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by Kat Mokrynski - March 03, 2025

From the day she was born, Temi Wilkey has been destined to perform. This is made clear from her grand entrance into Soho Theatre Upstairs, dressed in a gorgeous and frilly red dressing gown that she slowly removes to reveal her bright pink outfit underneath as the audience cheers. Main Character En...

by Aliya Al-Hassan - February 28, 2025

Legendary stage and screen actor Brian Cox stars as Johann Sebastian Bach in Oliver Cotton’s new play, The Score, originally presented at the Theatre Royal Bath....

by Gary Naylor - February 28, 2025

A work that uses the darkest of dark sets to shed light on the possibilities inherent in creative work, right here, right now...

by Aliya Al-Hassan - February 28, 2025

Michael Abbensetts was the first Black writer to have a series commissioned by the BBC: the groundbreaking Empire Road, which had an almost entirely Black cast and crew. The Guyanese writer's work has been largely forgotten, so it seems appropriate that the National Theatre, with its important Black...

by Cindy Marcolina - March 01, 2025

Marnie never chose to be a mum. She loves her 4-year-old and would die for him, but he’s not what she expected him to be. When she’s filmed calling him a see-you-next-Tuesday on a plane back from Dubai, the video immediately goes viral. With her lowest moment immortalised for everybody in the world ...

by Amber-Rae Stobbs - February 27, 2025

Ibsen's classic tale of the issues surrounding a mother's responsibilities comes to South London...

by Aliya Al-Hassan - February 27, 2025

Direct from a sell-out run at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Last Laugh is a brand-new laugh-a-minute play which re-imagines the lives of three of Britain's all-time greatest comedy heroes – Tommy Cooper, Eric Morecambe and Bob Monkhouse....

by Gary Naylor - February 27, 2025

Homage to much-loved comedians and their deceptively dangerous art...

by Alexander Cohen - February 27, 2025

“Sieged land besieges you” Gazan mother Mariam confides in us in A Knock On the Roof. Her strained humanity is splayed front and centre of Khawla Ibraheem’s psychologically wrenching one woman show....

by Michael Higgs - February 27, 2025

An animated revival of Adele Thomas’s 2023 production, Il Trovatore strays from realism and instead focuses on a symbolic reading of this dark and gritty opera. With macabre medieval costumes, eery effects and a brilliant cast, it’s an unnerving experience....