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The Gardening Club is currently playing a sell out run at the New Wimbledon Theatre as part of its fifth New Premieres season. Stirring much excitement in Edinburgh, where Act One was launched, such is the interest that an additional one-off performance (with additional online option) has been added in the main Wimbledon space in November. Set…
Black Power Desk, an original musical highlighting 1970s Black British protest, is making its world premiere at new South London venue, Brixton House. A sharp, soulful snapshot of its time, it is political yet deeply personal, with music that pulses with the heartbeat of the 1970s. The audience is invited into the action (with requests…
How to Be a Dancer in 72,000 Easy Lessons, currently playing at Sadler’s Wells East is a semi-autobiographical piece examining choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan‘s life and career through a series of memories and vignettes. Each element in this carefully chosen collection of life and career milestones stacks up like pages in a well-worn book or brushstrokes…
The Bush Theatre in Shepherd’s Bush places reflecting the diversity of its community at the very heart of its work and does so with remarkable success. Each visit offers something new to learn and reflect upon, making every production a meaningful experience. Since the pandemic, the theatre’s dedication to nurturing its Young Company has only…
Sadler’s Wells East transforms into a night club in this collaboration between boundary-blurring choreographer Sharon Eyal, creative partner Gai Behar, London dancers Young and club DJ Call Super. It offers a compelling fusion of nightlife and contemporary performance. Eyal and Behar met in a nightclub in the late 90s. Over time, they have sought to…
Founded over 40 years ago by three young Black British men, Leeds-based Phoenix Dance Theatre presents Inside Giovanni’s Room at Sadler’s Wells East as part of a UK tour. The show is a sensual, mesmerisingly rhythmic and emotional retelling of the James Baldwin novel, Giovanni’s Room. American writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin, born in 1924 in Harlem, New York,…
Just For One Day transferring from the Old Vic and now playing at the Shaftesbury Theatre revisits the seminal Live Aid fundraising concert of 1985 as it approaches its 40th anniversary. It is a lively, loud look at Bob Geldof and the Live Aid concerts that boasts thrilling music and manages to avoid hagiography. (As…
Diveen Henry is the Miss Myrtle in Miss Myrtle’s Garden and is the heart of this tender, witty and devastating play that explores the crumbling awareness that haunts many at the end of their lives, currently in its premiere run at the Bush Theatre. Director Taio Lawson and writer Danny James King cleverly shepherd the…
Based on over 70 interviews with nurses of all ages, backgrounds and nationalities, Tending at the Riverside Studios tenderly and powerfully gives true voice to the 40,000 nurses in the NHS. Written by El Blackwood and directed by John Livesey, this piece of theatre is essential viewing for anyone who feels they should bear witness…
It’s the 1980s and 1990s and as the terrifying impacts of global warming became ever more apparent, the United Nations summits on climate change are perhaps Earth’s only hope. Kyoto (premiering at the RSC and now in its second run at @SohoPlace) centres on those conferences but in particular the efforts of one man: real-life…
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