Olivier Award winner Matthew Kelly will provide the voice of Pau Amma The Crab in the Barn Theatre's much-anticipated revival of Stiles & Drewe's family musical Just So, which concludes…
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Brimming with warmth and heart, world premiere play Astroman takes audiences back to the 1980s in an all too rare familial focus on First Peoples of Australia.
Directed with intelligence, and a clear passion from Matthew Holmquist and with writing that balances a particular brand of Cardiff humour with universal themes and important questions, Card…
Yet another pat on the back is due for the Bush Theatre who has knocked things out of the park once again with its latest main house show. All We Ever Wanted Was Everything, written by Luke …
Actress Kirsty MacLaren spoke to Love London Love Culture's Emma Clarendon about starring in Trevor Nunn's upcoming production of Fiddler On The Roof at the Menier Chocolate Factory.
Star of RuPaul's Drag Race, American Idol and YouTube sensation Todrick Hall will star as Billy Flynn in Chicago from 19 November 2018 until the end of the show's run at the Phoenix Theatre …
Bury the Dead at Finborough Theatre is a unique and engaging story which captures the sense of unjust, premature death at the mercy of someone else's agenda.
Following the success of Kids Play, Taggart creator Glenn Chandler premieres his latest stage play, alternative festive comedy treat The Boy Under the Christmas Tree, at London's King's Head…
The crowning glory of this show is the story. It's poignant, affecting and necessary. The crossing of gender, religion and sexuality is a very hot topic in modern times. When tackling them i…
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Tuesday 20 November 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will quiz the writer and cast of new British sci-fi musical Fanatical. Got any q…
There is no one quite like debbie tucker green and her new play ear for eye, no one writing with the same urgency, disquiet and plain brilliance for adjusting and changing forms.
A masterclass in one-woman storytelling, Pickle Jar is delicately told in the intimate setting upstairs in Soho Theatre.
Political adviser and author Michael McManus makes his playwriting debut with An Honourable Man, the story of how Momentum's attempt to deselect a mainstream Labour MP unleashes a populist u…
Dealing With Clair at the Orange Tree Theatre is a brilliant revival of Martin Crimp's savage satire on human greed and male attitudes to women.
The Greater Game is a play that understands the importance of paying respect to the source material. It tells the story of real people and it does it in a playful yet compassionate way. Yes …
Joanna Murray-Smith's 2003 play Honour is surprisingly relevant to the current #MeToo debate while highlighting a generational division over the question of love and fidelity.
The melodic, complex music in LMTO's Girlfriends at the Bishopsgate Institute does provide moments of power and, if anything, this show serves as a fantastic celebration of women and the cru…
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Friday 16 November 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will quiz the director and cast of Acting Gymnasium's new Irish production of cla…
The best interaction in Honour at the Park Theatre is between Imogen Stubbs and Katie Brayben, largely very convincing as the sharp journalist and they trade some good points about agency an…
Stephen MacDonald's deeply moving portrait of the friendship between Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen in Not About Heroes beautifully reveals how their World War I poetry completely reflec…
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Tuesday 13 November 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will quiz the creators of Creation Theatre's sonic-immersive new adaptation of E…
Covering both contemporary experience and historical background, debbie tucker green's Ear for Eye at the Royal Court feels like an instant classic. But it's not an easy watch.
The National Theatre and Theatr Clwyd's critically-acclaimed co-production of Laura Wade's new play Home, I'm Darling, directed by Theatre Clwyd artistic director Tamara Harvey and featuring…
At Waterloo East Theatre, The Greater Game is a sobering reminder of the individual stories behind the statistics of our war dead, and a fitting tribute too.