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I met with Isabel Pollen and Jim Sturgeon who play the leading roles of Laura and Alec in Brief Encounter. We spoke about what its like to re-create such an iconic film on stage.
Actor Ryan Pidgen will remember this night. It was the moment when he went out on stage an understudy and came back a star after single-handedly saving a show and the neck of its worried dir…
Joshua McTaggart will step down as artistic director of The Bunker Theatre in September 2018. David Ralf will continue to lead the London off West End theatre in his new role as executive di…
A really fun, disturbing and unique piece blessed with performers who can carry the material off.
Fun Home exceeds all expectations. It's one of those productions where everything " book, music, performance, design " comes together in perfect harmony and by the final notes you know you'v…
This reading of The Destiny of Me was a rare (especially for a Brit) opportunity to see this rarely performed play. The fact Kramer has done re-writes gives me hope there will be a productio…
I haven't felt the calling to scribble my thoughts down of late. However, the recent passing of one of the world's greatest dance makers Gillian Lynne has moved to do just that.
Artistic Director of the National Theatre Rufus Norris met with invited guests this week at the Theatre Royal Bath to talk about the touring production of Macbeth and his vision and passion.…
Ahead of The Rise and Fall of Little Voice's opening tomorrow night (11 July 2018) at the Barn Theatre in Cirencester, you've got to check out our gallery of production photos of the cast in…
Overall Peepshow is a thoroughly entertaining, often spectacular piece, just subversive enough and featuring a truly impressive cast of performers, who just leave you just enough time at the…
With plastic swords and rubber mezzanine set " complete with safety rails " that wobbled as it lurched from one scene change to another, the only credit to come out of this mess of a musical…
Joseph Skelton's writing in Fat Jewels layers in a dark vein of comedy which adds an additionally discomfiting level but crucially, it also points towards a possible way forward through all …
In Sheffield Daniel Evans made a name for himself with dazzling musicals that were, for all the razzamatazz, full of heart and he's done the same here, taking a show so familiar and finding …
Do you like your fringe theatre to be provocative and grotesque? Your Molotov Kisses will not disappoint. Written by award-winning Venezuelan writer Gustavo Ott, the premiere of this new Bri…
Flesh & Bone is a delight to behold the entire way through with each scene a snapshot of the daily life of a community that deserves more credit than it gets. It soars as a fantastic en…
Professional and Career Development Loans were a lifeline for students like these. Now that such loans have gone many of them will simply not be able to pursue the career they want " irrespe…
The Everyman rep company is wrapping up its second successful season this month with a reprise of all four of the very diverse productions it has been staging since the start of the year inc…
The cast and crew for Champagne For Clementine did an amazing job in such a small room, in a short space of time. It's a perfect show to take in before a night out, it's upbeat, fun and funn…
In case you were unaware (unlikely, considering it's now made it to the BBC news website) at Tuesday evening's performance of Titanic last week in Nottingham, a pair of women in the front ro…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Knights of the Rose comes from a female team of director and choreographer Racky Plews and writer Jennifer Marsden but it is a masculine tale of Knights of the realm and their fair maidens.
Paul Roseby, artistic director and chief executive of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain (NYT) has today announced the company's summer and autumn programme for 2018, including its …
Written by Joseph Skelton and directed by Luke Davies, Fat Jewels isn't your average play about male bonding.
After the critically acclaimed run of Birthday Suit at the Old Red Lion Theatre in 2017, pluck.productions are bringing their latest show to the Park Theatre this July. Alkaline is a play ab…
Bartlett Sher's production of The King & I brings the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical to the West End. But what have critics had to say about it?
