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I have been attending classical music concerts since my early teens. And as this year's Proms season ends I'm struck that I've been here, as it were, for a very long time. The Royal Albert H…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Maya Arad Yasur's Amsterdam had already had an illustrious reception before it hit Paul Miller's pocket dynamo Orange Tree, Richmond.
Big doesn't always mean better, size does matter, it's not how big it is it's what you do with it " whatever the pun, Big the Musical is a severe disappointment at the Dominion Theatre.
Dramatist Claudio Macor, renowned for his dramas centred around little-known historical records, returns to the White Bear Theatre with his latest play. Different From the Others tells the s…
Dealing with troubling questions about human interaction, the Lyceum's adaptation of Solaris is " like all the best science fiction " not really about alien planets but about our own world.
"Fame!" " we all know the infamous song. The lyrics, "I'm gonna live forever, I'm gonna learn how to fly, HIGH" are not well known just because of the original 1980 film, but because of the …
Total immediate collective imminent terrestrial salvation. Quite a handful of a title to get hold of. But unlike much printed on the front of the bottle these days, it is what it says. It is…
At Last is provocative, emotional, gritty and thought-provoking " the qualities you wish for from every play you ever watch.
Shakespeare's great drama of mercy and manipulation, The Merchant of Venice, is to receive a striking new revival by theatre companies Poetic Justice Productions and Wolf Sister Productions …
Jeannette Bayardelle performing Shida in such an intimate theatre is one not to miss. Grab a ticket while you can.
Much like Six, that pushes King Henry to the sidelines to place the spotlight on his long-suffering wives, here the Bennett sisters get to take complete ownership of the stage and the story …
The Eyes of the Night receives its English-language premiere tonight (13 September 2019) as part of the Cervantes Theatre's second annual Contemporary Spanish Playwriting season. Take a look…
"A modern classic!" First raves and an OffWestEnd.com Offies Awards commendation are in for the world premiere of Proforca Theatre's At Last. We've rounded up selected review highlights belo…
Cora Bissett's What Girls Are Made Of is an engaging story, framed " in truth or hope, as one of naivety, overreach and reinvention. But it's also a tale told from a single perspective;
"Come and see those dancing feet" is famously the tagline of 42nd Street, yet it really should be the tagline of Heartbeat of Home, which opened to rapturous applause at the Piccadilly Theat…
The UK premiere of the new musical comedy High Fidelity, based on the acclaimed British novel by Nick Hornby (State Of The Union/About A Boy/Fever Pitch), is the second production in Paul Ta…
Ross McGregor, artistic director and powerhouse behind Arrows & Traps Theatre Company, has captured the zeitgeist with his modern, political adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's The St…
Written by Paloma Pedrero " Spain's most prolific playwright in the 21st century " and directed by Simone Coxall, The Eyes Of The Night makes its UK premiere at the Cervantes Theatre in Lond…
The 2019 winners of The Stage Debut Awards, in association with Access Entertainment, were announced in a ceremony which took place at The Brewery, London this weekend.
New docu-drama The King of Hell's Palace about the Chinese blood-contamination scandal of 1990s is about corruption and cover-up.
Described as a musical fantasia set in the hypnotised mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff, Dave Malloy's weird and wonderful musical Preludes is like nothing you've ever seen before.
Cameron Mackintosh has announced casting for Boublil and Schönberg's Les Misérables at the newly restored Sondheim Theatre, when the theatre re-opens on 18 December 2019 following its majo…
We round up the reviews for the world premiere production of A Very Expensive Poison, Lucy Prebble's reimagining of Luke Harding's exposé of the events behind the notorious death of ex-FSB …
It's an intriguing premise. A successful middle-aged woman approaches a blind lottery ticket seller and offers him money to spend an hour in a hotel room with her. What does she want, and wh…
