3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (594+ words) West End Best Friend Review: EAST IS EAST, Octagon Theatre As a celebration of the original production’s 30th anniversary, a new production of East is East comes to Bolton as a collaboration between the Octagon Theatre, Citizens Theatre and Wiltshire Creative,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (770+ words) westendbestfriend.co.uk Review: PRESENT LAUGHTER, Theatre Royal Bath It is extraordinary to realise that Noel Coward’s Present Laughter was first staged in the West End during World War II in 1942 and has been acclaimed as one of his finest…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (161+ words) It's the simplicity of Little Animals that allows these ideas the space to breathe. The lights are up, all is laid out bare, only Ready is on the stage. It is this space that becomes cavernous or shrinks to nothing,…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (239+ words) A Slow Fire is an ambitious exploration of what happens to humanity when there is seemingly nothing left to hold on to. Set in a bunker after an unspecified apocalypse, Ashton (Ross Gaynor) and Reece (Ian Toner) spend their days…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (202+ words) Stamptown, a hit Edinburgh Fringe variety show,is currently celebrating its 10th anniversary. In those 10 years, it has gained a significant following in the UK and the USA. Now, audiences across the globe can enjoy a version of the show staged…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (268+ words) There are (at least) two drag-king boyband shows at the Fringe this year, so we wanted to make sure we caught at least one. We headed to Pleasance Courtyard to see MAN!FEST and we're very glad we did. The story…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (317+ words) Besties, in the last year we have become big fans of Recent Cutbacks and their brilliantly ridiculous way of turning some of cinema's biggest films into tiny pieces of live theatre. Their formula is simple but incredibly clever: take a…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (349+ words) West End Best Friend Edinburgh Festival Fringe hit RIGHT BEFORE I GO announces London transfer From the writer of Golden Girls and Gilmore Girls, Stan Zimmerman, Right before I go will transfer to London’s Soho Theatre for a limited time…...

4+ week, 9+ hour ago   (167+ words) There are many ways to get ahead in the theatre industry. Training, networking, knowing the right people… or, apparently, eliminating anyone who gets between you and stardom. It’s Manson, a chair, a microphone and a sequin dress and stockings that…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (389+ words) West End Best Friend Fringe Review: BEBE CAVE: SWOON, Jack Dome at Pleasance Dome Bebe Cave is clearly having fun. Even when playing the drowning, 1851 Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood muse of the painting, Ophelia. She is everywhere on the stage of Jack…...