadership Announces Autumn Plans
by Stephi Wild - Jul 6, 2022
Shoreditch Town Hall announces premieres, partnerships, and hit shows this autumn in the first season curated by Head of Cultural Programme Ellie Browning and CEO Beth Byrne since their appointments in 2021.
Photos: First Look at ELECTRIC ROSARY at the Royal Exchange
by Stephi Wild - Apr 28, 2022
Tim Foley’s new play ELECTRIC ROSARY is now playing at the Royal Exchange. Bringing nuns and robots together on the Royal Exchange stage for the first time - this brand-new piece of comedy writing was inspired by Foley’s youthful trip to a monastery with his dad, where the monks rode quad-bikes.
Photos: First Look at Unicorn Theatre's GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 15, 2022
Jaz Woodcock-Stewart directs Leah Brotherhead (Netflix’s Bridgerton/ITV’s Zomboat), Mae Munuo (the Unicorn’s The Bolds/ Complicite’s I’ll Take You to Mrs Cole), Sam Swann (Skellig/ITV’s Mr Selfridge) and Jacoba Williams (Globe’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream/ VAULT Festival When The Sea Swallows Us Whole) in Lulu Raczka’s radical re-imagining of Jonathan Swift’s surreal masterpiece, Gulliver’s Travels for all the family this Easter.
Brixton House Announces Its Inaugural Associate Artists
by Stephi Wild - Jun 21, 2021
The Associate Artists scheme will encourage these artists to take an active role in the growth and development of Brixton House, as well as furthering their own creative skills and thinking alongside this.