Celebrating its 40th anniversary, classic film ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ fills the intimate confines of Hope Mill Theatre with energy.

Previously brought to the screen by the hit film The Greatest Showman, P.T. Barnum, who produced what was known as the ‘world’s greatest show’, is having his story hit the stage once again.

In its first stage adaptation, written by Gina Gionfriddo and directed by Nikolai Foster, The Silence of the Lambs looks spectacular, but struggles to innovate.

Sara Bareilles and Jessie Nelson’s acclaimed and beloved musical ‘Waitress’ bakes up a storm in Glasgow under the direction of Diane Paulus. This production stars Lucie Jones as Jenna, a down-on-her-luck waitress and pie connoisseur at a local diner who dreams of escaping her abusive marriage and starting a new life

Produced by Magnifying Glass Theatre as its first show, 10 Loves certainly has an original premise and deserves its place in Lambeth Fringe.

We sat down for an exclusive interview with Beatrice Hyde and Ben Everett Riley, playwrights of new play Namaste! coming up to the Golden Goose Theatre from October 16th and 17th.

The Final Exam: Gao Kao turns the Gaokao into a literal battlefield, using physical theatre, projection and stage combat to explore academic pressure, institutional expectation and the idea that exam results can become inseparable from identity.

When Georg Büchner died in 1837, he left Woyzeck unfinished. Its fragmentary nature has invited numerous adaptations over the past century, and Franz & Marie at the Charing Cross Theatre is the latest attempt to give it a shape.

We sat down for an exclusive interview with Romain Rachline Borgeaud, the artistic director, choreographer and producer of STORIES. Fusing contemporary tap dance and urban jazz, STORIES - The Tap Dance Sensation is a bold and energetic production that tells the story of Icarus, a successful young actor trapped under the control of a powerful film director.

We sat down for an exclusive interview with Toby Chadd, the Artistic Director of Sinfonia Smith Square. Sinfonia Smith Square is the coming together of two much-loved organisations: Southbank Sinfonia and St John’s Smith Square.

Fifth Folio Theatre’s debut play Understudy No. 5 follows a janitor who finds himself possessed by minor Shakespearean characters unhappy with their lot in the original plays. We sat down with Hadrian to discuss their upcoming performance.

We sat own for an exclusive interview with Tim Crouch to discuss his landmark play An Oak Tree, returning to the stage at The Other Palace Theatre.

We sat down for an exclusive interview with Verity Mullan to discuss her debut show 'Single Use', currently going on tour across England following Edinburgh Fringe performances last year.

Halvard Solness, a leading architect at the height of his fame, is paralysed by fear. Fear of the younger generation. Fear of irrelevance. Fear of the past catching up with him. When young, enigmatic Hilde Wangel (Louisa Binder) bursts back into his world, she reminds him of the promise he made her ten years ago.

Do Not Pass Go is an experimental new production from award winning production company Jordan & Skinner.

We sat down for an exclusive interview with Silvia Manazzone, the writer, director and performer of new solo show, THE CANNONEER. This show follows the true story of Peppa, the orphan from Sicily who stole a cannon, tricked an entire cavalry and became a forgotten heroine of Italian Unification.

Box of Tricks brings its latest production How Soon Is Now? to The Lowry as part of their 20th anniversary celebrations.

Magnetic North’s We Will Hear the Angels focuses on the effects of alienation of an urban landscape on five isolated individuals.

The National Theatre of Scotland and BBC Scotland have collaborated on the production of 6 new short films that explore Scotland’s future.

Gutter Theatre’s Eurydice at Assembly Roxy is an ambitious retelling of Sarah Ruhl’s modern take on the Greek myth. For anyone unfamiliar, the story follows Eurydice, who dies on her wedding day and enters the underworld, where she meets her father and tries to remember who she was in life.

Winsomely delivered by a beautifully balanced cast, this Hay Fever finds fresh life in Coward’s comic rhythms

Magic has always held a particular appeal. Not knowing how it’s done is, for many, rather the point. So there’s no need to explain exactly what Ben Hart does in Hex, except to say that watching him very closely doesn’t help.

