A fter a two-year hiatus, Vault Festival returns with 500 shows over the next two months in venues dotted around Waterloo. Here are the 12 shows you must see. All Falls Down Audiences get involved in this interactive, improvised show about a group of friends trying to get back to civilisation, and survive in the… Continue reading Vault Festival 2023 – Our pick of the top shows to book from Bloody Mary: Live to Good Grief
Month: January 2023
Vault festival: London’s biggest fringe theatre festival is back with a bang
You won’t see this work anywhere else (yet), and that’s a huge part of the fun A riotous body positive show where two beef steaks hang from an artist’s labia; a clown opera love story that may or may not make you ‘laugh, cry, and nearly piss’; a cabaret-baby-day-rave, also known as a Cabababarave –… Continue reading Vault festival: London’s biggest fringe theatre festival is back with a bang
Saint Jude at 100 Petty France review: this half-baked ‘immersive’ dystopian fantasy is hilariously awful
I f you’ve ever wasted an hour on the phone battling the computer-generated voice of your bank or internet provider, Swamp Motel’s new show will feel horribly familiar. A half-baked dystopian fantasy about data harvesting, it claims to be immersive, site-specific and “cutting-edge”. Reader, it is none of these: it is you, seated in a cubicle in… Continue reading Saint Jude at 100 Petty France review: this half-baked ‘immersive’ dystopian fantasy is hilariously awful
Tiny Fragments on the Tyne
Tiny Fragments of Beautiful Light at Alphabetti Theatre, St James’ Boulevard, Newcastle upon Tyne, is an immersive exploration of one woman’s journey of self-discovery from January 31 to February 18. Hannah Genesius will play the lead role of Elsa. Quirky, kind and clever, Elsa’s life has never been boring, though it’s often been a struggle. Hannah… Continue reading Tiny Fragments on the Tyne
Wizard start to panto season
St Helens Theatre Royal stages the first of four pantomimes in 2023, with The Wizard Of Oz from February 14–19. Join Dorothy and Toto on their epic adventure to the Emerald City and follow their journey as they meet a cast of characters including Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion along the way. The full cast are Maddie… Continue reading Wizard start to panto season
Buddy good to be back!
Rated “the world’s most successful rock ‘n’ roll show”, The Buddy Holly Story is back in the UK and visits Blackpool Grand Theatre April 25–29. Buddy is one of a small number of iconic musicals including Les Misérables, Phantom of the Opera, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Miss Saigon, Evita and Cats in reaching three decades on stage. It tells the story of the musical… Continue reading Buddy good to be back!
Lloyd with One Tonne of Fun
After Lloyd Griffith’s last tour ended up lasting eight years or so, he’s back with a fresh stand-up routine for 2023. There’ll be dubious impressions, and a sprinkling of his singing too, in One Tonne of Fun. Lloyd will be appearing several new shows this year including a new series of Bad Education for BBC Three. He’ll also… Continue reading Lloyd with One Tonne of Fun
Craig is strictly Miss Hannigan
Craig Revel Horwood will star as Miss Hannigan in the tour of Annie arriving at Winter Gardens Blackpool September 6–9. Best known as a judge on all 20 series of BBC1’s Strictly Come Dancing, he returns to the part having played the role in both the West End and on tour. Set in 1930s New York during The… Continue reading Craig is strictly Miss Hannigan
Teixeira and Gough make RSC debuts
Thalissa Teixeira will play Brutus and Kelly Gough will be Cassius, the leaders who plot to kill Caesar, in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of the political thriller Julius Caesar. Teixeira makes her RSC debut as Brutus. She was nominated for an Ian Charleson award—given for the best classical stage performances in Britain by actors under… Continue reading Teixeira and Gough make RSC debuts
Gilbert and Sullivan Festival returns to Buxton
The International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival is to return to its “spiritual home” in Derbyshire, the 2023 event being staged at Buxton Opera House where it all began in 1994. It had been held in Harrogate but in October 2022, because of increased costs, the festival announced it was moving back to Buxton. Festival director… Continue reading Gilbert and Sullivan Festival returns to Buxton