Time Out rounds up the best places in London to catch theatre under the stars this summer
Ninety years after women won the right to vote, Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s play about the suffragettes opens at the...
Dominic Dromgoole’s ‘Lear’ is left largely to its own devices. Set where the source text specifies,...
A couple of years ago, director Christopher Luscombe and designer Janet Bird gave us a ‘Comedy of Errors’...
Watch This Space: The Belgian troupe returns with big balloon antics.
Peter Hall is a prolific director who once in a while strikes gold. And, by George, he hits the jackpot here....
Gregory Burke’s ‘Black Watch’ is set partly in the Fife pub where he interviewed a group...
‘Black Watch’, the violent, haunting and darkly funny play about Scottish soldiers in Iraq, stormed the Edinburgh...
Watch This Space: A group of ten strangers appear, each carrying a suitcase.
Kneehigh has made it into the West End but not the West End as we normally know it. Nor is this quite the adaptation...
What with the hide-and-seek comedy, the mischievous fairies and the unusually symmetrical plot, it’s hard to...
I confess. I wanted to hate ‘Hairspray’. I’ve nothing against its loveably chubby heroine Tracy...
Anyone who has yawned their way through the inanities of too many jukebox musicals is likely to wonder how...
Watch This Space: Airplane-themed circus performance including hula-hoop and comic in-flight entertainment.
Katie Mitchell's latest multi-media production, a deconstruction of Dostoevsky's novel 'The Idiot'.
Rich and generous philanthropist Timon turns into a savage misanthrope after his friends let him down.
The sixth annual summer season of free theatre at The Scoop at More London amphitheatre, next to City Hall on the South Bank of the Thames, will include Lorca's tragedy 'Blood Wedding'.
If you go ‘Into the Hoods’ tonight, you’re in for a big surprise. Who knew that life on...
Renaissance meets rave in director Melly Still’s lavish interpretation of ‘The Revenger’s...
Patrick Hamilton enjoys an ambiguous position in the pantheon of twentieth-century English letters. The author of two...
It might have been the biggest night in British football, but judging by the rapturous applause at the end of...
Following sell-out shows in Paris, Tokyo and Beijing as part of its fiftieth anniversary world tour, the Broadway classic is restaged at Sadler's Wells, newly directed and choreographed by Robbins' former assistant, McKneely.
‘Zorro’ is hot stuff. And I’m not just talking about the sweaty effects of a giant flaming...
Joanna Murray-Smith’s new comedy is hardly a testament to sisterhood. It’s a controversial riff on the...
A diminutive presence hasn‘t stopped young prodigy Ben Whishaw making a massive impact. So what fuels the actor
Natasha, a beautiful 25-year-old Jamaican woman, has been seeing fellow lawyer David, a sensitive and politely spoken...
On a balmy summer’s night in Regent’s Park, you’d need quite a production to upstage the idyllic...
Square2: Watch This Space: Teatr Biuro Podròzy's award-winning adaptation of 'Macbeth', including motorbikes, witches on stilts and a burning castle.
As ‘The Wizard of Oz’ opens on stage at the Royal Festival Hall, Time Out hears about the Dorothy-themed acts...
Enid Bagnold’s delightfully fragrant drama opened in 1956, the same year as John Osborne’s radical...
If you want lashings of glossy decadence, Cobden Club is the place. Above the members’ bar there’s a...
New production of Christopher Marlowe's play about the political and sexual power struggles at the early medieval court of Edward II.
Watch This Space: Cabaret performance.
On a Mediterranean island, 20-year-old Sophie is determined to find a father to escort her down the aisle.
London is a breeding ground for young theatrical talent. Time Out meets the class of 2006 in the Soho Theatre
Lenkiewicz's play is the last of this year's Travelex £10 season. Lesley Manville plays Lady Celia Cain, a sufragette in London in 1913 who meets a young seamstress while serving time in Holloway gaol. Also in rep. 'The Revenger's Tragedy'.
Watch This Space: Belgiun street performance including acrobatics, juggling and music.
New play about the nature of addiction.
The Rainbow Theatre brings Shylock to Greenwich.
Big budget films adapted for the stage tend to prove gaudy, meretricious affairs, especially when there's a mist of nostalgia obscuring all but the most glaring faults. With 'Dirty Dancing', cynics will note the resolutely untheatrical digitally...
Time Out pokes around Gob Squad’s ‘Kitchen’ to find out how it connects to Warhol’s original vision and the...
Set in the 1950's at an exclusive boarding school, the play tells the story of four pupils who secretely rehearse Romeo and Juliet to escape from their repressive school routine. See Reviews.
Edinburgh Fringe preview of this new play about two former jury members who reunite in a hotel room for a night of passion.
There's no secret to the success of London's longest-running musical. First, there are the songs (soaring schmaltz, lingering lyrics, and powerful pop-hooks). And then there are the sets: spectacularly film-fabulous besides being easy on the...
Time Out chats to playwright David Eldridge about market life – the subject of his latest play
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