Review: Now That’s What I Call A Lot Of Songs About Science
John Hinton performs hilarious songs of science from a very extensive repertoire
Review: Now That’s What I Call A Lot Of Songs About Science
John Hinton performs hilarious songs of science from a very extensive repertoire
Review: Hay Fever
An exceptional production in so many ways, this Hay Fever boasts some superb acting, on occasion great aplomb
Review: Nathan Cassidy: Observational
With a crippling bad back, Nathan joins a gym and a big, strong man changes his life
Review: Much Ado About Nothing
The most convincing Much Ado for years
Review: Sheila’s Island
It’s a play you wish well
Review: Private Lives
Private Lives can never disappoint: it plays itself and as far as it’s a work of verbal tennis this production won’t pall either
Review: An Hour and a Half Late
Don’t miss this authentic, touching, devastatingly comic anatomy of a marriage as soufflé, supremely served by Rhys-Jones and Dee.
Review: The 39 Steps
A recalibrated masterpiece and another outstanding production from BLT.
Review: Blithe Spirit
The final moments stamp an interesting if curious revival.
Review: Rocky Horror Show
Absolutely worth seeing however many times you have already
Review: While the Sun Shines
An outstanding revival. Again.
Review: Groan Ups
Just wait for the second act.
Review: The Play That Goes Wrong
A play about amateurs no amateur company should even dare contemplate. There’s genius in the timing of all this. Outstanding.
Review: Absent Friends
If you can book, beg or otherwise snaffle a ticket, you won’t find a more satisfying production anywhere in Brighton this month. Outstanding.
Review: Planet LOL
'The Future Is Unwritten' has a mission to create socially-driven work that focuses on, involves, inspires and entertains people as participants and audiences'. Planet LOL certainly does that.
Review: Little Wimmin
An adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel Little Women by all-female performance art collective Figs in Wigs
Review: Relatively Speaking
With his new production director Robin Herford, most associated with this play, brings pace, panache, and more than a dose of Ayckbourn’s generosity of spirit
Review: Twelfth Night
With Michelle Terry as Viola, one of the most touching and truthful Twelfth Nights I’ve seen.
Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Outdoors, this has grown prodigously. Some actors give transcendent performances up there with London’s finest. Out in the slant air this proves magical.
Review: The Tempest
Café Voltaire in ruffs invokes a magical Tempest.
Review: Wrong Number
An entertaining take on how lock down may have led to potential lawlessness.
Review: The Adventures of Sleepyhead
A charming theatrical performance of someone who thinks that by becoming a grown up, they lose their dreams.
Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Even more than 2019, a carnival riot of joy – with enough misdirection to evoke moonshine
Review: NewsRevue
Continues to set the standard for rapid-fire, topical sketch comedy.
A fascinatingly delivered riff on one woman’s journey for recognition and soul which includes a brush from a smear test.
Review: Twelfth Night
A revelatory, energised Twelfth Night.
Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Some actors give transcendent performances up there with London’s finest. Out in the slant air this will now prove magical.
Review: Corpsing
Dignitas with a difference
Review: Drown Your Sorrows!
Cryptic clues abound in this search for the elixir of life.
Review: Eric Davidson – Thunderjab 3
Poetry at pace
Review: Ellipsis
A mix of stand up and confessional which is funny and tragic in almost equal measure.
Review: The Twits
A summer must-see to charge you up for the autumn, and taking on the real twits ahead.
Review: Misfits
An important play, tackling the deadly serious with laughter that all too easily could lead to stark tragedy.
Review: Tethered
Grab it while you can
Review: Jeeves and Wooster Perfect Nonsense
A professional-standard production, and magnificent start to the 2020s.
Review: Mr and Mrs Nobody
A warm-hearted yet sharp-witted peek at how the Pooter half live
Review: Moveable Feast
It’s time for Planes, Trains and Automob-meals
Review: Shaggers
An adult take on sex and relationships
Review: Dirty Tricks: How the Illusionati Rule the World
Revealed, the secret cabal of magicians that rule the world
Review: The Night
After hours cabaret show
Review: Shaw Shorts
A joyous, heady and oh-so-welcome return to this intimate yet high-kicking theatre. An absolute must-see.
Review: Tender
A show about the mind-bending intensity of new motherhood (in, and out of, a pandemic) - but mostly about kindness, gentleness, and joy.
Review: Tennis Elbow
An audio treat from a master of toying with your senses.
Review: Jew… ish
One of the wittiest but also truthful comedies about love, identity, sexual politics and gefilte fish I’ve seen
Review: Tim Ferguson – Smashing Life (Motivation For Idiots)
Delivers exactly what's promised... and more
Review: Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday
A throwback performance to when Music Hall was King, Queen and Pearly Dreams.
Review: The Official Dick Whittington – A Pantomime for 2020
It’s a joyous confection out of thin lockdown.
Review: The Merry Wives of Windsor
A joyful fleet production, a more-than-rough magic. What renders OFS unique is their fearlessness: a humour and zest to tear into buried Shakespeare, read the entrails.
