In this age of reality TV and the worship of those false gods of power and celebrity, there has never been a better time to stage this parable about selling your soul.

"I was eight years old before I realised that Diamond Lil wasn't a woman, But a man called Harry!"

A highly controversial new play, in which members of the Royal Family are portrayed as characters in a sex farce.

After sell-out performances at the Edinburgh Festival, Andrew Doyle’s wickedly funny Shamlet comes to the King’s Head Theatre for a strictly limited run.

A play about stand-up comedy

A Stephen Schwartz revue featuring Paul Nicholas as the Narrator, with Paul Baker (Olivier Award Winner for Taboo).

Peter Pan extended due to popular demand until the 28th January

Four bankers set out on a team building weekend.
Frank meets a cowboy.

Acclaimed company Primavera presents Byron’s unjustly neglected Faustian drama. A thrilling, darkly erotic piece, Manfred features achingly beautiful poetry and passionate, incestuous desires…

The often hilarious story of Judy Garland’s rehearsals for her 1960 concerts at The London Palladium, packed full of anecdotes and sung live. Captivating.

Jo Caulfield (star of BBC's 'Mock the Week') heads a line-up including Hal Cruttenden, Maff Brown, Melinda Bower and James Mullinger.
Hosted by Colin Owens – who's "impossible not to like" according to Russell Brand!

Virginia Woolf’s only play – a quirky cocktail of sharp satire and sparkling wit, with a magnificent cast including Lord Tennyson, Ellen Terry and Queen Victoria!

Scored by the acclaimed Howard Goodall, this is a touching human story of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. Truths are exposed, loyalties tested, and lives changed...

Fresh from BBC's 'Hairy Women' and Fame Academy, Shazia Mirza performs her first Edinburgh Festival preview. Plus Paul Foot ('Kenneth Williams on acid' – The Scotsman) et al.

* Lunchtime show *
This unique, one-woman show starring Philippa Tatham as a bored secretary explores the separation between reality and imagination.

An oustanding comedy of sexual identity and confusion. Poseidon demands a sacrifice, but the maidens chosen make their escape – one disguised as a young man...

** Lunchtime show **
Is it possible to have a relationship with someone who is not real? David thinks so… This new dark comedy stars Lee Simpson, Victoria Murphy and Sally Crawshaw.

Lucy Porter and Jarred Christmas preview their Edinburgh shows, with comic support by Colin Owens, Melinda Bower and MC James Mullinger.

Creative director, Tom, is cheating on Lucy (with several women).
Lucy is cheating on Tom (with Sebastian).
Tom moves out and, in disguise, moves in with Sebastian...

Intriguing adaptation of Dickens’ David Copperfield, exploring the developing relationship between the young David Copperfield and Mr Wilkins Micawber and his wife Emma.

International soprano star, Tracey Rea, heads a strong supporting cast in a one-off revue show of classic Hollywood and Broadway hits.

Double bill of Edinburgh Festival previews from the fabulous Richard Herring and Stephen K Amos. Also featuring the ferociously charismatic Jason Rouse.

The compelling true story of Jean Meslier, French Catholic priest, hero of The Enlightenment, and instigator of the socialist ideals of the French Revolution.

Radicalised activists are out to “shock and awe” the world into stopping the world’s water polluters. Absorbing storytelling as purists and cynics are caught between hope and realism. " ***** " – TimeOut

Edinburgh previews: song, dance, original animation and Bacchanalianism in an all-original sketch show. Decadence, excess, a fairy with a bottle and a free glass of absinthe… you’ve been warned!

The first play written in English by a woman (1613). An explosive 'closet drama' about the Biblical household of King Herod, the conflict between Herod and Mariam – descendant of the rightful Jewish leader – and the infamous Salome.

* Edinburgh preview * Award-winning musical comedy about marriage and the myth of the modern man. Top professional cast.

* Lunchtime show *
Two of Tom Stoppard's early radio plays as live theatre performances – The Dissolution of Dominic Boot and If You're Glad I'll Be Frank. Comic mayhem and surreal farce in your lunchbreak.

Richard E. Grant is "The Voice" in AMERICAN NIGHTS, a surreal and ironic look at fear, isolation and insanity in both family and society, at home and at work.

Edinburgh previews by Canadian award-winning stand-up Phil Nichol and by "top-class" Gordon Southern. With Aaron Barshak and James Mullinger as MC.

* matinee show *
Humans are making a horrible mess of the planet and the dock weeds don't like it. But they're patient. They have deep roots (as any gardener knows). They can wait for the humans to die out. Or can they?

