As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Wednesday 27 September 2017, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to Julian Clary, his co-star and director of Le Grand Mort, the new…
New site-specific production Night at the Bombay Roxy, an immersive Indian noir, will play out in the surroundings of the as-yet-unopened Dishoom restaurant in the iconic Barkers Building in…
Inspired by the humour and spontaneity that comes from cold reading, Nassim Soleimanpour has developed what has become his trademark style of reflective, personal writing performed by an act…
Alexander Hanson joins the company of the English-language premiere of Florian Zeller's The Lie, playing the husband of his real-life spouse Samantha Bond.
Following a critically acclaimed run at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe the Royal Court Theatre presents the Baxter Theatre Centre at the University of Cape Town's production of The Fa…
Tony Cox's play Mrs Orwell did sufficiently good business in its run at the Old Red Lion last month that it has quickly transferred south of the river, to the Southwark Playhouse for an addi…
Oslo, a new play from JT Rogers is evidently meticulously researched. It is a tale of diplomacy and negotiation, and as a history lesson, it offers moments that are fascinating.
love a good actor-musician production but here, the integration of musicianship and drama just hasn't been thought-through, even down to instruments getting in the way of scenes - it feels a…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Saddle up for a journey to the Wild West as a world leader in contemporary circus, Cirque Éloize, blasts back into the West End with the UK premiere of its new show, Saloon.
The recent production of Jim Cartwrwight's Road at the Royal Court made for unmissible viewing " a blindingly relevant show that gives expression to the inhabitants of an unnamed northern r…
The world premiere of Howard Brenton's play The Shadow Factory will be the inaugural production at Southampton's new state-of-the-art theatre, NST City, in February.
9 to 5 the musical is based on the popular film and features an uplifting selection of musical theatre numbers, an excellent showcase for the actresses taking the lead roles. This particular…
Hot on the heels of The Toxic Avenger, now transferring to the West End, a new superhero cartoon musical will by flying into south London's Southwark Playhouse: Bananaman the Musical.
Sir Peter Hall, the founding director of both the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Rose Theatre, Kingston and the second director of the National Theatre, passed away yesterday (11 Septembe…
A new production of Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party will run at the West End's Harold Pinter Theatre, 60 years since the play's debut, from 9 January to 14 April 2018 with an opening nigh…
Shona White is a rather under-rated (for my money at least) Scottish actress and singer perhaps most famous for stints in Mamma Mia which were 12 years apart, but whose musical theatre credi…
Cult hit improvised comedy Austentatious gets its West End premiere later this year following its sell-out run at this year's Edinburgh Fringe and major UK tour.
JM Barrie's rarely performed 1917 play Dear Brutus comes to Southwark Playhouse for a Christmas season in a new Troupe production directed by Jonathan O'Boyle.
True story, until last week I thought Bombay Dreams was written by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Not having seen it onstage nor listened to it before, all I knew was the Lord's name was attached to i…
Musical star Natasha J Barnes, who famously took over to rave reviews from Sheridan Smith in Funny Girl in the West End, will get her first starring role in the first London revival in 20 ye…
If you really want to perform, or become a theatre technician, then you almost certainly need the hands-on approach of a drama school with at least 30 hours tuition a week, people with prope…
SHREK THE MUSICAL has announced casting for the major nationwide tour, which will be led by Steffan Harri as Shrek and Call the Midwife's Laura Main as Princess Fiona.
A gentle romance combines reinforces the right-on message that you can be who you want, in LYAMC's tuneful take on High School Musical at the Church Hill Theatre to Saturday.
Justin Audibert directs Debbie Korley as the brave, bold and charismatic Beowulf in Chris Thorpe's searing new version of this ancient, epic masterpiece opening in October.