The Perils of Monogamy Above the Stag specialises in telling LGBTQIA+ stories and has revived Jake Brunger’s highly amusing Four Play, which successfully combines comedy and a serious look at issues like commitment and monogamy among young gay men in 21st century London. One of the great joys of living in London is its thriving […]
NoFit State Circus – Lexicon – The Roundhouse
Contemporary Circus comes to town Circus for many still conjures up images of performing animals and clowns with red noses, but consider those ideas banished in the forever evolving world of contemporary circus. Welsh company NoFit State Circus are the UK’s most celebrated contemporary circus company. This talented troupe of artists and musicians have just […]
Art Heist at the New Diorama
Victimless Crime at the New Diorama Theatre. If you have ever wondered why thieves steal works of art, Art Heist attempts to answer your question and has a lot of fun while exploring this ‘victimless crime’. Produced by Poltergeist in association with the North Wall Arts Centre and showing at The New Diorama Theatre, it […]
A Simple Space – Underbelly Festival South Bank
Contemporary Circus – Gravity & Other Myths at Underbelly A Simple Space is the wonderful new show from Australian contemporary circus company Gravity & Other Myths (GOM), who won the 2015 Australian Dance Award for Best Physical Theatre. GOM explores the limits of human strength and daring through charming, disarming and deceptively accomplished ensemble works. […]
Underbelly Festival, Southbank – 2019 – Preview
London’s Original, Biggest and Best Pop-Up Festival returns to the Southbank with headline acts by Gravity & Other Myths, Little Death Club, Flip Fabrique and Yummy. Underbelly Festival Southbank is central London’s home of affordable live entertainment, they have recently announced an exciting new season with their biggest programme ever of circus, variety, comedy, cabaret and […]
Frantic Assembly – The Unreturning review
The Unreturning at Theatre Royal Stratford East Frantic Assembly’s production of Anna Jordan’s fearless play lives up to its name in The Unreturning. What’s it like to dream of home, a return to familiarity and domesticity…community, family, friends? To long for comforts and details vivid in memory, realer-than-real? And then how is it to arrive, […]
The Playground Theatre – New Fringe Theatre in West London
West London’s Latest Venue: An exciting new fringe theatre in West London is opening its doors to the public in October this year. The Playground Theatre is a converted bus depot right in the heart of a diverse community on Latimer Road, North Kensington, with neighbouring Ladbroke Grove on one side and Westfield and Shepherds Bush […]
Celebrating summer with The Doyle Collection’s Slice of the City, The Marylebone:
An evening at The Marylebone and the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre: Marylebone has a unique charm that has for many years been the destination of discerning Londoners and tourists who are for looking for certain urbanity in the heart of London’s West End. It has been an incredibly fashionable area since at least the […]
Adam Eve and Steve Hits the London Fringe
All Singing, All Dancing Comedy Musical The King’s Head in Islington is London’s first pub theatre since Shakespeare’s day, founded in 1970 and previously used as a boxing ring and a pool hall. Its intimate space sits behind the busy period pub, which provides a great place for a pre-theatre drink. This all singing, and […]
Bare Essentials – Six Plays in a Night
New Writing with Bare Essentials: Encompass are a London-based theatre production company. Their Bare Essentials theatre nights take place in the Seven Dials Club, a venue tucked away behind a plain façade in Earlham Street right in the heart of Covent Garden. Bare Essentials is one of London’s best reviewed new writing nights. Over the […]