Issy Flower

The Roundhouse is dark, the crowd is silent, and the lights blare up. Pale Waves are here, and they’re not going to be quiet about it. 

The indie-rock quartet are back after an extended break, both due to th […]

★★★★✰

The story of Maria Marten appears to be done and dusted: murdered by her husband and buried beneath the ‘Red Barn’, her death has been told and retold in books, plays, TV series and films. Writer Beth F […]

‘Marry Me’ uses every romantic comedy convention in the book to poor effect, but is partially saved by its leads

★★✰✰✰

Although the 2010s seemed to have killed off the romcom, streaming services desperate […]

★★★✰✰

A dark stage. A single man. Points of light. Brimming with clever production design and an engaging central performance, Steven Dexter’s revival of David Drake’s original one-man show, The Night Larry […]

★★★★✰

Post-Fleabag, the one-woman show has had a bit of a renaissance. In fact, it seems as if we’re coming out of the other side, as seen in Liz Kingsman’s smash hit takedown of the genre. However, Almo […]

★★★★★

The one-man retrospective is an interesting theatrical beast. It has the potential to be self-indulgent, dull, and repetitive—churning out the same anecdotes that have filled a thousand chat show sofas […]

★★★★✰

Spending an hour outside in the cold London air might not be everyone’s idea of fun, but Poltergeist Theatre’s new audio tour made it worthwhile. Chilly and charming, funny and heartachingly […]

★★★★✰

’80s music, cops ‘n’ robbers, social satire, and a man who won’t stop clapping. Police Cops: The Musical, the newest offering from the award-winning comedy troupe Police Cops, has all the ingredients […]

★★★✰✰

One of the first new musicals to emerge post-pandemic, Vanara is ambitious, dynamic and extremely well cast. It tells a timely story with insight and emotion. Whilst its score and lyrics are hardly gr […]

Leslie Bricusse, the composer and lyricist best known for his musical theatre collaborations with Anthony Newley, has died aged 90. 

Born in Southfields in 1931, Bricusse originally found success as part of […]

The completely-crowdfunded lovechild of ‘The Ricky Gervais Show’ and ‘Most Haunted’, ‘The ParaPod – A Very British Ghost Hunt’ is a charmingly comedic exploration of belief, scepticism, one-upmanship, and thi […]

Drag is having its moment. The great success of Ru Paul’s Drag Race, as well as re-evaluations of the skill of drag performers such as Divine, shows that the artform is being taken more seriously than ever b […]

Laddie: The Man Behind The Movies is a deeply personal love letter from director Amanda Ladd-Jones, both to movies and to her father, film industry executive and producer Alan Ladd Jr.

Whilst not always […]

Anthony Newley, who died 22 years ago today, was a true renaissance man. Actor, writer, composer, pop star, cabaret singer, comedian: his achievements are too extensive to list here. Unfortunately, despite the […]

The fiftieth anniversary of Look-In passed early this year with barely a murmur. Despite its massive popularity in the 1970s, this ‘TV Times for kids’ often seems to have been forgotten. But its funny and eng […]

The Simpsons is one of the most beloved comedies of all time. Recipient of over 34 Emmys, it has run for over thirty years, and frequently makes the ‘Best TV Ever’ lists. However most of these lists come with a c […]

A pared down, eighties-style guitar lick. The word ‘daydreaming’. A sudden flare up and crash into an anthemic chorus. These are what welcome us to Sounds Like a Storm’s new single, ‘Make It Better’, a belter of […]

’21st Century Woman’ is a blast of heat on your ears. Grimy, gorgeous, and amp-destroying, Liverpool duo Generation take the best of their punk and glam-rock influences and rail against conventional life and […]

In a wave of television announcements, new streaming service Paramount+ revealed that it plans to revive hit sitcom Frasier, starring Kelsey Grammer, twenty years after it originally concluded.

“Having spent […]

The Stage has announced that it will host a three-day Future of Theatre conference from 16-18 June 2021, bringing together voices from across the whole UK theatre sector as the performing arts prepares to ret […]