3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (340+ words) Twin staircases, shimmering gowns, a gleaming swimming pool and a live band poised for action: Rachel Kavanaugh’s lavish production of High Society sweeps onto the Playhouse stage dressed to dazzle. With Cole Porter’s irresistible music and lyrics, the classic, classy…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (389+ words) There is something tangibly ominous from the very beginning of Mere Mortals, as if humanity has stepped into a man-made machine that it no longer controls. In this dark, surreal reimagining of Pandora’s Box, choreographer Aszure Barton sets the ancient…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (234+ words) Belief takes physical form in Groupwork’s haunting fusion of theatre, dance, film and sound. Inspired by the true story of an American 1950s UFO doomsday cult, the production enters the fragile territory between certainty and doubt, where faith can become stronger…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (205+ words) The character is reminiscent of a Judy Garland in terms of style and deliver but with only 1% of the former’s talent and even that’s being generous. There’s a rawness to the performance, a strange compelling quality, she’s a ball of…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (70+ words) Mina Liccione is a New York comedian / dancer who moved to Dubai and encountered all forms ‘cultural mishaps, decolonisation, and discovering the Habibi way’! She has foundered Dubomedy - a school for comedy and played a major role in developing the…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (414+ words) Atticwife dives headfirst with a scathing look into the problematically popular “trad-wife” phenomenon in which primarily (young, white) women are eschewing careers, education, and often their own friends and family in order to serve and submit to their husbands - and…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (153+ words) Kara Wilson has created her own unique style of one woman Fringe shows with her series of Painter Plays, previously portraying Beryl Cook and Vanessa Bell. This year, she has selected the artist, Helen Bradley, whose vivid, figurative landscapes capture…...