King's Head Theatre

Ballo (or 'A Masked Ball')

Romantic music (1815 – 1910), Italian opera

• Rating: 3/5

While OperaUpClose has made a name for itself with its stripped-down productions, this one must be its most minimal yet, consisting of just six singers, a piano, a flat-pack table and a few strips of masking tape to depict the path around Ballo – a furniture...

Californian Lives

Drama

Drawing on three years spent working in LA, Scottish-born writer Martin Foreman's trio of monologues are set, variously, in a diner, a San Fernando Valley bar and at sunset in the Cascade Mountains, and reveal the inner thoughts of three very different...

Californian Lives

Drama

Drawing on three years spent working in LA, Scottish-born writer Martin Foreman's trio of monologues are set, variously, in a diner, a San Fernando Valley bar and at sunset in the Cascade Mountains, and reveal the inner thoughts of three very different...

Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off

Fringe, Drama

Scotland's National Poet Liz Lochhead explores the rivalry between Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I in this tales of political intrigue. Mary is looked at through the eyes of Corbie, a carrion crow. This will be the play's first full London production...

Boy's Life

Fringe, Drama

The sexual insecurities of three old male college buddies come under the microscope in Howard Korder's Pulitzer Prize-nominated comedy set in '80s New York, revived here by Sebastien Blanc. The show transfers from the Etcetera Theatre.