Theatre

Voila! Festival 2025, Bangla Drama, New Work nights, ‘Red Oleanders’ (Tagore), ‘Porn Play’ (Ambika Mod), ‘I Dream of Theresa May’, more theatre listings…

November has three theatre festivals and acv brings you a selection from these, along with focus on new writing and…

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‘Period Parrrty’ Tamil queerness and non-binary come centre stage…

Kali Theatre presents debut play celebrating Tamil experience… THE WRITER Gayathiri Kamalakanthan says in the programme note to their play,…

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‘Bacchae’ – Imaginative and stimulating interpretation of Greek tragedy

New Artistic Director of The National Theatre, Indhu Rubasingham, brings us a reworking of an ancient text… By Suman Bhuchar…

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Hedda Gabler, The Comedy Lab, Period Parrrty, The Table, The Chai Queens, Elmet – theatre offerings

There are rich pickings for theatre culture vultures from mid-October… By Suman Bhuchar Hedda Gabler – Merle Oberon makeover THE…

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‘Brown Girl Noise’ – Telling it as it is out there for women of colour…

Written out of frustration in the way brown women are often cast… By Suman Bhuchar ‘Brown Girl Noise’ is a…

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Modern versions of ‘Hamlet’, ‘The Bacchae’ at National – Indhu Rubasingham; ‘Surinderella’; ‘Balti Kings’; Kali new director

Autumn theatre brings a slew of new openings from timeless Greek and Elizabethan tragedies to classic entertainment… ‘Bacchae’ – A…

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‘Every Brilliant Thing’ – Ambika Mod sparkles in play that requires active audience participation

This classic play about clinical depression is currently enjoying a West End run with five actors appearing on different dates……

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‘Every Brilliant Thing’ with Ambika Mod, Ed Fringe shows (left), playwright Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti – listings

For theatre lovers, we’ve got fun, history, laughter and grief all taking centre stage. And it’s the last days of…

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‘Girl from the North Country’: beautiful and unmissable!

Award winning musical enjoying a run at the Old Vic in London and just few days left now, do not…

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‘Choir’ – Musical drama comedy has power tracks and a feel good vibe

They say joining a choir can help with your general health and wellbeing and there is a often undiscovered strength…

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