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Phone rings, door chimes, in comes an adaptation of Company that subtly but definitively realigns it for a contemporary audience and makes you wonder how you could ever go back to the origin…
Ken Urban's A Guide for the Homesick received its European premiere last night. This "blisteringly intense evening" is "simultaneously warmly funny and deeply moving", Rachel Halliburton say…
The Trench, conceived, written, co-directed and performed by Oliver Lansley and his lively company, Les Enfants Terribles, was inspired by the story of Sapper William Hackett, the only tunne…
As we count down to the transfer of Jonathan Lewis' Soldier On, coinciding with the centenary of the end of World War On, we caught up some of the real ex-soldiers performing in the cast. To…
To say Calendar Girls The Musical is celebratory seems cliché, yet there's no better description; Calendar Girls is an unashamed celebration of love, life, and community (and cake!).
The Donmar Warehouse has announced full casting for Lynette Linton's production of Sweat by Lynn Nottage (7 December 2018 to 26 January 2019, press night is 19 December). The line-up include…
As we count down to the Barn Theatre's comic three-hander revival of The Hound of the Baskervilles, we investigate the three actors playing 14 roles between them. We start with Hywel Dowsell…
Director Jude Christian's othellomacbeth, two-for-one offer on Shakespearean tragedies at the Lyric Hammersmith, sounds like a bad idea. Crammed into two and half hours, there's too much mat…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
It's 23 years since Mathew Bourne changed the gender of the swans in Swan Lake for his choreography of the ballet but it still stands the test of time.
I'm a sucker for inventive adaptations of Shakespeare plays, so Paper Cinema's Macbeth, a live-action, silent movie version, is hugely appealing.
The Incident is a timely one-act play about structural racism in Sweden but this tale of a relationship between Swedish Jan and Zimbabwean Monica could be about any mixed-race couple in the …
A youthful and enthusiastic Much Ado About Nothing from Exploding Whale in the Katzpace Studio Theatre in London Bridge.
After her 2017 success with thriller Tryst, director Phoebe Barran heads back to the Tabard Theatre this autumn to direct a very different show, global hit comedy, Sexy Laundry. Find out why…
Stephen Daldry's production of The Inheritance opens at the Noel Coward Theatre, following a successful run at the Young Vic earlier this year. Here's what critics have said about it…
A story of alleged Soviet spies, treason and a political witch hunt... Joe Harmston directs a timely revival of James Phillips' multi award-winning play The Rubenstein Kiss in the new year.
Southwark Playhouse has announced its new 2019 season, running from January to June, one of the final programmes in its current home before it moves into two custom-built facilities for its …
Marianne Elliott brings Company to the West End with a production that may well change the musical forever.
Hogarth's Progress consists of two plays by Nick Dear: The Art of Success, 30 years old, and a new companion piece, The Taste of the Town, set 30 years later. Both tell the story of William …
A beautifully compact version of a well-known opera, La Tragedie de Carmen is backed by stunning historic surroundings " the vocals and performances are impressive.
Nick Lane spoke to LLLC’s Emma Clarendon about adapting Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of the Four for Blackeyed theatre, touring the UK now. For t…
Love London Love Culture rounds up the reviews for this revival of Kenneth MacMillan's dark ballet Mayerling, now playing at the Royal Opera House.
Further casting has been announced for Only Fools And Horses The Musical which opens in London at the Theatre Royal Haymarket on 9 February 2019.
Madagascar The Musical is very much a show that only young children will enjoy. Unlike other kids shows, however, there's just not nearly enough adult content to keep them entertained too.
Terence Rattigan was understandably consumed with thoughts of love and death " and the right way to die " when he wrote his last great play, In Praise Of Love. Dying himself from leukaemia "…
