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In Irwin Shaw's Bury the Dead, written in 1935, six fallen American soldiers stand up in their graves and courteously ask not to be buried.
Love London Love Culture's Emma Clarendon chatted to Sonya Hale about Bullet Tongue, playing at The Big House until 8 December 2018.
The main character in Gilded Butterflies, in a superb performance by Francesca McCrohon, is a hyperactive chatterbox confined to a solitary cell on death row, willing to spill out her though…
Written by Charlotte Ryall and directed by Jenny Eastop, Indebted To Chance follows the life of Charlotte Charke (née Cibber), a forgotten 18th-century pioneer who showed that not only can …
As we mark #Armistice100 it seems right that Benjamin Till's award-winning musical Brass should return to remind us, as if we need any reminding, of the terrible price paid by communities du…
Running at the National Theatre prior to a Broadway opening, Hadestown offers a uniquely folksy and enchanting take on the tragic tale of Orpheus and his love, Euridice.
Pinter Four continues Jamie Lloyd's Pinter at the Pinter season with the Lyndsey Turner-directed Moonlight starring Robert Glenister as a dying patriarch who bemoans his family's absence at …
How do you celebrate Christmas in incarceration? Weighed In Productions presents the first major revival of Head-Rot Holiday, Sarah Daniels' 1992 play set in a 'secure hospital', at the Hope…
My challenge is to bring an opportunity to British playwrights who have a play which deserves to be published and licensed around the world.
After its current critically acclaimed hit with Proud Haddock's production of World War One musical two-hander Billy Bishop Goes to War, Jermyn Street concludes this year's Rebels season wit…
Having come to Rock of Ages with no prior reference other than the 2012 film version (mostly memorable for featuring a surprisingly entertaining performance from Tom Cruise) I was, let's say…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Written by Reece Connolly and directed by Georgie Staight, Chutney is a black comedy that examines the 'less-civilised' aspects of human nature and whether we can " or should " curb our 'bas…
Hampstead Theatre has announced its first three productions of 2019. Highlights include: Martyna Majok's 2018 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, Cost of Living, making its UK premiere directed by…
The singer and actress Hiba Tawaji spoke to Love London Love Culture's Emma Clarendon about bringing Notre Dame de Paris back to London for the first time in 20 years.
I go to the theatre is to be amused or moved or challenged or interested and sadly this collection of Pinter didn't really reach out across the dark auditorium to me.
Dead Woman Walking Productions, a new theatre company formed by a group of LAMDA graduates, are bringing Mark Ravenhill's The Cut back to the London stage for the first time since it premier…
Acting Gymnasium's talented cast excel with their superb timing and tremendous energy in this acrobatically verbal and physical comedy, A Flea in Her Ear at Theatro Technis.
Emmy award-winning and Tony-nominated actor Kelsey Grammer and international opera star and soprano Danielle de Niese will lead the cast of a brand new production of the Broadway musical Man…
The Wider Earth, the critically-acclaimed drama about a young Charles Darwin's expedition on HMS Beagle, has extended its run at the Jerwood Gallery at London's Natural History Museum and wi…
Hadestown is certainly a welcome contribution to London's musical theatre. The excellent score and unrelenting criticism of corporate systems that enslave the poor in awful conditions and lo…
The sterling result of the determined and loving labours of countless talents, Opera Australia's Melbourne presentation of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg is a shimmering musical and visual …
I've never been to a live podcast recording before so I had a little trepidation going into Drunk Women Solving Crime, not knowing quite what to expect.
The Last Days of Mankind, an international co-production at the reborn Leith Theatre, is an exasperating but ultimately worthwhile exploration of the horrors of the 1914-1918 war. Both resol…
Pinter Three features 11 plays, allowing director Jamie Lloyd to vary tone, pace and style with shorter, more amusing sketches bookended by two more heavyweight works; Landscape and A Kind o…
