This week the 2019 Olivier Awards nominations were announced and Six is up for five. For a show which started as a university project, it's pretty amazing and inspiring that Six is reaching …
Newcomers to Jersey Boys are sure to enjoy the memorable music and terrific stage talent. Those who have seen the show (possible more than once) may be harder to coax back, but the performan…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
There is plenty to like in Tobacco Factory Theatre's A Midsummer Night's Dream, a brisk, crisp and fully accessible take on the play that should provide perfect introductions to a Shakespear…
The Girl on the Train is contemporary, both in its subject and staging. There is a strong balance between a suspenseful whodunit that drives the play and a psychological element about memory…
Let's start by saying that Rock of Ages is not a musical masterpiece by any means, but it is a super self-aware, high intensity, fun and crazily well performed show, that'll definitely have …
Ivo van Hove's production and stage adaptation of the film All About Eve is trademark van Hove and that is a good and bad thing.
Throughout March, the Cervantes Theatre, London's home of Spanish drama, is celebrating Madrid with Madrid is a Female Name, its mini-season monologues imported from the Spanish capital. The…
Love London Love Culture rounds up the reviews for the Royal Opera House's production of Così Fan Tutte.
Nicholas Hytner finally directs a play by a woman but Lucinda Coxon's adaptation of novel Alys, Always is a disappointment for me at the Bridge Theatre.
Over the past decade, including three seasons at the National Theatre and extensive international touring, 1927 Productions' dystopian The Animals and Children took to the Streets has racked…
If you work with under-18s developing performance skills (along with confidence and all those other useful transferables) then Samantha Marsden's new book is likely to be very helpful.
"A superlative performance". For over twenty years, Royal Shakespeare Company veteran Eileen Page became firmly associated with Eleanor of Aquitaine, thanks to Catherine Muschamp's one-woman…
Kira Malou, Michael O'Reilly and Simone Covele chatted to Simon Button about taking the production based on the classic film Dirty Dancing out on tour.
Tonight's the night! London's first-ever revival of Athol Fugard's 1978 Apartheid-era, South African classic A Lesson From Aloes officially opens tonight at the Finborough Theatre, where it'…
I want to rejoin the communal rites of turning our heads to the sky and moving our bodies subtly to the beating soundscape. Liquid Sky thrilled my senses with beauty. I want more of that ple…
Musicals Company and Come From Away top the Olivier Awards 2019 nominations with nine nods each, while The Inheritance is the most recognised play with eight nominations. The ceremony takes …
Noël Coward's A Song at Twilight may be billed as a comedy but this story of one man's fear of mortality and exposure, is tinged with tragedy. The Theatre Royal Bath's polished production…
I would encourage you and a group of friends to book yourself an experience of The Grand Expedition " you won't regret it.
Luckily, Sarah Chew " writer and director of Lipstick: A Fairy Tale of Iran " confronts the schism in feminism between the east and west with humour, grace and heart.
New drama The Project takes audiences inside World War II transit camp Westerbork, which held many of Europe's most lauded cabaret artists of the time... and encouraged them to perform on a…
As part of his Featured Show campaigns for Bodies at Southwark Playhouse, Cheating Death at The Cockpit Theatre and Christopher Tajah's Dream of a King at Drayton Arms Theatre, Matt Amer pai…
Alexandra Palace Theatre, which hosts Richard III from 13 to 31 March 2019, entertained audiences of thousands during its Victorian heyday, but has been closed to the public for 80 years. Th…
Waitress opens in the West End this week and I grabbed a rare, brief opportunity to chat with the musical's Tony-winning director Diane Paulus about the show.
I've been so enjoying working on Featured Show campaigns for 1927 Productions' The Animals and Children took to the Streets and Darkfield's Seance and Flight. Luckily, I also managed to see …