THE BREAD & ROSES THEATRE

by Aliya Al-Hassan - February 10, 2025

The five-star sold out production of The Years has transferred to the West End for 12 weeks only. Based on Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux’s fearless masterpiece, five actors create an unapologetic portrait of a woman shaped by her rapidly-changing world....

by Alexander Cohen - February 10, 2025

Critics raved about its initial run at the Almedia last year. Can it make the leap from intimate space to grand West End playhouse?...

by Louise Penn - February 10, 2025

In the new Sadler's Wells East venue, we are invited to observe and then enter the world of Club Groove in a pulsing, energetic, modern dance piece allowing the audience to mingle on the dance floor. The story is slight but the vibe is unmistakable. This production opens with a half-hour of powerhou...

by Gary Naylor - February 07, 2025

Katsiaryna Snytsina, the eponymous KS6, tells an often warm and witty tale of her own empowerment, with a burning ambition to do the same for her country...

by Aliya Al-Hassan - February 10, 2025

How would life have turned out if you had stayed with your first love? Where would you be if you had gone against social convention? Eugene O'Brien's deftly crafted play, HEAVEN, asks us these questions and many more in this captivating and bittersweet two-hander....

by Louise Penn - February 07, 2025

An evening of expressive and emotional music from three great modernist composers is hard to fault as the LSO perform pieces by Walker, Bernstein, and Walton in a powerful Anglo-American programme....

by Cindy Marcolina - February 07, 2025

The road to the perfect commemorative photograph is anything but smooth with their two unruly personalities. Written by historian playwright John Ransom-Phillips and directed by Bronagh Lagan, Mrs President lives suspended between the lenses of history and fiction....

by Aliya Al-Hassan - February 06, 2025

Starring Brie Larson, Daniel Fish directs the first major revival in over a decade of Sophokles’ electrifying and timeless play, Elektra, with a translation by poet Anne Carson, at the Duke Of York’s Theatre....

by Alexander Cohen - February 06, 2025

So why is Daniel Fish’s Elektra such a droning dud?...

by Aliya Al-Hassan - February 06, 2025

Joe Hill-Gibbins’s new production of The Marriage of Figaro for English National Opera opened back in March 2020 for a single performance before Covid struck. Thankfully, nearly five years on it has been given a second life at the London Coliseum and it is a riotous delight from start to finish....