“The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one” Abraham Lincoln1865.
“It’s an apocalyptic fight for God, and it’s a fight that we must win”1645.
Coming in hot, direct from sold-out New York previews, I’m Gonna Marry You Tobey Maguire now graces the London stage for a limited six-week run.
Adapted and directed by Eliot Giuralarocca, Chekhov’s short stories remain as memorable and bracing as jumping into a cold plunge pool after a hot sauna! Performed by a company of…
“It is the Valley of Fear, the Valley of Death.
The climax is just the beginning.
Disgraced actor Garry Starr defies his critics by performing every style of theatre imaginable, thus saving the performing arts from extinction.
Garry Starr defies critics by performing every style of theatre imaginable.
A cornerstone of modern musical theatre and one of the very greatest stage satires, Oh What A Lovely War is an extraordinary theatrical journey bringing to life the folly…
Making its London premier Maimuna Memon’s multi-award-winning Manic Street Creature is now showing at the Southwark Playhouse, Borough, following its barnstorming, sell-out world…
USA, 1985: Rookie Police Cop Jimmy Johnson joined the force to protect and serve… But now Jimmy’s in deep, partnered up with a renegade Police Cop and leaned on by a r…
It ain’t easy being Jack.
Starring Alice Fearn, and directed by Julie Atherton, Then, Now & Next is a heartwarming, original musical from writers Christopher J Orton and Jon Robyns.
Armed with a backpack full of Pop-tarts and a hunger to tackle climate change, Priya and Lou, embark on a covert expedition into the wild.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is frankly remarkable.
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…
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.
We start with an empty stage adorned with punk memorabilia, ready for a grunge-femme concert.
A feminist pop-punk live music play about love, loss and lubrication.
★★★★ “Is as captivating as it is unsettling.
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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…
Too many cooks, so the saying goes, can spoil the broth.
The story takes place in 2014 at a New York City ‘BDSM’ party.
There are time when you wonder, “Why?” Lazarus Theatre Company’s Hamlet at the Southwark Playhouse, Borough, is one of those.
You saw her last when she was just two, Celebrate the holidays with Cindy Lou Who.
Clive Judd’s fascinating debut play HERE won the 2022 Papatango New Writing Prize from a record 1,553 submissions.
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.
Straight from off-Broadway, we’re thrilled to announce the UK premiere of Stranger Sings! This award-winning sci-fi spoof is a wild, irreverent twist on the hit Netflix serie…
“Perhaps it’s not so bad if this is it.
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…
Some of our most recent experiences of yeast will most likely come from our own fervent lockdown breadmaking.
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…
Tilly has intrusive thoughts about harming her family.
I had been looking forward to seeing The Lion for a long time.
LIFT is set in a London underground lift, in one man’s imagination, on its way to the surface during one minute.
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…
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 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…
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…
Tom Greenwald and Andrew Lippa’s John and Jen is a true masterpiece on what it means to be a family.
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…
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…
Mental health.
This show is ‘appeeling’ to all.
Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children is given a safe and very competent revival at The Southwark Playhouse.
New York City, 1960.
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.
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.
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 /…
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 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 by Russell Labey at the Southwark Playhouse is the latest nugget in credible maestro Danielle Tarento’s forever blooming theatrical scrapbook.
As the cast of Bat Boy: The Musical bowed and smiled at the audience, I tried to ask myself what I had just seen.
For traditionalists, this is a heartening time for new writing in the theatre.
Danielle Tarento has done it again – this time in the guise of a European première of the 2012 award winning American musical Dogfight.
The Heights of the title are Washington Heights, a Dominican-American neighbourhood of New York at the top end of New York.
As a relative ‘newbie’ to London, I often find myself lost, confused and wandering the city’s streets hopelessly.
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…