Kenneth Lonergan's 2009 play The Starry Messenger has opened at the Wyndham's starring Matthew Broderick and Elizabeth McGovern. Longergan's work has enjoyed a series of Tony-nominated reviv…
The lauded Russian director Lev Dodin tells us about bringing his much-praised production of Three Sisters to London and why, after 35 years running the Maly Drama Theatre, he still gets ner…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Written by Bim Adewunmi and directed by Femi Elufowoju Jr, Hoard takes the familiar scenario of the introduction of 'the boyfriend' to kin, but bringing the focus firmly on family dynamics.
A sensational performance from Cary Crankson anchors a powerful production of Simon Stephens' Country Music at Clapham's Omnibus Theatre.
"Tina has his strength. Vita has his tongue. Francesca has his spirit." So speaks Ludovica about her daughters in Meghan Kennedy's Napoli, Brooklyn. Take a first look at those daughters in o…
Freeman is a startling and exceptional piece of theatre and its run in Streatham was a coup for the still relatively new Streatham Space Project theatre.
"I left feeling elated" and "I can't remember when I last laughed so much" are just a couple of the glowing audience responses to hit cabaret about lady parts, Laura-Doe's Vaudeville of the …
Beneath the Blue Rinse, running at London's Park Theatre " along with a Glover short called The Answer " is a morality tale where the elderly get their own back on a society that would rathe…
As The Wardrobe Ensemble prepare to officially open their 1997 hit Education Education Education at the West End's Trafalgar Studios, the cast took to Trafalgar Square to recreate another ic…
The 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe Programme has been launched, featuring a diverse selection of work from the worlds of theatre, dance, circus, physical theatre, comedy, music, musicals and…
Hugh Jackman thoroughly delights and entertains in a show that celebrates his career " dotted with plenty of personal anecdotes.
From fluid, floaty, tender, strong, angular and jovial to grace, strength and seamless instinctive precision, that's BalletBoyz's Them/Us at the Vaudeville Theatre.
The former The Voice contestant Lucy O'Byrne tells us about starring in the new musical stage adaptation of Little Miss Sunshine.
Not Exactly Billington has set themselves a challenge to read a new (to them) playtext every week. In May, their #ReadaPlayaWeek titles included Tarell Alvin McCraney's The Brothers Size, Ro…
I was a little late to the party in respect of Vladimir Jurowski's scintillating new recording of the original 1877 version of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake with the State Academic Symphony Orches…
As a piece of theatre Zog is enjoyable and beautifully thought out, although the synchronicity with the much loved book is lacking.
Small Island is an absolute joy and an overdue, no reservations at all, win for Rufus Norris at the NT. There's nothing else to say. Well except this: you must see it, immediately.
Jonathan Kent's production of Tosca is a must-see and is a perfect introduction to the drama and beauty of opera.
Powerful and hard-hitting, the trailer for Custody cuts straight to the heart of the hit drama about police brutality. Steel yourself, watch the trailer, then book your tickets for the play'…
Come From Away, the story of how one small town, Gander in Newfoundland, responded to events of 9/11 when 7,000 passengers from 38 diverted aircraft landed in their midst, is one of the most…
The inimitable Kneehigh retools The Beggar's Opera in Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and other love songs).
Revival of Githa Sowerby's 1912 classic of industrial patriarchy Rutherford and Son is worthy but rather cumbersome and inaccessible.
One of the greatest pleasures of being an education journalist with a foot in the performing arts camp is meeting young actors at the start of their careers and then watching them develop.
Henrik Ibsen's 1892 classic An Enemy of the People is given a 21st-century Brexit Britain, post-Grenfell update care of writer and director Jolley Gosnold in a new production staged this sum…