We're counting down to the premiere of BREATHE, the follow-up play about teenage suicide by Athenaeum Productions' 18-year-old founder George Jaques, which premieres next week at London's Bu…
I've written about audition fees many times before and make absolutely no apology for doing so again. I shall keep relentlessly banging this drum until something changes. The post Ban aud…
A small, quiet important play for our times, Charlotte Jones' The Meeting is led by a luminous, fiercely honest performance by Lydia Leonard as Rachel and Gerald Kyd as the puzzled ultimatel…
John Williams is a prolific composer whose work stretches across six decades. The remarkable breadth of his compositions ensured that throughout the two-hour gig there were melodies that tou…
Maverick Macedonian-born theatremaker Petar Miloshevski brings his brand-new solo show to this year's Camden Fringe. The Passion According to Bibi, about the future of sex, runs for two perf…
If I were you I'd check out The Simon & Garfunkel Story for future dates. All the hits are there along with some lesser known ones and Philip Murray Warson and Charles Blyth are sensati…
Brendan Coyle will star in the Donmar Warehouse production of St Nicholas, a chilling one-man play by Conor McPherson, directed by Simon Evans, marking the first time McPherson and Coyle hav…
The politics are an Old Labour and North London hybrid and, the hospital on stage is probably more fantasy than NHS reality. But when national treasures do something new, we should all rejoi…
I was lucky enough to see an early screening of Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again last week and I thought it was fricking fantastic.
Alexandra Burke will join the West End cast of Chicago at the Phoenix Theatre, playing the role of Roxie Hart from Monday 16 August through to Saturday 14 October 2018.
Sam Mendes directs this production of Stefano Massini's The Lehman Trilogy starring Simon Russell Beale, Ben Miles and Adam Godley. Here Love London Love Culture rounds up the reviews…
In the second of our two-part interview series for Two for the Seesaw, we catch up with leady lady Elsie Bennett, who tells us why she loves the 1958 play's old Hollywood charm and how much …
It's TONIGHT (24 July 2018)! As Proforca Theatre' new adaptation of The Ballad of Reading Gaol opens to the press at London's Theatre N16 for a limited run to 2 August 2018, here's a stunnin…
For a play about storytelling, most of A Monster Calls is oddly unengaging and bland. Worst of all, it does the audience's moral work for them, being increasingly didactic and offering its s…
Athenaeum Productions, founded by then 16-year-old actor-producer George Jaques, is gearing up for the premiere next week of its second play BREATHE. Sneak a peek inside rehearsals with Jaqu…
BREATHE, a gritty new stage play about teenage suicide written by and starring 18-year-old George Jaques, gets its world premiere this month at London's Bunker Theatre in a limited season in…
In their keenly anticipated season of An Ideal Husband, Melbourne Theatre Company matches the sparkle of Oscar Wilde's wit with a gleaming production bejeweled with dazzling performances.
Hymn to Love, Elizabeth Mansfield's much-lauded tribute to Edith Piaf, transfers to London's Jermyn Street Theatre this week after sell-out performances and an extended run at Theatre By The…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Best known for their adaptations of literary classics, Arrows & Traps has taken a different approach in their latest production, The White Rose.
The goals of Sounds & Sorcery are clear, the idea is to enchant audiences and give them a magical night but personally, it falls a little flat.
Bartlett Sher's production of the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King & I is a real treat for the eyes and the ears.
As strong as the cast is (Abraham Popoola and Siobhán McSweeney stand out), the hyperactive knowing style in which they deliver Pity also grates.
A new Alan Bennett play is an event. And hospitals " the epicentres of birth and death " are eventful places. Allelujah! is a match made in heaven then.
Arrow and Traps' re-telling of the story of The White Rose is apt in times of increased authoritarianism around the world. In Sophie Scholl, the most famous and youngest member to executed b…