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Blackout - Fear Loves An Audience Review: lukewarm stage horror that succumbs to nothingness
Promo artwork for Blackout - Fear Loves An Audience (UK Tour) 06 October 2026 | 19:30 | Cast, Doncaster (UK & Sweden Tour) ⭐ | PR - Invite Blackout: Fear Loves An Audience is something of an enigmatic production. Its marketing has made a strong impression through social media and leafleting, with tonight's second performance of the tour being almost entirely sold out. But at the same time, I knew almost nothing about the show before walking through the doors... Listed a

Jack Davey
Oct 63 min read


Theatre Hauntings - West End Ghouls & Dark Knights On Broadway Review: the ideal Halloween treat for thespians
Still from Theatre Hauntings: Dark Knights On Broadway (courtesy of Aim Publicity and Reel2Reel Films) 05 October 2026 | Available on digital platforms, courtesy of Reel2Reel Films. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | PR - Screener Theatres are some of the most haunted sites in the world. If you happen to stay behind after a performance, I invite you to sit beside the ghost light suspended above the stage, and take a look around... These buildings carry the weight of those that came before us, as The

Jack Davey
Oct 43 min read


The 39 Steps Review: hysterical comedy caper is a force to be reckoned with
Ryan Starling and Kathryn Perkins in The 39 Steps at Derby Theatre - with Hull Truck Theatre (Graeme Braidwood) 03 October 2026 | 19:30 | Derby Theatre (with Hull Truck Theatre) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | PR - Invite It's likely that at some point in your life, you will encounter The 39 Steps. Whether it be John Buchan's original 1915 thriller novel or Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 film. It might even be from Patrick Barlow's revised theatre script, which ran for nine years in London's Criterio

Jack Davey
Oct 43 min read


Soho Electric Review: talent and spirit in abundance, if sometimes losing its spark
The artwork for Soho Electric: The Electric Rock Cabaret presented by the Phoenix Arts Club, London 02 October 2026 | 19:30 | Phoenix Arts Club, London ⭐⭐⭐ | PR - Invite A new rock cabaret playing weekends at the Phoenix Arts Club, Soho Electric is a wonderfully eclectic mix of live music, aerial performance, burlesque and variety acts in one of central London's most beloved venues. There is a huge amount of talent through the evening, and when the elements come togethe

Emma Knott
Oct 33 min read


Jerker Review: sexual fantasy and comfort during the AIDS epidemic
Paul Dennison (JR) in Robert Chesley's Jerker at the Waterloo East Theatre, London (Scott Michaels) 29 September 2026 | 19:30 | Waterloo East Theatre, London ⭐⭐⭐ | PR - Invite The cleverness of Henry Adams’ production of Jerker, Robert Chesley's 1986 two-hander play, is that the less it becomes about sex, the more intimate it feels. We enter London's Waterloo East Theatre to an unmistakably 80s soundtrack. Madonna's Like a Virgin, Sade's Smooth Operator and a stream of

Eddie Slattery
Sep 303 min read


Sylvia Review: new hip-hop musical redefines the suffragette manifesto
Naomi Katiyo (Sylvia Pankhurst) in the 2026 UK Tour of Sylvia at Curve Theatre, Leicester (Tristram Kenton) 29 September 2026 | 19:00 | Curve Theatre, Leicester (UK Tour) ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | PR - Invite Audiences first fell in love with the new hip-hop musical Sylvia when it opened at London's Old Vic Theatre for a premiere run in 2023. And tonight, Kate Prince's (of ZooNation) award-winning production comes to the Curve Theatre, Leicester ahead of a limited UK Tour. Often compared

Jack Davey
Sep 303 min read


The Trial Of Romeo Oscar Review: Ayckbourn's space-age courtroom asks the value of humanity
Leigh Symonds, Hayden Wood and Russell Richardson in The Trial Of Romeo Oscar at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough (Tony Bartholomew) 26 September 2026 | 14:30 | Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough ⭐⭐⭐ | PR - Invite By the year 2194, humanity may well have mastered interplanetary travel, and developed extraordinary androids that co-exist alongside us. Yet despite this technological process, The Trial Of Romeo Oscar asks one rather important question: what makes us
Jonathan Goodwin
Sep 273 min read


The Last Ship Review: Sting's musical voyage in need of tighter dramatic architecture
Jackie Morrison (Peggy) and the ensemble of Sting's The Last Ship at Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London (Nienke de Groot) 23 September 2026 | 19:30 | Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London (International Tour) ⭐⭐⭐ | PR - Invite There is a great musical somewhere inside The Last Ship, and frustratingly, this impressive production gets tantalisingly close to finding it. With music and lyrics by Sting (The Police) and a new book by Barney Norris, the musical takes audiences into a

Eddie Slattery
Sep 243 min read
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