The highly anticipated Portrait of Black Britain returned to Manchester on October 1st at Aviva Studios. Originally commissioned in 2021, the exhibition featured 116 photographs of Black British people and was displayed in Manchester Arndale before travelling south to Bluewater. The collection has now expanded to over 200 portraits of Black British people from all walks of life.

Associate partner of the Oxford Playhouse, Headlong, offer a complex and brooding take on August Wilson’s 1985 classic play, Fences.

We sat down for an exclusive interview with Grace Gallagher and Rachael Smart, directors of STUFFED. Food poverty isn’t funny. Clowns generally are. Somewhere between the two sits STUFFED, Ugly Bucket’s riotous, uncompromising response to the UK’s growing food poverty crisis.

Sam Holcroft’s 2023 dystopian censorship play A Mirror follows the inner workings of the Ministry of Culture, the propagandist arm of the reigning totalitarian regime.

The evening opened with an introduction from mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina and pianist Jonathan Palmer Lakeland, who explained how the programme's theme had evolved.

As someone who attended an inner-city state school where the PREVENT campaign was in operation, often right under our noses, I was keen to see this iteration of Anders Lustgarten’s play, Extremism, which attempts to grapple with the shortfalls and harm caused by the PREVENT campaign.

‘Could you please scan this barcode to participate in the interactive element of the show?’ the ticket officer asks as the audience arrives for Love vs Fear and My Mother’s Prayers.

You wouldn’t expect a grand, sweeping tale of medieval romance to begin with a welcome into “The Club of the Unloved”, a cagoule-clad, binocular-toting crew of lonely hearts who spy on both performers and audience through their binoculars. But in Kneehigh and Emma Rice’s Tristan and Yseult, the silly intertwines with the tragic in a rambunctious cabaret.

This production manages to successfully blend the technical brilliance of flamenco with the physical comedy of pantomime and the Spanish passion of telenovela drama. Flamenc Oh!! tells the tale of a family whose story feels as much in keeping thematically with any of Federico García Lorca’s masterpieces.

At the Linbury Theatre, Northern Ballet presents a new work and two revivals so different in tone as to suggest three separate evenings, though the dancers navigate deftly from one to the other.

We sat down for an exclusive interview with Rohan Rakhit and Jammz. A collision of past, present and future, London, From The Margins at Rich Mix is conducted and connected by Hackney-born multiplatform storyteller Jammz and DJ, broadcaster and DAYTIMERS cultural programmer Rohan Rakhit.

Sheep! has had a few people who’d more likely be on the perpetrator-side of the spectrum come up to me with this light in their eyes because they finally understood why it’s so hurtful when your boundaries are crossed – and the survivors feel really seen, which is a valuable connection for me.

Measure for Measure at Riverside Studios is Shakespeare’s great problem play; in the city-state of Vienna ruled by Duke Vincentio, the Duke chooses to leave his puritanical deputy Angelo in his authority during his absence.

Five weeks to the moon! In 1964 Zambia won its independence, and a schoolteacher announced that the new nation would beat the superpowers to the moon. It sounds invented, which is presumably why the Royal Court's release calls it "true(ish)". Ryan Calais Cameron's The Afronauts sets out to put the story back on the record, and it has five weeks of rehearsal in which to do so.

Madonna on the Rocks is a visceral, beautiful, hilarious call to arms. A neon-lit menty-b at the Stay and Play.

Now in its fifth year, the PALART Festival brings with it a vibrant offering of Palestinian stories, this time at the Pleasance Theatre. In addition to supporting - through opportunities for development of new work - Palestinian artists in the UK, the PALART Collective seeks to push back against mainstream media’s growing exclusion and erasure of Palestinian narratives.

Paul Hart returns to the Watermill Theatre with Murder Before Evensong, a world premiere stage adaptation of Reverend Richard Coles’ bestselling mystery novel.

First written 40 years ago by pioneering gay playwright Robert Chesley, JERKER serves as an intimate historical snapshot of 1980s San Francisco.

A brand new world-premiere play, The Standard of Living, from the Olivier Award-winning playwright, James Graham (Punch, Dear England, Labour of Love) explodes into the West End for a strictly limited 12-week run.

Vital storytelling that isn’t always on beat