Review: Dracula – Menier

Review: Dracula – Menier

Michael HollandMar 18, 2025

A Dracula To Die For A comedy Dracula that is billed as channeling the spirit of RuPaul, Monty Python, and Mel Brooks! What’s not…

The Goblin in Soho

The Goblin in Soho

Michael HollandMar 17, 2025

A sombre reflection on fate After its success at the Edinburgh Fringe last year, Derek Mitchell brings his dark comedy, Goblin, to Soho Theatre.…

Review – Macbeth – The Globe

Review – Macbeth – The Globe

Michael HollandMar 17, 2025

The students’ zest added huge energy  Each year, The Globe stages a production specifically aimed at young people, with the laudable goal of making…

From English Queen to New York Sex Worker is Career Highlight

From English Queen to New York Sex Worker is Career Highlight

Michael HollandMar 15, 2025

Elena Breschi saw The Lion King as a 7-year-old and remembers ‘the feeling of adrenaline watching every performer deliver the goods, the costumes, the…

The story that Dickens left out

The story that Dickens left out

Michael HollandMar 15, 2025

“If you knew my story, your heart would break too” Havisham is Heather Alexander’s powerful one-woman show exploring the back story of the reclusive…

Gruesome Playground Injuries

Gruesome Playground Injuries

Michael HollandMar 15, 2025

Does it hurt? Rajiv Joseph’s Gruesome Playground Injuries tells the story of Doug and Kayleen who meet in the school nurse’s office with their…

Dead Mom Play

Dead Mom Play

Michael HollandMar 14, 2025

“You should really lock your doors, anyone can just walk in” – Death Ben Blais’s bold and imaginative comedy, Dead Mom Play, is written from…

Poems from the Kitchen Sink and Beyond

Poems from the Kitchen Sink and Beyond

Michael HollandMar 13, 2025

I took myself off to the hallowed galleries and rooms of the old Deptford Town Hall, now part of Goldsmiths University, to meet with…

A Ceremony at Copeland

A Ceremony at Copeland

Michael HollandMar 13, 2025

‘A hunt for the beast that has plagued me’(Anne Bean) Future Ritual presents CEREMONY, a new 5-day festival of choreographic work and performance art…

Playhouse Creatures in the Orange Tree

Playhouse Creatures in the Orange Tree

Michael HollandMar 12, 2025

I’m an actress. They’ve never had one of those before. I’m a novelty.  It’s the swinging (16)60s, and ‘the merry monarch’ Charles II is on the…

Review: WRESTLELADSWRESTLE – Battersea Arts Centre

Review: WRESTLELADSWRESTLE – Battersea Arts Centre

Michael HollandMar 12, 2025

An admirable and fun performance Jennifer Jackson uses theatre, dance, judo, and a confusingly large ensemble of women to take us through her memories…

Review: Siena: The Rise of Painting 1300-1350 

Review: Siena: The Rise of Painting 1300-1350 

Michael HollandMar 11, 2025

The Devil is in the Detail A missing 12-year-old boy has been located in the gallery but there’s no need to alert the museum…