CONWAY HALL - MAIN HALL

by Gary Naylor - September 29, 2024

Euripides in W6? A distressingly close fit....

by Franco Milazzo - September 27, 2024

Charles Mingus originally intended for his iconic 1963 jazz album The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady to be accompanied by dancers and, thanks to performance company Clod Ensemble and the Nu Civilisation Orchestra, it becomes the inspiration for a vibrant and inclusive show....

by Alexander Cohen - September 27, 2024

A single house in the Middle East is the focal point in this stage adaption of the Israeli-French filmmaker’s documentary trilogy from La Colline - Théâtre National. Borders, identities, geographies, cultures and people change, and yet its four walls remain the same....

by Gary Naylor - September 27, 2024

John Lithgow impresses as Roald Dahl in an unconvincing drama that is unlikely to change many minds...

by Cindy Marcolina - September 28, 2024

Sir Julian Twombley is in hot waters when it’s discovered that his family has been living way beyond his House of Commons’ wages. This isn’t the latest front page of a Daily Mail-made political attack, it’s the premise of one of Arthur Wing Pinero’s later comedies. Though Victorian farce isn’t exact...

by Kat Mokrynski - September 26, 2024

Have you ever been sitting on a stool on a stage, being asked to load a confetti cannon with five containers, one of which containing push pins, that will be shot into the unguarded face of a drag queen? Not many will be able to say they have, but those who attend Ginger Johnson Blows Off! may have ...

by Franco Milazzo - September 26, 2024

Describing a Blue Man Group show after just leaving one to a person who has never seen them may feel like sticking jelly to a wall: messy, futile and you might be feeling a bit sticky....

by Gary Naylor - September 26, 2024

New play packs plenty of ethical questions into an engaging and fascinating production that offers much to think about on the way home...

by Franco Milazzo - September 25, 2024

Eighty dates into Bianca Del Rio’s Dead Inside tour, the sweary New Orleans-born comedian is still very much alive and kicking. The artist formally known as Roy R. Haylock is an insult comic whose outsized personality and foghorn voice easily fills the capacious Eventim – but does her latest show wo...

by Cheryl Markosky - September 26, 2024

What did our critic think of 1984 at Theatre Royal Bath?...