Blogs about Theatre

Four years ago this production was supposed to happen – the pandemic happened instead. On the occasion of Alan Ayckbourn’s 85th birthday, however, I thought it was high time that I reshared my thoughts about …

“In 2024 Indhu Rubasingham is at the helm of the National Theatre and women writers and directors are everywhere,” says Susan Croft, an Associate Artist at London Performance Studios and curator of a new exhibition: …

Queenie is in trouble. Bad trouble. For about a year now, this 68-year-old Indian woman has been forgetful. Losing her car keys; burning rice in the pan; mixing up memories; just plain blank episodes. At …

Douglas Irvine on Visible Fictions’ UP UP from Glasgow’s Visible Fictions theatre company, a piece of object theatre about strangers on a crashing plane, plays the last date of its Scottish tour at the Assembly …

Click to buy the book'My spoken material is about the facts of life,' I was explaining to the Mother Superior. 'I've been asking people what they were told, how they were told it and did …

While some British actresses with Eastern European ancestry have ‘transcended’ their roots and are not thought of in terms of nationality, they were brought up in the UK and never had their ‘Britishness’ questioned. For …

Right now, as these very words are being published, Letna Park in the Czech Republic’s capital city Prague is playing[…] The post A Visit to Letni Letna Festival appeared first on The Circus Diaries.

The focus is very much on Greek tragedy this autumn / winter season with four high profile productions already scheduled to run with star names and directors attached. This week, the National Theatre’s version of …

The Revel Pucks returns to South East London for a limited run from 17 October with their hit new show, Nose Dive Assembly, which has been out on a successful tour around the country. The …

This Christmas, Entertainers, one of the UK’s leading entertainment producers debut their first Christmas show; Step Into Christmas. The show embarks on a 35-date tour and arrives at the Pavilion Theatre, Glasgow on the 11th …

Edmond Rostand’s 1897 romance Cyrano de Bergerac has become a classic to explore over recent years. James McAvoy and Jamie Lloyd smashed it apart on Lloyd’s ascent to the stars but Virginia Gay’s Cyrano (Traverse …

Toxic masculinity and corporate culture are the main drivers of Tim Edge’s play One Of The Boys, a four-hander set in an unspecified company where sales and profits are seen as far more valuable than …

Studded with hit songs and telling a truly inspiring story, hit bio-musical Tina, The Tina Turner Musical finally plays Melbourne, arriving in peak form. Wondrously warm and vocally superb, the powerhouse lead performance by Ruva …

As a title, Why Am I So Single? has the potential to elicit one of two responses: some people will be like a moth to a flame, and others will run a mile in the …

Picture: Danny Kaan Tituss Burgess: The Indecisive Warrior continues at the Phoenix Arts Club, London until 13 October 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ You may have discovered Tituss Burgess in …

In 1983 Roald Dahl reviewed Tony Clifton’s picture book God Cried about the 1982 Lebanon War. In the review Dahl says of the Israelis “Never before in the history of man has a race of …

It seems a long time since I saw a David Edgar play and all of a sudden he's got two new ones out; first up at the Orange Tree is Here In America, a look …

by Zahid Fayyaz Based on the 1963 album by Charles Mingus, this production transferred from Shoreditch Town Hall after a run last year. The dance/theatre production set entirely on the Barbican stage – the audience …

Valerie Antwi, Emma McDonald and Christopher York in Foreverland, Southwark Playhouse Photo: Charlie Lyne If medical science made it possible to live forever, frozen at the age you have the procedure, would you do it? …

Enemies to Lovers by Laura Jane WilliamsPublished: 15th August 2024 by Penguin BooksEnemies to Lovers by Laura Jane Williams is a sweet, fun read that I lapped up, especially given the perfectly matched setting—I read …