Claire Dowie’s Why Is John Lennon Wearing a Skirt? at the Finborough Theatre: Pioneering Queer Theatre Artist Revisits Her Greatest Hits
Let us always remember the pioneers. Although there is a fair amount of relatively mainstream...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 19th Jun 2025 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, Review, United Kingdom
Let us always remember the pioneers. Although there is a fair amount of relatively mainstream...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 1st Nov 2024 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
Fringe venues perform a vital role on the ecology of London theatre. While many shows at these...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 13th Mar 2023 | London, Norway, Playwriting, Review, Translation, United Kingdom
Bjørg Vik’s The Journey to Venice at the Finborough Theatre: Norwegian memory play is tender if slight
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 22nd Aug 2020 | Review, Theatre and Disability, United Kingdom
During the current pandemic, stories about isolation have a particular resonance. Feelings of...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 22nd Aug 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Theatre legends die hard. Playwright Philip King, who passed away in 1979, was once hailed as the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 1st Jun 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
The rewriting of Ancient Greek myth offers a way of creating contemporary stories that have a deep...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 21st Jan 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Mainstream theatre is often a huge treasure chest, blazing with jewels and flashing lights, while...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 28th Sep 2018 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Is appearing in the West End a rite of passage for Game Of Thrones stars? In the past couple of...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 18th May 2018 | London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
Neil McPherson, the long-serving head of this London fringe theatre, has a brilliant record of...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 12th Feb 2018 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
It’s the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Finborough Arms pub, so Neil McPherson, artistic...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 19th Feb 2017 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Young British writers are often surprisingly unadventurous when it comes to locating their plays...
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