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Hannah Reilly’s “Roleplay” at Soho Theatre: New Play About Sex-Positivity On The Internet Is Sadly Superficial And Banal

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 30th Oct 2026 | Edinburgh 2026, London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom

I’ve lost count of how many new female monologues have been called the “next Fleabag”. Really. But...

From Dramatic Theatre To Post-Dramatic Stage: Form, Performance, And The Spectator

Posted by Zeliha Kuruducu | 22nd Oct 2026 | Essay, Playwriting, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

The social, political, environmental, and economic changes of the twentieth century have generated...

Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti’s “Baby” at Brixton House: Compelling Performance Of A Powerful Story About Motherhood And Poverty

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 19th Oct 2026 | Acting, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom

Poor Baby. She’s in real trouble, and it all started with her name — which “means you’ll never...

“The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie”

Posted by Margaret Rose | 18th Oct 2026 | Adaptation, Review, Scotland

On a recent trip to Scotland, I was fortunate to attend the opening night of The Prime of Miss...

Canned Spam: The 2026 Touring Production of “Monty Python’s Spamalot”

Posted by Matthew McMahan | 15th Oct 2026 | Review, United Kingdom

What is the shelf life of British sketch-company Monty Python? How to keep its bits, catchphrases...

James Graham’s “The Standard of Living” at the Theatre Royal Haymarket: All-Embracing Account Of The Life And Career Of John Maynard Keynes

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 6th Oct 2026 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

Timing is everything: James Graham’s new political history play, The Standard of Living, aptly...

Julia Masli, Please Let Me In Your Cult

Posted by Abigail Weil | 18th Sep 2026 | Estonia, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom, United States of America

I don’t know how she did it, but by the end of Julia Masli’s ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, performed at...

Michaela Coel’s “Chewing Gum Dreams” at Theatre 503: Revival Of 2012 Contemporary Classic Is Terrific

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 18th Sep 2026 | London, Review, United Kingdom

Some monologues are so personal you can’t imagine another actor doing them. Right? Wrong! I’ve...

Ntozake Shange’s “for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf” at The Yard Theatre: Legendary 1970s Choreopoem Finally Arrives In London

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 15th Sep 2026 | Acting, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom

Some legendary shows are rarely revived, rarely seen in London: one of these is surely Ntozake...

Rosalind Adler and Lea Sellers’s “Holy Fool” at Park Theatre: The Life Of Shostakovich Gets The Bio-Drama Treatment

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 8th Sep 2026 | Documentary Theatre, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom

Okay, it’s a very familiar problem: how do you create drama out of an artist’s life? Most great...

Benedict Andrews’s “Electra/Persona” at the National Theatre: This Study In Ambiguity And Contradiction Is Pointless As Well As Gripping

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 8th Sep 2026 | Adaptation, Review, Sweden, United Kingdom

“What if?” is a really provocative question. What if Greek tragedy is really about mental illness?...

In the Mind’s Eye: Collective Imagination at the Edinburgh Fringe 2026

Posted by Duška Radosavljević | 28th Aug 2026 | Edinburgh 2026, Essay, United Kingdom

I started my Edinburgh Fringe 2026 lying down. On a white bunk bed – a middle height one of a...

From Bacon to Bananas: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2026 in 24 Shows

Posted by Mert Dilek | 28th Aug 2026 | Edinburgh 2026, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom

With more than 4,200 shows making up this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, twenty-four...

Confidence Is A Rollercoaster – Don’t Ever Pay Money To Become Famous

Posted by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar | 24th Aug 2026 | Interview, Macedonia, Theatre and Film, United Kingdom

An Interview with deeply inspiring Tanja Tzarovska – musician, singer (for film/theatre projects),...

Alan Ayckbourn’s “How the Other Half Loves” at the Old Vic: Technically Brilliant if Rather Overlong and Old-Fashioned West End Farce

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 13th Aug 2026 | Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom

Is there a crisis in British new writing? The comparative paucity of new work in mainstream...

“Sinfonia”: Stories from Harrogate

Posted by Xunnan Li | 10th Jul 2026 | Review, United Kingdom

Sinfonia is a play in which older people of the local community take to the stage to share fragments of their lives. We may not often stop to imagine what growing old will feel like. Will we become trapped within bodies that no longer move as they once did? Will everyday tasks become more difficult? Will we lose the energy and freedom of youth? Sinfonia does not answer these questions directly but gently invites us to reflect on them.