British premieres of three one-act plays packed with dry wit, social commentary and comedy, both dark and light. Rehearsed readings by a West End cast.

RETURNING BY POPULAR DEMAND: She’s back. After a sell-out run in March, Debbie Saloman returns as Judy Garland for a month’s run of the show which is “…nothing short of brilliance… fantastic”

A great night of stand-up comedy starring Hal Cruttenden in a special extended set, ably supported by Simon Holland, Robert White and warm Australian Benny Boot. James Mullinger is MC.

Two one-act plays filled with comedic genius and personal tragedy, featuring very different individuals back from Vietnam. Received with rapture when first staged in the ‘70s in New York and London. Shane Richie stars; James Jagger makes his professional theatrical debut.

if.comeddie nominee Matthew Crosby (Pappy's Fun Club) headlines, joined by "genuine original" Edward Aczel, "deceptively sharp" Sally-Anne Hayward, AND Gerry Kyei, Chris Mayo and MC James Mullinger. What a night!

Transferring from a highly successful run this June as the part of the King’s Head Theatre New Momentum Project, where Time Out awarded it 5 STARS and CRITICS CHOICE:

Eco-warriors Cathy and Victor hold EPA official David Darling hostage, then kidnap TV news reporter Jessica Lyons to broadcast their story to the world. Jessica denounces them as terrorists, but at an 11th hour twist, her professional and moral judgements are pushed to their limits.

In light of recent flooding, the foot and mouth outbreak and imminent bird flu, three of London’s best new writers tackle the theme ‘National Disasters’.

Sarah and Simon – 20 years of marriage. Love is strong. Too strong for some. Is it a garden of Eden or a jungle?

A sublimely silly musical comedy with French overtones.

Gritty, poignant, funny – Untouched explores the themes of asexuality and the nature of love. It challenges society’s perception of and obsession with sex and sexuality.

Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale, Treasure Island is full of mystery, adventure, and pirates! A fun-filled musical romp for the whole family.

The Dybbuk resurrects the folkloric tale of superstition, fate and immortal love.

Jack Taylor is always hopeful that the next idea will be his big break in life.

ONLY ONE WEEK LEFT!

The Black & White Ball was a glittering affair, with the celebrities of the day dancing the night away to the strains of Cole porter's immortal songs.

Take Bailey and Cooper, a pair of unlikely heroes, mix with a teaspoon of princess, a peppering of fabulous, a drizzling of nymphs and a massive dose of humour, blend with a musical comedy and a masterful score and you have Betwixt!

A Midsummer Night's Dream meets Gosford Park by way of The Twilight Zone.....

Christopher Timothy stars in 50th Anniversary reading of T. S. Eliot’s final play

"In an ideal world I'd see you eliminated. In this world I need you more than anyone."

By David Gow

With Eric Loren and David Lyons

Directed by Sherrill Gow

The classic tale in a new adaptation by multi-award-winner Phil Willmott, brought to life by a 20-strong ensemble of children, singers, actor-musicians and puppets.

BAFTA award-winner Glenn Chandler's sell-out satirical comedy. The boys of St Ethelred's defend the British way of life against beastliness, terrorists and Turkish cigarettes.

Acclaimed satirical comedy extended for two more weeks following sell-out run
Critics' Choice 'Beautifully executed... achingly funny... impressively pertinent' – Time Out

What's so funny about murder?

It’s all kicking off backstage… In these two short comedies about lost innocence, charismatic characters hide unsettling pasts behind their public bravado

SUNDAYS ONLY (3rd May – 14th June)

BaDas Theatre Company present Life's a Gas and Not Going Down – a double bill of comic plays about lost innocence, in which charismatic characters hide unsettling pasts behind their public bravado.

A portrait of ten men searching for love, sex and intimacy in America and a fearless dissection of homosexuality that will fascinate male and female audiences of every persuasion.

A perfectly proportioned 70 minute review featuring 7 talented and good looking male actors and an original score of 16 songs celebrating the splendours of male nudity.

Eve, 19 years old, gets angry and moves out of home. Unaware of how to get into a government run hostel she books herself into a travellers hostel where she falls in love with a 20 something year old called Alex. She finds friendship in a 40 year old Alaskan with nine toes, who wants to give her his pussy....

Two beautiful boys fall in love, but that love is a crime. Patrick Wilde directs his award-winning, funny, heart-breaking and ultimately triumphant tale of courage and defiance. See the play which became the feature film, Get Real.

Another day, another job, another pointless product to sell……
But when Julian Mann goes to work one morning, the last person he expects to find alongside him in the tiny room is his ‘ex’. And she’s not just any ‘ex’. She’s the ‘ex’ – the woman who captured his heart, the woman who shared his life for five years, the woman who walked out on him and who hasn’t spoken to him since…..

