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Harry receives a children's book manuscript from an unknown writer, Heather Eames. Impressed, he wants to discuss an advance, rights and making her book the Next Big Thing, but Heather's bas…
As a performer Dixon is blessed with exceptional technical skills " her voice is pitch perfect and she liberally dilutes her vocal turns with perfectly syncopated tap routines throughout the…
A British Pakistani Muslim tries to reconcile his faith and family with his love of men and clubbing. A gay guy and his straight female BFF share a flat, a mutual adoration for classic films…
Picking at the scab of the Brexit vote and the ongoing refugee crisis, Muthy reveals the kind of festering wound that is shocking to see, even as it has infected so many levels of our societ…
Rotterdam's Jon Brittain has another success on his hands. This time, he teams up with composer and pianist Matthew Floyd Jones and they endow a story of depression with care and hope.
This is a dinner that, much like Titus Andronicus' endgame, is a meal that not one person around the table wishes to attend.
You can travel through time on a plane if your trip is long enough to cross time zones. But how far back or forward can you go? What if you could, dream-like, revisit the people you've lost?
Almost a week ago now, Prior Walter bid the Lyttleton theatre 'More Life' one last time. Twenty-four years earlier it had opened next door in the Cottesloe. And some 14 or so years earlier t…
Rebecca Atkinson-Lord speaks with an accent that she stole. Her family all have Wolverhampton accents, but her parents' decision to send to private school meant that she adopted a voice that…
Two parallel narratives, one in Oldham and one in London. Two very different families, both torn apart by loss, suspicion and betrayal.
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Following watching A Spoonful of Sugar at Live at Zedel last week, here are Love London Love Culture's favourite songs written by the Sherman Brothers.
It may be based on Charlotte Brontë's classic novel, but this work " devised by the original company " is modern in its approach, in its styling and in its staging and manages to retain J…
Star director Yael Farber's revival of a 1990s classic is surely atmospheric, but it lacks symbolic weight.
In our final two days at the 2017 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and International Festival I caught 6 shows and missed one. My apologies to my colleague from my very early days in Edinburgh, Rob…
To honour the 50th anniversary of his death, this is the first time we get to see Joe Orton's original version of the Loot script before the Lord Chamberlain censored it prior to the 1966 pr…
Mark Watson wanders onto the stage and picks up a totally unseen script by a totally unknown female writer. It's coincidence that tonight's comedian is Mark Watson " there's a different come…
Cuba Libres in hand, we are invited to pull up a deck chair and enjoy our own private beaches. Two friendly hosts promise us a relaxing, all-inclusive stay at Guantanamo Bay Resort " but giv…
New Vic artistic director Theresa Heskins has attracted critical acclaim for the globe-trotting zeal of her hit production of Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days, currently at London's…
Face full of spots, chin smothered in ketchup and an unsettling feeling that the B.O on the bus belongs to you " Tamar Broadbent kicks off her show with a side splitting musical number, 'Hav…
I may be the wrong target audience for Anastasia, currently doing decent business on Broadway, being 18 when the film came out and never having made the effort to see it since.
Marooned Theatre's contemporary reimagining of John Vanbrugh’s 1697 Restoration comedy, The Provoked Wife, moves into Islington’s Hope Theatre next month after a sell-ou…
Classic Spring has announced its 'Wilde Talk' series to run alongside performances of A Woman of No Importance. Further casting has also been announced.
There's no clowning like Irish clowning. Sneak a peek into the rehearsal room for Peter Reid's West End-bound Irish production of Waiting for Godot, which returns Samuel Beckett's masterpiec…
What the production does do extremely well is highlight the comic values of the script, with many lines being delivered with perfect comic timing by a very capable cast.
