4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (594+ words) West End Best Friend Review: EAST IS EAST, Octagon Theatre As a celebration of the original production’s 30th anniversary, a new production of East is East comes to Bolton as a collaboration between the Octagon Theatre, Citizens Theatre and Wiltshire Creative,…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (381+ words) Fresh from an acclaimed run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, comedy troupe Crybabies have brought their all-new horror spoof The Scaring to London’s Soho Theatre. It is no easy feat to replicate the success of a fringe production but this…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (266+ words) Benjamin O’Mahony as Shostakovich gives the appropriate level of ego while still allowing us to sympathise with his plight. His performance keeps the composer from becoming simply a historical figure. Nina, his wife, played by Jenna Augen, his biggest supporter…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (770+ words) westendbestfriend.co.uk Review: PRESENT LAUGHTER, Theatre Royal Bath It is extraordinary to realise that Noel Coward’s Present Laughter was first staged in the West End during World War II in 1942 and has been acclaimed as one of his finest…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1496+ words) Another Edinburgh Fringe is now over, and after a very full few weeks of seeing as much theatre as humanly possible, it is time to attempt the rather impossible task of choosing my favourite shows of the festival. I tend…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (434+ words) West End Best Friend Fringe Review: YOU AND ME (AND WHOEVER COMES NEXT), Old Lab at Summerhall Uplifting and funny, You and Me (and Whoever Comes Next) is a show about care and how humans rely on one another. The…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (206+ words) The producers of the Olivier Award-nominated international smash hit musical THE CHOIR OF MAN have announced that the show will return to London this Christmas, opening at Arts at Marble Arch, powered by TodayTix, on 10 December, playing until 14 February 2027. The…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (148+ words) A powerful call to arms, Youth in Flames is set in 2019, when the government of China introduced extradition laws in Hong Kong. Through multimedia and a blaring soundscape, Mimi Martin performs her chilling one-woman show in Bunker One at the…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (161+ words) It's the simplicity of Little Animals that allows these ideas the space to breathe. The lights are up, all is laid out bare, only Ready is on the stage. It is this space that becomes cavernous or shrinks to nothing,…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (409+ words) West End Best Friend Fringe Review: BUGGERS, Upstairs at Pleasance Courtyard Buggers is a soaring, volatile piece of theatre. Charting the troubled relationship of artist Francis Bacon (Alistair Hall) and his lover and muse George Dyer (Peter Clements) in the…...