The world premiere of When the Crows Visit reunites writer Anupama Chandresekhar and director Indhu Rubasingham (and leading lady Ayesha Dharker), who have the Royal Court Theatre's late int…
No wonder Richard Shelton received an Offie Award nomination for Best Male Performance " his portrayal of the legend that is Frank Sinatra in Sinatra: Raw is real, natural, emotional and war…
What is it? Written by Danusia Samal, Out of Sorts follows a young woman as she attempts to live a double life in this moving story of culture, womanhood, privilege and family.
Writer Sarah Rutherford cleverly weaves together disparate elements of a sensitive story with subtlety and humour in The Girl Who Fell.
Following a successful summer run at Camden People's Theatre earlier this years, Struts and Frets Theatre bring their acclaimed production of Sherlock Holmes in A Scandal in Bohemia (and oth…
After a run at the Southwark Playhouse, Afterglow, S. Asher Gelman's story of polyamory in modern American, returns with a new cast.
Whoopi Goldberg will reprise her starring role as Deloris Van Cartier for the first time on stage with Jennifer Saunders as Mother Superior in a newly adapted production of the smash hit mus…
Vassa, adapted from Maxim Gorky's original by Mike Bartlett, is a pitch-black comedy rather than a farce, so pitch black that you struggle to see where the laughs are.
Confused in its execution, this touring version of Frankenstein has high production values but offers a rushed retelling of the story that fails to work in practice.
Trafalgar Studios, London " until 23 November 2019 We can only judge the dead through the narratives of others. When those narratives contain a level of both culpability and finger-pointing,…
Winner of this venue's 2018 International Playwriting Award, Out Of Sorts is a movingly-written and deeply felt drama.
Love London Love Culture rounds up the reviews for Lungs, starring Matt Smith and Claire Foy.
Warmhearted and sincere, Jonathan O'Boyle's concert production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical take on Cinderella is gorgeous to watch and listen to from start to finish.
Claudio Macor's new play Different From the Others, which runs at London's White Bear Theatre from 29 October to 16 November 2019, tells the story behind the making of the first-ever pro-gay…
On 10 and 12 November 2019, 42nd Street will be screened to more than 650 cinemas across the UK and Ireland. Critics were sent into a frenzy over this largest-ever staging of the Tony® Aw…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
The Show People Podcast is back and in this episode host Andrew Keates is joined by world renowned and Olivier Award-winning choreographer Stephen Mear.
TS Eliot's tale of the killing of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral, Murder in the Cathedral, will be staged in a trio of religious buildings next month as Scena Mundi Theatre takes it o…
Jemima Rooper, Kate O'Flynn, Zainab Hasan and Joanna Horton carry a lion's share delivering the vitriol, pain and helplessness of struggling women in [Blank].
After its rave reviews and New Writing award at Edinburgh Fringe, Glenn Chandler's new play The Good Scout has won another round of plaudits and an OffWestEnd.com nomination on its London tr…
Part of the success of Lungs is that it is not the uber-liberal, finger-wagging climate change play you expect it to be, plus both the production's stars are superb and entirely believable a…
It's the final week to see Musical Theatre Review award-winning and Offies-nominated new musical Islander. And, after its premiere at this year's Edinburgh Fringe, it's racked another wave o…
Stage Traffic's premiere of Sarah Rutherford's darkly funny new play The Girl Who Fell has impressed critics for its warmth, quirkiness and offbeat sensitivity. We've rounded up review highl…
We're in a venue that certainly gives a grand old-school sense of occasion, and Les Misérables is nothing if not ultimate theatre.
The aftermath of a teenager's death really shouldn't be this funny, but Sarah Rutherford has created a thoroughly modern, soul-searching and hilarious play.