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Thank goodness for the Wharf Revue, which still manages to make us laugh in a world that is full of terrible news headlines, wars and promises of doom. Thank goodness for the cleverness and wit riddling through songs and sketches which make …

There’s nothing like the loss of a parent to bring a family together – or drive it further apart. Add a large dose of sibling rivalry to already heightened emotions and who knows what might happen? In English playwright Shelagh Stephenson’s The …

Where to start? There is so much to enjoy in Debra Oswald’s frank, funny and very personal account of what it’s like to be a writer. From her first thoughts as a child:  ‘I’ll never be a writer, I live in Carlingford …

For this Tony Award-winning show, a musical play about the life of jazz great Billie Holiday, the Belvoir stage has been transformed into a Philadelphia cabaret club, dark and perhaps a little rundown, and complete with a cluster of café tables and …

The Summer of Harold encompasses three delightful short plays from the sharp and witty pen of playwright Hilary Bell, and each one is brought vividly to life by the combined talents of Hannah Waterman and Berynn Schwerdt. But before we even hear …

Greek tragedy is referenced more than once in Nina Raine’s hugely enjoyable and clever Consent, a play that skewers elements of the justice system as it explores a rape case and the question of what is sexual consent? In this production at …

Billed as ‘immersive and thought-provoking’, this production is a series of vignettes – some 50 short scenes in all – that details attitudes to, consequences of and the potential horror climate change could unleash both now and in the relatively near future. The …

In the sultry heat of a summer in the American south, among a garden full of Venus fly traps and ferns, Violet Venable (Belinda Giblin) cannot rest. Her beloved son Sebastian – a poet, an artistic soul apparently without fault – died …

Billed as an ‘oh, so crass, one-woman crusade’, Eloise Snape’s debut play Pony is also a hilarious (and so on point) depiction of the one-way, life-changing journey into motherhood. Hazel (Briallen Clarke) is pregnant. She is also delusional, in denial and doing …

With Tina Turner’s mega-hit songs buzzing in my head, it’s hard to resist calling this musical ‘simply the best’. But on the other hand, credit where credit is due: with Ruva Ngwenya belting out such classics as ‘Proud Mary’ and shimmying across …