Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Review
Mark Bibby Jackson reviews Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead at the Barbican Theatre part of its UK and Europe tour. Somehow I have never seen a…
A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction
A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction by Miranda Rose Hall will have its UK debut at the Barbican Theatre in April thanks to a collaboration between…
Standing at the Sky’s Edge
Standing at the Sky’s Edge will be performed at the National Theatre’s Olivier Theatre from 9 February to 25 March. With music and lyrics by Richard Hawley, based on a…
Romeo and Julie, Dorfman Theatre
Romeo and Julie is a new play by Gary Owen that will be performed at the National Theatre’s Dorfman Theatre from 14 February to 1 April. A co-production with the…
The Winter’s Tale, Globe Theatre
Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale will make history this February and March as it is performed on both the stage of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse and the Globe Theatre. The Plot…
Phaedra, Lyttelton Theatre
Phaedra, a new play by Simon Stone after Euripides, Seneca and Racine, will be performed at the Lyttelton Theatre, National Theatre from 1 February to 8 April. Writer-Director Simon Stone…
Dancing at Lughnasa, Olivier Theatre
The Olivier Theatre will host Brian Friel’s Tony Award-winning drama Dancing at Lughnasa in April. Siobhan McSweeney (Derry Girls), Ardal O’Hanlon (Father Ted) and Tom Vaughan-Lawlor are among the cast….
The Motive and the Cue, National Theatre
In May, the Lyttelton Theatre will host the world premiere of Jack Thorne’s new drama The Motive and the Cue, starring Johnny Flynn as Richard Burton, and directed by Sam…
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Complicité/Simon McBurney – Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead The acclaimed company Complicité makes its Barbican stage debut with this fresh production of Drive Your Plow Over the…
The Comedy of Errors, Globe Theatre
This summer, catch The Comedy of Errors, Shakespeare’s comedy about misplaced siblings and confused identities, at the Globe Theatre. See a performance of one of William Shakespeare’s most famous comedies…
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Globe Theatre
Join the fun as Mother Nature envelops Shakespeare’s glorious comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre this summer. The Story of A Midsummer Night’s Dream Four disobedient…
Black Superhero, Royal Court Theatre
Black Superhero, a play by Danny Lee Wynter, will be performed at the Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square from 14 March to 29 April, 2023. Cast for Black Superhero The…
Guys & Dolls The Musical, Bridge Theatre
One of the finest musicals ever Guys & Dolls will be performed at the Bridge Theatre this spring and summer. The immersive show directed by Nicholas Hytner…
Southbank Centre Winter Festival
London’s Southbank winter festival returns to the UK capital on 3 November, running through to the New Year. The Southbank Centre Winter Festival is a highlight of the winter season…
Jack Absolute Flies Again Review
Julia Bright reviews Jack Absolute Flies Again at the National Theatre, a rollicking update on Sheridan’s The Rivals. There is no doubt, Jack Absolute Flies Again is a hit. It’s a…
ABBA Voyage to the The Stratford Hotel
Eileen Wise goes back to a fantastic future with ABBA Voyage and a luxurious stay at modern The Stratford Hotel. What a journey! It’s taken more than five years to…
Cabaret Musical: A Night at the Kit Kat Club
Eileen Wise and Deborah Unger see the Cabaret musical at the Playhouse Theatre, and enter the vivid world of the Kit Kat Club. It’s not usual to be offered a…
London Theatres : a Review
Mark Bibby Jackson reviews London Theatres, a guide to London’s Theatres by Michael Coveney and Peter Dazeley with foreword by actor Mark Rylance published by Frances Lincoln. One of the…
Is God Is a Revenger’s Tragedy?
The Royal Court’s ambitious and refreshing new programme has continued with Aleshea Harris’ revenge drama Is God Is at the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs. Fast and furious from the off, Aleshea Harris’…
Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt, Wyndham’s Theatre
Julia Bright reviews Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt play currently showing at the Wyndham’s Theatre in London. Leopoldstadt is, in Tom Stoppard’s own words, “all about being Jewish” – this means…
Carousel, Regent’s Park Open-Air Theatre
Julia Bright reviews Regent’s Park Open-Air Theatre’s production of Carousel which has been transposed to the North of England. Good gracious. Carousel set in a northern England seaside town and…
Once Upon a Time in Nazi Occupied Tunisia
Mark Bibby Jackson reviews Josh Azouz’s tragi-comedy Once Upon a Time in Nazi Occupied Tunisia at the Almeida. From the off as we are greeted with a character buried up…
Royal Court Announces Cast for Is God Is
Vivienne Acheampong, Adelayo Adedayo, Ray Emmet Brown, Ernest Kingsley Jnr, Tamara Lawrance, Rudolphe Mdlongwa, Mark Monero and Cecilia Noble…
Under Milk Wood, National Theatre
Julia Bright reviews Under Milk Wood, that dreamy, poetic masterpiece by Dylan Thomas, which is the first production at the National Theatre since Covid-19 shut its doors. Lyndsey Turner’s inventive…
