Keith Mckenna

London reviewer

Reviews

Sara Mokonen plays Katherine and Keon Martial-Philip plays Petruchio

Taming Who?

Darren Raymond

Intermission Youth

Arcola Theatre, London

30 November–14 December 2023

The Toymaker's Child

Script and music by Dave Carey

Chickenshed

Chickenshed Theatre

22 November 2023–13 January 2024

A Sherlock Carol

Mark Shanahan

DEM Productions, Fat Goose Productions and Theatre Nerd Productions

Marylebone Theatre, London

24 December 2023–7 January 2024

Oh What A Lovely War

Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop, Charles Chilton, Gerry Raffles and member...

Blackeyed Theatre in association with South Hill Park Arts Centre

Southwark Playhouse Borough, London

21 November–9 December 2023

Paul Hilton as Father Manders and Hattie Morahan as Helene Alving

Ghosts

Henrik Ibsen

Shakespeare's Globe

Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

10 November 2023–28 January 2024

England and Son

Ed Edwards

HOME, Manchester and Tin Cat Entertainment

Arcola Theatre, London

14–25 November 2023

Michelle Asante as mum & Anita-Joy Uwajeh as Ama

Brenda's Got A Baby

Jessica Hagan

Nouveau Riche and New Diorama

New Diorama Theatre, London

31 October–2 December 2023

Rachelle Diedericks as Catherine and Jonathan Slinger as Eddie Carbone

A View from the Bridge

Arthur Miller

Octagon Theatre Bolton, Headlong, Chichester Festival Theatre & Rose Theatre

Rose Theatre

31 October–11 November 2023

The Interview

Jonathan Maitland

Original Theatre in association with Park Theatre

Park 200

27 October–25 November 2023

Trueman and the Arsonists

Simon Stephens, songs by Chris Thorpe

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Roundhouse London

17 October–8 November 2023

Features

Reimagining the Theatre Archive

25 July 2022

The Royal Court Theatre’s project to transform its theatre archive raises questions about what has been remembered, what has been ignored and what has been forgotten.

Jojo Morrall as Rosa Parks in Chickenshed's Blowin' in the Wind

Black Lives Matter on stage

1 July 2020

Keith McKenna revisits some of the plays performed in recent years that are linked in various ways to the Black Lives Matter protests.