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The Witch's Mark, written and directed by Timothy N. Evers, draws inspiration from historical and contemporary accounts of the Scottish witch trials. Edinburgh in 1591, is in the middle of a…
Omid Djalili is truly sensational as Tevye. His witty 'If I were a Rich Man' is worth the ticket price and five stars alone. Djalili's meticulous gesticulation, facial expressions and voice …
Motown the Musical has just released 500,000 new tickets for sale, taking bookings for the hit West End production into 2019 when the show will celebrate its third year in London and Motown …
Matthew Warchus directs Charles Dickens' timeless classic A Christmas Carol in a new adaptation by Harry Potter and the Cursed Child's Jack Thorne, starring Rhys Ifans as Ebenezer Scrooge.
First up in our Spotlight feature is Julius Caesar, which plays Edinburgh Festival from 14 " 26 August 2017. I caught up with actor Amanda LaBonte.
Written as a response to George W Bush's Republican Party's war on terror following the attacks in September 2001 only 12 years after this play's premiere America seems to be run by a God of…
MyTheatreMates are delighted to champion The Albany and ARC Stockton's major new initiative to make theatre freely accessible to local children in south London. The #EveryChildTheatre campai…
In August it all kicks off, the 70th anniversary of Edinburgh Festival Fringe. For three weeks, Scotland's capital, welcomes an explosion of creative energy from around the globe.
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
What have two twenty-something actors learned from starting their own theatre company? What advice would they give to others considering it
SKIN DEEP, Lee Anderson's new play which returns to London for this summer's Camden Fringe Festival, explores what drove one of history's most prolific female serial killers. The Attila Thea…
Derren Brown, “the nation's favourite dark manipulator of magic and mind control”, will perform his latest stage show, DERREN BROWN: UNDERGROUND at the West  End’s Pl…
I want to be able to resist anything to do with Alan Ayckbourn but the cast and creatives for Chichester's production of The Norman Conquests is making it very hard indeed. Wunderkind direct…
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will help open the fifth annual From Page to Stage season of new musicals with an opening night panel debate …
Taj Atwal, Gemma Dobson and James Atherton (well known from TV’s Hollyoaks and Coronation Street) are Rita, Sue and Bob Too in Max Stafford-Clark’s new Out of Joint product…
Northern Broadsides today announced that their founder and artistic director Barrie Rutter OBE will step down in April 2018 after leading the company for twenty-five years. He has cited lack…
The inaugural Opera in the City Festival runs from 1 to 12 August 2017 at the Bridewell Theatre. Artistic director Pamela Schermann talks about the aims behind London’s new summer oper…
Enda Walsh's play is a bit of an oddity " it is both bizarrely brilliant but can also seem at times as a bit of a chaotic mess, but thankfully John Haidar's production sticks to being bizarr…
Barry's relationship with his mother is at best difficult, but as we delve into their family history it soon becomes clear the depth of resentment that Isabella has had for events that have …
Alice in Wonderland has been incarnated on more occasions than I care to remember, but one thing's for sure, the story never gets old (in my humble opinion) and the magic, craziness and wond…
The premiere of Kevin Elyot's final play, Twilight Song, in the 50th anniversary year of the decriminalisation of homosexuality, is a fitting tribute to a creator who writes honest and open …
Touch may come from the same stable as the amazing Fleabag but drops the posh and goes Welsh: imagine Stacey left Gavin for a squalid London studio, a diet of Echo Falls, microwave dinners a…
I review a lot of professional theatre. I also cover amateur shows, including student ones. Regularly doing both throws up some thorny problems.
This summer, the Bridewell Theatre in the heart of the City of London will become the home of new and innovative operas, musical dramas and multi-art productions. Here are full details - inc…
Aria Entertainment's From Page To Stage will have one of the largest companies in the West End this summer: a cast of 56, working alongside 18 creatives, plus musicians and over 50 composers…
