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Hear Me Raw was perhaps the poshest theatrical experience I have ever had (and that really is saying something). It was a glowing auditorium of bad hair, good genes, and plastic prosecco, fo…
Tryst: A private, romantic rendezvous between two lovers, conducted with no one else's knowledge. Perhaps they wouldn't approve, perhaps they would recognise the affair for what it is " a pr…
The opening words of Chekhov's play, The Three Sisters are projected at the back of the stage before we are introduced to a man in a mouse suit who calmly describes our journey to the theatr…
"I'll gather up my past, and make some sense at last" Unless you've caught him in tours of The Producers or Chitty Chitty Bang Bang or in occasional TV performances, you might not know that …
Dusty Springfield fans will love Son of a Preacher Man as the 60s return with Strictly judge Craig Revel Horwood on both direction and choreographic duties. Just don't hold your breath for a…
In Natalie Dormer and David Oakes' hands, directed by Patrick Marber, the continual fluctuations in the relationship between actor and director, man and woman, sub and dom, are gripping thro…
Text of the day: “Well, what’s happening is if you’re Northern, you’re getting butchered, it’s like Game of fucking Thrones.”
The post Labour of Love app…
The idea of music existing "between the notes" seems to be the best description of Heisenberg. A bit like the principle from which it takes its name, that you cannot view a thing and observe…
Like The Producers before it, Young Frankenstein hails from a Brooks movie of some 40 years earlier with the veteran writer/director reframing the comedy-horror flick around his own composit…
British musical When Midnight Strikes, first seen at the Finborough Theatre in 2007, returns to the London fringe this month in a brand-new production running for a limited season at Drayton…
Anton Chekhov's classic play The Seagull is brought to modern life in a new version, adapted by Simon Stephens and directed by Sean Holmes. It's running at London's Lyric Hammersmith until 4…
Rose Theatre Kingston announces the centrepiece of their ten-year anniversary: Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, starring Mel Giedroyc as Beatrice and directed by Simon Dormandy in a li…
Twenty years after it was first seen in the West End, Kander and Ebb's Tony and Olivier Award-winning Broadway musical THE RINK will get its first major London revival in the new year at Sou…
Through both characters' alternating monologues, the audience is given an insight into the harsh reality of George's calculating, pathological agenda, juxtaposed against Adelaide's innocence…
Meera Syal will join the West End company of Annie to play the role of Miss Hannigan from 27 November 2017 for the duration of the run which concludes at London's Piccadilly Theatre, as prev…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Two walls of Marshall amps sit either side of gleaming trusses. A DJ booth manned by a black-clad figure sports a banner for a place called Heorot. Smoke seeps through vents in the floor and…
Simon Stephens' version makes no bones about how an obsession for fame can lead to ruin, hell and damnation or all three. Adelayo Adedayo's Nina is burning to be a 'celebrity', idolising Nic…
Less than a month to go until the official world premiere of Tiger Bay the Musical! Specially commissioned by Wales Millennium Centre and with a 39-strong cast led by Welsh musical superstar…
Eve Best stars in this new production of A Woman of No Importance, launching Dominic Dromgoole's year-long Oscar Wilde season at the West End's Vaudeville Theatre. It runs until 30 December …
It's a rare play that gets both into your head and under your skin. Watching The Busy World is Hushed sends both a mind reeling trying to keep up with the ideas and questions posed by the ch…
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Thursday 2 November 2017, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the director and cast of the critically acclaimed European premiere…
Have you booked yet to see The Space’s rare revival of 1985 play The Castle? This major new production of Howard Barker's “theatre of catastrophe” modern classic marks t…
This gripping drama, starring West End musical star Natasha J Barnes in her fringe play debut, has plenty of twists and turns that keep the audience enthralled from beginning to end.
Lorca classic The House of Bernarda Alba (La Casa de Bernarda Alba) gets a major new production – with performances in both Spanish and English – at the custom-built Cervantes…
