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A sunny joy from beginning to end, The Merry Widow is the winter warmer Melbourne needs. Lovers of traditional, old-fashioned glamour will swoon to the return of The Merry Widow.
Second Circle Theatre's artistic director Hannah Samuels talks about bringing their second show, Kiss Chase, to the Bunker Theatre as part of the Breaking Out season.
Set in my home turf Newham, it's nice to see the area being portrayed with a bit of heart that doesn't revolve around violent crime. Although, Shadow Kingdoms does centre around the act of c…
I caught up with Toby Miles who is about to make his West End debut in the long-running musical Les Misérables. We talked about his dreams, how it felt to be joining such an iconic musical,…
Brian Friel's searing attack on British imperialism and entitlement is still painfully relevant, nearly 40 years after it was and nearly 200 years after the events depicted in the story.
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Wednesday 11 July 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock quizzes the team behind the world premiere of the new US musical comedy It Happene…
In the hands of Sally Cookson, A Monster Calls is an instant classic: a show that transforms both hearts and minds through the magic of authentic storytelling. Go with someone and join the m…
Adam Lenson directs this revival of John Kander and Fred Ebb's musical The Rink, currently playing at the Southwark Playhouse. Here's what critics have so far made of it…
Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company has confirmed the full cast for its forthcoming production of Sweet Charity " its first musical production since 2006 (31 August to 22 September 2018, pr…
It's likely to be a weekend to remember for Marianne Elliott (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, War Horse), artistic director of Elliott & Harper Productions, for not o…
Dark undercurrents flow beneath the surface of Fiery Angel and the Royal & Derngate, Northampton's touring production of Love From a Stranger.
Classic Spring has announced that Fiona Button (Cecily Cardew) and Stella Gonet (Miss Prism) have been cast in Michael Fentiman's The Importance of Being Earnest at the Vaudeville Theatre (2…
Weaving together three centuries and four women's stories, Offside tackles the ongoing search for equality in women's football with high energy and verve.
The Spelling Bee may be a traditionally US phenomenon, but the show definitely works for an audience over the pond. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is infectious, fun, uplifting a…
Such a bleak, unexciting play is high risk, for sure. But if women's lives are to be represented truthfully, then this is the risk that must be taken, and I applaud Emily Schwend for her bra…
At its's best Fiona Doyle's text is an ambitious, theatrically exciting and fast-moving panorama which conveys something of the breath-taking scope of contemporary migration, as well as deta…
Arguably, the revival of a 25-year-old script is done for one of two reasons; either its excellent writing simply entertains, or it is pertinent to today's societal trends. With Killer Joe, …
Brand new comedy Vulcan 7, written by and starring Adrian Edmondson and Nigel Planer, directed by Steven Marmion, will have its world premiere this autumn before embarking on a UK tour.
Mussolini never killed people, just sent them to holiday camps. So says the tagline, borrowed from Silvio Berlusconi, for San Domino, Tim Anfilogoff and Alan Whittaker's curious little romp …
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Thursday 5 July 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock heads to the Tabard Theatre in Chiswick to talk to Beth Burrows about playing Judy G…
While Polly Stenham retains plenty of Strindberg's purpose, Julie doesn't go quite far enough in remoulding the political and psychological shape of its characters for the 21st century.
I write a lot about the performing arts I watch other people engaging in. Last week, for a change, it was my turn. I went to Benslow Music in Hitchin for three days – for the sixth or …
UK Theatre has released 2017 sales figures for more than 200 of its member venues across the country and the numbers show a downturn in tickets sold and gross revenue.
There is a lot to be said for keeping a show succinct and there is no doubt that diehard fans of the game and the man will get a lot out of Red Ladder's The Damned United. When you lose too …
She's glam, she's fun and 55 years young. Jane McDonald is the singer and presenter that everyone wants to be friends with and we got to catch up with her ahead of her sold-out show taking p…
