London Theatre Blog is delighted to present the first in a series of ‘Fringe Diary’ posts by contributing author and freelance theatre critic, Matt Boothman. Matt will be covering events…

It’s generally a bad sign when some of the audience are in fancy dress. The good people crammed into Wilton’s Music Hall for Wink the Other Eye are terribly, terribly jolly.…

After Liverpool by James Saunders is made up of a sequence of encounters between two characters. A series of different couples move through the social rituals of courtship and mating -…

The story told by Femi Oguns in the new production at the Acola Theatre is at least as old as Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Torn revolves around a love story between…

The Puppet Grinder Cabaret is an irregular event for an adults-only audience, showcasing an eclectic mix of live puppetry and animation. I caught up with the latest installment at the Little…

If you find the questions raised in Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code intriguing, but you’re dissatisfied with the lack of serious argumentation and trustworthy sources, I recommend going to see The…

DryDance is a new departure from the DryWrite girls: three original dance pieces inspired by a text written specifically for the occasion by playwright Simon Stephens, intriguingly entitled T5. The idea…

The Frontline is a big and a bold bit of theatre. There’s ribald, racy language, a pair of star-crossed lovers, music, mayhem and a lot of courageous playing to the crowd.…

Who says naturalism is the surest path to emotional truth? …Sisters, Chris Goode’s “live rewiring” of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters at the Gate Theatre, delivers 85 minutes of poignant and emotionally…

France 2007. The new president Sarkozy has just introduced a target of 25,000 illegal immigrants to be deported by the end of the year. But not everybody is willing to…