With the National's highly anticipated production of Follies about to start previews, I thought I'd listen to about a hundred different versions of perhaps its most famous song - Losing My M…
I'm Jewish, so growing up, Fiddler was always being quoted around the house. I used to watch the film with my grandma.
Zsa Zsa Voom: A shaggy dog story that happens to be true is the focus of Nigel Miles-Thomas's engaging one-man show Zsa Zsa and Me at the Gilded Balloon's Rose Theatre.
I had never seen it and was somewhat apprehensive that 100 minutes of people banging buckets wouldn't be that interesting. I was soon proven wrong.
Creative: An effective original script carries Vichy Goings-On right the way through, giving it easy entertainment value at the Fringe. There are a few bumps along the way, but on the whole …
Dust explores death from the afterlife, taking the audience through a dark tale with mountains of comedy. Debating the fine line between suicide being a selfish act or a consequence of sever…
It's somehow fitting that the last Shakespeare of Emma Rice's final (summer) season is King Lear. A play that shows us how the established world can change based on one rash decision will ce…
"What do you mean you've never been to the Edinburgh Festival? You must go, you'd love it." Yeap, it's that time of year where I hear variations of the above ad nauseam.
When they were kids, Alice promised Sam that when they were grown, they would still hang out and play superheroes. Now they're uni students home for the summer and have both changed a lot si…
As A Spoonful of Sherman, a tribute to three generations of Sherman family music, including childhood classics by the Sherman Brothers, continues Live at Zedel until 20 August 2017, Ian Fost…
As A Spoonful of Sherman, a tribute to three generations of Sherman family music, including childhood classics by the Sherman Brothers, continues Live at Zedel until 20 August 2017, Ian Fost…
As A Spoonful of Sherman, a tribute to three generations of Sherman family music, including childhood classics by the Sherman Brothers, continues Live at Zedel until 20 August 2017, Ian Fost…
Nancy Carroll will join the previously announced Rory Kinnear and Oliver Chris in the world premiere of Richard Bean and Clive Colman's new comedy Young Marx, which launches the new Bridge T…
Rob Drummond's new play examines democracy, charting a journey through the Scottish Independence Referendum, Brexit and Trump. The Majority, directed by David Overend, runs at the National'…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
To celebrate their tenth year of creating superb physical theatre, Theatre Ad Infinitum bring two of their early works back to the Fringe. Their one-man Odyssey, touring since 2009, and the …
American theatremaker Richard Foreman's King Cowboy Rufus Rules the Universe, in which a ruddy-faced Trump-like figure takes the title role, is currently receiving its UK premiere at the Lon…
Have you seen the raves reviews for our Featured Show, family-friendly adaptation of Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days? The New Vic Theatre production continues at London's Cadogan H…
Have you booked your family ticket yet for Iris Theatre's new immersive adaptation of the Brothers Grimm's Hansel and Gretel yet? With the company's new video, go behind the scenes with the …
Thought-provoking: Andy Edwards’ new play Scribble, at the Assembly Roxy, is an innovative and thought-provoking exploration of mental health.
This rather sombre circus show looks at immigration and the reasons behind it as well as why we should all come together and support each other.
I saw, and rather liked, the musical of Finding Neverland when it premiered in Leicester back in 2012 but given the extreme redevelopment it underwent thanks to Harvey Weinstein's involveme…
Manipulative: Perfect pacing and authentic actors give Graham Eatough's How To Act for the National Theatre of Scotland at Summerhall a unique shine.
Jemima Foxtrot loops lines of verse, sounds and noises around and around, until they build up to an indistinguishable din. It's the clamour in our subconscious mind, the multiple threads of …
Hitting the West End just before I moved to London and well before I started blogging, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Woman In White has the ignominy of being one of his less successful shows.