Dissecting the modern epidemic of mental illness and male suicide (and specifically the language we use to talk about it), Alex McSweeney's Distance is intelligently written, ambitious in its experimentation with form, visually immaculate and performed …
For all its intended 'eccentricity' and message of acceptance, Eugenius! is as formulaic and problematic as musicals come. If this is the 'Zoella' generation's equivalent of Rocky Horror, I'm sorry but they deserve better. A copious amount of …
Incorporating physical theatre into Lorca's thrilling play, George Richmond-Scott's modern adaptation of Blood Wedding is a lively and engrossing performance at the Omnibus Theatre. Federico García Lorca's Blood Wedding is transported to the new setting of contemporary London …
The unfortunate reality of Hamilton (Lewis) is that you smile far more looking at the poster than you do sitting through the show. Both the writing and staging just lack the dynamism necessary for it …
Hamilton meets Spice Girls meets Madame Jojo's - in Lucy Moss and Toby Marlow's electric gig-theatre piece about refusing to be reduced, or erased, to a mnemonic. Six starts with an unequivocal insight: that, institutionally no less, …
A warm and precise supporting performance from Seann Miley-Moore isn't enough to save GUY: A New Musical from a slight, banal narrative and a string of stock characters. The amount of work that's gone into the …
Black Cat: Bohemia sets Underbelly's Spiegeltent alight with an impressive international line-up, an endearing and charismatic MC and plenty of real searing flames - but one too many moments feel genuinely (rather than just aesthetically) reckless …
Gleefully tricksy and determined to push every possible button until all is but broken, David Ireland's Ulster American is by no means a comfortable watch. But hell, it's difficult to not love its guts. David Ireland's anarchic Ulster American reminds …
Status goes above and beyond the framework of Brexit: a journey masterfully written and interpreted by Chris Thorpe. “If you believe you are a citizen of the world, then you are a citizen of nowhere” greets …
Its protagonist may be 'astoundingly average', but Fat Rascal's latest hour of unadulterated silliness - Vulvarine: A New Musical - is anything but. Impeccably slick and overflowing with imagination, this original feminist musical is a tour …
Achilles is a physical and emotional tour de force, an adaptation of the famous Trojan War’s events by Scottish artist Ewan Downie and Company of Wolves. Blending storytelling, dance and song to present a new perspective …
A powerful night of entertainment and showstopping celebration of an art form born from revolution, Velma Celli's Iconic: A Brief History of Drag at Assembly Checkpoint lives up to its name. A vision in a tasselled …