Joe McGann will replace Jimmy Nail as Jackie White when Sting's Broadway musical The Last Ship receives its UK premiere this spring. Further principal casting has also been announced today f…
It is great news indeed that this Orange Tree production will be gaining further life in 2018 with a transfer to the National Theatre in the summer. I really hope that as much of the origina…
How to split these three? Why would you even want to. Their effortless grace, their ferociously detailed complexity, their heart-breaking connectivity, all three will live long in my mind.
Andrew Lloyd Webber would have been over the rainbow with the Sydney premiere of The Wizard of Oz. From the moment the stage curtains opened, the audience was captivated.
Georgie Staight directs the European premiere of Christopher Chen's acclaimed American play Into the Numbers, which commemorates the 80th anniversary of the Nanking massacre.
"I am on a mission to get a younger audience to the theatre. In January 2017, I founded Fabricate Theatre, a company dedicated to producing theatre which is relevant to a younger audience."
"Often, when you are writing, it's a bit like putting a message in a bottle and throwing it out to sea " you don't know if anyone will read it or, if they do, if they will understand it."
Choosing my top five favourites from amongst the pantomimes I had the great pleasure and privilege of watching has been really easy! Here they are…. oh yes, they are…. (I need to stop th…
Elizabeth Chan's performance as Iris Chang in Into the Numbers is a convincing portrayal of mental illness but the lack of background to her story doesn't give the gravitas this production d…
Abi Morgan's hit stage play Tiny Dynamite returns to the stage tonight (9 January 2018) for its first professional revival in 15 years. It's at London's Old Red Lion Theatre until 3 February…
Armed with "the muscles of twenty men and the brains of twenty mussels", Bananaman is here to save the residents of Acacia Road, and Bananaman the Musical is here to save off-West End theatr…
It's a tale about obsession, madness and paranoia. Charley comes to believe the egg is, in fact, a Martian surveillance device, with the 'canals' observed on Mars actually being the shadows …
The new adaptation of Henry James' Turn of the Screw will receive its world premiere at the Mercury Theatre in Colchester before embarking on a UK tour.
To pick someone out of this prodigiously talented ensemble almost feels unfair, but Ellams' narrative did repeatedly land on Peckham and the contested ownership of that salon was given blist…
Thinking about this most well-received of plays, it is the role of Aunt Maggie Faraway who lingers most in my mind, the elegiac beauty of her speeches an elegant way of folding in traditions…
2018 – a new year to embrace new shows and experiences in the theatrical bubble I often find myself mooching around in. As I’ve said in my previous more personal blog posts, I ra…
Hanna written by Sam Potter is a true modern text; its witty, dramatic, humorous and surprising.
It was ultimately a year about women, with Herstory Festival and Bechdel Testing proving that there was plenty of excellent new writing from women, despite Hampstead Theatre claiming otherwi…
What is personally the most galling is the programming of Twelfth Night. Emma Rice's production was my favourite show of 2017. It almost feels like they're trying to brush it under the carpe…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
The Royal Opera House is currently reviving David McVicar's production of Verdi's opera Rigoletto, until 16 January 2018. In case you missed, here's what critics thought.
Joanne Clifton, of Strictly Come Dancing fame, put her well-known dance skills to good use and her acting and singing abilities astonished the audience, myself included.
This bold musical based on the beloved cartoon character has plenty of good ideas but is in need of some reworking to make it a stronger show.
Last Thursday [while much of the UK was still on holiday], I attended the press conference at which Michelle Terry revealed her first season at The Globe. And the dynamics in the room were f…
Former and current artistic directors Mark Rylance and Michelle Terry will take to the stage this year in Terry's inaugural season at Shakespeare's Globe.