There are probably not many people left alive who remember the controversial coast to coast US tour of Othello from 1944. It was remarkable for two reasons. Singer and political firebrand, P…
Ready, steady...go! 80 Days, a real-world adventure is an immersive and different treasure hunt by Fire Hazard Games, based on Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days.
Full disclosure, I was not excited about seeing a show about Boris Johnson. Frankly I'm feeling a tad Boris-ed out these days, but fortunately, given a lively and plentiful audience, not eve…
Love London Love Culture rounds up the reviews for Mr Gum & the Dancing Bear, Andy Stanton and Jim Fortune's musical based on the children's books. It continues in rep at the National Th…
"Another corker", "beautiful, warm and moving" - audiences have taken to social media to share their love of Crowded Room's new play about facing up to death, The Colours. See what's being s…
From Stoke Newington via Portugal, Fiona Spreadborough's one-woman comedy Adventures of a Trip Advisor Seaside Guest House Keeper has enjoyed a circuitous route to the Camden Fringe. Find ou…
If a student disco is your personal nightmare, look away now. Tree starts and ends with a throbbing onstage party to wish the audience is persuasively invited. The last time this many Waitr…
"We are falling down the most extraordinary rabbit hole," writer James Kenworth and director James Martin Charlton tell us about bringing East End Wonderland adaptation, Alice in Canning Tow…
The Stage today (8 August 2019) announces the shortlist for The Stage Debut Awards 2019. The awards, now in their third year and presented in association with Access Entertainment, celebrate…
A rare summer in the city for me means I can take in some of the family shows on in the West End right now " including Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear the Musical, The Scarecrow's Wedding, Where…
Equus remains a fascinating, if dated, piece of writing from Peter Schaffer, exploring the psycho-sexual complexities of the adolescent Alan Strang, a boy who has just, horrifically, blinded…
Sally Cookson's National Theatre and Bristol Old Vic production of JM Barrie's classic story Peter Pan officially opens the Troubadour White City Theatre, where it's booking until 27 October…
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, this Friday 9 August 2019, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock talks to Actually stars Yasmin Paige and Simon Manyonda. We've got plenty to talk a…
This year I have the great privilege of getting to cover lots of the Camden Fringe shows, my only regret is that I can't see them all (literally impossible, so many shows running, Londoners …
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk. One from the archives...
More an avant-garde exercise on a theme than anything particularly ground-breaking, certainly, but enjoyable performances and affecting writing help to bring everything together into a consi…
Harriet Madeley's The Colours is a verbatim play based on interviews with people with life-limiting illnesses and those working in palliative care.
One-woman clowning tale of love, dating and feminism, Unlovable, a hit at Brighton Fringe earlier this year, comes to London's Etcetera Theatre for the final week of the Camden Fringe. Book …
Why have so few of us heard of Dora Maar, the French artist who was also the muse of Pablo Picasso? We talked to writer and director Antonia Georgieva about the need to "re-tell and re-membe…
In Ché Walker's dynamic, scarlet splashed, viscerally staged production, The Time of Our Lies is nothing if not a battle cry against those who govern the USA and its militaristic and foreig…
Since meeting in Chichester in 2015, Greg Mosse and John Gleadall have been busy writing a string of musical shows, including jazz-swing cabaret Separate Ways, which they're now staging at T…
Ahead of Hamstead Theatre's 60th birthday next year, new artistic director Roxana Silbert recently announced her inaugural season at the north London venue, including six premiere plays writ…
Onstage in Actually, Yasmin Paige and Simon Manyonda present different versions of the same event. Can they agree in this London Live interview about the play itself?! Watch their fascinatin…
The rhythms of TS Crew's bounding, twisting, spinning bodies in Along are timed to perfection with the music, whether boy-band synchronised or splitting into physical polyphony.
Bianca Bagatourian's script adapts the life and work of Howard Zinn (who passed away in 2010) into this 65-minute long play.