Theatre

I was excited to see Black Swan Theatre’s production of Our Town partly because a version is coming to London’s Open Air Theatre this summer, and partly because I wanted to see an Australian take on...

There is a recipe for these total immersion theatre experiences. First take the biggest, oldest and rambling-est building you can lay your tiny subsidised hands on, then fill it with a random assortment...

Disabled characters in TV soaps. Ability awareness in theatres. The Paralympics. All good consciousness-raising tropes for the recognition and support of differently-abled actors, and people in general,...

Guest reviewer: Gloria Trubshaw Old Spice: If you couldn’t obtain/afford/be bothered to get tickets for the Spice Girls’ re-re-reunion, Denim The Reunion Tour may just be the very thing you’ve been...

I'd been looking forward to The Simon and Garfunkel Story thinking how much theirs was the music of my coming of age years - but It's funny what tricks your memory plays because Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel...

It’s always a pleasure to hear an untold story. In Billy Bishop Goes to War we learn about a baby-faced Canadian teenager who by a string of lucky chances became the world’s most decorated fighter pilot in...

I wonder if in years to come we'll look back on the 'Theatre of Brexit' in the same way we analyse Shakespeare's treatment of Agincourt, or the Trojan Wars in Sophocles?   Those sunlit uplands from...

For a play about a marital bust-up after 32 years, Honour is a surprisingly bland and bloodless piece. Author Joanna Murray-Smith has much more fun with feuding and unfaithful couples in her Australian...

If you thought The Comedy About A Bank Robbery was a strange title, here comes the Comedy About Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.  Soldier On is a brave enterprise of the Soldiers’ Arts Academy charity which...

I love a bit of immersive interactive theatre shiz: The Grift at Bethnal Green’s Town Hall Hotel was last year’s big winner imported from San Diego.  Now from Canada comes Talk is Free Theatre’s The...