This is a new play and the first full-length offering from Philip De Voni, directed by Theatre Technis’ Creative Director, Kerry Kyriacos MBE (the former Artistic Director and Chief Executive of Theatre Royal Stratford East). www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/the-...

The Old Red Lion is hosting FreshFest 2026, a celebration of brand-new theatre from the 19th January - 8th February. www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/a-fi...

Caroline Graham, now 94, won a Crime Writers' Association Award for her first Inspector Barnaby novel The Killings at Badger's Drift, dating from 1987. www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/the-...

There’s a trend in contemporary plays of time-hopping, though this one doesn’t bounce around in what has become a conventional format. www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/lost...

2:22 A Ghost Story is quite simply a phenomenon. www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/222-...

I haven’t had the privilege, or indeed misfortune, of living in a block of flats managed (or, as this play would have it, mismanaged) by a housing association. www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/magg...

To borrow a phrase from footballing parlance, Gelin is a play of two halves. www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/geli...

Almost every one-off gig is marketed as a ‘don’t miss’ event – this one was described as a “totally unique experience”, a statement which could be taken either way. www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/pass...

Following a record-breaking three-year West End residency, two sold-out UK & Ireland Tours and Amazon Studios award-winning film, the smash-hit and critically acclaimed musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie returns for the 10th Anniversary Tour featuring a www.londontheatre1.com/theatre-news...

I had been pre-warned before going into this show – mostly by people who hadn’t seen this musical, but had either seen the movie or read the book, or both. American Psycho, they said, is gory. It is nasty. It is brutal. www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/amer...

For some, it may be a strange concept to have a pantomime in late January. www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/jack...

A complex, intricate, one-act, one-man show, Sami Abu Wardeh takes the audience through multiple storylines across several generations. www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/pale...

Varna is a large seaside resort in Bulgaria and, like many former Soviet Union cities, has an impressive 'state' theatre with opera, ballet and drama companies. www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/varn...

Film director Alfred Hitchcock described a “McGuffin” as something that is essential to the plot but ultimately unimportant in itself. www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/ball...

Identifying as half Irish, with an Irish mother from Tipperary, and waving my Irish passport (the acquisition of which was prompted by the lies, failures, and fallout of Brexit), I arrived at Jack Studio Theatre with my curiosity thoroughly piqued. www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/call...

A series of questions are asked. When one set of questions is dealt with, the printer in the centre of the desk, itself in the centre of the stage, buzzes into life and another set appears. www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/barb...

Producers Wessex Grove and Gavin Kalin Productions are delighted to announce the full cast for the 50th Anniversary West End revival of David Hare’s rebel play TEETH 'N' SMILES. www.londontheatre1.com/theatre-news...

Mime, mayhem, merde - this is the funniest, most uplifting show I’ve seen in years. Absolutely hilarious, it is a most welcome shot in the arm in these bleak times. Fish Bowl is Gallic genius at its zenith. www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/fish...

Michael Harrison and David Ian are delighted to announce that Claire Sweeney will star as Miss Hannigan in the UK and Ireland tour of the musical ANNIE. www.londontheatre1.com/theatre-news...

Perhaps it is the febrile nature of contemporary American politics, but London is currently awash with plays set in and around 19th-century US politics and the Civil War.  First there was Our American Queen at the Bridewell Theatre, Oh, Mary! www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/mrs-...

The "New British Musical" Why Would We Care? was given a reading at London's Other Palace Studio in July 2025. This is its first staging and, to be frank, still feels like work-in-progress, though there is much to commend it. www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/why-...

Kevin McCollum and Jamie Wilson Productions are delighted to announce full casting and creative team for the West End return of AVENUE Q, bringing the original Broadway puppets to the Shaftesbury Theatre for a strictly limited season from Friday 20 March 2026 www.londontheatre1.com/theatre-news...

Tamzin Outhwaite stars as one of the most iconic characters in British theatre – the unforgettable Beverly - in Mike Leigh’s ferocious black comedy of suburban life in the 1970s, which launches a UK tour from June 2026. www.londontheatre1.com/theatre-news...

Kicking off the 2026 reviews for me is a show that showcases historical immersive theatre at its best. www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/jorv...

There’s more than a whiff of Les Misérables in this musical, in the sense that there’s a long build up before the working classes rise up against the establishment. www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/cabl...

There are forty-two tracks on the cast album of Jo – The Little Women Musical, five of which are reprises. At its world premiere, the running time was just over three hours. www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/jo-t...

Set in the present day when it premiered in 1922, Loyalties is, in many ways, a portrait of high society as it was at the time. The police are called to attend Meldon Court, the residence of Sir Charles Winsor (Ant Foran) because there has been a theft. www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/loya...

