"I’ll be gone for a while. Possibly forever. It’s nothing you did."

"You want a co-star; someone to make you feel young and alive and handsome all the way until the credits roll. And what if this is your very last chance to finally get your blonde?"

Since his wife died, ex-cop Walter ‘Pops’ Washington has filled his palatial rent-controlled apartment in one of Manhattan’s most desirable areas with an oddball extended family of petty criminals. So now he’s besieged by the landlords, who want him out, the NYPD, who want him to settle his lawsuit against them, and the ladies from the local church, who want to save his soul… But Pops, calm at the eye of the storm, is going to do precisely what Pops wants to do…

"‘For Those in Peril on the Sea’ makes dying at sea sound like something noble, patriotic. Whereas their husband, son or father has died for one half of a fish and chip supper…"

Letters from Max is now playing Downstairs until 28 June 2025!

Following its critical acclaim, hear what Ian McKellen, Fiona Shaw, Alfred Enoch, Tracy-Ann Oberman and many more have to say about Showmanism, which has just extended on the Main Stage until 19 July.

A Ghost in Your Ear is now playing Downstairs!

Hear what Twiggy, Ian and Victoria Hislop, Stephen Mangan, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Alison Steadman and more had to say Bird Grove, which plays on the Main Stage until 21 March.

Both critics and audiences alike are loving Aaron Loeb's R.O.I. (Return on Investment), which plays Downstairs until 11 April.

Don't miss Firewing, David Pearson's debut play "filled with keen, tender and funny writing" (The Guardian), which is now playing Downstairs until 23 May.