In these ultra-sensitive, snowflake times, writing, and performing, comedy is fraught with danger. One wrong word or gag and a once glittering career can lay in tatters. TV and radio writer,…
The illustrator Rebecca Cobb spoke to LLLC's Emma Clarendon about collaborating with Julia Donaldson and bringing The Everywhere Bear to the Polka Theatre.
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Flesh and Bone is an affectionate, entertaining and unapologetically irreverent tribute to a community that's much more than a caricature, and has plenty to say for itself if only anybody wo…
It Happened In Key West takes risks which more often than not, pay off. As beguiling as it is macabre, this morbid musical comedy needs to be seen to be believed.
The producers of the award-winning Everybody's Talking About Jamie at the Apollo Theatre have announced that this week Rebecca McKinnis (Mamma Mia!, We Will Rock You) is stepping into the ro…
Shakespeare's slight and silly comedy As You Like at the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre is just the thing for midsummer.
"Bloody hell!" said The Stage of newcomer Sarah Louise Hughes, who takes the title role in The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, the final hit offering in the Barn Theatre, Cirencester's inaugu…
It may be winter in Melbourne, but inside the newly refurbished Princess Theatre there is nothing but idyllic Greek island sunshine as Mamma Mia! returns in a new production.
Temperatures soar in more ways than one in Joseph Skelton's Fat Jewels, a dark and deeply unsettling tale of abuse, manipulation and mental fragility.
Already a writer and theatre-maker of note, Daisycampbell's one-woman show about her father Ken confirms her as touched by inherited genius, but with her own, exceptional ability to hold an …
If Mark Gatiss tweets his love for your show, you must be doing something right! Just opened on Friday (13 July 2018), the world premiere of Alkaline has already garnered some great reviews …
Writer Lucy Danser spoke to LLLC's Emma Clarendon about her new play Lost in Thought, playing at the Hen and Chickens (21 July) and the Bread & Roses (29 July) before heading to Edinbur…
Alkaline is a tale of friendship, love and change, looking at what happens when relationships cling on by a thread and if they are worth fighting for.
Rent is a timeless story and this Vivo D'Arte production is well worth the trip to the Frogmore Paper Mill, Apsley to see it.
The Lehman Trilogy is an intelligent look behind the scenes of the American Dream and the smoke and mirrors of the corporate world, brought to light by Mendes' astute direction and a stellar…
Star of stage and screen Bonnie Langford is to join the cast of 42nd Street as the production extends its residency at Theatre Royal Drury Lane for a final time, through to Saturday 5 Januar…
It takes quite a play to bring tears to my eyes but, then, The Play About My Dad " set around the true stories of those who experienced Hurricane Katrina " is quite a piece of writing.
From 22 August 2018 term will begin for the year three cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Olivier Award-winning production of School of Rock " The Musical at the newly named Gillian Lynne Theatre.
Travel back to 1950s New York with these first-look photos of the long-overdue West End premiere of William Gibson's 1958 Broadway hit Two for the Seesaw, which officially opens to the press…
Barry Humphries appears in this tribute to Weimar era composers in his most daring character yet " himself " along fellow Melbournian Meow Meow for the ride along with Aurora Chamber Orchest…
As directed by Michael Grandage, whose revival of John Logan's Red is just around the corner at the Wyndham's Theatre, The Lieutenant of Inishmore proves that some black humour doesn't age.
The Lehman Trilogy is a tale of boom to bust: Stefano Massini's epic play, adaptedby Ben Power, takes a generational viewpoint to move us through 170 years of American history and three gene…
In Metamorphoses 2 five different myths are updated by five different playwrights to comment on a range of current topics, from #MeToo to the refugee crisis.
Director Sarah Meadows and designer Georgia de Grey have created a detailed and often humorous world in Alkaline in at the Park Theatrewith a cast that is agreeably bright and pretty convinc…