THE RENDITION

Sometimes, you need a trip to the s̶t̶r̶i̶p̶ ̶c̶l̶u̶b̶ theatre. Friends, we’re at the theatre again! This time for Tender at Soho Theatre, our new favourite “wild, riotous and unpredictable” show. (⭐️⭐⭐️️⭐️, The Rendition) The Dancing Bears strip club is failing. Ten covers on a Saturday night. One booking next week. Meanwhile, the new club down the street is packing fifty women. When the boss’s daughter shows up, she realises they’re gonna need a bigger show. Tender weaves a highly comical script with a thoughtful exploration of masculinity, sex, confidence and self-perception, it;s a deep dive into learning how to live in your own body, disguised as a steamy night out. You’ll have more than enough to speak about on the way home with this! Tender is showing at Soho Theatre until 6 June. 🐻 Tender ❤️ @sohotheatre 🗓 Until 06 June

Flush at Arcola Theatre 🩷 “Heartwarming, heartbreaking, real and hilarious, FLUSH is for the girls, gays and everyone who wants to know what really goes down in the girls’ toilets.” (🌟🌟🌟🌟, The Rendition) Set entirely inside a girls’ toilet of a seedy club in East London, cutting across the entire spectrum of womanhood. FLUSH is an intricate and complex inside look into the secrets of the ladies’ room. A cultivation of sisterhood, togetherness and the power of being seen and heard. Miller is able to tackle many themes in a way that perfectly imitates life and a night out; things coming and going but the motion of life persisting regardless. Head to therendition.co.uk for full review 🩷 Flush 📍 @arcolatheatre 🗓️ Until 06 June

Back like they never left, @theyardtheatre we’re ready to run to you! We’re so excited to share their first season in their new building... 🌈 for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf | 50th Anniversary 🗓️ 2 Sept - 3 Oct 2026 💛 By Ntozake Shange Stories of love and violence, joy and survival - and what it feels like to come out the other side. Grief becomes chant. Movement becomes prayer. Together, they reach for something beyond. Fifty years on. Still enuf. 👀 There’s Something About Adam Black 🗓️ 13 Jan - 20 Feb 2027 🖤 Troy Hunter’s (Sex Education) debut No one knows their way around Grindr like Adam Black. Tonight it’s LittleWhiteLucifer. Tomorrow it’s WontSuckItself. Adam’s got a tight schedule, a loose hole and absolutely no interest in a relationship. And then comes a dream. Daniel has no idea what he’s walked into. LEAR 🗓️ Winter 2026 👑 Featuring Ian McKellen Who dares win, and the Yard is proof of this. We’re proud of you! The Yard opened in 2011 in a Hackney Wick warehouse built with a team of 50 volunteers and £9,000 Arts Council England grant and materials reclaimed from the Olympic Park. It was meant to last 6 months. 15 years on, the original building has been demolished and replaced with an entirely new venue on the same spot, and now – here we are! <3 — Tickets on sale: Yard Residents — Thursday 21 May at noon. Yard Regulars - Friday 22 May at noon. Everyone else — Thursday 28 May at noon.

Clyde’s at Tower Theatre 🥪 Hope and redemption, one sacred sandwich at a time. Double Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage’s fiery play Clyde’s comes to Hackney! From breaking free from incarceration to breaking bread in a Pennsylvanian truck stop, Clyde’s offers a place to learn and earn. The ex-convict kitchen crew’s quest for the perfect sandwich reveals a deeper hunger for healing and human connection. Offering fresh perspectives on the greater good of humanity and social reform. You’ll never see a sandwich the same way again. 🥪 Clyde’s 📍 @tower_theatre_london 🗓 13-23 May

The cast of Sherlock Holmes take their bows. 🥹✨ Lovers of mystery, this one’s for you! Until 06 June, Regent’s Park Open Air theatre transports us to London, 1890 (shout-out to the set designers!). When a mysterious woman and a priceless jewel arrive at 221B Baker Street, Sherlock and Watson are pulled into a dangerous chase. With lives at stake, can they uncover the truth and expose the mastermind behind the deadly plot? 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Atmospheric and full of twists (the jaw dropping kind!!) Sherlock Holmes at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre is not to be missed! 🔎 sherlock holmes 🖤 @regentsparkoat 🗓️ until 06 June

SHIFTERS is heading to New York! 🥹🇺🇸 Following sold-out runs at the Bush Theatre and in the West End, Benedict Lombe’s acclaimed romance SHIFTERS will make its North American premiere at Cherry Lane Theatre — New York’s oldest Off-Broadway theatre and a historic cultural landmark in the West Village. Directed by BAFTA-nominated and Evening Standard Theatre Award winner Lynette Linton, the production stars Olivier Award nominee Heather Agyepong alongside Daniel Ezra. At its heart, SHIFTERS asks: “Who gets to be viewed and celebrated as a romantic lead? Whose cultures and histories are brought into focus? Who gets to be audacious? Who gets to be complex and flawed and funny and intelligent and joyful and fully human? SHIFTERS was born from this intentionality and specificity – a universal love story between a British Congolese woman and a British Nigerian man” (Benedict Lombe) As Lynette Linton says so perfectly, “We made Shifters because we wanted to take up space,” said director Lynette Linton. “Bringing this show to Cherry Lane, all the way to New York, means the show is taking up more space than we could have imagined. Come we go! Our amercian theatre angels, this one’s for uuuu! 🗽 📍 Cherry Lane Theatre, NYC 🗓 06 July–30 August

