RED BUS LONDINIUM

Welcome to Red Bus Londinium, celebrating the wonderful diversity of London’s theatre scene from the intimacy of a pub theatre to the extravagance of the West End. You will also find ideas on how to afford the theatre, so it can be enjoyed by all.

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  Camden Fringe: Arabella Jacobson on Gammelstad
  Camden Fringe Interview: Arabella Jacobson discusses Gammelstad, her new play about chosen family and sibling bonds set in a remote Swedish church town.
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  Camden Fringe: Kimberley Nixon on Baby Brain
  Camden Fringe interview: Kimberley Nixon talks Baby Brain, her dark comedy about postpartum psychosis, ahead of its Camden Fringe run at the Bridewell Theatre.
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  Camden Fringe Review: 1918: The Final Salome, Etcetera Theatre ★★½
  Camden Fringe review: 1918: The Final Salomé at Etcetera Theatre tackles Oscar Wilde’s legacy and the Maud Allan libel trial.
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  Camden Fringe: Banker Tailor Teacher Guy: Neil O’Dwyer on Reinvention
  Camden Fringe interview: Neil O’Dwyer on banking, tailoring and teaching ahead of Banker Tailor Teacher Guy at the Water Rats
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  Review: Cyrano de Bergerac, Noël Coward Theatre ★★★★½
  Review: RSC’s Cyrano de Bergerac transfers to the Noël Coward Theatre: Adrian Lester and Susannah Fielding star in this fresh, vulnerable West End revival.
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  Review: Firebird, Southwark Playhouse ★★★★
  Review: A groomed teenager, an overstretched social worker and a system that only hears victims who behave. Firebird returns to Southwark Playhouse, still urgent.
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  Camden Fringe: Your Favo(u)rite American Woman
  Camden Fringe interview: Ciarlene Coleman discusses her solo show Your Favo(u)rite American Woman, exploring identity, migration and the colonial mindset through comedy and music.
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  Review: Oresteia, Bridge Theatre
  Review: Simon Stone reimagines Aeschylus’s Oresteia as a modern arms-dealer family drama at the Bridge Theatre, starring Mary-Louise Parker and David Morrissey.
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  Camden Fringe: Cowpokes in a Bunkhouse
  Camden Fringe interview: Oblique Theatre’s Faith McNeill and Saskia Monteiro discuss their immersive all-female Wild West show
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  Camden Fringe: Bringing Shakespeare’s Fairy Queen into 2026
  Camden Fringe interview: Nia Gwynne and Dictynna Hood discuss their new one-woman show Titania, reimagining Shakespeare’s fairy queen four centuries on, ahead of its August run.
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  Camden Fringe: Louis Linsey on Hathaleen: The Unexpected Journey to Palestine
  Camden Fringe interview: Louis Linsey on Hathaleen, a satirical black comedy rooted in the West Bank and Awdah Hathaleen’s murder.
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  Camden Fringe: Four Face Theatre on Making Mates, a Play About Four Mates Trying to Make a Play
  Camden Fringe interview: Four Face Theatre on Mates, a meta-comedy about four friends trying, and failing, to make a play.
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  Camden Fringe: Kaleidoscope Collective Arts launches with Biscuits for Breakfast
  Camden Fringe interview: Kaleidoscope Collective Arts on food poverty, working-class access to theatre, and their Hackney Foodbank partnership.
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  Camden Fringe: Bunmi Aworanti and Tolu Idowu on the Games We Play in Love
  Camden Fringe interview: Love vs Fear’s Bunmi Aworanti and Tolu Idowu on mobile games, Nigerian mothers and audience choice.
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  Pride, National Theatre (Dorfman) ★★★★
  Review: Pride at the National Theatre’s Dorfman. Warchus and Beresford bring LGSM’s 1984 story to the stage at the National: joyful, moving, occasionally overstuffed with plotlines.