Growing global discontent has been the hallmark of 2018, and 2019 is looking even worse. The last few years have marked a rise of the far-right, but theatremakers in opposition are letting a…
After selling out at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2016 and touring the UK and to Australia, Ross Ericson's First World War drama The Unknown Soldier will premiere in London in early 2019.
Magic spectacular The Illusionists " Direct From Broadway will return to London in summer 2019 with a brand new show from 6 July to 1 September at the Shaftesbury Theatre. The cast will be a…
The chaise longue has been dug out of storage for this re-imagining of William Congreve's 1693 marriage farce The Double Dealer at the Orange Tree Theatre.
The new play One Jewish Boy about anti-semitism is viscerally powerful and raises some troubling issues about insidious racism.
Think you know the story of Rumpelstiltskin? Think again. This Christmas, the classic fairy tale gets a distinctly bizarre new look courtesy of Windmill Theatre Company's Rosemary Myers and …
Battersea Arts Centre has announced that Tarek Iskander will take up the position of artistic director and CEO in May 2019.
"It sounds like a fecking dog biscuit," a young Neil McCormick responds to the news that his friend Paul Hewson is changing his name to Bono in this hilarious but touching new play by Dick C…
"A beautifully told story of nightmarish proportions" is a tremendous description of AILIA's harrowing child-marriage drama AISHA, which has impressed reviewers during its mini-tour of Londo…
US film and television star Jack McBrayer, best known as Kenneth in 30 Rock, will make his West End debut in the role of Ogie in Waitress, which will begin preview performances on 8 February…
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Tuesday 2 February 2019, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock returns to London's Omnibus Theatre for The Orchestra. Got any questions?
Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Sweat comes to London for the first time, examining the personal and local consequences of a firm's strategic decision to change the way it operate…
Nativity! The Musical will be returning to The Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith for a third year, running from 11 to 29 December 2019, with an extra week of performances. Simon Lipkin, who also f…
Further casting has been announced for the world premiere of Ivo van Hove's stage production of the 1950 Twentieth Century Fox film All About Eve.
Five decades into his storied career, Andrew Lloyd Webber dominated the Melbourne musical theatre scene in 2018.
Tobacco Factory Theatres have well served Bristol festive audiences over the years, including one bona fide theatrical masterpiece in Sally Cookson's Olivier Award-winning Cinderella. Alas, …
As a perfect alternative to pantomime, this inventive, colourful, entertaining and story-based production of Alice: The Musical will engage the entire family with its well-known and well-lov…
This year, after a reported £3.6 million refurbishment at Leicester's Haymarket Theatre, it has reopened. Sandi Toksvig's new version of Treasure Island, directed by Matthew Forbes, is it…
Simon Callow's telling of A Christmas Carol at the Arts Theatre is theatrical perfection. A solo performance, aided only by subtly ingenious projections and the occasional, immaculately time…
Can you really turn a three-page short story into a full-length play? What would you add, and how would you avoid accusations of padding? Anthony Neilson's new version of Edgar Allan Poe's T…
Bright and cheerful, the UK premiere of the Windmill Theatre Company and State Theatre Company's production of Rumpelstiltskin is playful but doesn't tell the story as well as it could.
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Wednesday 30 January 2019, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock joins improv masters of Showstopper! to celebrate 1000 brand-new musicals. Got …
Currently my favourite partnership of Simon Russell Beale and Shakespeare is at work in The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (or Richard II if you prefer, and as the person typing this I v…
Seven years ago playwright Lynn Nottage started spending time in Reading, Pennsylvania, one of the poorest towns in America and wrote Sweat based on her experiences there.
Writer and director Ross Dinwiddy had a vision of how Franz Kafka's 1904 short story In the Penal Colony could work onstage, with a female officer in charge. After success at Brighton Fringe…