What To Watch: On Stage July 2023

Summer time is coming, when you booking tickets to go the theatre? New month with another massive list of shows to watch during the month. To keep up to date and be the first to hear about our monthly round ups and discounts - sign-up to the newsletter.

In Hiding by Adenike Ojo

Showing at: Tower Theatre, London
When: 21 Jun - 01 Jul 2023
About: In turns funny, moving and always insightful, In Hiding weaves through universally relatable themes of social identity and motherhood, exposing a world in love with status, real or imagined.
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Housemates 2023: Is Dat U Yh? By DK Fashola

Showing at: Brixton House, London
When: 4 - 8 Jul 2023
About: Is Dat U Yh? is the joyous ode to waaaaayyy back when, a surreal celebration of our love of food, expressive mannerisms, and Black Brit millennial identities still glistening with diaspora roots.
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Tambo & Bones by Dave Harris

Showing at: Stratford East, London
When: 16 Jun - 15 Jul 2023
About: Tambo and Bones are stuck in a minstrel show. It's hard to know what's real when you're stuck in a minstrel show. Their escape plan: get out, get rich, get even.
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Housemates 2023: REP By Toby Clarke

Showing at: Brixton House, London
When: 6 - 8 Jul 2023
About: REP follows nine young offenders from different London boroughs who are thrown together into a Community Theatre project as part of their Youth Rehabilitation Orders.
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Housemates 2023: Before I Go By Tobi King Bakare

Showing at: Brixton House, London
When: 18 - 22 Jul 2023
About: Before I Go follows Ajani, a young boy who tragically dies and gets stuck in limbo. On his journey, he is forced to undergo overcoming and acceptance in order to be revived into the living world. In Ajani’s reflection, he teaches us not to be afraid to express ourselves even with the many barriers we may face.
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Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, directed by Rebecca Frecknall

Showing at: Almeida Theatre, London
When: 06 Jun - 29 Jul 2023
About: Verona is a powder keg of blood-lust and rage, with death threats proudly shouted in the streets. As two families wage war, will a young couple become the next sacrifice of this brutal feud?
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Grenfell: in the words of survivors, a new play by Gillian Slovo

Showing at: National Theatre, London, UK
When: 13 Jul - 26 Aug 2023
About: A powerful new verbatim play from the testimony of residents at the heart of the Grenfell Tower tragedy.
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Housemates 2023: Everything I Own By Daniel Ward

Showing at: Brixton House, London
When: 19 - 22 Jul 2023
About: Errol lost his Dad last year. Listening to his old man’s Spotify playlist, he remembers his Dad’s passion over the 1981 Brixton uprising and his certainty that change coming. Errol is tired of the fight, and as his son takes up the fight with the BLM movement, he questions if this is a revolution or a repetition.
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School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play by Jocelyn Bioh

Showing at: Lyric Hammersmith, London, UK
When: 08 Jun - 22 Jul 2023 (Extended Run)
About: 1986. Ghana’s prestigious Aburi Girls Boarding School. Queen Bee Paulina and her crew excitedly await the arrival of the Miss Ghana pageant recruiter. It’s clear that Paulina is in top position to take the title until her place is threatened by Ericka – a beautiful and talented new transfer student. As the friendship group’s status quo is upended, who will be chosen for Miss Ghana and at what cost?
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Possession by Sasha Hails

Showing at: Arcola Theatre, London, UK
When: 15 Jun - 15 Jul 2023
About: Possession is a tale about desire. About owning and being owned. About colonising and being colonised. And ultimately about the power of the spirit to escape oppression.
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Beneatha’s Place written and directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah

Showing at: Young Vic, London
When: 27 Jun - 05 Aug 2023
About: Inspired by the groundbreaking modern classic, A Raisin in the Sun, this UK premiere challenges today’s culture wars about colonial history and reckoning with the past.
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Groundhog Day

Showing at: The Old Vic, London, UK
When: 20 May – 12 Aug 2023
About: Phil Connors is a pretty awful guy. But when the cynical Pittsburgh TV weatherman is sent to cover the kooky annual Groundhog Day event in the small town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, he finds himself caught in a time loop that sends him on a hilarious path to enlightenment and redemption.
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A Strange Loop by Michael R. Jackson

Showing at: Barbican Theatre, London, UK
When: 17 Jun - 9 Sept 2023
About: Michael R. Jackson’s blisteringly funny, ‘audacious and uproarious’ (Guardian) heart-felt masterwork, exposes a young black artist grappling with desires, identity, and instincts he both loves and loathes. Hell-bent on breaking free of his own self-perception, Usher wrestles with the thoughts in his head, brought to life onstage by a hilarious, straight-shooting ensemble.
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Ain’t Too Proud

Showing at: Prince Edward Theatre, London, UK
When: 31 Mar - 1 Oct 2023
About: AIN’T TOO PROUD is the exhilarating new musical following the remarkable journey of THE TEMPTATIONS from the streets of Detroit to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
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