The Hospital Club

A creepy isolated farmhouse. Family tension. Divorce. Insolvency. Co-dependency. A dreadful secret in the cellar....and an ice-cream van. Hundreds and...

When you're watching stand-up on telly, do you wish your heckles could be heard? Well, why not invite a pair...

Interview: Omid Djalili

by Stewart Who?

Omid Djalili is a comic of Persian heritage who broke Edinburgh Festival box office records in '95 with his sell-out stand...

The Marilyn Tapes

by Dickie Beau

Performance artist, Dickie Beau has been hailed as a star of the performance art circuit and his interpretation of Judy...

Performing Poetry

by Lucy Furlong

Here at The Hospital Club, we've shown our love for the spoken word with the hugely popular OneTaste events, but what does...

Stuart Wood was enchanted and overwhelmed when he first saw Jaques Demy's musical masterpiece The Umbrella of Cherbourg. The theatre production...

An opera based on the life of Anna Nicole Smith opened at The Royal Opera House last night. It tells the...

h. Club's Creatives in Residence House of Jonn are putting the finishing touches on an interactive theatrical event reflecting current...

John Donnelly's play 'The Knowledge' examines what happens when a young teacher goes off the rails in a failing school. Critically acclaimed...

Cutting the Art Out of It

by Nick Taylor

Nick Taylor donned a hand-stitched cape and joined body-poppers, ballerinas, waltzers and freestylers in a Dance Against the Deficit Lies,...

Described by the New York Times as 'a living, breathing bonfire', Bernhard has been wowing crowds with her unique mix...

Georgia Fitch was the Bush Writer in Residence in 2001 has been on attachment at both the Royal Court and...

Peter Gill is considered to be one of the most influential directors of the last 40 years. He directed groundbreaking...

Caleb Lewis' play, 'The Sea Bride', won the 2006 Inscription Emerging Playwright Award earning a two-week workshop with playwright Edward...

Hundreds and Thousands

by Stewart Who?

The Hospital Club hosted an experimental read through of a play being developed by one of our Creatives in Residence....

Nell Leyshon is a British playwright and novelist. Her plays are a regular feature on Radio 4 and she was...

DC Jackson is a Glasgow-based writer. His play My Romantic History premiered at the 2010 Edinburgh Fringe Festival where it...

The Savoy re-opens its doors this month after a three-year, £220 million revamp. Composer Stuart Wood investigates the iconic hotel’s...

Ghost Stories- Review

by Stewart Who?

Ghost Stories has already caused a sensation at the Liverpool Playhouse and The Lyric Hammersmith. What is it about horror that continues...

Sebastian Horsley was a unique, sometimes divisive and eccentric character. His death, in the week that his life found it's way onto...

Jonathan Harvey: Q&A

by Stewart Who?

Jonathan Harvey is a multi award-winning writer for stage and screen. He's best known for the groundbreaking Beautiful Thing and...

Stuart Wood was the brains behind the infamous 'Go Compare' adverts. Here he ponders the appeal of fading grandeur, glossy...

Princess Anne danced on stage with the cast in the '60s and Hair effectively marked the end of stage censorship in...

Clayton Littlewood's blog, 'The Dirty White Boy Diaries' proved a huge success on The Hospital Club.com. The stage version is about to return...

South Eastern Promise

by Tim Burrows

Stubbornly refusing gentrification, New Cross and Deptford are an enclave outside the city, spawning ground for art insurrectionists, reggae sound systems and boogie rockers....

The Beauty of LaBute

by Stewart Who?

Neil LaBute is known for holding a mirror up to society's cruel and savage face. The Furies /Land of the Dead/Helter...

Arise, Sir Simon Cowell

by Keith McDonnell

John Lennon accepted, then returned it. Benjamin Zephaniah declined his with poetic anger and Paul Weller cocked a snook at his...

He's Behind You!

by Phil Willmott

Phil Willmott goes behind the scenes and reveals the trials and tribulations of directing a pantomime. Whatever you do, don't...

Emma Sayle is the creator of Killing Kittens, an infamous and high end sex party brand. Julia Rebaudo quizzed the...

Smells Like Teen Spirit

by Phil Willmott

Director and playwright Phil Willmott finds talented teens stealing the limelight in the latest musical theatre to be showcased in...

Bigots Dressed As Lamb

by Nicholas Taylor

In the UK, we’ve always embraced cross dressing as a theatrical, traditional necessity- from Shakespeare to Danny LaRue. That’s entertainment,...

This weekend, he's playing at the Elton John AIDS Foundation Revival Party at the Kensington Roof Gardens....but it hasn't always...

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