Europe's first ever pop-up Shakespearean Theatre " Shakespeare's Rose Theatre " has announced its expansion for 2019 with a summer residency of nine weeks at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire.
At the Ambassadors, Joanna Murray-Smith's new play Switzerland arrives in the West End for the first time, putting Patricia Highsmith in the spotlight with an intriguing duologue about the n…
Antler's two-handed tale of friendship and obsession, which was originally a hit at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe, has bounced its way to west London's Bush Theatre, where it currently has audie…
Parents, if the thought of sitting through yet another (yawn) pantomime this Yule fills you with dread, then I'd recommend the dazzling, cheery musical Nativity! The Musical as an outstandin…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Set in Crumlin, a suburb of Dublin, writer Lisa Carroll's play Cuckoo follows Iona and Pingu over a couple of fateful days when they announce that they are moving to London. It is a decision…
Using state of the art video projection, contemporary newsreel footage, TV commercials, incredible concert-style lighting and a full live brass ensemble The Simon & Garfunkel Story is a…
Pinter Four serves up something of a difficult double bill at the Harold Pinter Theatre, but BrÃd Brennan and Janie Dee are there to help us through the dark times.
It isn't every day I stumble across a strong new vocational training opportunity which is almost free to the participants. I refer to the Lyric Ensemble which piloted in the 2017/18 academic…
Rossini's La Cenerentola makes for a refreshingly vibrant, light and comedic opera. Welsh National Opera's latest production is a festive treat indeed just ahead of December too, perfect tim…
Super Duper Close Up at the Yard Theatre is a bold, harsh and beautifully realistic look at the fantastical world of existing in the digital age.
Exploring what it is to be young in Ireland today, Lisa Carroll's debut play Cuckoo comes roaring to life at Soho Theatre, leading us without preamble into the world of best friends " and so…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
The Show People Podcast is back! This special 'Show Peep' tells you what Andrew Keates has been up to in Ireland, how we've become an award-winning podcast and details of Arion's next master…
Motherlode has been touring this short four-hander, written and directed by Rachael Boulton, round venues in Wales for its premiere. It's London's luck that it has rocked up at the Finboroug…
Roxana Silbert has been announced as the new artistic director and joint chief executive of Hampstead Theatre and will join the theatre in spring 2019, taking over from Edward Hall.
Folky, emotive, excellently performed and ever relevant, the National Theatre's production of Hadestown is a grand triumph.
Matt Board and Reina Hardy's new musical Fanatical taps into the apparently unstoppable rise of comic-book culture, but takes a refreshingly uncynical slant on the subject.
The winners of the 64th Evening Standard Theatre Awards have been announced, with double wins for the National Theatre's Antony & Cleopatra and the West End productions of Company and H…
Now, Laurence Connor and James Powell's new production of Les Misérables (seen on Broadway a few years ago) gives Les Mis a fresh look which will assure its longevity.
Project 2 " Katy Schutte and Chris Mead " are improvising 13 shows, a different one for every night of their run at the Rosemary Branch Theatre.
Lisa Carroll's razor-sharp play Cuckoo is vividly brought to life thanks to Debbie Hannan's perceptive and emotionally engaging production.
If there is a good argument for remembrance, and there is an equally good one for forgetting, what you can never forget is the War Horse experience.
Doctor Dolittle follows the "impossible" man who understands animals better than people so with the help of his parrot Polynesia, learns their languages to help cure all their ailments.
The night before Dr Martin Luther King Jr's assassination on the balcony outside of his Memphis motel room, Katori Hall's play The Mountaintop takes us inside Room 306 where he was staying.