Alix Sobler's The Glass Piano officially premiered last night (30 April 2019) and these first-look photos of Max Key's production are absolutely stunning. Travel back in time to the 19th cen…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
A transfer from the Globe, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's play about the 17th century poet Emilia Bassano Lanier is already receiving highly positive acclaim as it rouses audiences to their feet nig…
Named for the only song her parents wrote together, which opens and closes the performance, Miriam Gould's Empty Room is a deeply personal one-woman show that explores her family history and…
The Hired Man might perhaps disappoint those looking for the bombast of a large-scale musical but in its subtle portrait of a slice of social history, there's something more intriguing and m…
Old Dog Theatre's adaptation of Kafka's The Castle makes Kafka feel accessible. Kafka's writing about bureaucracy and being a stranger in a strange land is as relevant as ever.
One wonders which came first for the Grade/Linnit company " the misguided desire to mount an epic scale production of Man of La Mancha, a musical which hasn't been.produced in London since 1…
Writer Tabitha Mortiboy has succeeded in creating a succinct little world that feels very cut off from the town that must (presumably) surround it in The Amber Trap.
Details of Matthew Warchus' Season 5 at The Old Vic Theatre have been announced. Highlights include: Claire Foy and Matt Smith making their Old Vic debuts in Duncan Macmillan's Lungs and Al…
Little Death Club is a cabaret of the late night variety, a kind of seductive circus of misfits and certainly not for the prudish.
A whirlwind of big hair, 80s hits, innuendos and humour, Nick Winston's Club Tropicana isn't a musical masterpiece but it is a whole lot of fun and a harmless piece of entertainment.
Love London Love Culture rounds up the reviews for Jeremy Herrin's production of All My Sons starring Bill Pullman and Sally Field.
I'm coming to Caryl Churchill's Top Girls (1982) afresh. Well, sort of. I read the play a few years ago, but I've not seen it and wasn't born until 10 years after its original production at …
Hidden Track Theatre will give audiences the exciting chance to roll up their sleeves, get involved and create their own country when their new show Drawing the Line premieres at the Albany …
My recent theatre trips have included Like You Hate Me and The Amber Trap, two world premieres with women at their core. Here's a round-up of my on-the-night reactions to each.
The dresses sparkle, the band swings, and the dancers fly at the Southwark Playhouse, where Ain't Misbehavin' runs through June.
Our Country's Good still grips, it would take a very poor production indeed to ruin that, but you can't help feeling that Anna Girvan hasn't fully got to grips with this one. Theatre does ch…
While there might not be any central plot, sit back and enjoy the music and dancing anyway in this fun and energetic production of Ain't Misbehavin'.
All My Sons is a gripping play, a slowly unravelling emotional thriller with masterclass performances.
'A sweet sexy fairy tale' is how one critic described Sweet Charity on its opening in London in October 1967. And Josie Rourke's final production as the Donmar's artistic director before han…
OVO's reimagining of Twelfth Night brings a fresh perspective to a story many of us will have seen several times before, and that in itself is quite an achievement.
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
A CLEANSING FURY FROM THE 1880s     Wipes you out every time, Ibsen's furious, shocking, violent assault on the cruel decayed conventions of his century's end. …
Blueprint Medea, the first play in English featuring a character based on the real-life "Kurdish Angelina Jolie", gets its world premiere next month at the Finborough Theatre, care of multi-…
Some titanic acting performances from Sally Field, Bill Pullman and Colin Morgan in this superb All My Sons at the Old Vic Theatre.