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Eugenius! manages that perfect balance of pop music and musical theatre- storytelling through song but with an infectious and catchy side.
Do modern sex lives belong to the Internet? After development while at the National Theatre, up-and-coming playwright Laura Mead's latest play, Vanilla, premieres at London Tristan Bates The…
Alison Carr's Caterpillar, a finalist in the Theatre 503's Playwriting Award, gets an excellent staging and will later tour to the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough.
It's the first ever Show Peep! " an addendum to The Show People Podcast " our host Andrew Keates shares information about how you can work with Julie Atherton, Oliver Savile, Danielle Taren…
Writer and solo performer Milly Thomas with the third showing of her play (Edinburgh Fringe 2017 and the Soho Theatre February this year) had the whole audience laughing every minute or so a…
RSC artistic director Gregory Doran announced today his ambition for a new collaborative cross-cast ensemble which reflects the nation, to play three Shakespeare productions in a newly recon…
From the moment a smock-dressed lady ambles on stage, the cramped space in South London erupts into a burst of foot-tapping tunes. Unexpected Joy boasts a rousing chorus of tunes and some im…
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Proud Haddock's intimate, all-female revival of Tony Harrison's Square Rounds, marking the centenary of the end of the First World War, has attracted the attention of military historians as …
Full casting - including Caroline Harker - has been announced for the world premiere of The Sweet Science of Bruising, Joy Wilkinson's new play about Victorian female boxers which comes to L…
It has been quite a week with two significant celebrations " my coming of bus-pass age and celebrating the wedding of my daughter Anna to her amazing partner Jonny " who live on a Dutch Barg…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Eugenius! really is an extravaganza showcase for the completely nonsensical musical. It's cheesy, baffling and a visual delight all in one.
That Girl is Hatty (Hatty Jones) plucked from obscurity to play the lead in what would become a cult children's film. Now grown up she works in advertising and we find her struggling with ad…
As Bill Buckhurst's production of Sweet Charity takes the show squarely back to its 1960s origins with Rebecca Trehearn in the lead, the show delivers an exhilarating if somewhat brutal comm…
Are you feeling the nip in the air? Fend off autumn with some salsa-and-sun-infused Shakespeare fun as you hit the dance floor with Much Ado's Ben and Bea in Summer Light Theatre take on the…
Tony Harrison's Square Rounds returns to the stage, a poetic reconstruction of an industrious age, when Jewish German scientists thought about shit, or rather, with horses redundant, the lac…
Dance Nation at the Almeida Theatre is a pretty damn fine piece of writing by US playwright Clare Barron, and a damn fine piece of theatre directed by Bijan Sheibani.
Bill Russell and Janet Hood's musical Unexpected Joy is refreshing and appropriate for 2018 thanks to its four strong female characters and songs that hit the spot emotionally.
Written by Alison Carr and directed by Yasmeen Arden, Caterpillar begins with guest house proprietor Maeve (Tricia Kelly) and daughter Claire (Judith Amsenga) during one summer weekend.
It is a fitting moment to watch Oladipo Agboluaje's New Nigerians, which was first staged at this Off-West End venue in February 2017, and now returns " and I'm happy to say that it's as fre…
Continuing from its stratospheric success earlier in the year, now-cult classic musical Eugenius! sets to stun audiences with another limited run at The Other Palace.
It's been 26 years since Tony Harrison's anti-war polemic Square Rounds baffled and amused audiences and it has lost none of its bite.
Kaite O'Reilly's And Suddenly I Disappear " The Singapore/UK 'd' Monologues (the first multilingual, intercultural, deaf and disability-led theatre project created between the UK and Singapo…
A female led production with wonderful songs, a heartfelt message and a whole lot of love, there's no reason not to see Unexpected Joy.
