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National Youth Theatre courts drama with alcohol licence bid

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 17 April 2025

Playhouse wants to sell booze and stage performances until midnight but some locals fear they will ‘never sleep again’

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Stalled: A New Musical, King’s Head Theatre, stage review: ‘Circling the drain’

By Gabriel Wilding | Wednesday 26 February 2025

This production, set in a ladies’ loo, shows ‘not every place of human interaction needs to be musicalised’

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Antigone [on strike], Park Theatre, stage review: ‘An uneven, if innovative, production’

By Sarah Birch | Wednesday 5 February 2025

Alexander Raptotasios’s adaptation of the Sophocles tragedy is led by audience votes, but the benefits are ‘unclear’

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Firebird, King’s Head Theatre, stage review: ‘A middle-of-the-road tale’

By Gabriel Wilding | Tuesday 28 January 2025

This adaptation of the real-life Cold War classic, like the film before it, is lacking in personality

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Looking for Giants, King’s Head Theatre, stage review: ‘Static portrait of a masochistic personality’

By Sarah Birch | Monday 20 January 2025

Actor Abby McCann carries a script ‘lacking in narrative development’

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Cyrano, theatre review, Park Theatre: ‘lashings of postmodernist reflexivity and intertextuality, along with the odd song and dance routine’

By Sarah Birch | Friday 20 December 2024
Jessica Whitehurst (Roxanne) and Virginia Gay (Cyrano)

The play deconstructs the classic tale of Cyrano de Bergerac into a queer romcom

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‘We have the ultimate Dame!’: King’s Head boss on new digs, nurturing talent, and its first full-blown panto

By Sarah Birch | Monday 18 November 2024

Sofi Berenger spoke to the Citizen ahead of a star-studded run of ‘Cinderella’ at the theatre’s new auditorium

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King Lear, Almeida Theatre, stage review: ‘Ramped-up, sexed-up take on the Shakespeare classic’

By Sarah Birch | Monday 19 February 2024

Yaël Farber’s adaptation keeps the audience ‘gripped throughout’

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‘Big part of the team’: Meet the kitchen worker with learning difficulties using specialist how-to videos to feed theatregoers

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Tuesday 24 October 2023

With support from the council and colleagues at the Almeida, Jemaine Williams can refer to AutonoMe videos to help him cut the perfect baguette

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Disruption, Park Theatre, stage review: ‘A mind-twister sure to leave theatre-goers musing about their own choices’

By Sarah Birch | Friday 14 July 2023

Andrew Stein’s new play explores the ethical quandaries posed by AI through ‘an engaging and very human story’

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King Hamlin, Park Theatre, stage review: ‘Is there any coming back from social division?’

By Sarah Birch | Wednesday 26 October 2022

Gloria Williams’s new play gives a ‘nuanced insight into the effect of criminality on people’s personalities’

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SUS, Park Theatre, stage review: ‘An intense reminder that racism is still deeply ingrained in our society’

By Sarah Birch | Friday 23 September 2022

Paul Tomlinson revival of Barrie Keeffe’s 1979 play is a ‘blistering critique of small-minded racism and casual police brutality’

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Lautrec, Camden Fringe, stage review: ‘Timely reflection on the emotional toll of long-term illness’

By Sarah Birch | Thursday 18 August 2022

Fergus Rattigan’s drama about the tragic life of artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec ‘makes clever use of inter-linguistic humour’

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King’s Head pub theatre set for expansion after an audience with Town Hall planners

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 20 July 2022

The Upper Street venue, hailed as one of Islington’s ‘crown jewels’, will more than double its seats to 250

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The Still Room, Park Theatre, stage review: ‘Biting social commentary leavened with dark humour’

By Sarah Birch | Thursday 9 June 2022

Sally Rogers’s ‘hugely enjoyable’ play leaves one wondering what’s really changed in the past few decades

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Elizabeth I: Virgin on the Ridiculous, Living Spit, King’s Head Theatre, stage review: ‘A rip-roaring night out’

By Gabriel Wilding | Friday 11 March 2022

This Horrible Histories-style depiction of the monarch is ‘hilarious’

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Rambert2 – Home / Killer Pig, Sadler’s Wells, stage review: ‘Outstanding intensity and physical skill’

By Gabriel Wilding | Monday 13 December 2021

Eleven fledgling dancers show off their talent in unbalanced show

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The Dan Daw Show, Sadler’s Wells, stage review: ‘Eye-opening glimpse in to the pull of the fetish community’

By Gabriel Wilding | Friday 8 October 2021

Dan Daw’s eponymous piece is ‘theatre where it should be – pushing boundaries, testing limits, making change’

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Mischief and Mayhem, Little Angel Theatre, stage review: ‘Rambunctious romp through the dangers of overconsumption’

By Sarah Birch | Tuesday 14 September 2021

‘What if Shakespeare had an opinion on climate change?’ asks Dirty Feet Theatre Company in this witty short play

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Once Upon A Time In Nazi Occupied Tunisia, Almeida Theatre, stage review: ‘Burning with political astuteness’

By Gabriel Wilding | Tuesday 14 September 2021

Josh Azouz’s outstanding writing ‘pokes fun at the monstrous contradictions of fascism’

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