The Singing Stones – stage review: 'reflecting a familiar feeling of impotence'
The Singing Stones carries an important message about the plight of women during the Arab Spring but suffers from a lack of structure
Stage
Vanity Bites Back: the quick witted clown cookery show about anorexia
Comedian Helen Duff is an eccentric cookery show host in a one-woman stage comedy tackling the taboo subject of anorexia
Sex Workers Opera: raising marginalised voices and challenging sterotypes
Escorts, strippers and webcam performers are among the cast of Arcola production opening next week
London International Mime Festival comes to East London this month
An eclectic range of productions at this year’s festival includes puppeteer Basil Twist and light, inspired by the Edward Snowden leaks
Stage review: Henry IV Part 1 and 2 at the Barbican
The Royal Shakespeare Company delivers Henry IV Parts I and II in all its traditional glory
The Story Project review: mixing topless selfies, witch-hunting and Rumpole of the Bailey
Ten tiny plays crammed into an evening’s entertainment make up The Story Project at the Arcola
Billy the kid review: panto hoedown
Acting the goat is encouraged down at the Rosemary B-ranch for panto-western Billy The Kid
Sleeping Booty!
More panto records will be smashed as the the creators of the critically acclaimed Dick!, are back with yet another fithy and festive frolic.. The Evil Mangelina (Dusty O), is wreaking havoc over our precious, perverted pantoland with an unruly and slippery iron fist … Together with her randy but do
The Realness review – musical tackles problems facing prison leavers
Energetic performances by a cast of care-leavers and ex-offenders make new musical The Realness a Christmas cracker
Stink Foot review: A sticky situation at the Yard Theatre
Greek tragedy gets a messy revisionist twist in Stink Foot
Mother Goose review: a dame good show at Hackney Empire!
Clive Rowe and Sharon D. Clarke return to the cast for the Hackney Empire panto
Dance festival in Isle of Dogs to give platform to new choreographers
Emerge 14 dance festival offers choreographers a chance to show and develop their work
Facing The Realness: ex-offenders and care leavers to star in new musical at Hackney Downs Studios
A prison leaver tries to get his life back on track with mixed success in new musical The Realness by Big House Theatre company
East London Strippers Collective wants to empower performers and change attitudes
The East London Strippers Collective (ELSC) is campaigning to redefine mainstream views of stripping – but is it dancing out of time with popular opinion?
Stoke Newington pupils use Shakespeare to settle into secondary school life
Globe Education Project sees Year 7 students at Stoke Newington School explore notion of change by performing A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Rivals at the Arcola – review
Richard Sheridan’s 18th-century comedy of manners is a masterclass in lampooning and satire