WANDSWORTH ARTS FRINGE 2024

by Franco Milazzo - February 22, 2025

If ever a show was deserving of an exclamation mark, it is the crash-bang-bang-bang-wallop Trash!...

by Cindy Marcolina - February 22, 2025

Entertainment is rotten business. Never mind all the allegations against big (normally male) names that regularly appear on our screens, superstardom is a road paved with dubious morals and forced subduedness. From Demi Lovato to Miley Cyrus, from One Direction to Boyzone, regardless of your gender,...

by Vikki Jane Vile - February 21, 2025

Sir David Bintley’s 2010 production of Cinderella has been long overdue an outing, and based on Wednesday’s opening night at Birmingham Hippodrome it is worth the wait. Thanks to Birmingham Royal Ballet’s fundraising efforts, the work now returns refreshed with restored costumes and a dazzling cast,...

by Alexander Cohen - February 21, 2025

Cycles of fractured motherhood spin and splinter across generations in Anna Mackmin’s new play. But even with polyphonic performances from veteran thesps Tamsin Grieg and Celia Imre, both at the top of their game, this bittersweet melodrama doesn’t hit as hard as it could....

by Matthew Paluch - February 21, 2025

February 2025 is the inaugural month of Sadler’s Wells East, London’s newest dance house with a 550-seat theatre, six dance studios, and a public performance space all under one roof. Dance has found a new home in East Bank, Stratford/London’s latest cultural and educational district, and Irish chor...

by Tsitsi Tsopotsa - February 21, 2025

In an era where nostalgia often serves as a mere backdrop, Lynn Faces delivers a sharper perspective, wielding both comedy and commentary with remarkable precision. Running since 2023, this production masterfully interweaves punk aesthetics with feminist discourse, creating a theatrical experience t...

by Franco Milazzo - February 20, 2025

Word on the street is that there’s a new murder mystery adventure in town so, after putting on my metaphorical deerstalker and hoicking the collar of my coat up, I took a walk down to the mean streets of, er, Canary Wharf....

by Louise Penn - February 21, 2025

Crystal Pite’s deeply moving work has themes of safe passage, displacement, community and mortality. Light of Passage, taken as a whole work with the three sections together, builds into a cohesive whole on the theme of who we are, where we are going, and what we feel. Although there are moments of...

by Aliya Al-Hassan - February 20, 2025

Tom Hiddleston is Benedick and Hayley Atwell is Beatrice. Two of their generation’s finest actors collaborate with director Jamie Lloyd again in this savagely funny and beautifully tender battle of wits. Much Ado About Nothing is now open at Theatre Royal Drury Lane. What did the critics think?...

by Franco Milazzo - February 19, 2025

In a vigorous virtuoso performance that demands to be seen, Jack Holden brings to exhilarating life a true-life crime story from half a century ago....