Safe
Park Theatre and Hackney Empire (venue) 20 April 2021 (released) 11 h This verbatim piece on homeless and at risk LBGTQ+ young people is powerful…
Outside
Orange Tree Theatre (venue) 19 April 2021 (released) 1 d This is the second part of Orange Tree Theatre’s first new writing productions after pandemic…
Inside
Orange Tree Theatre Live Stream (venue) 28 March 2021 (released) 11 h It is a really clever decision to decide to live-stream these three linked…
Grimm Tales for Fragile Times and Broken People
(venue) 25 February 2021 (released) 11 h The folklore tales captured and written down by the Brothers Grimm and performed by the Creation Theatre two…
Outside
The Space, live-streamed performance (venue) 20 February 2021 (released) 18 h When we are all in the midst of a nationwide lockdown, this is a…
Good Grief
(venue) 15 February 2021 (released) 9 h Lorien Haynes’s Good Grief tells the story of the months following the death of a young woman (Liv)…
Come From Away, Melbourne
The Comedy Theatre, Melbourne (venue) 02 February 2021 (released) 4 h Set in the aftermath of September 11, Come From Away is a glimmer of…
The Fabulist Fox Sister
ALP Musicals (venue) 24 January 2021 (released) 13 h In a time where Fake News has been the ‘catch all’ for avoiding the truth, we…
Avalanche
Bloom Theatre (venue) 19 January 2021 (released) 3 h Never was there a more appropriate name for this thought provoking play. Like an avalanche it…
Public Domain
(venue) 17 January 2021 (released) 4 h It is not often that a musical that has been originally conceived for the theatre, and is forced…
Potted Panto
A James Seabright production at Garrick Theatre (venue) 27 December 2020 (released) 3 d This production of Potted Panto might herald the 10th year of…
The Elf Who Was Scared of Christmas
Charing Cross Theatre (venue) 26 December 2020 (released) 3 d This is a lovely little Tale of ‘elf’ discovery, friendship and Christmas Cheer. It is…
We Need A Little Christmas
The Actor’s Church , Covent Garden (venue) 19 December 2020 (released) 19 December 2020 We need a little Christmas , and now with the current…
Red Riding Hood
The Arts Centre Hounslow (venue) 18 December 2020 (released) 19 December 2020 It is great to see that even with the enforced closure of the…
Frostbite, Who Pinched My Muff?
The Garden Theatre at The Eagle (venue) 10 December 2020 (released) 11 December 2020 The events of 2020 may have Londoners in a funk this…
Cinderella
Theatre Royal Windsor (venue) 09 December 2020 (released) 09 December 2020 Theatre Royal Windsor announced their winter Panto while we were still basking in the…
Jack and the Beanstalk the Garden Pantomime
Jack Be Nimble Ltd and Everyman Cinema (venue) 04 December 2020 (released) 02 December 2020 With so many Pantomimes having to be cancelled this year…
Jane Eyre
Blackeyed Theatre in association with South Hill Park Arts Centre (venue) 27 November 2020 (released) 26 November 2020 Blackeyed Theatre’s production of Jane Eyes had…
The Ballad of Corona V
Big House Theatre (venue) 04 November 2020 (released) 06 November 2020 Turing off the busy Essex Road and stepping through a small door into the…
Lloyd George Knew My Father
Theatre Royal Windsor (venue) 03 November 2020 (released) 04 November 2020 As we prepare to enter another lockdown from Thursday, the show must go on…
How to Build a Supertower
(venue) 29 October 2020 (released) 29 October 2020 Hidden in plain sight is the best hiding place of all, and Paul Sellar’s meticulously researched radio…
The Lady In The Van
Theatre Royal Windsor (venue) 28 October 2020 (released) 28 October 2020 This much-loved Alan Bennett classic is a joy to behold. Bennett’s characteristic style combines…
Love Letters
Theatre Royal Windsor (venue) 13 October 2020 (released) 14 October 2020 The launch night of a new play is always an exciting event but never…
Renaissance
(venue) 22 September 2020 (released) 18 September 2020 Apparently Leonarda da Vinci and Niccolò Machiavelli lived together in the court of the Cesare Borgia, the…
West End Musicals – Silent Disco Walking Tour
(venue) 04 August 2020 (released) 04 August 2020 Theatreland is depressingly dark with the ghosts of shows that closed months ago still papering the walls…
The Kite Runner
The Kite Runner has a huge world-wide success as a book written by Khaled Hosseni. An epic tale of guilt and retribution set against the…
Madam Butterfly
Madam Butterfly is in the highest class of operatic weepies. What could be more tragically appealing than a beautiful Japanese geisha falling in love with…
A Separate Peace
The first in a series of live digital productions Called ‘The Remote Read’, produced by Curtain Call. All productions feature a full creative and technical…
A Small Gathering
HOME (Homemakers commissions, viewed online) (venue) 02 May 2020 (released) 03 May 2020 Homemakers is a series of new commissions whereby artists create new works…
A Wonderful World
The Colony Theatre, Miami (venue) 12 March 2020 (released) 24 March 2020 The Colony Theatre is an architectural gem right in the heart of the…
Fidelio
Fidelio is a serious opera. Beethoven made his intentions clear when he described Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Figaro as ‘frivolous’, even ‘scandalous’ – despite his…
N89
Matchstick Piehouse (venue) 09 March 2020 (released) 13 March 2020 A play set on a London night bus, a journey where two strangers share their…
Bang Bang
Theatre Royal Windsor (venue) 09 March 2020 (released) 10 March 2020 As we took our seats in the traditional Edwardian auditorium, I was struck by…
Can I Help You?
