I Can Die Too Ziyu Zhang 18/07/2026I Can Die Too is a play within a play: a technical rehearsal of Jean Cocteau’s La Voix humaine (The...
The Smile of Her Rivka Jacobson 17/07/2026With that deceptively simple observation, Christine Lahti opens one of the most compelling evenings of theatre currently on the London...
The Oresteia Olivia Hurton 16/07/2026The Ancient Greeks knew all about terrible families. They thought nothing of offering their audiences blood-soaked revenges of dynastic dysfunction...
La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina Owen Davies 16/07/2026The Liberation of Ruggiero from the Island of Alcina This fascinating work by Francesca Caccini is the earliest opera by...
1000 (Millennia) Soyoon Koo 14/07/2026Before the Almeida was a theatre, it was a monastery, a pub, a scientific society hub. Could it one day...
Songs of the Bulbul Hafiza Butt 13/07/2026Aakash Odedra’s ‘Songs of the Bulbul’ is a truly remarkable show; a comprehensive exploration of that most ephemeral of things:...
Lear Ziyu Zhang 11/07/2026Shakespeare’s King Lear becomes a family tragedy first and a political one second in this modern adaptation. Reimagining Lear as...
Reviewer's rating Portrait of a Tom as a Young Neenan Jad Adams 10/07/2026Tom Neenan is a writer who through Covid redirected his creativity into portrait painting. Here in a one-man show he...
Reviewer's rating Richard III Jad Adams 09/07/2026Billed as ‘a visceral, dark tale of ambition’, this production gives that and then some. Richard III is one of...
Wife to James Whelan Olivia Hurton 06/07/2026Plays, it is sometimes argued, are transient things. They emerge from a particular socio-historic moment, coloured by all its prejudices...