The critically acclaimed production of John le Carré’s The Spy Who Came In From The Cold will embark on a major UK tour beginning at Curve Leicester on the 12 March 2026 and continuing through to August 2026. www.londontheatre1.com/theatre-news...

Studio Lambert and Neal Street Productions are delighted to announce a major theatrical adaptation of the global phenomenon The Traitors is in development for launch in London next year. www.londontheatre1.com/theatre-news...

David Benson has been performing his one-man show Think No Evil of Us: My Life with Kenneth Williams for thirty years and to celebrate that and the hundredth anniversary of Williams' birth. www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/my-l...

The ‘white saviour complex’ is somewhat inescapable in this narrative: when Catherine (Beth www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/safe...

I had never previously encountered Collective Theatre, nor experienced the remarkable setting of Hornsey Road Baths and Laundry, and both discoveries felt like a gift. www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/asyl...

GWB Entertainment in association with the Royal Shakespeare Company is delighted to announce that the multi-award-winning production of Matilda The Musical will be returning to China for a third national tour from February to August 2026. www.londontheatre1.com/theatre-news...

Tim Connery's Masterclass (not to be confused with Terence McNally's 1995 play about Maria Callas) is one of the best two-handed plays I have come across. www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/mast...

There’s nothing more exciting than seeing the world premiere of a theatre production. www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/beau...

There’s nothing new about seeing a couple arguing: the thing about living and working in a city with an extensive public transport network - even if it frankly doesn’t work very well most of the time - is that the general etiquette of keeping quiet is, at www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/gues...

Plays for a Poor Theatre by Howard Brenton, directed by Connor Goodwin and presented by Divided Culture Co, is at The Bread & Roses Theatre from 17th February 2026. Three plays in one! www.londontheatre1.com/theatre-news...

Producers Barry & Fran Weissler and David Ian for Crossroads Live are delighted to announce further casting for the UK and Ireland tour of the smash hit romantic musical comedy WAITRESS, with stage and screen stars Les Dennis as Joe and Sandra Marvin as Becky, www.londontheatre1.com/theatre-news...

They say everyone has an autobiography in them, but most of us don’t do anything about it – Deb Filler has, but instead of writing a book, she’s turned it into a ninety-minute one-woman show called Cohen, Bernstein, Joni & Me. www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/cohe...

The full cast is today announced for the major new musical of The Ballad of Johnny & June. www.londontheatre1.com/theatre-news...

Thanks to suspension of disbelief, one is inclined to accept, for the duration of the performance, something called the Ronald Drumpf Administration. I assume it’s called that to keep lawyers from issuing cease and desist orders against the production. www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/rotu...

Plays don’t need a traditional theatre or studio environment to showcase themselves. Pubs, church halls, warehouse containers, railway arches, and other atypical venues have all been used to provide the structural backdrop for theatrical narrative. www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/i-do...

Friends first appeared on our TV screens in 1994 and over the next ten years clocked up a staggering 236 episodes – and it has been seen on re-runs ever since. www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/frie...

OffWestEnd, London’s independent theatre platform and awards body championing independent theatre in Greater London and beyond, marked its 20th anniversary with a birthday event celebrating two decades of supporting non-West End theatre - alongside exciting www.londontheatre1.com/theatre-news...

It is always a pleasure to catch up with the multi-talented Ionica Adriana, whose career continues to reach impressive new heights across stage and screen. www.londontheatre1.com/theatre-news...

Sinatra The Musical - a new musical based on the life and career of the legendary artist and cultural icon - is to open in London in 2026. www.londontheatre1.com/theatre-news...

I can understand why, as the director’s note in the programme points out, Henrik Ibsen wasn’t exactly keen on the translated title of Gengangere, originally written and performed in Danish, as Ghosts. www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/ghos...

There seems to be a plethora of films, TV series, and, especially, novels adapted for the stage at present, many of which I have seen and reviewed, most of them adding little if anything to their source material, and some being very pedestrian indeed! www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/tige...

👠 Single White Female: UK Tour 2026 👠 Psychological Thriller Live on Stage | 19 UK & Ireland Venues | January-June 2026 The iconic 90s psychological thriller comes to life on stage in a bold new production starring Kym Marsh and Lisa Faulkner. www.londontheatre1.com/theatre-news...

🏨 Fawlty Towers - The Play: UK Tour 2026 🏨 John Cleese's Comedy Classic Live on Stage | 26 UK & Ireland Venues January-August 2026 The greatest British sitcom of all time is back - this time on stage! www.londontheatre1.com/theatre-news...