Premiering this week, Cordelia O'Neill's new play Anything Is Possible If You Think About It Hard Enough is part of Small Things Theatre Company's season of female-focused new work at this y…
Immercity's The Silhouette in the Smoke takes the interactivity even further. Not only do you get to question the actors, but along with your fellow audience members work together to solve t…
You is a beautiful story of love, loss, family and what family is defined as. It's truly an emotional play that doesn't shy away from the truth. I personally would love to see an extended ve…
Danyah Miller has adapted Michael Morpurgo's I Believe in Unicorns for the stage, which plays at the Polka Theatre in Wimbledon from the 14 to 18 February before continuing its tour. She spo…
Therese Ramstedt's Mission Abort shares a personal experience of abortion which she clearly holds very close to her heart. She sheds a punchy and humorous take on something that needs to be …
If We Got Some More Cocaine I Could Show You How I Love You at The Vaults, on the other hand, is an excellent example of theatre which explores gay love and queer identity from an unfamiliar…
With laughs, wit and social commentary in abundance, Elsa " at The Vaults " will surely put Isobel Rogers on the map.
However, a couple of interesting tweets popped up from Channel 4's political correspondent, Michael Crick, that seemed to get people's juices flowing " one of which makes a rather pertinent …
AI Love You, part of the Vault Festival, holds up a mirror to the technological challenges facing society in a way similar to the Netflix hit series Black Mirror and asks the question: "Is t…
What happens when a comedian runs a comedy club in one of the most violently repressed areas of the world? Showtime from the Frontline sounds like it should be a recipe for disaster, yet Mar…
The poor script and production fails to serve the impact of PTSD underlying Gold Coast at Theatre503, a significant overhaul is needed to give it potency.
Monica Dolan's writing debut The B*easts at the Bush Theatre is a provocative monologue performed by Dolan herself, tackling the sexualisation of children and nudging us into a hypothetical …
A stage revival of taut psychological thriller Strangers On a Train is now touring the country and this week it had opening night audiences at Woking's packed New Victoria Theatre on the edg…
The fact that we still have men today who think male violence is "a complex issue" shows that Dennis Kelly's play Girls & Boys " with men firmly in its sights " remains desperately need…
The publicity for Abi Zakarian's I Have A Mouth and I Will Scream at The Vaults puts it better than I ever could " it's "a play-performance-art-protest-thing".
My verdict on The Moor at the Old Red Lion Theatre, London? A tale as mysterious as the moorland, twisting and turning like a babbling brook " a captivating watch.
Real-life father and son, Edward and Freddie Fox, will play fictional father and son, the Earl of Caversham and Lord Goring, in An Ideal Husband, as part of the year-long Oscar Wilde season …
An interesting corrective to those soft-focus romantic images of rural equanimity, in the end, Gundog doesn't quite come off. But, like grandad's homily to his family, Longman too has bravel…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Es Devlin's design for Girls and Boys, aided by Luke Halls' video work, is simply stunning " the simplest of ideas realised with perfect execution.
Susan Elkin chats to Justin Cooke, CEO of Digital Theatre. Digital Theatre offers access to films of live theatre, ballet, opera and classical concerts to individual subscribers and educatio…
With its almost unbearable ending, Dennis Kelly's play is a wonderful mix of hilarity and horror. Carey Mulligan is simply brilliant, totally at home on stage in Lyndsey Turner's well-paced,…
Like many others, I have my hopes, even expectations, on the change that women may bring. But this is not for me to burden women creatives with. They already have enough of a challenge as it…
Newly adapted by David Edgar, this new production of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde has plenty of chilling moments but doesn't quite make a strong enough impact overall.
Rosalie Craig and Hadley Fraser will appear in the first ever concert performance of The Light Princess at London's Cadogan Hall in July.