London Theatre: News, Reviews and Tickets

Full casting announced for LA SOIRÉE at Christmas in Leicester Square September 27, 2016 Get ready to be enticed once more by the truly unique and irresistible world of La Soirée, in a new home on the Christmas in Leicester Square site. Brand new acts announced today include the sensational New Orleans songstress ACANTHA LANG, quirky juggler OLIVIA PORTER, acrobat DAVID GIRARD and his mesmerizing new ‘CirQle’ apparatus, hula-hooping marvel ...

BABE,THE SHEEP-PIG Touring the UK from February 2017 September 27, 2016 Adapted from Dick King-Smith’s much-loved children’s novel which inspired the Oscar-winning 1995 film, Babe, The Sheep-Pig will be brought to life on stage in an enchanting new production, embarking on a major UK Tour in 2017 following a Christmas season at Polka Theatre. Featuring stunning puppetry, an original score and an utterly charming ‘baa-ber sheep’ ...

Wicked celebrates 10 years in the West End tonight 27th September 2016 September 27, 2016 WICKED, the West End musical phenomenon that tells the incredible untold story of the Witches of Oz, celebrates an extraordinary 10 years at London’s Apollo Victoria Theatre tonight (Tuesday 27th September 2016). Over the past decade, Wicked has attained many accolades and achieved numerous milestones to become “one of the most popular West End musicals ...

Acclaimed Czech Theatre makes London debut September 26, 2016 Prague’s cult Dejvicke Theatre celebrates the work of Shakespeare, Irvine Welsh and Lev Theremin. Performances set to launch the 20th edition of the Made in Prague festival celebrating Czech theatre, cinema, visual arts and music. Critically acclaimed for original writing and star casting and boasting multiple national and international awards, the Dejvicke Theatre is one of ...

good dog by Arinzé Kene UK Tour September 26, 2016 Delicately observed and fearlessly told, good dog chronicles Britain’s multi-cultural communities and the everyday injustices that drive people to take back control. Because in the end, everyone who’s good gets what they deserve. Don’t they? From the star of Crazyhead, Eastenders and Youngers, Arinzé Kene returns to writing for theatre for the first time since God’s Property in ...

Imelda Staunton and Conleth Hill star in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? September 23, 2016 Imelda Staunton and Conleth Hill will star in a new production of multi Tony and Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? directed by James Macdonald. In the early hours of the morning on the campus of an American college, Martha, much to her husband George’s displeasure, has ...

No’s Knife at the Old Vic Theatre – tickets on sale September 18, 2016 Where would I go, if I could go, who would I be, if I could be, what would I say, if I had a voice, who says this, saying it’s me?’ The world premiere of No’s Knife sees Samuel Beckett, a titan of theatrical writing, exploring the powerful resilience to stay ...

It is Easy to be Dead tickets London’s Trafalgar Studio Two September 14, 2016 It is Easy to be Dead transfers from its critically acclaimed sell-out run at the Finborough Theatre where it was nominated for seven Off West End Awards. When twenty year old Charles Sorley is killed in action during the First World War, his devastated parents are left with only his letters ...

Buried Child tickets on sale for Trafalgar Studio September 2, 2016 For the first time, the multi award winning international star Ed Harris will appear on the West End stage in the critically acclaimed Broadway production of Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Buried Child. Dodge (Harris) and Halie (Madigan) are barely hanging on to their farmland and their sanity while looking after ...

The Kite Runner tickets on sale for West End Wyndham’s Theatre September 2, 2016 With sales of 31 million in 60 languages worldwide, Khaled Hosseini’s award-winning tale of friendship, betrayal and redemption is coming to the West End in a thrilling stage production at Wyndham’s Theatre. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini’s international bestselling novel and film, is a powerful story of friendship spanning cultures and continents, following ...

A Month of Sundays is incredibly witty and enjoyable September 27, 2016 A Month of Sundays is one of those shows that is simultaneously unique and yet familiar. It’s unique in that it tells a particular story that, thanks to its intricate details, isn’t entirely like any other, and familiar in that its themes have been explored before in miscellaneous ways. Old age and senility is a subject that the ...

5-star SID at Above The Arts Theatre September 27, 2016 SID at Above The Arts, grabs you by the throat and holds you mesmerised for 50 minutes, with a tremendous ‘tour de force’ solo performance by Dario Coates. Knowing little about punk I was a tad trepidatious beforehand, yet within 30 seconds the sheer blazing energy and intensity of Coates had me completely and utterly gripped. Rather than being ...

Depths of My Mind: a journey into the teenage brain – Review September 26, 2016 What goes on in a teenager’s mind is probably an unanswerable question but one that Scarabeus Aerial Theatre is trying to answer with their immersive piece Depths Of My Mind at the Brit School down in deepest Croydon. You enter a large, dark space to a pulsing electronic soundscape and are confronted by four transparent Perspex platforms which are ...

Pride and Prejudice Churchill Theatre Bromley – Review September 26, 2016 In one sense Jane Austen’s writing is a stage adaptor’s dream, with its dialogue so fluent and fully formed. In another sense it is a dauntingly rich challenge, given the characters’ underlying thoughts and feelings which her prose conveys, turning the reader to a trusted confidant. It is this interplay between the heard and the unheard, the public utterances and ...

The Brides of Bluebeard at the Camden People’s Theatre – Review September 25, 2016 What do you get when you mix a gothic fairy story, catchy songs and sharp wit? The Brides of Bluebeard is the culmination of a talented team’s clever retelling of the classic French fairy-tale. The Bear (voiced by director Iain Johnstone), is the classic, creepy Bluebeard – a serial killer of wives, who takes in his latest victim, the ...