Riverside Studios

Hutch

Musicals

Leslie 'Hutch' Hutchinson was one of the biggest cabaret stars of the '20s and '30s – though he's now just as well known for being the lover of both Cole Porter and Edwina Mountbatten, wife to the Queen's cousin. Ruby in the Dust's new play-with-music,...

Mies Julie

Off-West End, Drama

• Rating: 5/5
• Critics' choice

In order to have its full erotic charge, any production of August Strindberg’s ‘Miss Julie’ needs to be situated on a social faultline. When it was written in 1888, the taboo of a haughty aristocratic daughter seducing her father’s servant was enough...

The Great Gatsby

Off-West End, Musicals, Rollerblading and inline skating

• Rating: 3/5

After modest success at the King's Head Theatre last year, Ruby in the Dust's musical adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's great novella is back for 2013 in reworked, recast form. New songs are promised, as well as the input of Lee Proud, one of the fringe's...

Knee Deep

Off-West End, Circuses

Australian circus group Casus use contemporary and traditional circus techniques to present an acrobatic show which will showcase the formidable skills of its four performers.

The Structure of Comedy

Comedy

A one-day comedy course in one-liners, sketches and sitcom writing. Featuring 'Red Dwarf' penman Rob Grant, comedy writer Geoff Atkinson – who wrote one of the UK's most controversial sitcoms, 'Heil Honey I'm Home!', but it was axed after the pilot aired...