Given the subject matter and the play’s material, it’s probably right that the production dispenses with the usual curtain call and bowing, so not to dispel the atmosphere created by what is ultimately a tragedy. In some other tragedies, it works to have bows and a round of applause, particularly when there is a large […] The post She at Drayton Arms Theatre | Review appeared first on LondonTheatre1 ..read more

Woking’s renowned theatre company, WAOS MT (www.waosmt.co.uk), is set to dazzle audiences once again with their latest production, Roles We’ll ‘Probably’ Never Play. This musical revue promises to be a delightful treat for families, featuring a collection of beloved numbers with a unique twist that will keep audiences on the edge of their seats. Scheduled to […] The post WAOS Musical Theatre: Roles We’ll Probably Never Play – Rhoda McGaw Theatre appeared first on LondonTheatre1 ..read more

Three years ago Luke Adamson and Joseph Lindoe took over the theatre above the Bridge House pub in leafy Penge southeast London. The previous incumbents had taken with them their lighting rig, lights, sound equipment and half the chairs so all Luke and Joseph had to their name was a big black empty space with […] The post Celebrating Three Years of The Bridge House Theatre appeared first on LondonTheatre1 ..read more

An Algorithm is “a finite sequence of mathematically rigorous instructions used to solve specific problems or perform computations (Copilot)“. The seventy-minute one-person play Algorithms was written pre-Covid in 2018 by Sadie Clark, “a queer, bisexual, neurodivergent writer“, according to the programme notes, who also performs her own play. This concerns Brooke (Clark), who, on the […] The post Algorithms By Sadie Clark at Park Theatre | Review appeared first on LondonTheatre1 ..read more

Samuel Adamson’s new play is ambitious and erudite, offering razor-sharp observations and wit throughout but, after a punchy start, it loses some of its focus and energy in its second act when it starts to feel slightly maudlin. Nonetheless as a study of attachment between two creative people – out of which neither ever really […] The post The Ballad of Hattie and James at the Kiln Theatre appeared first on LondonTheatre1 ..read more

This is not the musical, which must rank amongst the worst shows I have ever seen in the West End, opening with a miserable tune about the characters surviving ‘one more year in Yorkshire’ – Yorkshire people love Yorkshire, a point which thankfully comes across in this production of the play. The film came first […] The post Calendar Girls by Tim Firth | The Mill at Sonning | Review appeared first on LondonTheatre1 ..read more

The Bush Theatre continues its winning streak of showcasing new writing with The Cord. Written and directed by Bijan Sheibani, this one-act play follows his highly praised debut The Arrival, which premiered at the venue back in 2019. Here, the writer presents us with a strikingly intimate observation of a young family. Ash and Anya […] The post The Cord: Written and directed by Bijan Sheibani appeared first on LondonTheatre1 ..read more

How will we destroy ourselves? A Third World War with nuclear weapons? a climate apocalypse? a global plaque that makes the black death of 1342 look like a minor event? or an AI reverse takeover by supercomputers? Whichever it is to be, no one had a better image of the precarious nature of our precious […] The post The Glass Menagerie at the Rose Theatre Kingston appeared first on LondonTheatre1 ..read more

Runaway Entertainment today announces the return of 2:22 – A Ghost Story to London’s West End. Running for a strictly limited 10-week season at the Gielgud Theatre, where the second cast of the show performed in 2020/21, the season also runs concurrently with the hugely successful and record-breaking UK tour which concludes in Salford in […] The post 2:22 – A Ghost Story Returns to London’s West End appeared first on LondonTheatre1 ..read more

How refreshing to come across a ‘new’ play (it was first seen in Australia in 2019, but this is its European premiere) which is a feisty twenty-first-century updating of the genre known as ‘light comedy’ (Frederic Lonsdale’s On Approval comes to mind!). Not only that, but Van Badham’s play is not just amusing, it is […] The post Banging Denmark by Van Badham at Finborough Theatre appeared first on LondonTheatre1 ..read more