LPT magazine ISSN 2977-6724
LONDON PUB THEATRE 2025 AWARD
WINNERS ANNOUNCED
London Pub Theatre of the Year 2025
The Tabard Theatre, Chiswick
Full list of winners
26/10/2025
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR MICHAEL KINGSBURY ON CELEBRATING FIVE YEARS AT GOLDEN GOOSE THEATRE
From unlikely beginnings during Covid 19, the theatre has come into its own. Kingsbury chats about the transformation, & the wider impact of its success.
9/10/2025
THE PROBLEM WITH THE SEVENTH YEAR at White Bear Theatre 28 Oct - 15 Nov
A young man's boxing career conflicts with his life as a medical student. Working as a cut-man, the consequences of his double-life catch up with him.
Written by Evening Standard Award nominee and Offie winner Nicholas Pierpan. The Problem With The Seventh Year won the Cameron Mackintosh Award for New Writing.
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TABLES TURNED at Drayton Arms Theatre 2 & 3 Nov
Have you ever wanted to critique the critics? Following a playwriting competition for LPTM reviewers, a one hour play and 3 shorts are presented in an evening of rehearsed readings.
Winner: THE FINAL CUT by Nilgün Yusuf, directed by award winning Matthew Parker.
When hairdresser, Tina agrees to give Gladys, her oldest and most loyal customer, one final cut, it’s an endeavour beset with complications. For a start she's no longer alive ...
KILL YOUR FATHER, Expandido Theatre Group, Voila Festival at Etcetera Theatre 5 - 7 November
For the first time in London, the critically acclaimed punk-drama KILL YOUR FATHER, a radical reimagining of the Medea by black lesbian Brazilian playwright Grace Passô, takes the stage. The play powerfully exposes the limits of patriarchy in our society. It’s raw, it’s poetic, and it’s killingly poignant. Prepare yourself.
THE SEA HORSE by Edward J Moore at Golden Goose Theatre 4 - 15 November
50 years after its critically-acclaimed New York debut, the Drama Desk Award-winning play comes to London, directed by award-winning Mandi Riggi.
Set in a gritty waterfront bar, it’s a brutally honest two-hander about two hardened outsiders navigating their past to find a safe harbour - it is a raw, tender, & deeply human exploration of love & vulnerability.
KEEPING MUM Written & directed by Barrie Smith at Jack Studio Theatre 5 - 8 November
Surrounded by her dysfunctional children and a family feud, Mummy, frail and elderly, sits tight. As long-harboured resentments surface and unsettling secrets are revealed, will she be persuaded to give up her independence? Or does another, more sinister fate await her?
XQUENDA written & directed by Isabel Quiroz at The Cockpit, Marylebone, 7 Nov
The story of a young indigenous woman from rural Oaxaca, Mexico, and her search for justice after the disappearance and murder of her best friend.
“... a girl who fought for justice in the middle of the silence, with nothing but her words, her stars, and her songs. With fear but also with love. Xquenda is our essence, what remains on earth even after death...”
LOOP by Tanya-Loretta Dee at Theatre503 10 - 29 November
Bex is fucking obsessed! She can’t get James out of her head. In the Peckham party shop where she twists balloon animals for minimum wage, all she can think about is him.
Part folk-tale, part horror, this is a love story that dives into the heart of obsessive desire, limerence, and the intoxicating pull of fantasy and unreality.
CROWNLESS by Ashley Amodeo, Voila Festival at Etcetera Theatre
21 - 22 November
Described by audiences at Edinburgh Fringe as a “Wonderfully entertaining and thought provoking look at one of Shakespeare’s most famous characters and plays." Crownless takes Hamlet and adds some feminism... Rather than confronting inaction, Hamlet faces the not-so-great relationship with her father. And her father faces... getting stuck in a coat for eternity.
ONE WOMAN AND HER DOG by William Lyons at Etcetera Theatre 27 - 30 November
Highly theatrical and absurdist comedy blending influences from Aristophanes, Brecht, and Panto on the theme of being homeless in a big city. The play deliberately breaks the fourth-wall, invites improvisation, includes audience-interaction, and interrupts the action with song at a number of places, and has serious social concerns.
Directed by Victor Sobchak
COCKFOSTERS at Southwark Playhouse Borough 4 Dec - 3 Jan
After five sell-out runs, London’s ★★★★★ smash-hit comedy COCKFOSTERS returns to Southwark Playhouse Borough. Strangers James and Tori meet at Heathrow and take the Piccadilly Line across London on a journey they’ll never forget. A “screamingly funny” off-the-rails comedy about the London Underground that will change your commute forever.
PRESCIPTION: MURDER by William Link and Richard Levinson at Bread & Roses Theatre, Clapham 2 - 6 December
See the play that inspired the legendary TV series “Columbo”! Prescription: Murder by William Link and Richard Levinson. Written in 1963 for the stage because of the writers strike. In this production you can expect to be transported back to the 60’s with music, style, murder, cigars and “just one more thing!”
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
LONDON PUB THEATRES 2025 AWARDS: FINALISTS ANNOUNCED
The winners will be announced at the Awards Ceremony at The Cockpit, Marylebone, Sunday 26 October 2025. All finalists are invited to attend, by invitation only. Tickets go on sale to the general public 1 October.
23/9/2025
PAUL MCARTHUR on THE CHOIR OF MAN at Arts Theatre, West End of London until 4 January
Paul McArthur moved to London at the tender age of 18 to pursue his dream of being a professional performer. Now starring in West End musical THE CHOIR OF MAN, he chats about his role in the show as the POET, his burgeoning career, music, and his love for pub culture.
26/8/2025
PENTAMETERS THEATRE OPENS FUNDRAISER TO PRESERVE ITS LEGACY AFTER RECEIVING EVICTION NOTICE
16/7/2025
Léonie Scott-Matthews founded the theatre in 1968 and has since received many honours in recognition of services to British theatre, to the community in Hampstead and the development of new writing.
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: Loved & Lost London Pub Theatres By Nilgün Yusuf
We remember some of the pub theatres which have closed, as well as some which have been newly established, saved or moved to other premises.
16/6/2025
WE ARE 10!
Artistic directors, theatre makers and supporters of fringe theatre from across London flocked to the Golden Goose in Camberwell on Sunday, June 1st to raise a glass and celebrate ten years of all things London Pub Theatres Magazine. Write up and images by Nilgün Yusuf
3/6/2025
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AUDREY THAYER at DRAYTON ARMS THEATRE
Audrey chats on developments at the South Kensington venue, a French Speaking Festival, new Resident Company, Edinburgh Fringe and current trends in theatre.
19/4/2025
THEATRE AT THE TABARD 40th ANNIVERSARY
Simon and Sarah Reilly on the 40th anniversary of The Tabard Theatre, a year of celebrations and special guests
1/3/2025
- ETCETERA THEATRE 2026 BOOKINGS NOW OPEN
- APPLICATIONS OPEN FOR OLD RED LION'S FRESHFEST
- JACK STUDIO THEATRE in South East London is programming for 2026
- CALLING ALL COMEDIANS - Rosebuds Comedy Festival at BREAD AND ROSES THEATRE
- LION AND UNICORN THEATRE IS PROGRAMMING FOR WINTER/SPRING
London pub theatres magazine ISSN 2977-6724