Omnibus Theatre, Clapham (venue) 05 March 2020 (released) 10 March 2020 Set late at night, on a windy clifftop edge, two strangers, Francis (Gabriel Vick)…
The Black Veil
Theatre Royal Windsor (venue) 03 March 2020 (released) 05 March 2020 This dark brooding mystery has the audience spell bound as we follow the story…
The Special Relationship
Writer, Hassan Abdulrazzak first interviewed ex-prisoners from the Charity ‘Prisoners Abroad’ with a view to writing a purely fictional play but the stories of the…
Tell It Slant
Hope Theatre, Islington (venue) 27 February 2020 (released) 04 March 2020 Have you ever wondered what happens inside the press office of a company during…
Love, Loss & Chianti
Riverside Studios (venue) 28 February 2020 (released) 03 March 2020 Based on poetry by Christopher Reid, Love, Loss & Chianti portrays two distinct, but equally…
The Prince of Egypt
Dominion Theatre (venue) 26 February 2020 (released) 28 February 2020 Based on the Award-winning animated movie, The Prince of Egypt (1998) has arrived in the…
Zorro
Cadogan Hall (venue) 27 February 2020 (released) 27 February 2020 There is a mythical fascination about some fictional characters, like the recent film fascination with…
Meat
Theatre503 (venue) 27 February 2020 (released) 27 February 2020 Gillian Greer’s new play Meat is an engaging look into the lives of two young people,…
The Buddy Holly Story
Theatre Royal Windsor (venue) 24 February 2020 (released) 25 February 2020 Thinking of Buddy Holly brings to mind Don McLean’s plaintive voice bemoaning ‘the day…
Dial M for Murder
King’s Theatre Edinburgh (venue) 24 February 2020 (released) 25 February 2020 An absolute classic of its genre, Frederick Knott’s hugely successful stage play DIAL M…
Dual دوگانه
The Vaults (venue) 22 February 2020 (released) 25 February 2020 The Vault Festival was First created by Heritage Arts in 2013 as a one off…
Message In A Bottle
Peacock Theatre (venue) 19 February 2020 (released) 20 February 2020 Marrying contemporary dance with Sting’s extensive songbook to reflect the refugee crisis was never going…
Luisa Miller
The Coliseum (venue) 15 February 2020 (released) 18 February 2020 Luisa Miller, premiered in 1849, is the opera Verdi wrote before Rigoletto and is now…
Far Away
Donmar Warehouse (venue) 15 February 2020 (released) 18 February 2020 It’s often on the journey home, rather than sitting in the dark of the theatre…
Opera Undone: Tosca & La bohème
Kings Head Theatre at Riverside Studio 2 (venue) 17 February 2020 (released) 17 February 2020 Opera Undone is aimed at an audience who are not…
The High Table
Bush Theatre (venue) 14 February 2020 (released) 16 February 2020 Press night at the Bush Theatre on Valentine’s day was a joyous affair. With a…
Leopoldstadt
Wyndham’s Theatre (venue) 13 February 2020 (released) 15 February 2020 According to Stoppard, Leopoldstadt is likely to be his last play and there’s no denying…
Crooks 1926
William IV (venue) 14 February 2020 (released) 14 February 2020 At the wake of the local Don, a sharply dressed stranger appears. “You owe me,”…
Musik
Leicester Square Theatre (venue) 11 February 2020 (released) 12 February 2020 First introduced to us in 2001 by Jonathan Harvey and the Pet Shop Boys…
The Last Temptation of Boris Johnson Tour
Theatre Royal Windsor (venue) 10 February 2020 (released) 11 February 2020 The play starts by giving us a seat at the table of the fateful…
All Of It
(venue) 10 February 2020 (released) 11 February 2020 The cry and whimper of a baby, the cooing baby-talk of a mother in response, back and…
Cowpuncher My Ass
The Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre (venue) 07 February 2020 (released) 10 February 2020 The Queen Elizabeth Hall is packed and buzzing with expectation for…
Time and Tide
Park Theatre (venue) 07 February 2020 (released) 09 February 2020 “Norfolk’s bootiful. Miles of coastline, endless sky. So much space to dream big dreams. But…
Endgame & Rough for Theatre II
The Old Vic (venue) 06 February 2020 (released) 08 February 2020 Written just after ‘Waiting for Godot’, and first performed in 1957, ‘Endgame’ is generally…
Ten Times Table
King’s Theatre Edinburgh (venue) 03 February 2020 (released) 04 February 2020 This is another revival of Alan Ayckbourn’s 1977 hit play which, like the majority…
The Sunset Limited
Boulevard Theatre (venue) 30 January 2020 (released) 30 January 2020 Cormac McCarthy’s play focuses in on one continuous conversation between two men (known only as…
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