Madeline Smith Unleashes the Monster I’m quite a fan of Gothic horror movies. As a young teenager, I experienced the gloriously Technicolour-saturated world of the Hammer movies late on Saturday night TV when no one was keeping an eye on me. A star of several of those films, ‘Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell’ (with […]
Dr Freud Will See You Now, Mrs Hitler
The BAFTA award-winning writers of hit sitcoms Birds of a Feather and Goodnight Sweetheart, Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, are premiering their new comedy in London this September 2025.
Dr Freud Will See You Now, Mrs Hitler is a new dark comedy which imagines what might have happened if Adolf Hitler had visited Sigmund Freud for psychiatric treatment.
A Letter to Lyndon B Johnson, Soho Theatre
Xhloe and Natasha show the type of chemistry where you can imagine them still working together in three decades’ time. Don’t wait that long!
Bette and Joan, Park Theatre, Finsbury Park
To paraphrase Sunset Boulevard’s Norma Desmond, “I am big. It’s the pictures that got smaller,” Bette and Joan could do with a bigger stage so more people can enjoy this wonderful show.
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
Adaptation of Dostoevsky at The Marylebone Theatre The Marylebone Theatre, open since Autumn 2022, hosts multiple Olivier award-winning Laurence Boswell’s new adaptation of Dostoevsky’s short story about a man who is judged by his peers for his far-fetched visions of a utopian society. Adapting Dostoevsky is a challenge at the best of times. Adapting Dostoevsky […]
London Zoo at the Southwark Playhouse, Borough
Bigotry in Business Challenged Think of a satirical take on a big, morally dubious media conglomerate acquiring a reputable newspaper, and many will think of HBO’s Succession. The winner of every award available, Succession was so good that it now practically owns the genre of “media drama”. London Zoo, Farine Clarke’s play at the Southwark […]
Amusements by Ikechukwu Ufomadu at the Soho Theatre
Clever, silly, delightful comic alchemy in Soho Fresh from a successful Edinburgh run, Ikechukwu Ufomadu’s solo hour is funny, bizarre and thoroughly entertaining. Clever and silly in equal measure, Amusements is a tightly written set that demonstrates a strange and delightful kind of comic alchemy: one that turns bemusement into amusement. There is a moment […]
Out Of Season
Sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll come to Ibiza The world premiere of Out of Season has opened at Hampstead Downstairs. Directed by Hampstead Theatre Associate Director, Alice Hamilton (Nineteen Gardens), it is a comedic play written by Neil D’Souza. It tells the story of three middle-aged men, friends who wish to recapture their glory […]
The Mother of Kamal
A family’s history brought to the stage at Upstairs at The Gatehouse Written by Dina Ibrahim, The Mother of Kamal is based on the life events of her family and the memoir written by her father who sought to understand the events that had unfolded decades earlier in pre-revolutionary Iraq. The novel was titled Um-Kamal […]
On Railton Road – Museum of the Home, Hoxton
On Railton Road: A Hilarious Homage to ’70s and ’80s Queer Resistance The atmosphere is buzzing as the audience waits in a small exhibition space inside Hoxton’s Museum of the Home. It is the first time that the museum is hosting a theatre production, and On Railton Road couldn’t have been a better choice. Based […]