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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Southwark Playhouse
- 12th May - 17th Jun 2023
Big Con Productions and The Grey Area Present How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying Music & Lyrics by Frank Loesser, Book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock & Willie…
Blanket Ban
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Southwark Playhouse
- 25th Apr - 20th May 2023
Following a SOLD OUT Edinburgh Festival Fringe run, as winners of the Underbelly and New Diorama Untapped Award, hit-show Blanket Ban transfers to Southwark Playhouse Borough.
Sugar Coat
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Southwark Playhouse
- 29th Mar - 22nd Apr 2023
A feminist pop-punk live music play about love, loss and lubrication.
Sugar Coat
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 29th Mar - 22nd Apr 2023
After an acclaimed run at VAULT Festival in 2020, the queer, feminist pop-punk hit Sugar Coat returns to Southwark Playhouse as a timely rallying cry for a generation challenging t…
Macbeth - Southwark Playhouse Borough
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Southwark Playhouse
- 14th Mar - 8th Apr 2023
★★★★ “Is as captivating as it is unsettling.
Windfall
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Southwark Playhouse
- 9th Feb - 11th Mar 2023
From the director of the international hit The Play That Goes Wrong Mark Bell, Scooter Pietsch’s hilarious and chaotic new comedy arrives at Southwark Playhouse for five week…
SMOKE
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 10th Feb, 2023
Too many cooks, so the saying goes, can spoil the broth.
Smoke
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Southwark Playhouse
- 31st Jan - 25th Feb 2023
The story takes place in 2014 at a New York City ‘BDSM’ party.
Hamlet
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 1st Feb, 2023
There are time when you wonder, “Why?” Lazarus Theatre Company’s Hamlet at the Southwark Playhouse, Borough, is one of those.
Who's Holiday!
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Southwark Playhouse
- 7th - 31st Dec 2022
You saw her last when she was just two, Celebrate the holidays with Cindy Lou Who.
Here
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 18th Nov, 2022
Clive Judd’s fascinating debut play HERE won the 2022 Papatango New Writing Prize from a record 1,553 submissions.
The Canterville Ghost
- Review
- ★★★★
- Katerina Partolina Schwartz
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 20th Oct, 2022
Olivia Jacobs and Toby Mitchell’s adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s The Canterville Ghost gives little away to begin with, making it difficult to know what to expect.
Tasting Notes
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Southwark Playhouse
- 27th Jul - 27th Aug 2022
“Perhaps it’s not so bad if this is it.
Tasting Notes
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 27th Jul - 27th Sep 2022
If you could see one day played out in the lives of several different people, all from inside their heads, would everything be the same? During a seemingly normal 24 hours this new…
Yeast Nation
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Katerina Partolina Schwartz
- West End
- Southwark Playhouse
- 29th Jul, 2022
Some of our most recent experiences of yeast will most likely come from our own fervent lockdown breadmaking.
The Lesson
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 3rd Jul, 2022
Director Max Lewendel has taken Theatre of the Absurd to a new level in his engrossing production of Eugène Ionesco’s The Lesson in a translation by Donald Watson at the Southwa…
"I'm Just a Little Bit OCD"
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Chickenshed / Southwark Playhouse / The Cockpit
- 11th - 26th Jun 2022
Tilly has intrusive thoughts about harming her family.
The Lion
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Christopher James
- West End
- Southwark Playhouse
- 2nd Jun, 2022
I had been looking forward to seeing The Lion for a long time.
LIFT
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Southwark Playhouse
- 19th May - 18th Jun 2022
LIFT is set in a London underground lift, in one man’s imagination, on its way to the surface during one minute.
Lift
- Review
- ★★★★
- Katerina Partolina Schwartz
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 19th May, 2022
A quintessentially London musical by Craig Adams and Ian Watson, with new arrangements by Sam Young, Dean Johnson’s Lift at the Southwark Playhouse is a complex musical experien…
Anyone Can Whistle
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Katerina Partolina Schwartz
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 17th Apr, 2022
Considering how much Anyone Can Whistle flopped in 1964, it is a bold, brave (and some may say hubristic) move on the part of Grey Area Theatre Company to revive the show at the So…
Anyone Can Whistle
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Southwark Playhouse
- 1st Apr - 7th May 2022
Anyone Can Whistle is political allegory in musical comedy form that tells the story of a town that's gone bankrupt because its only industry is manufacturing something that ne…
The Woods
- Review
- ★★★
- Mel Evans
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 6th Mar, 2022
This production of The Woods, one of David Mamet’s earlier plays, at the Southwark Playhouse is directed by Russell Bolam, with Francesca Carpanini as Ruth and Sam Frenchum as Ni…
Straight White Men
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Southwark Playhouse
- 10th Nov - 4th Dec 2021
As Ed, a widower, prepares to celebrate Christmas, he calls his three grown sons back to the family home.
Indecent Proposal
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Southwark Playhouse
- 22nd Oct - 27th Nov 2021
Everyone has their price, Jonny.
One Man Poe
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse / The Space / Watford Palace Theatre
- 1st - 31st Oct 2021
What’s scarier than a slice of gothic horror? Four slices, that’s what.
Anything is Possible if You Think About It Hard Enough
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 22nd Sep - 9th Oct 2021
What follows is a window into how a couple find the strength to move forward, the will to stay together, and the determination to keep the memory of their child alive.
John & Jen
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Gareth Williams
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 17th Aug, 2021
Tom Greenwald and Andrew Lippa’s John and Jen is a true masterpiece on what it means to be a family.
