Yikes, summer's here, and London's gone festival mad. We can hardly keep up… We're sorry we've only just got round to telling you about this year's Lift Festival, which started last week in Stratford, then moves to the Southbank Centre next Thursday, and on to Shoreditch from 16-24 August. Previously the London International Festival of Theatre, Lift has been bringing innovative world theatre to London for 25 years, usually in the last place you......

Londonist loved the Reduced Shakespeare Company. A silly idea from what seemed like a gang of goofy American frat-boys, their Complete Works (Abridged) took the world by storm, and ended up sitting pretty in the West End for nearly 10 years. When we learnt Adam Long, one of that RSC's founding fathers was taking on Dickens, but with songs, we were curious to say the least. How the Dickens can you do justice to......