A drunken cycling accident inspired Tom Powell to become a playwright; an Easyjet flight to Bulgaria inspired his latest play Little Echoes, premiering this month at London's Hope Theatre. H…
All the delight of the original picture book story of The Singing Mermaid who gets swept away in the circus is brought to the stage in this puppet adaptation from the Little Angel Theatre. A…
There's a line in Trial By Laughter, the new touring production of Ian Hislop and Nick Newman's play about freedom of the press, where one of the main characters says to the other: "But wher…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
A Transylvanian delight, Rocky Horror will have you laughing in delight and dancing in your seat from the moment it begins in all its sparkly, transsexual glory.
Tom Hartwell's hit play about the targets we aim for by certain ages of our life, Before 30, returns to London this spring. The one-man show runs at Waterloo East Theatre from 26 February to…
In the #MeToo era Madeleine Gould and Joel Samuels have written what could have been an interesting take on the subject of consent. A too short two-hander immerses the small audience into mo…
As Nigel Williams' tale of a troubled sibling relationship, My Brother's Keeper?, receives its first major London revival since its 1985 premiere, Andy de la Tour tells us about how the play…
Love London Love Culture rounds up the reviews for Laura Wade's play Home, I'm Darling which has transferred to the West End.
Written by Maureen Lawrence and directed by Charlie Barker, Tokens of Affection takes place in a special teaching unit in Rotherham for 'troublesome' girls, during the early eighties.
Fight Night is an immersive, underground boxing match as the audience's actions and reactions determines the winner.
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Wednesday 20 March 2019, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will be at the King's Head Theatre for world premiere production of post-chemsex …
I've seen several plays recently (no names no pack drill) in which I have missed an occasional line. There is nothing, I repeat nothing, wrong with my hearing.
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Offering the right balance of romance, suspense, dance, humour and music, the award-winning musical The Bodyguard gives audiences everything they want wrapped up in a quality-filled 'night …
A first-rate piece of children's theatre, this retelling of the familiar myth Icarus (by playwright Katrin Lange, directed by Cressida Brown) challenges a young audience to reflect on whethe…
1927's The Animals & Children Took to the Streets is a deliciously dark gem of a show. With a running time of just 70 minutes, you might assume that the action would be rushed. Instead,…
Pinter at the Pinter reaches its climax with Pinter Seven featuring an enigmatic and occasionally baffling radio play, A Slight Ache, and a real highlight in an already remarkable season, Th…
Cosmopolitan's current most-read article is a feature on a $35 maternity dress worn by Megan Markle. This is, as explored in performance artist Paula Varjack's latest work, an example of pos…
Markers, tea and possibly a cracking clue about the design of the show - that, and more, is what we discover by looking at these rehearsal images for Two's Company's revival of James Saunder…
The UK professional premiere of five-time Tony-nominated musical Amour, with music by multi-award-winning composer Michel Legrand, will be presented by Danielle Tarento at London's Charing C…
Creation Theatre's Dracula is a compelling, atmospheric take on Stoker's classic. While it's the first play to be staged in the London Library, in such grand surroundings as this it's sure n…
Have you 'met' the sixteenth-century French philosopher and essayist Michel de Montaigne yet? Reading Sarah Bakewell's book How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attemp…
Surprisingly The Band " the new musical by Tim Firth interwoven with a plethora of Take That hits " is not a story of how The Band rose to fame, and their ups and downs. Instead the tale is …
Despite committed performances by Blanchett and Dillane, there is something cold and mechanical to what is going on in When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other at the National Theatre.