Further casting has been announced for the original London company of Sara Bareilles' Tony Award-nominated musical Waitress with Marisha Wallace playing Becky alongside Laura Baldwin as Dawn…
Burke & Hare, a story of two men who murder people in order to sell their corpses to doctors in 1820s Edinburgh shouldn't work as a dark character comedy with music. But largely work it…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
One of the most successful playwrights in the interwar years, Aimée Stuart has recently been 'rediscovered' " leading to Nicolette Kay's revival of the 1940 play Jeannie.
London’s VAULT Festival, one of the largest curated arts festivals in the world, has announced more than 400 shows for its 2019 programme. Now in its seventh year, VAULT Festival re…
The Night Before Christmas is adult Christmas fare, counter-programming to the Dr Seuss musical which is on next door at the Southwark Playhouse.
In this episode of The Show People Podcast, host Andrew Keates is joined by choreographer and former head of dance at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts " Sam Spencer-Lane.
TThe English National Opera has revived Jonathan Miller's production of Puccini's opera La Bohème. Here's what critics have had to say about it…
A stage adaptation of the 1983 film, A Christmas Story: The Musical follows young Ralphie who's sole Christmas wish is to receive a Red Ryder Carbine-Action 200-Shot Range Model Air Rifle.
Joanna Lumley, given all your aforementioned useful qualities, you could get attention from lots of influential blokes and get this thing off the ground in a way that I can't. How about a Jo…
Suba Das, currently associate director of the Curve, Leicester, has been appointed as the next artistic director of HighTide.
The Old Vic and Headlong Theatre's production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons, directed by Jeremy Herrin and starring Sally Field and Bill Pullman with Jenna Coleman and Colin Morgan will be …
Chucking Michelle Visage into the cast of Everybody's Talking About James at the Apollo Theatre is actually a rather inspired move.
Imaginative, witty and beautiful " Seussical at the Southwark Playhouse will make you feel like a five-year-old again.
It has been nearly 80 years since Aimée Stuart's enchanting and whimsical comedy, Jeannie, has been performed in London so thank god for the Finborough Theatre in staging a revival.
The Finborough Theatre presents the first London production in 35 years of Athol Fugard's Apartheid-era, South African classic A Lesson From Aloes in the new year, with Janet Suzman directin…
However, so good a time was had by both in Dublin on the last Glee tour that " ahead of their LM/DC concert tour dates in the UK " Lea Michele and Darren Criss (aka Glee's Rachel Berry and B…
A Christmas Carol with a supporting cast of 200? A Christmas Carol with four alternating casts of 200, involving as many in making Christmas as possible, with the maximum social benefit? I c…
Ten years after it first ran in Chiswick, the stage adaptation of the late Clive King's much-loved children's literary classic Stig of the Dump returns to London's Tabard Theatre for a stric…
Old and new collide in Wendy & Peter Pan, a beautifully staged Lyceum Christmas production that combines originality with fidelity to the spirit of a much-loved classic.
Alfie Boe's As Time Goes By makes for a hugely enjoyable listen, infused with passion and a thrilling musicality that should see it stuffed into many a stocking come 25 December.
Channing Tatum's stage version inspired by the hit Magic Mike films arrives in London. But what have critics had to say about it?
We're counting down to the opening of the Barn Theatre's much-anticipated, actor-musician revival of Stiles & Drewe's 1984 family musical Just So. After early rehearsals in London, the …
Seussical is a bundle of feelgood fun that also incorporates some important and relatable themes, all set to a terrific score with a dazzling backdrop " Marc Pickering's performance steals t…
Jamie Loxton, Daniel Grice and Sam Sheldon star in the world premiere of Glenn Chandler's The Boy Under the Christmas Tree at the King's Head Theatre this Christmas. Can you tell from the ph…