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In what has been another full and stimulating year of reviewing countless revivals and some occasionally excellent new writing, below are the twelve productions that have impressed me the mo…
Following on from Elaine Paige Presents the Musicals, this latest album has plenty of variety that mixes classic musical songs and new favourites " but with mixed results.
Lots & lots of shows have their first performances in London and across the country this month, including new productions of Pinter's The Birthday Party, Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan, …
Fittingly, the reviewing year has ended in the grandest of styles at Paris' Grand Palais to where the city's illustrious Theatre du Châtelet have temporarily decamped, reviving their 2015…
The Charing Cross Theatre has been home to a number of musicals in recent years, but this marks the first time a show by Andrew Lloyd Webber has performed there.
The massive space of the Olivier Theatre houses a staging rich in period detail. Even the air itself seems to have a tinge of sepia tone.
A particular highlight was Julie Atherton as Queen Angelica, whose comedic timing was on point as always.
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Happy New Year! And a Happy Birthday to circus as the 250th anniversary celebrations begin!
Behold the 2017 fosterIAN award nominations, recognising the acting performances that stood out for me, the ones that made me sit up, and sometimes stand up.
Well, we're all still here… The big red button hasn't been pushed yet and theatre is better than ever! But what's coming up this year?
As 2017 is analysed and filed away, Kath and I are busily sorting out 40+ years of archives, lofts, photos and our individual and shared lives as we reduce (a bit) what we plan to move to ou…
Here it is a list of the 10 shows that for various reasons made a mark in 2017.
I get rather drawn to the stats page of the blog at times. But it's always interesting to see the search terms that bring people here " and which posts get the most hits!
"You want all my love and my devotion"... As Dreamgirls is now into its second year in the West End and has recently welcomed a new cast into the Savoy, what better time to revisit this most…
This was my last theatre outing of the year, and what a way to end a year. Everyone should be talking about Jamie if they aren't already.
It is a complicated logistical exercise to put on stage all the elements familiar from the film, and to deliver them with an authentic sense of menace. Often it works, the bed shaking and 3…
Today is the first day of a new year, and 2018 is the year I will have to scale back my theatre going (it was getting ridiculous to be fair). So I'm going to have to be a lot more selective …
Any number of shows could have been included in this post; frankly it's ludicrous that I decided to stick with my whole top 12 idea… As I've seen about 90 more individual shows than last y…
Although it was built in the 16th century, Middle Temple Hall is a very appropriate setting for Dickens' A Christmas Carol, particularly as Dickens was a student at Middle Temple from 1839 t…
With 2018 fast approaching, here's a look back at Love London Love Culture's top posts of 2017.
Matthew Bourne's Second World War staging was first aired in 1997, before a revival in 2010 leading to this 2017 slightly re-worked reprise and it makes for an uncompromising interpretation …
A dark new Agatha Christie adaptation has become something of a Christmas tradition, and even though the BBC only started this tradition two years ago with an excellent multi-part interpreta…
The main reason for traveling to Birmingham Rep for The Hundred and One Dalmatians was to see Cruella De Vil played by Gloria Onitiri, an actress who I've enjoyed following since the Avenue …
With the demise of the repertory system, it is the fringe and alternative theatre that has stealthily and often in unrecognised ways provided the apprenticeship and forcing house in recent y…
