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Christmas anarchy to reign supreme at the Rosemary Branch theatre
The traditional panto is out as the Rosie gears up for its adults-only Christmas season featuring a trio of experimental shows by young theatremakers
Read More‘I love it!’ Hackney Empire’s new pantomime villain Sharon D. Clarke on ‘taking the boos’
Hackney Empire pantomime regular Sharon D. Clarke has shed her fairy godmother skin to become the malevolent fairy Carabosse in this year’s show
Read MoreSleeping Beauty, Hackney Empire, review: ‘I was still dancing as I left the theatre’
Classic story has been brought up to date by Susie McKenna’s stellar writing and direction
Read MoreWin a pair of tickets to ‘A Pacifist’s Guide to the War on Cancer’ at the National Theatre!
Expect big anthems, shiny costumes, blood, tears and real cancer patients in this heartbreaking musical
Read MoreRemoval Men, The Yard Theatre, review: ‘at its best worthy of Joe Orton’
An Immigration Removal Centre is the setting for a new play at the Yard Theatre that explores a ‘crisis of compassion’ in society, through song, dance and caustic-whimsical dialogue
Read MoreFat White Family founding member’s debut play Removal Men lands in Hackney Wick
A love story set inside an immigration removal centre asks whether compassion is possible in a world of wire fences
Read MoreHackney playwright details foster care experience in debut play
Four Paintings combines art and performance to explore the experience of growing up in care
Read MoreHuman rights play to shed light on 'biggest unreported war story of our time'
The Island Nation, opening this month at the Arcola, revisits the Sri Lankan civil war to address a ‘black hole in history’
Read MoreBarred: prison play asks if art and education can rehabilitate offenders
Writer and ex-offender Dean Stalham bases his plays on searching questions that interrogate the prison experience
Read MoreSaddled with Shakespeare: The Handlebards ride to Geffrye Museum
An all-bicycling theatre company is giving new meaning to the phrase ‘play cycle’
Read MoreGrimeborn Festival, Arcola, review: 'excellent programme of rarities and standards'
Opera gets back to its experimental roots at the Arcola’s annual festival
Read MoreFrom the Ground Up, Shoreditch Town Hall, review: 'a lo-fi game show experience'
The show, devised by the Almeida young company, saw audiences peppered with provocative yes-or-no questions
Read MoreAfrica Utopia comes to the Southbank Centre 31 August – 4 September
Discover art and ideas from Africa that are changing the world
Read More‘It was love soup’: Britten in Brooklyn with Sadie Frost at Wilton's Music Hall
Sadie Frost ventures to East London to star as stripper Gypsy Rose Lee
Read MoreThe Passion of Lady Vendredi: Rich Mix to stage 'blaxploitation epic'
Voodoo, evangelism and white working class comedians are some of the inspirations for the character of Lady Vendredi
Read MorePlay set in ‘shipping container’ highlights plight of child refugees
Cargo, a new play opening at the Arcola this month, recreates a border crossing in real time
Read MorePlay set in 'shipping container' highlights plight of child refugees
Arcola production enacts a border-crossing using a replica of the type of container used to escape conflict in countries such as Syria and Afghanistan
Read MoreRosemary Branch theatre founders bow out after 20 years
After two decades of at the helm of theatre pub institution, Cecilia Darker and Cleo Sylvestre have handed over the reins to a new generation
Read MoreHandle with Care – self-storage lock-up stages play about belongings
Promenade production follows Zoe on a 30-year journey, viewed through the prism of her personal effects
Read MoreKenny Morgan, Arcola theatre, review: 'a worthy tribute'
Mike Poulton’s play about Terence Rattigan’s secret lover does a stellar job of conveying the post-war prejudice and emotional reticence of 1940s Britain
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