It’s that time again, Black theatre you can’t miss in May! 1. Ballet Black @ 25 at @hackneyempire : 21–23 May 2. An Ideal Husband at @lyrichammersmith : 07 May–06 June 3. Assata Taught Me at @riversidestudioslondon : 12–24 May 4. Flush at @arcolatheatre : 06 May–06 June 5. Cornershop Chronicles at @cw_theatre : 20–21 May 6. Tender at @sohotheatre : Until 06 June 7. Crescent Cell, Sickle Moon: Until 08 May 8. Sherlock Holmes at @regentsunilondon : Until 06 June 9. Noughts and Crosses at @hackneyempire : 12–14 May 10. Our Father at @cw_theatre : 09–11 May 11. The Harder They Come at @stratford_east : 16 May–04 July 12. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind at @sohoplace : 29 April–18 July 13. Godot’s To Do List at @royalcourttheatre : 08–30 May Tag you friend who keeps promising to go to the theatre with you! 👀 Let us know what you’ll be watching & don’t forget to sign-up to our newsletter for exclusive discounts! 🩵

The pre-show rituals you never see 👀🧡 Meet Cherrelle Skeete. Spend some time with Cherrelle as she prepares to step into the role of Marva in The Authenticator by Winsome Pinnock. Research books, essential oils, and plenty of stretching help her get into the zone for this gothic psychological thriller. Don’t miss your chance to catch this “truly impressive” ★★★★ (All That Dazzles) production. Final three days! Showing until 09 May. 🎭 The Authenticator 📍 National Theatre 🗓️ Until 09 May

£10 TICKETS: Tender at Soho Theatre 🐻🩷 “Truly wild, riotous and unpredictable...Tender is life-affirming and excellently executed night out” ★★★★ (The Rendition) — and friends, you can experience it for just £10. The Dancing Bears strip club is failing. Ten covers on a Saturday night. One booking next week. The new club down the street are packing fifty women a night with their twelve-inch synchronised dicks. When the boss’s daughter shows up, she realises they’re gonna need a bigger show. From the ★★★★★ Tambo & Bones powerhouse duo, writer Dave Harris and director Matthew Xia, comes a bold, boisterous and surprisingly tender story about breaking free from masculinity’s seductive cage. Red lights. Oiled abs. Dollar bills. And three men about to make you feel things you weren’t expecting!! Our exclusive £10 TICKETS go out tomorrow @ 12:30 via our newsletter! Sign up via the link in our bio to receive the code. 🔗 🐻 Tender 📍 @sohotheatre 🗓️ Until 06 June

If your home held buried secrets, would you dig them up? 👀 Friends, take a trip with us the National Theatre for The Authenticator, a gripping gothic psychological thriller by Black British playwright Winsome Pinnock. When artist Fenella Harford inherits her family home, she uncovers hidden diaries that could reshape her past. She turns to two Black academics, Marva and her mentor Abi, to verify them, but their search reveals something far darker. With stunning set design and a haunting atmosphere (eek!), the play explores identity, ancestry, and history. It leaves you wondering: if the past lives on in the places, things and people we inherit, can we ever truly escape it? 🎭 The Authenticator 📍 National Theatre 📅 Until 9 May

World premiere: Tartuffe (Remixed) 👀💕 A brand-new adaptation of Molière’s comedy masterpiece, starring Mark Rylance. Written and directed by Darren Raymond. Molière’s celebrated critique of hypocrisy is reborn in this vibrant new contemporary production. The story unfolds within an African-Caribbean family household. A deliciously biting comedy which brings both new humour and modern pathos to the original text. The show is a co-production between Marylebone Theatre, Patrick Myles and David Luff in partnership with @weareintermission . Where original verse meets the raw, rhythmic tapestry of cultural sounds that define our modern society, and the mix of a corrupt English missionary in a contemporary African Caribbean family culture brings out the authentic cadence and revolutionary meaning of this classic play. This strictly limited run this Autumn also sees Rylance share the stage with Intermission Ensemble, the graduate company of the award-winning Intermission Youth! ❤️ Tartuffe (Remixed) 📍 Marylebone Theatre 📅 Autumn 2026

£20 TICKETS for Disney’s Hercules. ⚡ Friends, we’re excited to offer discounted tickets from £20 for Hercules, the epic Disney musical at Theatre Royal Drury Lane! Aaand, from 29 June, make sure don’t miss Bradley Gibson, who played Hercules in the show’s premiere production at the Papermill Playhouse in the US, make his West End debut in the title role! Inspired by the animated film and based on the ancient myth, it’s what classical civilisation would have wanted. A wise-cracking, column-shaking, underworld-rocking ride of adventure and self-discovery. In tunics. Our newsletter with the discount goes out tomorrow at 12:30! We expect demand to be high, so if you’d like to make use of the discount, please please set your alarms! ⏰ Sign up to our newsletter via our link in our bio to receive the code. 🔗 💜 Disney’s Hercules 🏛️Theatre Royal Drury Lane 🗓️ Running until 05 September