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Hannah Hauer-King directs Iman Qureshi's play The Funeral Director about sexuality, gender and religion in 21st-century Britain. Love London Love Culture rounds up the reviews…
It's always a pleasure to hear an untold story. In Billy Bishop Goes to War we learn about a baby-faced Canadian teenager who by a string of lucky chances became the world's most decorated f…
AJ, the young playwright, director and producer of AISHA, is not afraid of speaking his mind. He's unafraid of battling the status quo, butting heads with convention or airing his truth. Thi…
It's sometimes a little difficult to take seriously how old everyone is meant to be in Romeo & Juliet but Erica Whyman's modern-day production for the RSC, playing in rep now at the Bar…
Following its sell-out success in 2016 and 2017 at the Open Air Theatre Regent's Park, the multi-award-winning production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Chris Superstar transfe…
New play about genius and the classical music world is engaging in its ideas and deep in its feelings
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Saul Reichlin performs his new one-man show Sholom Aleichem in the Old Country, featuring characters from the master Jewish storyteller. Find out how Tevye from Fiddler on the Roof became th…
I thought I should have a think about what sort of things I'd like to be adapted for the stage " basically anything with a bit more originality to it than the endless parade of teen movie ad…
Sadly Shotgun Carousel's Divine Proportions, which markets itself as an immersive dining experience, is neither immersive or very interesting.
Powerful, polished and utterly absorbing, Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu’s Sweet Like Chocolate Boy explores the changing face of Black British identity and protest over the last three decades, …
Fat Rascal Theatre Company has created magic in its gender-swapped, musical parody of Beauty and the Beast.
The Greater Game tells the remarkable true story of what happened when 41 members of Leyton Orient Football Club, including ten first team players, officials and backroom staff, enlisted at …
The Wipers Times is a touchingly poignant, gentle but funny show which successfully shows how laughter helped one group of soldiers get through the war " without diminishing the impact WWI h…
A 'ferocious new version' of Molière's comic masterpiece Tartuffe by John Donnelly will open in February 2019 at the National Theatre with Denis O'Hare making his NT debut in the title r…
All We Ever Wanted Was Everything at the Bush Theatre, a new pop opera about a couple of young people across three decades is simply exhilarating.
I think variety is the best thing about my life and work. In the last two weeks, I've seen a children's show at Chichester, amateur takes on Our Country's Good and Follies, three youth theat…
The story of Jane Eyre is a gothic, romantic tale of conflicted emotions and repressed passions. Sadly this production from the Watermill lacks these and is treated as more of a story-tellin…
Bury the Dead by Irwin Shaw paints a reality where soldiers refuse to be buried by standing up from their graves. Since soldiers, especially in WWI, were treated like currency the concept gi…
So what can be done to make Shakespeare less boring, or prove that Shakespeare isn't boring (depending on how you look at it)? It does feel to me that we're in the middle of a golden age of …
This weekend, we officially mark the centenary of the end of the First World War. Adam Morley's new production of Michael Head's The Greater Game is one of the theatre productions marking th…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
The story of It's True, It's True, It's True at the Diorama Theatre is in itself fascinating and highly relevant to current concerns, but director Billy Barrett and dramaturg Dorothy Allen-P…
Brexit is a farce. Of all the things Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky's Brexit could have been, their critically-acclaimed satire about the current Euro-debacle is not the play this mired, polit…
Hard-hitting drama, AISHA, which explores the taboo subject of child marriage in the UK, returns to the London stage this winter. Created by theatre company Ailia, the pertinent play runs fr…
Written by Michael Head and directed by Adam Morley, The Greater Game has as its centre the friendship between Richard McFadden (James Phelps) and William Jonas (Steven Bush).
