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Stable- Alma Tavern
A brand-new piece of writing from Theatre Nisha UK

Paul Gainey
Feb 3, 20253 min read


Billy: Twirling Through Time
Marshman focuses on amplifying queer stories through his own unique, multimedia visual language...

Paul Gainey
Feb 3, 20253 min read


Fawlty Towers
It’s heralded as one of the greatest sitcoms of all time...

Paul Gainey
Feb 3, 20252 min read


Dr Strangelove
Nuclear annihilation might not seem the obvious choice for comedy...

Paul Gainey
Feb 3, 20253 min read


Me and My Girl
BLOC Productions presents Stephen Fry and Mike Ockrent’s acclaimed revival of Douglas Furber and L. Arthur Rose’s Me and My Girl ...

Paul Gainey
Jan 31, 20253 min read


Reverberation- Keenly haunting
Grief begets isolation, and isolation begets loneliness in “Reverberation,” a keenly felt, haunting drama about two young people adrift...

Paul Gainey
Jan 31, 20254 min read


Double Feature, Hampstead Theatre
Alfred Hitchcock was a brilliant filmmaker, but he was undoubtedly also a complicated man with a penchant for manipulating and...

Paul Gainey
Mar 4, 20242 min read


Hadestown, Lyric Theatre
It’s been a long road for mythological musical 'Hadestown' from American singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell, stopping off at a 2010 concept...

Paul Gainey
Mar 4, 20242 min read


Hamilton, Victoria Palace Theatre
Okay, let’s just get this out of the way. The musical ‘Hamilton’ is stupendously good. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s show about Alexander...

Paul Gainey
Feb 23, 20243 min read


Charlotte and Theodore, Ustinov Studio
Think male-female two-hander in academia and a pair of plays leap to mind: Oleanna and Educating Rita. Combining the lacerating fury of...

Paul Gainey
Feb 22, 20242 min read
King Lear, Almeida Theatre London
Powerful, angry performances hold together Yaël Farber’s sprawling, bleak vision of a king and his country in terminal decline in King...

Paul Gainey
Feb 22, 20242 min read


Mother Goose, Bristol Hippodrome
It’s not often that a panto bags a true A-lister, but this joyous production of Mother Goose at the Bristol Hippodrome has nailed it with...

Paul Gainey
Feb 21, 20243 min read


The Time Machine, Theatre Royal Bath
HG Wells’s classic sci-fi novel, The Time Machine, is reimagined in a new stage adaptation at the Theatre Royal in Bath. In this...

Paul Gainey
Feb 21, 20242 min read


Anna Karenina, Bristol Old Vic Theatre
Bristol Old Vic’s summer blockbuster for 2023 is a world premiere of Tolstoy’s 19th century classic, ‘Anna Karenina’, adapted for the...

Paul Gainey
Feb 19, 20244 min read


Oklahoma!, Wyndham's Theatre
Less a revival than a dark and unsettling reimagining of the well-loved Western-themed musical, Daniel Fish’s audacious deconstruction of...

Paul Gainey
Feb 19, 20243 min read


Patriots, Noel Coward Theatre
Peter Morgan’s ‘Patriots’ feels both blessed and cursed by topicality. Clearly it would have been commissioned long before Russia’s...

Paul Gainey
Feb 19, 20243 min read


2:22 A Ghost story
Lily Allen’s star casting worked wonders for the West End run of ghost story “2:22”. But “The Pillowman”, Martin McDonagh’s 2003 play...

Paul Gainey
Feb 19, 20243 min read


"Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder at The Bristol Old Vic Theatre
In “Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder!” at the Bristol Old Vic theatre the two loveable misfits are best friends from childhood who have...

Paul Gainey
Feb 15, 20243 min read
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