The play is more a "snapshot" of a moment in time than a "coloured-in portrait", said Arifa Akbar in The Guardian. Still, it is an "entertaining and enlightening ensemble work" about that period in ...

Inspired by the true-life story of Peter Scott-Morgan, as depicted in the Channel Four documentary ‘Peter – The Human Cyborg’ ...

There aren’t very many stage shows that put sex workers at the centre of the narrative. Some might argue that is probably ...

Current Orange Tree boss Tom Littler has definitely upped the name quotient at the small but respected Richmond theatre since taking ... it’s a shame Playhouse Creatures feels like a relatively ...

Life for London’s first professional actresses was ... Mrs Betterton - nonetheless changed the face and the course of theatre. Two hours in their company is bracing, heady fun.

Playhouse Theatre in London’s West End in order to stage a new, immersive production of the musical Cabaret. Carmody Groarke have created a faux Weimar 1920s ambiance that completely conceals the 1885 ...

The Theatre Royal Drury Lane is the grande dame of London theatres. Its site has been in constant use as a playhouse since the 1600s and despite various incarnations (usually necessitated by a ...

It’s the swinging (16)60s, and ‘the merry monarch’ Charles II is on the throne. After violent civil war, England’s theatres have finally reopened and, for the first time, women are allowed to perform ...

Life for London ... Years by a woman, Playhouse Creatures by a man). Neither of them could have existed without the breakthrough made by Nell, Mrs B et al. Orange Tree Theatre, to April 12 ...