Acid’s Reign bursts into life with a thunderous opening. Against a backdrop of activist posters, the cast launch into powerful harmonies about climate action, instantly drawing the audience into a ...

The Cabin, playing at Barons Court Theatre from July 7th to the 11th, has a very intriguing setup. Former school classmates ...

Paul Bouchier, the production’s Company Manager, took to the stage just before the performance I attended finally got underway to let the audience know there was a minor technical issue, already being ...

Originally presented in 2017 and in celebration of the extraordinary life of British artist David Hockney, Exhibition On Screen’s remarkable film David Hockney at the Royal Academy of Arts has ...

Forget the slow-motion fight scenes in the most recent National Theatre production of Coriolanus – this small-scale offering from the Acting Gymnasium isn’t messing about. Sharp, slick and with a ...

Abigail’s Party is a suburban, situational tragi-comedy of manners and a satire on the aspirations and tastes of the new middle class that emerged in Britain in the 1970s. Mike Leigh developed the ...

Throughout the past year, more than a thousand students from secondary schools all over the UK have taken part in New Views, the National Theatre’s playwriting programme. Participants worked in ...

Scherenschnitt oder Der Mörder sind Sie, as Shear Madness was originally called, enjoyed a four-decade run in Boston, Massachusetts, ending in 2020 when public health restrictions were being imposed.

Born in China and the son of British missionaries, Frederick Knott wrote a thirty-minute television version of Dial M for Murder in 1949. When the production co ...

Rash actions in youth often lead to dire consequences in future. Which is one of the underlying themes of Teresa Deevy's 1937 emotionally-layered play Wife ...

Written by Lucy Prebble, The Effect was met with widespread critical acclaim when it premiered at The National Theatre in 2012. Having unfortunately missed th ...

Chess is renowned in some quarters for being a bit all over the place, both literally and figuratively. Early in Act One, the action is in Merano, Italy – bef ...