Olivier Award winner for musical Kinky Boots, Matt Henry will make his Shakespeare's Globe debut in Barrie Rutter's The Two Noble Kinsmen, by John Fletcher and William Shakespeare, opening i…
The Menier Chocolate Factory has announced full casting for the UK premiere of Jordi Galceran's The Grönholm Method. Making his UK directorial debut, BT McNicholl directs Jonathan Cake (Fra…
From the opening number which promises so much, through to the second half that might feel as though it is dragging on just a bit too long, the audience's plight is fully acknowledged in thi…
Shakespeare's Globe has announced casting for Hamlet and As You Like It, the opening shows of Michelle Terry's first season as artistic director.
The trouble with Instructions for Correct Assembly is that for a drama which depends on the contrast between humanoid robots and real flesh and blood, there are no sympathetic human beings.
The world premiere of Felicity Huxley-Miner's new mental health play In the Shadow of the Mountain is coming up fast as part of the King's Head Theatre's first-ever Who Runs the World? seaso…
The Other. The Outcast. The Overlooked. The Visionary. Those who don't 'fit in' with everyone else aren't always appreciated in their lifetimes, but their impact is felt in the long run. Thi…
In the middle of a studio floor, marked with tape into audience safe zones, Alexander Weibel Weibel is playing violin as we enter the space for Breaking Point.
Hidden Theatre's Island Song is the first professional adaptation of Sam Carner and Derek Gregor's American musical. I would describe it as a millennial but heteronormative Rent set in New Y…
Jason Robert Brown opened the show with an emotive song about finding hope in a hopeless situation which he revealed was written the day after the last presidential election.
Michael Blakemore's production of Tosca plays out with a straight bat, period appropriate, detailed sets and clear delineation of character. He lets Puccini work his magic, each act building…
Head is a mixture of poetry, cynicism and the right amount of innuendo and crude humour to keep you entertained, created and performed by John-Paul Zaccarini.
You've got to check out this stunning new photography for In the Shadow of the Mountain, a new play written by and co-starring Felicity Huxley-Miners that lifts the lid on Borderline Persona…
"The Buzz is a play that, on the surface, seems very contemporary in its concerns but in fact deals with the timeless conflicts of misuse of power, female oppression, the superficiality of s…
On paper, Fat Friends the Musical ticks all the boxes: a nostalgic revival of a much-loved TV series, written by the show's original creator Kay Mellor; a heart-warming story about loving yo…
In his audacious new play Devil With The Blue Dress, Kevin Armento examines five women's accounts leading up to " and resulting in " President Clinton's impeachment in 1998.
"When we play up north, it is very much Maggie's show being a northern girl. Then when we bring it down south, it is about the boys and Jewish refugees. The power dynamics people identify wi…
Picture the scene, Carnegie Hall 1971. Carole King played by Bronte Barbe sitting at the piano not expecting this many people to be watching her before playing a short rendition of 'So far A…
Clare Burt makes her RSC debut in the lead role of Miss Littlewood, a new musical about theatre director, Joan Littlewood. Previews begin in the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon on 22 June …
What is so good about this play is how it lulls you into a false sense of security. The informality of how the characters address the audience, speaking in verse (sometimes rhyming, sometime…
A packed Palladium saw Jason Robert Brown, supported by the lush BBC Concert Orchestra and the composer's own rhythm section record a Friday Night Is Music Night show for future broadcast. T…
Blurring the lines, nothing is ever black and white anymore, it is forever a shade of grey; Quiz is a show that reflects that sentiment fully. We are at the Noel Coward Theatre, a venue stee…
"You worry (especially with fringe theatre): are you going to put bums on seats? Is it going to be able to portray the message you want? Will the audience get much out of it?"
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
At first, Metta Theatre's Little Mermaid may seem like a simplified interpretation of the Hans Christian Andersen classic, but beneath the surface lies a magical concoction of trapeze, aeria…