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1987. Hull. Two couples in the same hospital each have a child. Leah is born to a working-class family and Chris into a middle class one. As they grow up, their lives are shaped by world eve…
I remember Apologia from its first time around, at the Bush Theatre. Then it seemed an extraordinarily acute if honest rebuke to those women of the 1960s and '70s.
It's time to put a German back in charge " not as an homage to Hitler, but someone who is camp as Christmas, bursting with energy and quick wit.
London's new InMotion Festival of dance and physical theatre officially opens tonight (16 August 2017) at The Bunker Theatre with the direct-from-Edinburgh transfer of Fall Out, by contempor…
Pluto's premise is ingenious. It dramatises the planet Pluto's reaction to learning that he has been re-categorised " demoted, effectively " from planet to dwarf planet. Pluto throws a party…
Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre's ensemble and Gecko Theatre collaborated to produce and perform a modern play inspired by A Midsummer Night's Dream and a story called The Peony Pavillion.
Have you seen the great reviews for our Featured Show, Sherman Brothers tribute A Spoonful of Sherman? Stewart Nicholls' production must finish its strictly limited season at renown cabaret …
After growing up on Disney films, Chris' aim in life is singular and simple: to live happily ever after. He thinks he achieves it when he meets Ryan as a newly qualified Drama teacher in Cam…
It's a surefire treat after a hard day of toil or tourism, to slip into the comfort of a collection of songs from the Sherman dynasty.
New play about participation and democracy is entertaining enough, but a bit too tricksy and too so-what-ish?
Andy Coxon has been cast in the iconic role of Berger, in the new 50th anniversary production of HAIR.
The chance to see see the Peter Quilter play Glorious! with the marvellous Stella Gonet in the lead was one I gladly took. It also meant my first trip to the Frinton Summer Theatre out by th…
Pageant is the light-hearted, saccharine, glittery music depiction of the Miss Glamouresse beauty pageant, with all of the contestants having a little more to offer than your usual beauty qu…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Under John Tiffany's direction, Road feels terrifyingly present, and still as necessary after over thirty years since its debut.
Telling the contrasting but complementary stories of two young women who have gone missing - one from t'north, one from the capital - Abigail Hood's Dangling is a brutal, at times harrowing …
On the beautiful banks of Kew Gardens, we enter the animal world. The audience become rabbits with paws on their ears, wiggling noses and singing together 'whispering willows'.
I love a bells and whistles musical as much as the next person. But the true magic of musical theatre is in the musical storytelling magic that sometimes if we're really lucky, happens. As m…
I reckon this should be on a drip-feed so flamenco aficionados can get a daily fix of the artistry, beauty and passion that is Paco Peña and his company of dancers, singers and guitarists.
On behalf of Carn's Theatre Passion, Sarah Tinsley attended the press preview event for the three-week new musicals festival From Page to Stage, which opened yesterday and runs until 3 Septe…
Radio classic Round the Horne returns to the London stage with a brand-new show Horne A'Plenty have a limited try-out season at the White Bear Theatre this month. Writer Brian Cooke explains…
The original team behind 2004 West End hit Round the Horne … Revisited are reuniting for two weeks only this month at London's White Bear Theatre to try out a brand-new stage show based on…
The Donmar Warehouse has announced full casting for Elinor Cook's new version of Ibsen's 1888 masterpiece The Lady from the Sea.
The show has slimmed down its personnel from four to two, Helena Blackman and Daniel Boys taking up the singing duties, with third generation songwriter Robert J Sherman stepping in once aga…
Powerful: Following the success of 2014 and 2015’s Black Is the Color of My Voice, Apphia Campbell returns to Gilded Balloon with another powerful one-woman show.
