It’s Saturday night at the Park Theatre, in north London, and the main auditorium is packed. Two hundred people sit, entranced, as Maureen Lipman delivers Martin Sherman’s Rose, a monologue recounting an... Read more »
In 1938 as the Nazis started to escalate their persecution of German Jews, a delegation of British, Jewish and Quaker leaders appealed to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to admit a number of... Read more »
The Almeida Theatre in north London was forced to cancel a matinee performance of Peter Morgan’s new play Patriots following a ‘flash flood’. Footage from the venue, posted on social media, showed... Read more »
Following a sold-out and critically acclaimed run at the Edinburgh Fringe 2021, Mediocre White Male returns to London, with a run at the King’s Head Theatre with performances from 15 August –... Read more »
It is 1921 and the Shelby clan have made their way from Birmingham to London to conquer the capital’s underbelly. They have issued an invitation for a family meeting to which we... Read more »
Benedict Lombe has won this year’s Susan Smith Blackburn prize for female, transgender and non-binary dramatists. In a special presentation at Shakespeare’s Globe in London on Monday night, Lombe was named the... Read more »
The Donmar Warehouse in London is to stage a “searing” dystopian play in which a teenage jury hold their elders to account for crimes against the climate. The Trials, written by British... Read more »
The name of the new Walthamstow theatre, which will be up and running early next year, was unveiled this Wednesday (March 16). Soho Theatre Walthamstow will ‘draw in’ theatre lovers from across... Read more »
Twenty years ago a commemorative plaque was set into the pavement outside the childhood home of actress Lynn Fontanne. It was unveiled by Donald Sinden who said that Lynn was the most... Read more »
Lenny Henry is to make his debut as a playwright with a drama about the injustice of the Windrush scandal. Henry will also star in the one-man show, August in England, which... Read more »