The Almeida Theatre today announces that Romola Garai will play the title role in the world premiere of Ella Hickson’s new play The Writer, directed by Blanche McIntyre. “I want awe. I feel like I need blood. All the time. And anything less than that makes me feel desperate. It...

German actress Sarah Alles has been cast in Marion Bott’s Moormaid – an explosive new play about two lost individuals’ search for freedom. Moormaid will mark both Alles and Bott’s UK debuts. Set in Berlin, Moormaid is a thrilling chamber-play about self-destruction and rebirth that attempts to understand the fear...

Fresh from a successful UK tour, From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads will come to Jacksons Lane for a limited run this March. Celebrating David Bowie, one of the greatest musical figures of all time, this fantastic production has now played over 100 shows to delighted and enthralled audiences. For...

Phil Willmott’s new version of Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard is set in 1917 just as the Tsarist regime topples and the Bolsheviks seize power. A Bolshevik student, Trofimov, visits his former aristocratic employers as they face ruin, in order to try and reconcile his affection for them with his...

Alex Benjamin’s Cotton makes its London debut at The Waterloo East Theatre as part of VAULT Festival, a modern play for a modern world, capturing the trappings of youth, and the pitfalls of adulthood. The subject is not one I’m terribly familiar with, and so I found much of it...