Review: A Coward Coupling
Family Album is possibly the most disastrous production this already unfortunate play has ever sustained. More, Coward would declare it’s a travesty; of genius. Hands Across the Sea is pitch-perfect in a slightly outré version of what Coward meant.
Review: San Francisco Fringe Festival 2020 Sneak Peek!
Catch a taste of what's to come at the 2021 San Francisco Fringe Festival!
Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A theatrical arcady on our doorstep
Review: As You Like It
Heartwarming, giddyingly vital yet clear with its own truth.
Review: Much Ado About Nothing
A blissfully alive production.
Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Might be the finest Globe Dream
Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
This surely is the greatest Dream since Peter Brook’s landmark 1970 production.
Review: The Merchant of Venice
A fleet traversal memorable for insights the company bring during and after their performance of it
Review: From Henry VI Part 3 to Romeo and Juliet
Join and revel – they’re not anywhere near ended.
Review: The Understudy
Do catch it, and match the feelgood price with nudging theatres towards opening night.
Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
With Baum’s direction they and we discover new thresholds, new anatomies
Review: The Merry Wives of Windsor
One of the two most cogent, most fun Merry Wives of recent years.
Review: Comics in Quarantine Solving Problems
An Englishman and an American join forces to solve your's and the World's problems
Review: By Jeeves!
A thoroughly enjoyable period-style musical.
Review: Waiting for Hamlet
Everyone dies in the end.
Review: A Separate Peace
Stoppard looks at society’s phantom limb ethic. Even when it’s gone it aches, and it aches to have someone opting out.
Review: Twelfth Night
Tamsin Greig’s extremes as Malvolia mark the first intimations of the terrible and define this production. The ground’s shifted.
Review: One Man, Two Guvnors
Outstanding. An immediate comic classic.
Review: Quartet
Like The French Lieutenant’s Woman, there are now two endings to Quartet. You must see this if you know the film only, or care about music, ageing, friendship and achingly lost love.
Review: Rumors
A sublimely silly farce. BLT deliver with panache and punch. Believe the whispers.
Review: Not Quite Jerusalem
An enduring little classic of Englishness on the turn, out of the ideal-exhausted Seventies and on the edge of darkness.
Review: The Dog Walker
I want to know what life, not just Paul Minx will do with his characters afterwards. So will you.
Review: The Taming of the Shrew
See it and you’ll never think of the Shrew without this groundbreaking stab at the dreams of men.
Review: Blithe Spirit
The final moments turn a superb revival into a masterpiece.
Review: Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
The three lead actors, divas and a superb cast give this production its beating pink heart.
Review: Candida
Convinces here far more than any production I’ve seen.
Review: The Affair
A lovelorn lothario with ants in his pants meets his match in a knockabout clown play
Review: Present Laughter
The finale is grounded in silences; an almost tragic awareness of the nature of the Essendines’ love. Outstanding.
Review: Douglas
Hannah Gadsby's hilarious new show, named after her dog!
Review: As You Like It
For Lucy Phelps and Sophie Khan Levy above all, this is a joyful As You Like It.
Review: The Taming of The Shrew
Highlights how good the play is just where we’re not looking for it
Review: Peter Pan Goes Wrong
Outstanding.
Review: Austentatious
A very silly and fun evening romping through Jane Austenesque drawing rooms
Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
This surely is the greatest Dream since Peter Brook’s landmark 1970 production.
Review: The Sad Shepherd
A necessary production you’re unlikely ever to see anywhere else.
Review: Would Like To Meet
The trials and tribulations of dating in the digital age.
Review: Too Soon?
Topical themes!
Review: The Magic of Ryan Kane
This show is very entertaining, well performed - and will wow you!
Review: The Thousandth Night
Entertaining physical storytelling with a powerful and meaningful message
Review: Voldemort and the Teenage Hogwarts Musical Parody
Voldemort the Musical Parody is back, funnier and slicker with all our favourite characters and songs.
Review: Bartholomew Fair
If only one could see it twice: but try it at least once.
Review: Shakespeare Up Late
Sex dolls, soliloquies and the odd dollop of Hamlet
Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A carnival riot of joy – with enough misdirection to evoke moonshine
Review: Carl Hutchinson: I Know I Shouldn’t Behave Like This
A very funny Geordie bloke tells us about growing up and having a bit of a drinkie
Review: Marc Jennings: Getting Going
A cheeky and clever young Scot brings us his take on growing up
Review: Faulty Towers the Dining Experience
Laughaloud classic comedy mayhem as you dine
Review: Not Quite
Symes and Thomas have real talent and are an excellent double act
Review: A Midsummer Night’s Droll
A take on Shakespeare not seen for four centuries
Review: Community Circle
A circle, a comedy, an experiment, a delight,
Review: Absolutely Reliable!
Deliciously dark, mask-based theatre
Review: Happy Britain Part 1: Adventures of a Happy Man
Is Britain in despair or can we be happy? Comedian Aidan Goatley sets out around the UK to find out.
Review: Boar
An exceptional solo show filled with comedy and fantasy