A huge, menacing creature has recently been spotted next to the Oval cricket ground… The Bear is a play by Angela Clerkin and Lee Simpson – a co-production with Improbable, it is currently running in the Ovalhouse theatre’s downstairs space. It begins with the most startling opening that I’ve seen in a long time – […]

Currently on stage in Walthamstow’s dedicated theatre space. upstairs at the Olde Rose & Crown on Hoe St, is in-house professional theatre company All Star Productions’ latest musical – Phantom. Based on the Gaston Leroux novel, this version of Phantom follows the libretto and score devised by Maury Weston and Arthur Kopit (rather than the […]

Opening the first season at London’s brand spanking new North London performance space, the Park Theatre in Finsbury Park,  is a new production of Melanie Marnich’s 2008 play, These Shining Lives. Directed by Loveday Ingram, These Shining Lives is a story about the women workers of Westclox who were responsible for painting the glow-in-the-dark dials […]

The Yard Theatre is now into week two of its new season, The Generation Game. This week it’s the turn of two plays, Touching Distance and Finding Frank, to wow the audiences in its post-industrial Hackney Wick setting. Touching Distance is a collaboration between Oliver Lamford and Phil Ormrod of Switchback Productions, and its an […]

The new play written, directed and designed by Rikki Beadle-Blair – Gutted – is currently running at the Theatre Royal Stratford East. Gutted deals with the fractured lives and loves of the Prospect family – four hard lads and a hard-bitten mother living on a South London sink estate. Jumping backwards and forwards through time […]

Taking it’s cue from Sophie Kinsella’s novel of the same name, Sleeping Arrangements is the new musical by Chris Burgess that is currently playing at London’s long-standing Landor Theatre, just down the street from Clapham North Station. Sleeping Arrangements is the story of a Spanish holiday let gone wrong, Deliberately double-booked by a well-meaning friend, eight […]

First performed at London’s Bush Theatre twenty years ago, Jonathan Harvey’s Beautiful Thing has returned to the West End stage with a run at the Arts Theatre. This new production of the seminal coming-of-age story is directed by Nikolai Foster, and stars Suranne Jones as brassy South London mom Sandra, with Jake Davies and Danny-Boy […]