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A new play about optimism, You Stupid Darkness! is compassionate in conception, but repetitive and frustrating in performance.
This Uncle Vanya is more roundedly entertaining than other recent productions and while that detracts a little from the emotional undercurrents of the original, the fluidity and richness of …
Katie Arnstein is an award-winning writer and performer. Her latest play, Stick Door, the final part of her It's a Girl! trilogy, will be performed at the VAULT Festival next month. I caught…
What was Cherie Blair thinking during the New Labour years? Has her contribution to Tony Blair's success ever been fully acknowledged? Cherie - My Struggle provides an intimate look at a rem…
Directed by Bronagh Lagan, Rags embraces the true wonders of theatre, bringing to light the compelling story of some Jewish immigrants attempting to integrate into American society of the 19…
Alexis Gregory's script for Sex/Crime takes an uncomfortable glance at our obsession with serial killers, sexual violence and 21st century homosexuality.
Shakespeare's Globe's summer season 2020 will include Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night and Antony & Cleopatra.
Darkly comic tale of a woman's journey to uncover her roots and understand who she is, Cheryl Ndione's Apple will run at the VAULT Festival next month. Book you tickets now!
With its focus on the small things, Sam Steiner's play You Stupid Darkness! is a delicate but delicious thing at the Southwark Playhouse.
Everybody's Talking About Jamie is a show which delights and inspires in equal measure and is sure to retain its spot in theatre lovers' hearts for the foreseeable future.
Janice Okoh's "enthralling" new Black British history play The Gift has premiered to a tranche of ★★★★ reviews at Coventry's Belgrade Theatre at the start of a UK-wid…
Oily Cart, the creators of All Wrapped Up, makes gently immersive, highly sensory performances for people under five years old, and people with complex needs.
This complex play covers a vast but nourishing soup of issues that impact relationships between cultures, races and people in the modern world.
A review of Ten Times Table by Alan Ayckbourn currently at Richmond Theatre . Still has resonance.
Who's who in the cast of new mental health comedy Netflix & Chill? What have you seen them in before? Check out full biographies - and sneak a peek what they've been up to behind the sce…
We were incredibly excited to learn that we would instead be seeing Desi Oakley, who had formerly played Jenna in the US tour, and had been flown over especially to cover the sickness spread…
Aiming to challenge audiences' preconceptions about strippers, new play Angels, written by former table dancer and first-time playwright Diane Herbert, premieres at this year's VAULT Festiva…
The Canary and the Crow is full of humour and warmth and describes the challenging reality of being trained to be the "acceptable" face of Black Britain and how that impacts identify and wor…
Janice Okoh's new Black history play The Gift juxtaposes a story from Queen Victoria's 19th-century royal circle with the present day. Just opened at Belgrade Theatre, it now transfers to Lo…
Love London Love Culture rounds up the reviews for the newly opened production of Les Misérables.
Multi-award-winning Iraqi-born playwright Hassan Abdulrazzak returns to London's Soho Theatre, where he had a breakthrough hit in 2007 with Baghdad Wedding, now returns with his timely new p…
Ahead of a short tour, pioneering theatremakers People Show bring their latest devised creation People Show 137: God Knows How Many to London's Southwark Playhouse for a limited season from …
Playwright Beverley Andrews shines a light on less obvious casualties of war in new play Annawon's Song, which runs as part of VAULT Festival next month. Book your tickets now!
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Can you stick to the beat? Looks like it's a prerequisite for the cast of the new beatbox-infused adaptation of Alex Wheatle's award-winning 2016 Young Adults' novel Crongton Knights. Sneak …
