LPT magazine ISSN 2977-6724
INTERVIEW
Ava de Winter & Rosalind Philp on championing roles for older women with their company DOGS IN WELLIES 1/7/2026
New company DOGS IN WELLIES, celebrates the insight and craft that come with experience, creating acting opportunities and producing work to highlight the creativity of actors and writers over the age of 50. Their inaugural show WAVING comes to White Bear Theatre in Kennington 28 July – 1 August.
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THE HOPE THEATRE ANNOUNCES SHOWS FOR NORTH SAPPH-FEST A bold new festival celebrating queer women & non-binary voices this August
4/7/2026
“Spaces like this — where our stories are centred and celebrated — are still far too rare. I’m so excited for our theatre to have an entire month full of queer work from these fantastic theatre-makers.” Laurel Marks, Joint Artistic Director of The Hope Theatre
RIKA'S ROOMS at The Tabard Theatre, Chiswick 1 - 25 July
Emma Wilkinson Wright, Winner of Best Actor, London Pub Theatre Awards 2025, takes to the stage in RIKA’S ROOMS a solo-show by the internationally acclaimed, award-winning, South African born, British-Jewish playwright Gail Louw.
"Rika’s Rooms is a must see for anyone seeking a moving and intellectually stimulating theatre experience” ★★★★★
A Youngish Perspective.
THE CABIN at Barons Court Theatre 7 - 11 July
Former school classmates wake up to find themselves locked in a room together. There's no way out, & cameras are watching their every
move. The only item in there with them is a gun, and the only means of escape is by using it to kill one of their group. If they don't, they all die. As tensions rise and the timer runs out, secrets surface, old wounds are reopened, and heartbreaking betrayals are revealed.
It really is the worst school reunion ever...
SLIDESHOW: IN COLOR! at Etcetera Theatre, Camden 12 July
L.A.'s underground hit has landed in London: Slideshow is about speaking your truth, bearing it all and backing it up with the real life images up on the screen to prove it. It's the place where storytellers, poets, comedians, musicians and more come together to share the good, the not-so-good, and the I-wouldn't-believe-that-if-I-wasn't-seeing-the-pictures-for-myself kind of moments.
1918: The Final Salomé at Etcetera Theatre, Camden 25 and 26 July
London, 1918. Wartime hysteria drags Oscar Wilde's Salomé into court — and Robert Ross, his executor and "first boy" (or so he believes), back into the dock of memory. A story of saints canonised by love and fools sacrificed for it. Oxford New Writing Festival runner-up: Best Play.
A TALE OF TWO ZEROS
Rehearsed reading at The Hope Theatre, 6 July 8.30pm
Julie and her two mates are looking for a flat share in an upmarket part of town. As a mathematician she has become obsessed with her current interest – ‘nothing’ or ‘zero’ and its properties. When the friends find a flat that they all really want, her obsession takes on a strange and surreal significance.
THE WOLF OF POYAIS at Old Red Lion Playhouse, Islington 21 - 25 July
'Confidence, Charisma, Complete Nonsense…'
For one week only, Sir Gregor MacGregor will teach you how to unleash the greatness within and learn how he sold a country that didn’t exist! A dark comedy telling the true story of a swashbuckling confidence trickster and the greatest scam you’ve never heard of, the Poyais Scheme.
WAVING by Rosalind Philp at White Bear Theatre, Kennington 28 July - 1 August
In a coastal studio, a brilliant artist begins her final portrait as Alzheimer’s dismantles the life she built. Her gifted son is self‑destructive; her responsible daughter longs to be exceptional. Poignant and darkly humorous, Waving explores love, loss and the complicated inheritance of being raised by someone extraordinary.
CUTLASS at The Glitch, Waterloo 29 July - 3 August
One man multi-character Pirate Adventure. Pirate Captain Springsmile Jack is due to hang in the morning. But how was he captured? Who killed his family? Is he truly trapped? And why didn’t Will employ more cast members?
'Will Hartley (Radio4/ITV/CBBC) performs a spiritual sequel to GUN' ★★★★★
Everything Theatre
Dünyada at The Cockpit, Marylebone 3 - 9 August
Dünyada is an expimental solo theatre work that explores displacement, identity drift, and the fragile need to be witnessed. Adapted from a monologue by Will Eno’s Titles and Deed and reimagined by Mehmet Ali Nuroğlu, it rejects character transformation and narrative closure of traditional storytelling. The work examines placelessness in a contemporary context: migration, emotional detachment, and the quiet instability of existing between cultures, languages, or expectations.
ARE WE FRIENDS at Old Red Lion Theatre, Islington 12 - 14 August
Are We Friends? follows two strangers who meet in a cemetery and form an unexpected friendship. Blending humour and heartbreak, the play explores loneliness, grief, loyalty, and what it means to truly be seen. At its heart is the relationship between Oliver and Andy, an aspiring actor with Down syndrome, revealing the transformative power of genuine human connection.
BROKEN BOYS at The Hen and Chickens Theatre, Islington 14 - 16 August
Broken Boys dissects the bully-to-lover TV trope and meditates on the impact of toxic masculinity on the modern gay relationship. Tom and Michael couldn’t be more different but, from their days as schoolboys through to adulthood, their lives are fatefully intertwined by a relationship that leads to one life-changing day.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Artistic Director STEVE FURST on the newly opened CIRCLE & STAR THEATRE in Hampstead
Heather Jeffery 31/5/2026
Steve is a British actor, comedian, and writer known for his work in television, film, and theatre, as well as his cabaret persona Lenny Beige. After many years of dreaming of having his own theatre venue, he has finally made it a reality.
- LONDON PUB THEATRES MAGAZINE IS LOOKING FOR WRITERS WHO WOULD LIKE TO JOIN OUR TEAM OF REVIEWERS
- ETCETERA THEATRE IS LOOKING FOR TECHICIANS FOR CAMDEN FRINGE 2026
- PERFORM AT CIRCLE AND STAR IN HAMPSTEAD
LPT magazine ISSN 2977-6724