Packed with original songs, catchy lyrics and deliciously adult dialogue, Nursery Crimes blows a rude raspberry in the face of public decency!

The follow-up to last year's hit, Boys Of The Empire! We go aboard Imperial Airways with four intrepid English boy scouts who are on their way to British India for a jamboree with scouts from all over the globe (most of which is owned by us, anyway).

"Achingly funny" – Time Out on "Boys of the Empire"
"A sell-out hit... A ripping yarn" – The Independent on "Boys of the Empire"

A Christmas Carol at The King's Head Theatre, Islington
A Musical Adaptation by Phil Willmott
Directed by Joe Fredericks
Produced by Jane Lesley, Emily Agnew and Ellie Collyer-Bristow for MokitaGrit Productions

Lola LaBelle's House of Burlesque invites you inside for an evening of sinful delights and sophisticated sensuality featuring the finest in art-house burlesque.

"Three stories, three centuries, one great city"

"Three stories, three centuries, one great city" at 1pm on 31st January, 7th and 14th February.

Ten scenes of naked gay life performed by one naked homo...

Set in South America, disputes over land and family loyalty become entwined in a mother and daughter's daily struggle for survival.

Two modern men find a hidden history and some uncomfortable truths that threaten to wreck their new life together.

Set during the now infamous Olympic Games acceptance ‘wiff-waff’ speech, we see Boris as scholar, journalist, celebrity and England’s most popular and unpopular politician.

An evening of songs your mother DIDN’T sing to you… Something Happened and Victoria Hart romp through politically incorrect songs from the past hundred years.

Hilarious new one-act comedy. A tramp in Brighton...during conference season...with a stack of magazines and some glue. What could go wrong?

Monologues from a prostitute, a high flyer, a gallery owner, a single mum, a teenager, a cheating lover and a soldier reveal hidden worlds.

Michael Winner's one-man show traces, through hilarious stories, his life in show business, how he became a top Hollywood director and in particular humorous tales of the stars he directed and befriended including Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren, Charles Bronson, Burt Lancaster, Orson welles. Fay Dunaway, Anthony Hopkins and many others.

The Bear and The Proposal...they're not two of Chekhov's famous intense dramas, but they're funny!...two overlooked gems from Russia’s most cherished story teller.

An intimate portrait of a Royal world from the inside told through the secret diaries of Billy Tallon, head of the QM’S Household.

Lola LaBelle's House of Burlesque invites you to enjoy an evening of sinful delights and sophisticated sensuality featuring the finest in art-house burlesque.

Internationally-acclaimed American artist Julian Barker has months to live. Retreating to his Hamptons beach house, lovers past and present arrive to stake their claims.

Quiz show doyens Spam and Beans have been thrilling audiences with their World Famous Quiz shows for almost four years.

Set in a tavern in 1888, a versatile ensemble cast will re-enact this classic tale using only the things you would find in a pub!

Hot off the press! Award-winning masters of improv comedy The Maydays and their ingenious musician present their critically acclaimed show Tonight’s Top Story.

At 28, Josh’s mum kicked him out. Time to be a man. At Grandma's.

One house. One comic. One grandmother. One breakdown.

“Howie is a name to watch.” The Times

Things never run according to plan.

Tim just wanted to find a hotel. Unfortunately Stanley had other ideas. A tramp in Brighton...during conference season....with a bag of glue and a stack of magazines.

What could possibly go wrong?

BEATING BERLUSCONI! is based on the now famous true story of a scouser who ended up sitting next to Silvio Berlusconi at the Attaturk Stadium.

A prostitute clinging to traditional values; a high flyer with his world blown apart; a trendy gallery owner with a suicidal lover; a single mum seeing a glimpse of middle class security; a teenager escaping to a world of secrets; a cheating and cheated lover; a traumatized soldier with unusual ‘friends’: in monologues they reveal inner worlds.

Sunday 11th July, Monday 19th July, Sunday 25th July, Monday 26th July 2010 @ 7:30pm.

The show is approximately 95 minutes with an interval.

Bittergirl is a darkly hysterical romp through the lives of three women and the men who dumped them.

Bubba & Luvvie is a two-hander romantic whodunnit about a man and a woman on a park bench overlooking the ocean. As Bubba and Luvvie playfully joust and jest with each other, undercurrents and whirlpools begin to swamp them as their back story becomes more gritty, preposterous (yet real) and poignant revealing the desperate reason these two apparent strangers MUST resolve their romantic conundrum... TONIGHT!