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Blood and guts in Ancient Rome, Atri Banerjee’s production of Jean Racine’s historical tragedy is no Roman Holiday.

Read our critic's review. Gandhi's assassin tells his story across the backdrop of India's struggle for independence.

Hot off the stage of the Donmar Warehouse where she starred opposite Kit Harrington in Henry V, Melissa Johns is a disabled actress whose iCloud account was hacked in 2018, leading to the release of intimate photos. Her play, Snatched, is autobiographical, documenting her struggle as a disabled woman to come to terms with societal expectations of sexuality and femininity.

A new all-star cast establish a solid dynamic, but all their effort is undermined by the play's mind-boggling, twist ending.

Mark Ravenhill directs a new version of La bohème with an LGBT spin that does not do enough to engage in its themes.

David Eldridge thrusts the agony and the ecstasy of middle class struggles into the limelight in his new play at the National Theatre's Dorfman stage. Let's see what BWW's critic had to say...

Read our critic's review - A post-modern tint cannot save this 1938 play from feeling stuck in the past.

Deconstructing modern black masculinity, 'For Black Boys Who have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy' is a poetic meditation on the discord between expectations of black men and their reality.

A clowning cocktail of Orwell, Beckett, and Kundera, Project Dictator pokes fun at the overdone 'State of the Nation' play, instead crafting something far more unique, intelligent, and disturbing.

A visceral deep dive into the nature of addiction and violence, 'Nothing in a Butterfly' is one man's odyssey from the depths of the penal system to the dizzying heights of excess in Dubai.

The Marriage of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein, both written and directed by Edward Einhorn, makes its European premiere at Jermyn Street Theatre.

A powerful cacophony of visceral imagery, music, and poetry, Dogs of Europe paints a haunting vision of fractured identities, nations, and narratives. It is unsettling to watch because it is a future that is increasingly tangible.

Showered with awards from across runs at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2019, Vault Festival in 2020, Splintered promises a night of cabaret, verbatim theatre, comedy, and much more, all converging to create a kaleidoscopic exploration of the intersection between queer and Caribbean identity, but bites off more than it can chew.