Lola Fishbein's long-awaited one-woman show, Belated, co-written with Mira Awad, explores the aftermath of Anna's belated 50th birthday party. Through humor and drama, Anna reflects on her life, relat...

‘the company does a fearless job of putting it across’ “She is not fourteen”: what is this original line used to describe Juliet meant to evoke in audiences? It feels incredibly modern to feel outrage...

Writer: Sarah Louise Hill Director: Emma Nihill Alcorta Camilla Cole is a professional footballer and corporate recruiter. With a well-paid job and contract with a top football club, she seems to be l...

Writer: Jessica Nlabu  Director: Catherine Mieses Coming from a short run at the Riverside Studio’s Bitesize Festival earlier this month is BEIGE, a clever two-hander about female mixed identity. Half...

Writer and Director:  Steve North  The last time “punk rock singer, songwriter, troubadour” Johnny Commune performed in front of a live audience was at a Vote Leave celebration party, packed with “red...

Simon Ward reviews Sunrise For The Blind at the Cockpit Theatre Written by Lee Lomas, who also plays Nathan, the lynchpin around whom the story evolves, although it is very much an ensemble piece. …

‘Renaissance revenge puts the riot into riotously funny’ Based on an anonymous Renaissance play responding to the misogynist writings of self-professed woman-hater Joseph Swetnam, prolific on ye olde ...

Celebrating a milestone birthday almost a year late might suggest poor organisation, but for Anna, it represents something far more purposeful: a refusal to let disappointment have the final word. In ...

Director: Yu Ai Camden Fringe is a broad and vibrant church, with something to tickle all performance taste buds. Representing the conceptual and avant-garde, The Bride melds contemporary dance, song ...

Writers: Kalum Wilson and Liam Bull Director: Kalum Wilson Falling out during a nuclear fallout is the premise of Kalum Wilson and Liam Bull’s new comedy playing in the final week of this year’s Camde...

Renée Rossi’s explosive satire God Bomb questions the credentials of many Catholic saints. Taking pot shots at Mother Teresa, this one-woman show tackling some of the most difficult religious question...

‘Bowen has written something that stands remarkably well on its own and that would also easily lend itself to other staging ideas’ How much loyalty do we owe to those with whom we have shared pain? An...

Writer: Joel Stern Director: Lyna Dubarry One of the most creatively staged productions at this year’s Camden Fringe Festival, Joel Stern’s melodramatically titled Harmonise or Die is essentially an h...

Writer: Sydney Page Director: Caroline Wiechers  Sydney Page is a 26-year-old ambitious Capricorn musical theatre actor who’s ready to quit the spotlight and get a ‘boring’ job like all ‘normal’ peopl...

Writer: Ellie Grace The story of Anne Boleyn is a familiar one – indeed, there have been plenty of films made about the beheaded queen – but Ellie Grace plays a blinder in The Whore Queen, showing in ...

Camden Fringe 2026 is celebrating its 20th anniversary year with over 450 shows. Lloyd Bickham and Lucy Popescu review a selection from its impressive programme

Writer: George Wigglesworth Director: Indy Campbell Who needs fancy sets and shedloads of props when George Wigglesworth is on stage? He’s such a confident, funny performer that we are with him all th...

Writers: Emma Graveling and Emily Hooley Director: Ellie Brewster A despairing woman holds a handful of paracetamol and a glass of water. From this bleak beginning, writer-performers Emma Graveling an...

Writer: Antonia Chammas Director: Lauryn Jenkins Everyone wants to believe that their country is worth saving, however desperate the times, however complex its history, and however difficult the fight...

‘Dear Lihua’ is a highly accomplished piece of theatre, delicately constructed and performed with remarkable tenderness. Written by Xinyi Chen and directed by Zhaoyi Ying, this bilingual English and M...

Writer and Director: Isabella Javor There have been several new plays recently about the life of a historical artist or writer. It’s not always an easy trick to pull off; playwrights too often swamped...

Writer and Director: Elaine Kline Mental health, and specifically some people’s mental ill health, is a part of life of which we seem to be significantly more aware now than in years past. Yet some co...

Writers: Luke Ward and Alex Braglewicz Director: Verity Drew Firth A live-streamed suicide leads to quarrels and questions in this brilliant and disturbing drama. Social media moderator Adam is workin...

Sushant Nair’s ‘21 Days’ takes a recognisably human crisis and places it against the increasingly blurred boundary between people and artificial intelligence. Set in 2030, although there is little to ...