We awarded 13 monstas for the best pop, theatre, TV and film of 2017 in December – and here we look at the cream of 2018 so far and what’s to come. Sheridan Smith, Jade Anouka and Imelda Staunton are previous winners in this category.
Sacha Dhawan (pictured above) won our Best Film/TV Actor monsta last year for The Boy With the Topknot and is here reunited with playwright Alan Barnett and former History Boy Samuel Barnett in a play at the Bridge Theatre marking the 70th birthday of the NHS. Runs 11/7 to 28/9/18. Tickets
We awarded 13 monstas for the best pop, theatre, TV and film of 2017 in December – and here we look at the cream of 2018 so far and what’s to come. Oddshaped Balls and The Ferryman are previous winners in this category.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Bridge Theatre
WHEN: 2/6, press night 6/6, runs to 24/6/18
RUN TIME: 90 minutes without interval
UPDATE: This show returns to The Bridge for 26 performances from January 2019
Laura Linney made her UK stage debut last night as the titular Lucy Barton with this monologue adapted from the 5th novel by Elizabeth Strout which was longlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize
Catch the world premiere of the season 2 finale of HBO’s superior sci-fi series about a theme park peopled by robots who revolt starring Thandie Newton (pictured) and a Q&A with its creators at the BFI on London’s South Bank 19/6. Tickets
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHERE: Bridge Theatre
WHEN: 27/1, press night 30/1, runs to 15/4/18
This is the show that should have been the one to launch Nick Hytner’s Bridge Theatre.
WHERE?: BFI
WHEN: 30/10
‘It’s every Shakespeare play you’ve ever seen in 30 minutes’: Steve Pemberton, author and star of BBC2’s Inside No 9 is describing Zanzibar, the opening episode of the fourth series.
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHERE: Bridge Theatre
WHEN: 21/10, press night 27/10, runs until 31/12
‘Our repertoire will be mostly new plays, with an occasional musical and an occasional classic,’ writes Nicholas Hytner, co-founder of the West End’s first new theatre for 30 years.
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