You may have been munching mince pies over the holidays, but the police were working hard... including at London's Southwark Playhouse where director Andy Jordan has been preparing his four-…
In our continuing series, our editor Lisa Martland picks out some of her Top Picks from the last week of theatre (to 5 January 2020), including Aleks Sierz's mixed feelings about Snowflake a…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Ought To Be Clowns tackles a trio of Broadway cast recordings in the shape of Cole Porter's The New Yorkers, Kiss Me, Kate! and Beetlejuice.
With a great cast and plenty of laugh-out-loud moments, this production of Kander and Ebb's musical Curtains is a great cure for the winter blues.
Ought To Be Clowns barely saw 250 shows this year, quiet by his standards. And as is the way of these things, here's a rundown of some of the productions that moved me most…
Love London Love Culture's guide to some of the shows opening in London in January 2020.
Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis at the Park Theatre is a lively revival of Charlotte Jones' quirky and hugely enjoyable 1999 play about parenting and life on immoral earnings.
On 4 and 9 February 2020, Kinky Boots The Musical, the multi-award-winning stage hit based on the hit 2005 Britflick, will be screened at more than 650 cinemas across the UK and Ireland care…
And so here it is... my top 10 musicals of the decade. It turned out to be a slightly emotional journey. But it turns out musicals meant a lot in that time and I'll fight anyone who says mus…
Mind the Blog has a fairly wide-ranging wish list of things I hope to see, including major shows such as Sunday in the Park with George, Evita, Magic Goes Wrong, Uncle Vanya and the Jamie Ll…
The Wedding Singer starring Kevin Clifton will play a strictly limited season at the newly opened Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre from 30 January until 1 March 2020. Further casting to be an…
Unleash the Llama's acclaimed, sell-out romantic comedy JEW...ish returns to London this month for six performances only at the King's Head Theatre, running from Tuesday 14 January to Sunday…
The power of words and argument are put under the spotlight in new play For the Sake of Argument, set at the time of the Iraq war. Take a look at it's powerful new trailer and peek into rehe…
The Almeida Theatre has announced the full cast for its revival of Mike Bartlett's Albion, directed by Rupert Goold, running from 3-29 February 2020 (press night is 5 February) following the…
This isn't a 'best of' list it's my best-of list, these are the plays that shaped me this decade and will stay with me well into the next.
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock returns to the Park Theatre for startling new American play Never Not Once. Got any questions?
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
In Cops, written by ex American serviceman Tony Tortura, four policemen of different ages, classes and races in 1957 Chicago must work together to thwart the Mob. British director and produc…
A magnetic stage presence, Lydia Wilson is a strong woman in The Duchess Of Malfi, clever, kind, stoic and justifiably angry. It makes her an all the more tragic figure.
Looking ahead to some of 2020's exciting shows, most with an emphasis away from the West End and instead focusing at the London Fringe and across the UK.
Stage and screen star Ian McKellen has been named number one in The Stage 100, 'the definitive guide to the most influential figures working in the UK theatre and performing arts industry to…
Rachel O'Riordan's debut season as artistic director at Lyric Hammersmith continues this month with Faustus: That Damned Woman, a co-production between the Lyric and Headlong, in association…
Who wouldn't want to start 202o with a lot of laughter and something a bit magical? That's exactly what's in store with Paul Aitchison's Edinburgh hit, Could It Be Magic?. Check out the trai…
Natalie Abrahami makes Ella Hickson's text and Elizabeth's story pulsate with the sound of a young woman for whom insecurity runs in every fibre of her being.