The world's largest Shakespeare Festival ends this week after 292 performance nights in theatres all over the country. I refer, of course, to Shakespeare Schools Foundation which, every year…
Marisha Wallace's Soul Holiday is a delightfully warm and happy collection, destined to put smiles on faces this Christmas.
The Old Vic's gloriously exuberant production is a wonderful combination of classic Dickens with a touch of Brucie's Generation Game thrown in. Presiding over it all is the belligerent Ebene…
The Woman In White, a play about a vulnerable woman, preyed upon by a powerful man, couldn't be more timely with strong performances from its cast.
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Beautiful to look at and clever enough to know when to be stupid, The Arabian Nights at the Lyceum in Edinburgh is genuine family Christmas entertainment.
The overwritten script needs significant cutting and dramaturgical streamlining, but it has a dynamic premise that looks at an often-ignored demographic.
We are endlessly fascinated by spies and the nature of betrayal. For those who knew the men spying for Russia in the mid-Twentieth Century, more than country or ideology, it is the personal …
Continuing her conquest of the West End theatre scene, Marisha recently released a Christmas album, Soul Holiday, full of festive treats to get us all in the Christmas spirit, and on Sunday,…
Combining their woman-led, political ethos with the use of live music, RashDash reclaims femininity and appropriates the traditionally patriarchal adventure of fairytales in this spirited sh…
Go goats! New play about truth and lies in the Syrian conflict is upstaged by its animal performers.
Live At Zédel, Soho's unique live entertainment concept at Crazy Coqs, announces its new 2018 winter/spring season produced in partnership with Fane Productions.
Now in its sixth year, VAULT Festival returns from 24 January to 18 March 2018 with 300 individual shows, championing new writing, immersive experiences, comedy, film and late night entertai…
Unpredictable, thrilling and tense. Lizzy Watts is bold and fearless as Hedda Gabler in Patrick Marber's engrossing update of the Ibsen classic.
As with much of Forced Entertainment's work, Real Magic at HOME revolves around a set of established (but unspoken) rules. Here, these rules take the form of a game show that seems to be tak…
The Finborough revival of Jerome K Jerome's 1908 chamber piece continues the fringe venue's glorious taste for dusting off forgotten works; a production that reproduces the original's manner…
The year is rapidly coming to a close. But before it does, there are more great shows to see in the lead up to Christmas - in addition to Lin-Manuel Miranda's wildly anticipated Broadway tra…
Something very exciting is happening in small-scale opera. This is the third one I've seen in as many months, all striking in their own ways but Eugene Onegin is by far the most enjoyable.
Bad Roads by Natal’ya Vorozhbit is a much-needed reminder of what's happening in the Ukraine and how the war is affecting its willing and unwilling participants.
Got your tickets yet for Troupe Theatre's revival of JM Barrie's rarely seen 1917 play Dear Brutus yet? Watch this spellbinding video, including interviews with director Jonathan O'Boyle and…
An evening with La Soirée offers a heady mix of cabaret, vaudeville, circus, nightclub, dance, acrobatics and highly original comedy.
Christmas is approaching so spirits are high but as the days get colder we and darker we tend to crave the optimistic escape that theatre provides. Ordinary Days is just what we need - reali…
Following the announcement at last night's Evening Standard Theatre Awards that Jim Steinman's Bat Out Of Hell " The Musical has won the Radio 2 Audience Award for Best Musical, producers ha…
What's made Victoria Sadler's top ten theatre recommendations for new shows in December 2017? Well, Hamilton, of course. But also The Twilight Zone, Parliament Square, Misalliance, How to Wi…
Despite our typical view of the Victorians being highly conservative in every aspect of their lives, the young queen was relatively liberal " and A Christmas Carol is almost surprisingly soc…