"Brave and powerful storytelling" - The first audiences have been in to see Michelle Payne's dark comedy about one young woman's obsession with her body, Sad About The Cows, and they're shou…
Actor Richard Cant chatted to Emma Clarendon about his latest role in Wife at the Kiln Theatre.
Liminal Theatre Productions (Liminal for short) is first and foremost a theatre for social change. All three of their members passionately believe that 'theatre can change the world' and thi…
School of Rock is one of those cult films that is genuinely wonderful. Funny, sweet and a crowd pleaser, the 2003 Jack Black hit transfers well to the stage and provides an entertaining nigh…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
White Pearl is a thematically dense play that tells a compelling story at a pace that matches the speed of social media downfall, but with nuance, tension and ferocity.
What is it? Urielle Klein-Mekongo's one woman show Yvette that found success at Edinburgh Fringe in 2017 returns to the Bush Theatre for this explosive and raw personal journey into womanhoo…
Human Jam is precisely the type of show Camden People's Theatre should be producing: fully engaged with its community, angry but imaginative, chaotic and messy, and shining a strong, searchi…
As Napoli, Brooklyn continues its acclaimed tour around the UK, get a flavour for the hit show, with this rousing, emotional trailer. Have a watch then book your tickets for the summer run a…
Love London Love culture rounds up the reviews for the brand new musical The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, based on the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Tuesday 7 July 2019, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will be celebrating the life and legacy of Nina Simone at Black Is the Color of My Voi…
"Dance for me, Salome, I beseech you." The final production in this year's Lazarus Theatre Company residency at Greenwich Theatre (following on from The Tempest and Lord of the Flies) is a n…
After the querulous, inward-looking tedium of her feminist polemic The Writer, Ella Hickson returns to interesting form with this curiosity, Anna.
Rebecca Frecknall's rich production of Three Sisters takes place in a bubble of unreality, both alluring and doomed to burst.
The Lyric Hammersmith Theatre has announced its 2019/2020 programme of work, Rachel O'Riordan's inaugural season as artistic director.
This week playwright, director and performer Michelle Payne brings her one-woman show Sad About The Cows to Tristan Bates Theatre.
After years of writing success, including adaptations of David Walliams' children's novels, David Kerby-Kendall returns to acting to star in his new two-hander 20:40, coming to London's Omni…
All My Sons may not be my favourite Arthur Miller play but The Old Vic's production of it is undeniably brilliant, especially the heavyweight and stunningly good cast.
An energetic cast and an understated performance from Pogo the Summer Street dog are not enough to save this problematic show at the Waterloo East Theatre.
Rejoicing At Her Wondrous Vulva The Young Woman Applauded Herself is a fresh and exciting take on a subject that is being talked about a lot in the arts now. Which, of course, is a brilliant…
"And would sir like a crossbow with that?" Not the normal question asked by waiters, but at new Game of Thrones-inspired theatrical dining experience Dinner Is Coming., it seems entirely lik…
Small Island is an epic story straddling Jamaica and England before, during and after World War II and exploring colonialism, racism, love and identity.
As part of a new series, our editor Lisa Martland picks out seven of her Top Picks from the last week of theatre (29 April-6 May 2019). Amidst her choices are two more West End productions o…
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens is such a beautiful and moving piece of work celebrating the lives and commemorating the deaths of those who have been lost to AIDS.
From 17 June 2019 Ashley Roberts will be making her West End debut as Dawn in Sara Bareilles' hit musical Waitress for a strictly limited summer season, while it has also been confirmed that…