Stage
'The towers dominated the skyline': Beaumont Estate revisited in new play at The Yard
Based on interviews with former and current residents of a Leyton housing estate, Re: Home examines what our homes mean to us
Read MoreArcola Queer Collective: championing LGBT rights through theatre
On the eve of their adaptation of Le Petit Prince, director Rubyyy Jones talks about the state of queer theatre today – and how genuine equality is still a work in progress
Read MorePlaywright Rebecca Lenkiewicz: 'I think the fear of the outsider is still present'
The Oscar-winning co-writer of Ida returns to the Arcola with Jane Wenham: The Witch of Walkern, a play about one of the last witch trials in England
Read MoreLondon International Mime Festival comes to the East End
Visual and physical theatre festival is a unique event in the cultural calendar
Read More#WelcomeToHackney: bar's reaction to a stabbing inspires play about gentrification
#Haters is a story about community conflict based on a controversial incident at a Hackney pub last year
Read MorePuppet-powered Snow White panto comes to Winterville
Visitors to Victoria Park’s winter town can immerse themselves in the delights of a Christmas pantomime
Read MoreJack and the Beanstalk, Hackney Empire, review: hilariously silly and mischievous
This year’s Hackney Empire pantomime reimagines Jack and the Beanstalk as a climate change fable
Read MoreThe Divided Laing review – inside the mind of a psychiatrist
Arcola production about R.D. Laing’s 1960s mental health commune examines the nature of psychiatry while remaining at its core a domestic farce
Read MoreMy Beautiful Black Dog – review: finding humour in depression
Hackney Showroom was wowed this week by the charismatic Brigitte Aphrodite for a short run of her Edinburgh-feted musical play about depression
Read More'Totally rock 'n' roll' play' about depression to open in Hackney
Punk-poet Brigitte Aphrodite brings her acclaimed musical My Beautiful Black Dog about mental health to Hackney Showroom
Read MoreWas R.D. Laing a mental health pioneer or a dangerous maverick?
A new play at the Arcola looks at the legacy of the ‘anti-psychiatrist’ whose mental illness centre in Bow became notorious for its controversial methods
Read MoreSarai: stage review – Old Testament drama proves power of the scriptures
One woman show at Dalston’s Arcola Theatre is a tour de force
Read MoreNew play Lines looks at how peace is 'just a gap between wars'
Four soldiers struggle to adapt to not being at war in the latest production at the Yard Theatre
Read MoreAbsent – stage review: 'a series of questions never made explicit, let alone answered'
Immersive play at Shoreditch Town Hall about the enigmatic Duchess of Argyll proves compellingly ambiguous
Read MoreOctagon – stage review: poetry that 'shivers your timbers…and sizzles your spine'
Poetry hotshots spit out their rhymes in a battle for poetry supremacy in Octagon at the Arcola
Read MoreBrenda – stage review: 'detached from the commonplace'
The Yard’s run of demanding and socially perceptive plays continues with Brenda
Read MoreUsing my religion: the making of Chewing Gum's Michaela Coel
Star’s strict religious upbringing on an East London estate proved the catalyst for her new TV comedy in which nothing is off limits
Read MoreRecovering addicts among stars of cabaret about crack cocaine
Surreal cabaret Rockston Stories reveals true stories about drug addiction and features characters from history of Hoxton
Read MoreKansas Smitty's – bar review: 'like a big living room but with live jazz and kickass drinks'
Jazz and juleps the perfect combination at Broadway Market’s new basement bar Kansas Smitty’s
Read MoreRadical play Brenda reflects on nature of being human
Brenda, which kicks off the Yard’s autumn season, is an experimental play that questions the very nature of selfhood
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