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Review: TWELFTH NIGHT, Shakespeare North Playhouse


by Sarah OHara - June 12, 2024

Award winning Theatre company Not Too Tame return with their latest production - William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night - and I can say without a doubt, that it is the best Shakespeare production you will see this year....

Review: CIRQUE: THE GREATEST SHOW, Leicester Curve


by Franco Milazzo - June 11, 2024

With its live singers, superb clowning and disappointing vaudeville acts, The Entertainers’ Cirque: The Greatest Show is bringing its dazzling show around the country....

Review: MY FAIR LADY, Leeds Playhouse


by Gary Naylor - June 08, 2024

Two terrific leads will delight audiences, but the source material's misogyny proves too much to simply sweep aside...

Review: ACCOLADE, Theatre Royal Windsor


by Kat Mokrynski - June 10, 2024

Written by Emlyn Williams in 1950, Accolade tells the fictional story of an accomplished writer named Will Trenting (Ayden Callaghan) who finds the world he has built falling apart in front of him as a secret from the past comes to haunt him. The production, directed by Sean Mathias, is part of Math...

Brighton Fringe Review: IT JUST SO HAPPENED: AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY SHOW, Brighton Toy & Model Museum


by Kat Mokrynski - June 10, 2024

It Just So Happened: An Alternative History Show has a simple concept, as shown in the show’s description - “Three guest comedians/history buffs perform short stand-up sets based ‘on this day’ in history before exploring some possible alternative histories of Brighton people and events....

Brighton Fringe Review: RICHARD PULSFORD: GET RICH QUICK, Rotunda Theatre Brighton: Squeak


by Kat Mokrynski - June 10, 2024

Entering the Rotunda Theatre Brighton: Squeak for Richard Pulsford: Get Rich Quick, you are greeted by a screen with Tweets by Pulsford flashing by every few seconds. Each Tweet has a different joke on it, leading to a few chuckles from the audience as each new one appears on the screen....

Brighton Fringe Review: BEN GOLDSMITH: CRIMELANDTOWN, Presuming Ed's


by Kat Mokrynski - June 10, 2024

Walking into Ben Goldsmith: Crimelandtown, you are greeted by Goldsmith putting on a character you’d find in The Godfather, thanking you for coming to visit Crimelandtown Casino on “the day of my daughter’s wedding” and handing each audience member a poker chip....

Brighton Fringe Review: CHIN WANG: WANG'S REPUBLIC, Rotunda Theatre Brighton: Squeak


by Kat Mokrynski - June 10, 2024

Chin Wang: Wang’s Republic begins with Wang filling out an online form, the site projected onto a screen behind her. The first question? “What’s your country or region?” It’s a strange question, and anyone who has lived in a different country can definitely relate to Wang’s confusion....

Brighton Fringe Review: GHOST WALKS OF THE LANES, The Druid's Head


by Kat Mokrynski - June 08, 2024

Ghost Walk of the Lanes is an eighty-minute tour of “Brighton’s oldest and most haunted quarter,” with a storyteller dressed in a Victorian costume leading audience members around several historic sites of the city, stopping and telling stories, ringing a bell to lead the way....

Brighton Fringe Review: KIDS CAN HECKLE!, Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)


by Kat Mokrynski - June 08, 2024

Kids Can Heckle!, hosted by comedian Ollie Horn, has an interesting concept. As you might be able to guess from the title, children are allowed to heckle. In fact, according to the show’s descriptions, they are “encouraged to jump in, share their ideas, and be as silly as possible,” so you can defin...

Past Shows

Frances Ruffelle & Norman Bowman: Frankie & Beausy


Frances Ruffelle & Norman Bowman FRANKIE & BEAUSY Frankie & Beausy met at a train station in Scotland 26 years ago on Valentine’s Day. Frankie, ...

An Evening with Tony Award Winner Levi Kreis


Levi Kreis is a Tony Award winning actor known for originating the role of Jerry Lee Lewis in Broadway’s Million Dollar Quartet . The role ...

Tim McArthur Sings Sondheim’s Divas


Sondheim aficionado Tim McArthur performs a classic evening of the leading ladies songs from Sondheim's greatest musicals.For three years Tim hosted and performed cabaret nights ...

Mary Carewe and Philip Mayers: Berlin to Broadway


International concert and cabaret singer MARY CAREWE with her long-term collaborator, arranger and pianist, PHILIP MAYERS, present a night of Berlin cabaret and Broadway songs ...

Dido's Bar
Dido's Bar
11/10 - 12/10/2022


Let us tempt you to the edge of town for a night of theatre, music and myth at Didos Bar. Set in a music club ...

Looking For Me Friend: The Music of Victoria Wood


Cabaret Performer & TV Personality, PAULUS (BBCs All Together Now), enters his 30th year in entertainment with a loving tribute to his idol: the late, ...

Pride @ Sonata presents Bette: Bathhouse to Broadway!


Jonathan Booth steps into the heels of legendary diva, Bette Midler, as she explores the key moments in her life and career. From her early ...

Pride @ Sonata presents Nicole Faraday


Nicole Faraday is best known for her TV role as Snowball Merriman in two series of ITV's Bad Girls, alongside series regular roles as Veronica ...

Pride @ Sonata presents Vivienne Lynsey


James has been performing in Manchester over the last 7 years as a staple on the drag scene. After graduating Rose Bruford School of Theatre ...

Wrong Songs by Richard Thomas and Sooz Kempner


Olivier-winning composer Richard Thomas (Jerry Springer the Opera, Anna Nicole, Made in Dagenham) and comedian and singer Sooz Kempner present Wrong Songs, a collection of ...

Madame Chandelier's Opera House Party


Join Madame Chandelier and all her favourite opera characters for jokes, party games, and lots of dramatic death scenes. Have you ever wondered where the ...

Videos


An Evening with Trevor and Gary in UK Regional An Evening with Trevor and Gary
The Riverfront (6/15 - 6/15)
Catastrophe Bay in UK Regional Catastrophe Bay
Southwark Playhouse Elephant (8/15 - 8/17)
Sunday in the Park with George in UK Regional Sunday in the Park with George
Wheatsheaf Hall (6/20 - 6/30)
A Place For Me? in UK Regional A Place For Me?
Queen's Theatre Hornchurch (10/30 - 11/2)
Edward II in UK Regional Edward II
Swan Theatre (2/21 - 4/5)
Our House in UK Regional Our House
Southwark Playhouse Elephant (8/22 - 8/24)
The School for Scandal in UK Regional The School for Scandal
Royal Shakespeare Theatre (7/2 - 9/6)
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