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'It's a comedy roller-coaster. But you have to be a certain height to take the ride. If you're shorter than my hips you won't be let in.'
There are all sorts of big productions arriving in the months to come (Long Day's Journey Into Night, the return of Amadeus, PATTI LUPONE!), but I'm using this spot to highlight some of the …
With plenty of great shows coming to London in the new year, here's Love London Love Culture's top 10 favourites to book for now…. Click on links to BUY tickets in the Mates Ticket Shop.
Following critical and commercial success with last year's Cinderella, QDOS Entertainment have again invested millions to make Dick Whittington the biggest, boldest and glitziest pantomime o…
As ever, the wait for the end-of-year lists of favourite plays and performances has to continue until I've actually stopped seeing theatre in 2017. But in the meantime, here's a list of 11 o…
Much of my 'touring' has been concentrated in Bristol and Chichester; there are a few other UK venues to add to the list, as well as some from my week in New York, of course.
Visiting superstars, theatre renovations, a maestro exposed and the untimely death of a beloved international baritone dominate the 2017 year of opera.
The boutique musical boom went off the boil in 2017, while on the professional scene, Melbourne's East End was dominated by one man: Casey Nicholaw.
This was a year where the work touring into Bristol and the work I saw in Latitude, London, the cinema and New York dazzled.
The Chuckle Brothers were the perfect foil for Craig Revel-Horwood's evil Queen Lucretia who was sexy, sultry, evil and really rather beautiful with a powerful singing voice.
Love London Love Culture has been to see lots of high quality productions this year " here's the top 20 picks.
To draw a circus map of Britain today, we can no longer just look to the fields and hard-standings where tenting companies pitch, but must also peek behind the walls of theatre buildings and…
Released in time for Christmas, From The Top contains zero surprises. If you were thinking of getting for someone who likes him, then they are going to be satisfied.
After 250 or so shows across London and Edinburgh, these are 2017's top ten (and a few runners up) from The Play's the Thing UK's founding editor.
The Grinning Man is an astonishing piece of theatre which will appeal to anyone with an appetite for an entertainment which is piquant, curious, original and just a little bit macabre.
It's been a long time since I last saw Robin Hood And The Babes In The Wood performed, and it was a very different incarnation to the Rock 'N' Roll version currently being staged at Stafford…
Anne Washburn (she of the extraordinary Mr Burns) has fashioned this play out of eight of the stories told by The Twilight Zone and presents them as if shuffling a pack of cards.
It is always difficult to capture the magical nature of a popular West End show onto an album, but with this gorgeous soundtrack the cast and everybody involved with the creation of this alb…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
A second, transatlantic viewing proves just how thoroughly the production theatricalises addicts' experiences in order to generate audience empathy with the struggle to overcome addiction.
Emma Rice scores one of her biggest hits on Bankside with a musical that couldn't be more Emma Rice if it tried. As it is, it fits perfectly into the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, shaking up the …
I'm not usually crazy about rankings and hierarchy in the creative arts so, please, see this as more of a summary of all the shows that really shook me. Except for the Number One. I'm all ab…
Naturally, facing what felt like a significant and unbreachable rift, instability and economic downturn was the likely outcome, which for the arts, could only mean one thing " cultural depl…
The album is nearly completely stymied by its song selection, misguidedly mishmashing its genres so that we're taken from traditional carols to easy listening to the Fleet Foxes to original …
Bye, bye UK City of Culture, this monologue is about the Hull that celebrations have forgotten.
