Anna Marsland and David Fairs of Golem! Theatre talk putting a new twist on a Shakespearean classic in 'I Know You Of Old'.

Pros: Samuel Lawrence’s powerful and committed approach to an intense character. Cons: The play maintains an exaggerated level of tension which prevents the audience from truly relating to the characters, and makes for quite uncomfortable viewing. I’m all for a good love story. Especially if it’s tricky and passionate and full of drama. Threads is the story of Vic (Katharine Davenport) and Charlie (Samuel Lawrence), two exes reunited in the flat that they used to share. Over the course of an ...

'Kicked in the Sh*tter' playwright Leon Fleming talks with us about crowdfunding, regional theatre and being inspired by the unsavoury.

Actor and playwright Matthew Seager discusses 'In Other Words' at The Hope Theatre and the power of music.

Ahead of the revival of Her Aching Heart at The Hope Theatre, producer Andrea Leoncini talks risk, reinvention, and putting LGBT stories in the spotlight.

Misconceived musical version of Edgar Allan Poe’s gothic masterpiece.

Two confidently performed, bitter-sweet performances about loss and learning to live again.

Writer/Artistic Director and former RADA Head of Acting Jennie Buckman discusses her current play Piece of Silk and the importance of live performance.

Pros: Who hasn’t heard of a relationship that was based on deception? Love Lies is a play to which everybody can relate in some way. Cons: Every element of this production misses a bit of sparkle. After a sold-out run of its first production Snapshots, presented in 2015 at the Rosemary Branch, LEMAD comes back to the London theatre scene with Love Lies. Behind the acronym LEMAD are Liz Mead, Elizabeth Rutherford-Johnson, Mari Lloyd, Mary Ann Pashigian and Daphne Peña, ...

A show with this much power in a space as intimate as The Hope Theatre makes for an intense evening. It leaves you with plenty to think about.