CITY LIT - JOHN LYON'S THEATRE

by Kat Mokrynski - October 21, 2024

The Sound of Philadelphia, a celebration of “50 years of Philly Soul,” hosted by Sir Lenny Henry, celebrated the Philly soul genre, which is “characterised by funk influences and lush string and horn arrangements,” so it only makes sense that the music of the night would be performed by the BBC Conc...

by Franco Milazzo - October 20, 2024

With tickets costing £400 each and a storyline stretching over 24 hours, is Lemon Difficult’s The Key Of Dreams the ultimate in immersive theatre? ...

by Katie Kirkpatrick - October 19, 2024

Based on Ali Smith’s novel, Autumn is a curious blur of images and ideas, which weave in and out of each other with varying success. At the centre of it all, however, is an unlikely friendship, originally formed between an eight-year-old girl and the elderly man next door....

by Cheryl Markosky - October 21, 2024

It's one of the most unlikely moments in the history of entertainment. Two bespectacled 50-something English historians, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, bound onto the stage of the Royal Albert Hall, like rock stars, to tumultuous applause. Eat your heart out, Mick and Keith!...

by Matthew Paluch - October 21, 2024

Dance Umbrella continues in London with Radioactive Practice by Abby Z (Abby Zbikowski) and the New Utility. Sadler’s Wells is transformed for the work with three banks of seats placed on the stage and the upper two circles of the auditorium closed. Some audience members still sit in the stalls, but...

by Franco Milazzo - October 18, 2024

Watching this reboot of Immersive 1984, a thought comes to mind: if, as we’re constantly being informed, we’re all living in the post-privacy, post-truth and post-politics world foretold in 1984, aren’t we already inside an immersive version of George Orwell’s seminal book? ...

by Gary Naylor - October 18, 2024

Incomprehensible drama fails to breach the cultural gap between Japan and England...

by Christiana Rose - October 21, 2024

The world premiere of The Forsyte Saga Parts 1 'Irene' and Part 2 'Fleur' has been devised by Ashley Cook for Troupe Theatre, in association with Park Theatre, featuring a superbly talented cast of nine in a genuinely epic and stylish period production....

by Franco Milazzo - October 17, 2024

Based on the 2017 hit film about PT Barnum, Come Alive! The Greatest Showman Circus Spectacular is an immersive mishmash of circus, story and song that somehow manages to do a disservice to all three. ...

by Alexander Cohen - October 17, 2024

Zinnie Harris’s 2019 incarnation of The Duchess of Malfi, matter-of-factly titled The Duchess (of Malfi), desperately yearns to conjure the sexy metatheatrical cunning of Van Hove, Mitchell, Ostermeier. It stumbles toe-curlingly at every hurdle. ...