By Emmie Newitt Monday, June 9 2025, 14:07
The brand-new stage adaptation of Malorie Blackman's much-loved novel, which Dominic Cooke has adapted, will play at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre from later this month.
Corinna Brown and Noah Valentine in rehearsals for Noughts & Crosses . Photo by Manuel Harlan
By Stuart King Sunday, June 8 2025, 09:36
Danny James King’s much anticipated MISS MYRTLE’S GARDEN opened this week at Bush Theatre. A funny, yet jarring and resonant family drama, it looks at the impact of a feisty matriarch’s cognitive decline, as past traumas and memories haunt her enjoyment of a placid and calm garden setting.
Left to right: Mensah Bediako (Melrose), Diveen Henry (Miss Myrtle), Gary Liburn (Eddie) in Miss Myrtle's Garden at Bush Theatre. Photo by Camilla Greenwell.
By Stuart King Friday, June 6 2025, 10:46
I last saw Nick Hytner’s A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM at Bridge Theatre back in June 2019 before the Covid pandemic was a twinkle in a Chinese lab technician’s test tube. The mysticism of Shakespeare’s woodland mayhem resonated then and remains potent, based as it is on the 1623 First Folio with circa 500 lines reassigned for modernising and comedy purposes.
Ali Goldsmith, Jemima Brown, Bella Aubin, Kat Collings in A Midsummer Night's Dream at The Bridge (Credit Manuel Harlan)
By Emmie Newitt Friday, June 6 2025, 09:35
The sold-out, critically acclaimed production which starred Doctor Who's Ncuti Gatwa will head to the West End this Autumn and will star actor and singer-songwriter Olly Alexander.
The Importance of Being Earnest Artwork Image featuring Olly Alexander. Photo by Danny Kasirye
By Emmie Newitt Thursday, June 5 2025, 16:08
The new play, based on Josephine Tey's seminal crime novel and written by playwright M. Kilburgh Reedy, will make its world premiere in London next month.
Rob Pomfret, Rachel Pickup and Jenna Fox. Headshots provided by production.
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