Richard Bean’s KISS ME transfers to TRAFALGAR STUDIOS
I’m thirty two and I want a baby. There are no men. Multi-award winning writer Richard Bean’s Kiss Me transfers to Trafalgar Studios after a sold out run at Hampstead Theatre Downstairs in 2016. Claire Lams (The King’s Speech, Chichester Festival Theatre; The Little Mermaid, Bristol Old Vic; Routes, The Royal Court) and Ben Lloyd-Hughes […]
Sir Ian McKellen and Kathy Burke head up new Park Theatre season
Details of Park Theatre’s 10th season for Autumn/Winter 2017 have been announced by Artistic Director Jez Bond. Featuring six world premieres, a very special one man show and a London premiere, the new season includes a plethora of new writing and acclaimed revivals across both spaces in the venue’s fifth year. Jez Bond says: “I’m […]
KRAY KRAY a new play comes to Theatre N16
“You wanna make a film about gangsters? We’ve got a good story. Listen to this!” Ronnie and Reggie Kray were two of London’s most notorious gangsters. Basing their image and entire way of life around the iconic American gangster movies and the more classic Dickens ‘baddies’, the Kray twins managed to maintain a successful and […]
REVIEW: SUBLIME (Tristan Bates Theatre) ★★★
Sophie is in serious trouble and needs her brother Sam’s assistance. She has been living in Italy, and has remained out of contact with Sam for two years, but now, unexpectedly, she is back and needs to rekindle their previous criminal partnership. Sophie walks into a dark apartment carrying a torch. When Sam returns, he […]
REVIEW: MISS NIGHTINGALE (The Vaults) ★★★★
The fifth production of Miss Nightingale since its conception in 2011 and has set up home at The Vaults in Waterloo. The venue could not be more perfect for a war-time musical where bombs are dropping in the streets. The old vaults with bare brick walls and cold musky smell, make you feel like you […]
REVIEW: EXECUTIONER NUMBER ONE (Soho Theatre) ★★★
Ian has found his calling long ago in the role as professional hangman. His sole purpose is to become Britain’s Executioner Number One. Following the death of his boss, the dream finally seems up for grabs. Given his lifelong never-faulting passion, years of experience and comradeship with his former superior, Ian is the obvious choice […]
REVIEW: THE GOAT, OR WHO IS SYLVIA? (Theatre Royal Haymarket) ★★★★
Edward Albee has taken over London’s Haymarket, with two of his productions around the corner from one another, both of which are violent, distressing and difficult for both the actor and the audience member. Winner of the Tony Award for Best New Play and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, The Goat, or […]
PHILLIP SCHOFIELD to host THE KNIGHTS OF MUSIC UK Tour
Back by popular demand, Phillip Schofield is to exclusively host the return of hit UK concert tour, The Knights of Music. The tour will visit stages in Nottingham, Edinburgh, Newcastle and London from 27-30th April. The show celebrates the legendary Knights and Dames of the entertainment industry who have transformed the face of music, film […]
REVIEW: HEADS UP (Battersea Arts Centre) ★★★★
We’re dangerous when we’re dying. Just like beetles. So says Kieran Hurley, in his new show Heads Up. He holds his audience in thrall; he is eerie and wild with red-rimmed eyes and an air of delirium. Within seconds, we’re hanging on his every word. Is he a puppet master, or just a storyteller with […]
ANGELS IN AMERICA starts previews next week at THE NATIONAL THEATRE
Angels In America is about America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis, and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell. This new staging of Tony Kushner’s multi-award-winning two-part play is directed by Olivier and Tony award-winning director Marianne Elliott (The Curious […]