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By Stuart King Saturday, August 9 2025, 10:00
Writer Duncan Macmillan, who co-directs EVERY BRILLIANT THING with Jeremy Herrin, co-wrote and developed the play with Jonny Donahoe more than a decade ago. For the run at @sohoplace, Lenny Henry kicks off a season of performers who will each bring their own inimitable personality and style to the show, which is due to continue until 8th November.
Lenny Henry in Every Brilliant Thing. Photo by Helen Murray
By Stuart King Friday, August 8 2025, 14:52
ROMEO & JULIET — This community production of William Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy, is a collaboration between Stratford East and Sadler’s Wells.
Romeo and Juliet production image. Photo by Charlie Flint
By Stuart King Wednesday, August 6 2025, 09:52
Mozart, the boy prodigy and musical genius who followed in his sister’s footsteps and was subjected to the tyrannical diktats of his ambitious and domineering father Leopold, is forced to perform for the crowned heads of Europe. We’ve been here before. Only now, the well worn story of Wolfie Mozart has been turned into a musical, but with a bare minimum of Mozartian leggiero.
Jack Chambers in Saving Mozart. Photo by Danny Kaan.
By Shehrazade Zafar-Arif Tuesday, August 5 2025, 11:21
Farcical, frenetic, and bitingly funny, A Role to Die For has a lot to say about the future of the movie business, and isn’t afraid to hammer the point home. But a brilliantly talented cast and a tongue in cheek satirical tone saves it from being entirely too heavy handed.
Tanya Franks in A ROLE TO DIE FOR
By Stuart King Monday, August 4 2025, 09:37
It’s a brave man who attempts delivery of a one hour play where his only co-star is a large, inanimate, but dangerous looking cactus. Paul Keating has done just that, tackling the spiky subject of post-Covid isolation in Michael Wynne’s drama CLIVE which has just opened at the Arcola.
Clive at Arcola Theatre. Photo by Ikin Yum.
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