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Kerry Ellis will star as Gwendolen, her first non-singing role, at selected venues in the 2018 UK tour of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.
The Old Vic's Christmas Carol is enough to make a merry man out of the worst seasonal curmudgeon. It boasts an effervescent Scrooge in Rhys Ifans " all wild hair and projectile spittle, and …
With Labour of Love and Ink currently running in the West End, James Graham achieves a hat trick as his sell-out 'major coughing hit', Quiz, transfers to the Noël Coward Theatre. A provoc…
Adapted from the 1947 Lux Radio Broadcast, this production, directed by Guy Retallack, is staged as a live radio broadcast which is extremely interesting to watch.
Got your tickets yet for Barely Methodical Troupe's strictly limited London dates at The Albany ahead of their New York transfer in the new year? As an extra incentive, we've rounded up what…
"OMG You Guys!" The Festival Theatre is awash with pink as the hilarious Legally Blonde arrives in Edinburgh at the end of the first leg of its extensive UK tour.
From Tudor queens to pop princesses, the six wives of Henry VIII sing their way out of the history books and into the spotlight in the professional premiere of SIX, which runs at the West En…
Ria Jones dazzles in the poignant, wonderfully melodramatic and tragic Sunset Boulevard that is both a love letter to movies and a eulogy to Hollywood's silent era.
Have you booked yet for the 40th-anniversary revival of PRIVATES ON PARADE, Peter Nichols' renowned British army farce with music by Denis King? Kirk Jameson's production, with an award-nom…
Collating the most scathing reviews in their respective careers, theatremakers Zoe Coombs Marr, Ursula Martinez and Adrienne Truscott fashion these into a postmodern show that deconstructs t…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Designed to challenge our misconceptions about sex workers and their industry, Sex Worker's Opera is a campaign, a celebration, a cabaret by and about sex workers. The show offers us an affe…
The Charles Court Opera return to the King's Head Theatre with their latest (hilarious) new pantomime King Tut.
Sarah Redmond's production for the Brockley Jack thankfully forgoes any gimmickry with a relatively straightforward interpretation, and if the result is comforting rather than pulse-quickeni…
Big ensemble numbers, some high-kicking choreography and a clutch of stellar solo vocal moments ensure that Gang Show 2017 hits all the expectations for a grand night out.
Ahead of a New York transfer in the new year, circus masters Barely Methodical Troupe bring their award-winning show BROMANCE to London for a strictly limited pre-Christmas season at The Alb…
Olivier Award-nominated West End sensation Hetty Feather has hit Southampton for the Christmas period in its 2nd UK tour. It's author Jacqueline Wilson is well-known for creating Tracy Beake…
Much like a luxuriously fruited and brandy drenched Christmas pudding, Simon Callow's voice (surely a national treasure in itself) serves up the festive fable in a recording that lasts a tou…
Whilst war rages in the Ukraine, a journalist goes to the front lines and falls in love. Girls sit on a park bench, waiting for their soldier boyfriends.
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Frankly, you can't ignore the fact that every time you see it you get a free piece of chocolate. As long as you have the patience to wait for "le moment de magique" before you eat it.
Directed by Audrey Sheffield, The Dark Room is a play that doesn't like to disclose all its secrets at once. Just as one adjusts to the absence of light over time, so the essence of Angela B…
Full casting - including Penelope Wilton - is announced today for the new stage adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's 1982 Swedish drama film Fanny & Alexander, which runs at London's Old Vic …
Set in the 1580s, the play shows how Walsingham's defense of Elizabeth from Catholic plots and assassination attempts results in hunting down the Jesuit missionary Robert Southwell, the reve…
Revelling in the club-like intimacy of this theatre, Simon Green as Captain Terri Dennis nails the flirtatious nature and fierce integrity of a performer, of a man, seizing his hard-fought o…
