Cynicism dominates Neil LaBute’s three short plays in Chapter One of the three-chapter cycle of America the Beautiful, being staged between the King’s Head and Greenwich Theatre. Each character is ...

Northern Ballet’s new production of Gentleman Jack demonstrates the company’s continuing commitment to narrative ballet while also expanding the boundaries of the genre’s subject matter. Choreographed ...

David Rosenberg, the owner of a kosher catering firm, wants to be a pillar of his community. In the opening scene of Ryan Craig’s 2011 play set in 2009, we hear he has literally built a couple of ...

In this instance, the story revolves around an invitation to a country house and the offer of a lucrative paycheque for an actor who can pretend to be a ghost. A simple enough premise, but one that ...

The Wrong They Knew opens with a mystery. The stage is arranged like a court with a robed judge sitting slightly above the other performers and an empty witness box front of stage. A spokesperson for ...

Fact, fiction and fantasy blend together in a surreal fever dream—both in Queen Elizabeth’s last days looking back and Scottish Ballet’s creative team’s conceptualised evocation, which won Best ...

Tharpe was a gospel singer who was labelled “the godmother of rock ’n’ roll”. She became a big influence but since has been largely forgotten. Beverley Knight’s performance as Rosetta makes her ...

The inspiration for this exciting, female-friendly play is an earlier dramatic verse play by Italian writer Stefano Massini called The Ladies Football Club. Unsurprisingly, a play about football is as ...

Five members of the Wardrobe Ensemble have been cast in the première of the company’s latest play Party Season, which will be ...

Across the Square imagines Lady Ottoline Morrell paying a visit to her neighbour, Millicent Fawcett, in December 1917. It’s ...

Oliver Kaderbhai’s show Miles takes us on an impressionistic ramble through the life and work of one of the great jazz musicians of the twentieth century, switching constantly between different ...

Looking at the women smiling and laughing as they sit along a fence eating blueberries while a man plays an accordion, you can imagine a holiday resort, a fun day out, and if you are told it’s at a ...