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After Dark; or, a Drama of London Life at Finborough Theatre
After Dark’s plot, director Phil Willmott admits, is laughable. An unashamed populist, writer Dion Boucicault himself adapted the…
By Daniel McLeodCulture
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The Sandman at Southwark Playhouse
This month Southwark Playhouse is host to The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation Bridge Company. The training initiative is…
By Jonathan Marshall
Play
The Knot at Old Red Lion Theatre
Dan Daniel’s original production of The Knot is a quick and cutting portrayal of the aching burdens that…
By Jasper Watkins
Musical
The Light in the Piazza at the Southbank Centre
Hit Broadway musical The Light in the Piazza makes its London debut at the Royal Festival Hall for…
By Ezelle Alblas
Play
The Damned (Les Damnés) at the Barbican
"The complicity of the people is the great miracle of the Third Reich." In Ivo van Hove's The…
By Connor Campbell
Play
Audience Choice: The Comedy of Errors at Shakespeare’s Globe
Faced with apparent rejection by her apparent husband in Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, Adriana cries, "If we too…
By Sylvia Unerman
Play
I Know My Husband Loves Me at Union Theatre
Married life suits mental health support worker Trish Mott (Lia Burge) and her radical left-wing activist of a…
By Ghazaleh Golpira
Play
Where We Belong at Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
What if the wolf could fly and the bird was afraid of flight? Is it absurd that the…
By Marissa Khaos
Opera
Hansel and Gretel at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
Dark and disquieting, Hansel and Gretel is one of the folktales unearthed by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm that…
By Mersa Auda
Theatre
“Growing up we were starved of characters on our stages that looked like us”: Othello: Remixed director Darren Raymond discusses the importance of representation
The Shakespearean landscape is changing thanks to directors like Darren Raymond. In his new adaptation of the Shakespearean…
By Mary-Catherine Harvey