Confidence continues at the Southwark Playhouse until 16 June 2018. It features a small cast including Anna Crichlow playing Ruby. Anna has previously appeared in Pride and Prejudice for Reg…
In essence you don't have to be a massive Take That fan (but knowing their popular songs is an obvious bonus) and you don't have to have been a teenage girl during the 90s to enjoy The Band …
A welcome performance of a lesser-known play, providing as much entertainment as food for thought " the music and dance are real highlights.
It is rare to find a show so good-natured and yet ominous and academic, all at the same time. Come for the raucous humour, stay for the dramatic, dirty colonialism and the lesson in the pros…
Gérald Garutti's production of Molière's Tartuffe hasn't convinced me that it's the finest play in the French canon. Yet, for its sexy design, its novelty, and its ambition, it is oddly en…
Preparations are well underway for the West End transfer of Steven Dietz's AIDS-era two-hander Lonely Planet, which runs at Trafalgar Studios during this year's month-long Pride in London fe…
Attending the first show of 2018 made me wonder, not for the first time, why we mad Brits persist in doing outdoor theatre. This is not Verona, Seville or Avignon, after all.
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Iwan Lewis' direction is assured and he is truly at home creating an increasingly wide ripple effect in the intimate surroundings of The Barn Theatre, which after The Secret Garden and now O…
After success at the Edinburgh Fringe and in Korea (!), Guy Retallack's acclaimed production of Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story, Stephen Dolginoff's macabre musical recounting one o…
Sandra Dickinson spoke to Love London Love Culture's Emma Clarendon about her upcoming role in The Unbuilt City, playing at the King's Head Theatre from the 6 to the 30 June 2018.
A trio of West End cast recordings (well, one's off-West-End…) show that it is sometimes hard to recapture the stage magic.
For a technically brilliant show with performances that will leave you wanting to return to the 'Coloured Lights' again and again, go see The Rink. This is musical theatre at it's best " let…
A new booking period for the London production of Hamilton will go on sale on Monday 4 June 2018 at 12 noon GMT.
I think some of the elements in Tartuffe might have been lost in translation, they were certainly lost on me, but for anyone who is fluent in French and English, it could be just the thing f…
Prior to its forthcoming West End season during London Pride, Steven Dietz's AIDS-era two-hander Lonely Planet had its UK premiere last summer. Check out this fab video interview star and pr…
As Ireland moves into a new era, Brian Friel's play remains at the heart of debate " how can a country maintain its essence while embracing the modern world?
Oklahoma! has an energy that is set to catapult The Production Company onwards for their next 20 years. Lovers of traditional musical theatre must not miss the show at the State Theatre, Art…
The Gate Theatre's artistic director Ellen McDougall has announced her second season at the Notting Hill venue with highlights including a new translation of Jean Cocteau's The Human Voice b…
Hidden Door has returned to Leith for a second year, expanding in several directions " to put on more shows and more different kinds of shows in more spaces for longer hours.
King's Head Theatre is currently home for the show F*cking Men, written by Tony Award-winning writer Joe DiPietro. The show follows a multitude of characters that are interwoven into multipl…
Love London Love Culture's Emma Clarendon spoke to Laura Pitt-Pulford about her current role in The Gronholm Method at the Menier Chocolate Factory, playing until 7 July 2018.
The notion of updating Into the Woods to a specifically 21st-century context is an intriguing one, as director Tim McArthur draws in influences such as The Only Way is Essex, Made in Chelsea…
Kicking off on 11 June 2018, Breaking Out is a festival of world premiere shows by emerging theatre companies. One of those shows is Nathan Ellis' No One Is Coming to Save You from This Nois…
In Felicity Huxley-Miners' In The Shadow Of The Mountain, we see how mental health affects one young couple and the difficulty of acknowledging ' the elephant in the room'.