With a more focused structure and additional context earlier in the work, Alien Land will draw in a wider audience base and more clearly communicate the rich stories and experiences underpin…
The Open House comes to The Print Room, Notting Hill, from a successful premiere at Theatre Royal Bath's Ustinov Studio and it is an engrossing character study of family life, post-The Ameri…
As a story, The People's Rock: A Musical at the Vault Festival is both intimate and 'large' in its scope, using the tools of Avenue Q and social satire to say something about the value of sp…
Opening just before Christmas to rave reviews, the London version of the multi-award-winning Broadway hit Hamilton has won its first major prize outside the USA " Best Musical at the 2017 Cr…
Revolution is a Blockbusters-inspired game played in a suitably austere, bare brick environment; the kind of locale suited to an underground gathering of would-be revolutionaries.
At it's best The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha is one of the most ridiculously fun, liberating examples of interactive, ensemble storytelling.
'I deliberately stayed away from the novel as I knew it was written from a different perspective and I didn't want to judge the performance.'
A same tired storyline is given a jolt of electricity in playwright Christopher Adams' Tumulus at Vault Festival.
Hamilton is everything you might hope for. Lin-Manuel Miranda has written a piece that is at once gloriously current and utterly timeless. The cast at the Victoria Palace Theatre gleans ever…
Jennifer Maisel's play There or Here, at the Park Theatre, is a multi-layered narrative shot through with humour, some of it scathing, including a lot of witty one-liners.
Got your tickets yet for the UK premiere of Rothschild & Sons, a musical by Fiddler on the Roof's Broadway legends Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick? After success in New York, the show ge…
Have you booked yet for THERE OR HERE at the Park Theatre? This UK premiere of Jennifer Maisel’s dramatic comedy is now running until 17 February 2018. We've rounded up som…
Lanie Robertson's 2005 bio-monologue about Peggy Guggenheim could be just another 'poor rich girl' tale, but in Guggenheim and in the performance from Judy Rosenblatt we see not only a tale …
Donning black gauze masks for our mouth and nose, we are led into the underworld poetry of Becoming Shades, at The Vaults, a moving dream of Persephone's journey into Hades from the creative…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Man chooses every day (or not) to yield to the behaviour of his more bestial ancestors or devils, Joe Sellman-Leava's Monster explores this conundrum as part of the VAULT Festival.
Kneehigh's distinctive approach to storytelling in The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk at Wilton's Music Hall turns the tale into a visual and emotional feast that pays homage to a great artist, hi…
"What kind of person isn't interested in politics"A black man, a woman and a young gay lad walk into an Ohio bar - it may sound like the set-up for a joke but as they start to talk about how…
Jason Gardiner, Lara Denning, Kim Maresca, Harriet Thorpe and Tracie Bennett join the company of Joel Paley and Marvin Laird's award-winning all-female character camp killer cult classic Rut…
Javaad Alipoor explores the dark world of lonely young men, seething with resentment, attracted by tech-savvy extremist groups, in The Believers Are But Brothers at the Bush Theatre.
In Tomorrow Creeps at The Vaults writer (and GOLEM! Theatre co-founder) David Fairs has drawn his text from 16 Shakespeare works (including the sonnets) as well as a sprinkling of Kate Bush …
From the producers of the 2013 production Yellow Face, comes this thoughtful production of Jennifer Maisel's play There or Here at London's Park Theatre.
Made up primarily of short vignettes, For a Black Girl at The Vaults pulls apart the constant micro-aggressions faced every day by black women, other women of colour, black men, white womenâ…
Fuck You Pay Me, as part of the VAULT Festival season is a fun, intelligent, and relatively well-paced piece of theatre, which truly has a heart of gold. And heels of gold. And nipple tassel…
Lia Williams and Juliet Stevenson are both extraordinary in Mary Stuart at the Duke of York's Theatre, but the level of sexualisation, sexual violence and assault in the depiction of these t…