Exile
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 7th Jul, 2021
Exile at the Southwark Playhouse, by JoMac Productions Limited & Blue Heart Theatre, is an interestingly constructed piece consisting of two life-crisis monologues by individu…
Staircase
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 30th Jun, 2021
The Southwark Playhouse has been transformed into an authentic 1960’s barbershop for the revival of Charles Dyer’s hit play Staircase, by Two’s Company and Karl Sydow in asso…
Preludes
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Christopher James
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 13th Sep, 2019
Mental health.
Other People's Money
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Southwark Playhouse
- 24th Apr - 11th May 2019
Funny, serious, suspenseful and, above all, expertly crafted….
Infinite Joy
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 3rd - 14th Jul 2018
A brand new musical Infinite Joy written by Brendan Cull and Robert Scott and directed by Simon Kane performed by recent graduates from The BRIT School - the UK’s leading and fre…
The Country Wife
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Southwark Playhouse
- 10th - 21st Apr 2018
"Everything in the world is about sex, except sex.
Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Southwark Playhouse
- 13th - 17th Feb 2018
‘Everybody just stared at them and loved them and wanted to be them – but nobody was.
Bananaman
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Ailish George
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 7th Jan, 2018
This show is ‘appeeling’ to all.
Mother Courage And Her Children
- Review
- ★★★
- Jessica Holt
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 8th Nov, 2017
Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children is given a safe and very competent revival at The Southwark Playhouse.
Doubt, A Parable
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Southwark Playhouse
- 19th - 30th Sep 2017
John Patrick Shanley’s masterpiece is one of the most acclaimed plays in recent memory.
Dessert
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 17th Jul - 5th Aug 2017
A British financier and his wife host a lavish dinner party for their affluent American friends.
The Life
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 14th - 29th Apr 2017
You’re not in Kansas anymore… A thrilling exposé of the darker side of 1980’s New York, The Life is a defiant and heartfelt musical lament for the old Tim…
Promises, Promises
- Review
- ★★★
- Francesca Street
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 19th Jan, 2017
New York City, 1960.
Potted Panto
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Garrick Theatre / Southwark Playhouse
- 10th Dec 2016 - 9th Jan 2022
Seven classic pantomimes in eighty frenetic minutes! Double Olivier nominees Dan and Jeff return for a third festive season of Potted Panto, hot on the heels of their recent world …
Side Show
- Review
- ★★
- Cal Kenny
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 27th Oct, 2016
Daisy and Violet Hilton were real-life Siamese twins in Texas plucked from relative freak-show obscurity and who rose to a dazzling but fleeting stardom.
Grey Gardens
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Stuart Saint
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 8th Jan, 2016
Once in a lifetime, in the world of theatre, you’d hope you could say you bore witness to a theatrical event that would be engraved into the history books for eternity.
Where Will We Live?
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 25th - 28th Nov 2015
This theatrical tapestry - weaving music, humour and movement through interviews with politicians, and people living with eviction - packs a punch, revealing the human stories behi…
Grand Hotel
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Stuart Saint
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 6th Aug, 2015
With a flourish, a whirl and the ring of the reception bell, the Grand Hotel has duly opened for business at the Southwark Playhouse, taking a well earned place in the Tarento /…
Little Malcolm and his Struggle Against the Eunuchs
- Review
- ★★★★
- Laura Cress
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 15th Jul, 2015
In this 50th anniversary production of David Halliwell’s comedy Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against The Eunuchs at The Southwark Playhouse, Soggy Arts invite us to visit t…
Orson's Shadow
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave House
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 8th Jul, 2015
Orson’s shadow looms heavily in Austin Pendleton’s play about the prolific director; not only over the protagonist but over the entire play which whilst fascinating and fait…
Gods And Monsters
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Stuart Saint
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 20th Feb, 2015
Gods and Monsters by Russell Labey at the Southwark Playhouse is the latest nugget in credible maestro Danielle Tarento’s forever blooming theatrical scrapbook.
Bat Boy: The Musical
- Review
- ★★★
- K D C Lewin
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 16th Jan, 2015
As the cast of Bat Boy: The Musical bowed and smiled at the audience, I tried to ask myself what I had just seen.
Eye of a Needle
- Review
- ★★★★
- Peter Scott-Presland
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 8th Sep, 2014
For traditionalists, this is a heartening time for new writing in the theatre.
Dogfight
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Stuart Saint
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 25th Aug, 2014
Danielle Tarento has done it again – this time in the guise of a European première of the 2012 award winning American musical Dogfight.
In The Heights
- Review
- ★★★★
- Peter Scott-Presland
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 20th May, 2014
The Heights of the title are Washington Heights, a Dominican-American neighbourhood of New York at the top end of New York.
Three Sisters
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse / Wyndham’s Theatre
- 3rd Apr - 3rd May 2014
In a backwater town in rural Russia, the Prozorov sisters contend with mind-numbing boredom by aspiring to a return to city life in Moscow.
The A-Z Of Mrs P
- Review
- ★★★
- Jenny Williams
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 3rd Apr, 2014
As a relative ‘newbie’ to London, I often find myself lost, confused and wandering the city’s streets hopelessly.
Superior Donuts
- Review
- ★★★★
- Katherine Burr
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 3rd Apr, 2014
At the opening of new play Superior Donuts, the audience is confronted by the vandalised eponymous store, making them wonder just exactly what the owner did to deserve having his…
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