Soldier On is a brave enterprise of the Soldiers' Arts Academy charity which helps rehabilitate ex-service people through involvement with theatre, and this excellent company is part-militar…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
This Macbeth should be an absolute blinder with such a strong and perfectly brooding lead… but unfortunately, the production falls a little flat in pivotal places.
Singer and actress Lucie Jones spoke to Emma Clarendon about starring in the London Musical Theatre Orchestra's upcoming concert production of Howard Goodall's musical Girlfriends.
I'm Not Running is, for my money, the sort of political theatre that gives both politics and theatre a bad name.
A Very Very Very Dark Matter is perhaps the least complete of his works for the stage, but its fierce anger and gleeful South Park-style offensiveness makes it unlike anything else on a stag…
Off-Broadway musical Striking 12, inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's short story The Little Match Girl, will be staged at the Union Theatre this Christmas.
It is still a shock to discover the history lesson that Daniel York Loh has in store for us in Forgotten é—忘 at the Arcola Theatre.
The shortlist for the 64th Evening Standard Theatre Awards has been unveiled. The winners will be announced on Sunday 18 November at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
This weekend I was part of an extraordinary workshop which was a first of its kind in Europe, or so I am told. A chance to work on the consciousness explorations of Patricia Albere developed…
Choreographer Etta Murfitt spoke to Love London Love Culture's Emma Clarendon about creating the choreography for Emma Rice's Wise Children, playing at the Old Vic Theatre before embarking o…
The Young Vic's artistic director Kwame Kwei-Armah has announced the venue's 2019 season which includes Marianne Elliott directinf Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, with Wendell Pierce, …
Overall it is a beautiful re-telling of Macbeth, keeping true to the script but taking a twist on a unique element. Macbeth at the Barbican is not to be missed.
If nothing else Wils Wilson has produced a rollicking evening of entertainment in Twelfth Night at Bristol Old Vic, even if it is only a surface level take on this most beguiling of masterpi…
I love a bit of immersive interactive theatre shiz: The Grift at Bethnal Green's Town Hall Hotel was last year's big winner imported from San Diego. Now from Canada comes Talk is Free Theatr…
Sarah Tynan takes on the title role in this new revival of David Alden's original 2008 production of Lucia di Lammermoor at the ENO. Here's what the critics have been making of it…
Take a look at Alex Brenner's fantastic production shots to get a hint of what to expect from Tiny Fires' production of Joanna Murray-Smith's Honour at Park Theatre. The marital drama, which…
Tamburlaine at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon brings the wonder and the terror of Marlowe's shepherd emperor to life in a production that gives an almost faultless account of a defect…
In Maddie Rice's one-woman play Pickle Jar, Miss is a young English teacher struggling to find her footing both in and out of the classroom
Forgotten at the ArcolaTheatre is a considered story serving an important function on the British stage, but the scope of this history is too big for the current length and structure.
Completing their ever-grander 20th season, The Production Company serves up a delectable slice of musical theatre heaven with the merrily macabre A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder.
Private passions are the overarching theme of the Welsh National Opera autumn 2018 season, and these passions are at the fore of Joan Font's frothy 2007 production of Rossini's La Cenerentol…
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Wise Children is a beautifully designed and performed show, that's faithful to the source material without ever feeling constrained by it " a great statement of intent from Emma Rice.
Every effort should be made for every show to start on time. Shows run late far too often and I reckon that's usually avoidable.