Martin Crimp's new play, When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other at the National Theatre, has been hyped because of its star, Cate Blanchett, and rightly so: it's a five-star show.
The writer and performer Emma Pritchard chatted to LLLC's Emma Clarendon about bringing Armour to the Vault Festival.
How do you recover from a 'totally unexpected success'? 1927 Productions' writer and director Suzanne Andrade recalls how the company learned not to throw the baby out with the bathwater, an…
David Bintley, artistic director since 1995, who is sadly retiring from the Birmingham Royal Ballet this summer choreographed this production of Beauty & the Beast, first staged in 2003.
No Show is no usual circus act " the strength and skill are there, in spades, but not so much the glitz and glamour.
Taking a female perspective on racial tensions in modern day Britain, Sara Aniqah Malk's Salaam takes place during the Muslim fasting season of Ramadan. Mariam (Yasmin Wilde) is a devout Mus…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Naoise Murphy may be a fictional boxer in Kicking All the Boxes but actor-writer Liz FitzGibbon was a teenage European kickboxing champion in her own right. When she left school she left the…
First seen at Greenwich Theatre in 1985, Nigel Williams' incisive, funny and affecting play about broken sibling relationships, My Brother's Keeper, receives its first major revival at Londo…
Taro focuses on an incredible life honoured by a gorgeous, goosebump-inducing production " you really don't want to miss this one.
Anne-Marie Duff will lead the cast in Donmar Warehouse's artistic director Josie Rourke's farewell production, Sweet Charity, opposite Arthur Darvill making his Donmar Warehouse debut as Osc…
Described by audiences as "unapologetically honest" and "Shane Meadows-esque" Lee Lomas' new play, Sunrise for the Blind returns to London at the Tristan Bates Theatre this month. The workin…
Velvet proves a powerful piece, investigating #MeToo from a gay perspective at the VAULT Festival.
Clive Owen will return to the West End for the first time in 18 years to play the Rev. T. Lawrence Shannon in The Night Of The Iguana in a new production directed by James Macdonald. The pro…
Cost of Living is a refreshingly bold play, it presents disability in a matter of fact way focusing on relationships while challenging inhibitions.
LLLC's Emma Clarendon chatted to Simon Mole about Mole & Gecko: The Show which is touring London venues next month.
An adaptation of Angela Carter's 1991 novel about a theatrical dynasty, spanning a century and loaded with Shakespeare, sex and song, Wise Children can exhaust in its constant frenzy of inve…
Buffy The Vampire Slayer star and Instagram sensation Tom Lenk will be one of the biggest stars at this year's VAULT Festival when he stars in the hit comedy Tilda Swinton Answers an Ad on C…
Blood Brothers is a musical that has had a special place in my heart for a long time " it will always be a five star production in my eyes and has yet to deviate from that honour. Each time …
We hope Mate Aleks Sierz adds some of these top quotes to his Text of the Day series! Sixteenth-century thinker Michel de Montaigne certainly had a way with words. How many of these pithy ap…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Machu Picchu isn't the only thing in ruins by the end of Cuzco, an intense two-hander about the fiery death of a relationship by Spanish playwright VÃctor Sánchez RodrÃguez.
Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex has made her first official visit to the National Theatre. Earlier this month The Duchess was announced as Patron of the National Theatre, one of two Patrona…
Returning once more to London, Tango Fire is simply sublime to witness " not only is the dancing exciting but the the overall way in which it is all presented is highly mesmerising.
Casting has been announced for director Mark Giesser's production of George and Ira Gershwin's madcap musical hidden gem Strike Up The Band which runs at London's Upstairs at the Gatehouse f…