Saturday, December 9, 2017
In January 1970, Led Zeppelin played the Royal Albert Hall, widely lauded as one of their most famous gigs. Robert Plant has returned once again, this time as part of a tour with the Sensati…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:09AMThursday, December 7, 2017
Victorian music hall Wilton's takes a trip back to the 1930s this Christmas, as it brings a new version of John Masefield's fantasy story The Box of Delights to the stage. Justin Audibert di…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:13PMMonday, December 4, 2017
Despite our typical view of the Victorians being highly conservative in every aspect of their lives, the young queen was relatively liberal – and A Christmas Carol is almost surprisingly s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThursday, November 30, 2017
As usual, come the festive season, there is a plethora of shows on offer to begin the merriment - and if a pantomime or version of A Christmas Carol isn't for you, there is still plenty of c…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:00PMWednesday, November 29, 2017
Frankly, you can’t ignore the fact that every time you see it you get a free piece of chocolate. As long as you have the patience to wait for “le moment de magique” before you eat it.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMMonday, November 27, 2017
The latest production from New. Theatre Company is a song cycle from Alex James Ellison and Tom Lees as with last month's The Dysfunctional Guide to Being a Third Wheel it is playing in the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:48AMThursday, November 23, 2017
Following in the footsteps of Emma Rice’s production of the same play in her final summer season at the Globe, director Christopher Luscombe moves from Nell Gwynn’s 17th century setting …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTerrorist plots, underfunded government departments, unjustifiable military action - all very modern worries, I'm sure you'll agree. However, playwright Anders Lustgarten and director Matthe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:03AMWednesday, November 22, 2017
What is really clever about this play is how it manages to layer up the separate plots and points in time. There is one set (a cheap-looking motel room with a small bathroom and cupboard) an…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThursday, November 16, 2017
Set in a hotel room in 1954, the play brings together The Professor, The Senator, The Actress and The Ballplayer. None are actually named (“There’s a price to pay for fame; your name’s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMHow did you celebrate the fourth annual #LoveTheatreDay on Twitter yesterday? MyTheatreMates' latest addition Debbie Gilpin (who runs Mind the Blog) marked the occasion online by sharing thi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMCelebrated performer Barb Jungr put this collection of songs together a couple of years ago alongside long-time collaborator and pianist, Simon Wallace and has been taking the songs across t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:13AMSunday, November 12, 2017
Red Lion FC is a northern, semi-professional club with an ambitious manager and not a lot of cash. When Yates (club stalwart turned kit man) discovers an incredible new talent, Jordan, manag…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, November 10, 2017
Shakespeare's play has been adapted and transported to 1960s London, where the Krays reign supreme and hold the East End in terror – in a nod to these famous twins, Richard himself is spli…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, October 30, 2017
This is the first in a series of original musicals that will be brought to Live at Z del thanks to New., whose aim is to showcase young, emerging talent on the stage. The Dysfunctional Guide…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:36AMFriday, October 27, 2017
What do you get if you take a French film, a liberal portion of chocolate and a sprinkling of Emma Rice magic The opening winter season production, Romantics Anonymous This brand new musical…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:36PMWednesday, October 25, 2017
After a successful run in 201516, leading to an Olivier Award nomination, David Greig's stage adaptation of the Dr. Seuss tale is back at the Old Vic for a three-week run prior to a North Am…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:22PMMonday, October 23, 2017
With her most famous play, The Mousetrap, celebrating its 65th anniversary in London's West End, it only seems right for another of Agatha Christie's stage works to be brought back for a lim…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:54PMTuesday, October 17, 2017
David Ives's two-hander was first performed seven years ago Off-Broadway, before heading to Broadway and subsequently running in theatres around the world and being adapted to film by Polans…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:33PMFriday, October 13, 2017
First performed in London in 1989 at the Piccadilly Theatre with stars including the inimitable Brian Blessed, the musical version of Metropolis by Joe Brooks and Dusty Hughes has been reviv…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:36PMSaturday, October 7, 2017
Fifty years ago, The Beatles changed the face of pop music when they released the iconic Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album. Billed by many as the first concept album, it marked a sh…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:18AMWednesday, October 4, 2017
Transferring to London after debuting rather appropriately in Birmingham last year, Chris Hannan's play is based around Enoch Powell's 1968 'Rivers of blood' speech. Powell's speech famously…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:36AMSunday, October 1, 2017
This weekend, for the first time, a James Bond score was performed in its entirety, as the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra accompanied a screening of the 2006 film Casino Royale. This w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:12PMFriday, September 22, 2017
Read all about it Following a wildly successful run at the Almeida in the summer, James Graham's first of three new plays for 2017 has transferred to London's West End for a limited run at t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:12AMWednesday, September 13, 2017
The final new production in this year's Summer of Love season is a brand new piece of writing from Tristan Bernays, telling the story of the famous warrior queen. It may not fit quite so obv…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:36PMWednesday, August 30, 2017
With Robert Icke's Andrew Scott-led Hamlet successfully transferring to the West End from the Almeida, and Tom Hiddleston about to get in on the action for Kenneth Branagh at RADA, it is pot…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:24PMWednesday, August 16, 2017
Nancy Meckler makes her Globe debut with the penultimate show of the season, a well-known tragedy to contrast with recent comedies King Lear. It casts a darker shadow over the Summer of Love…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:42PMWednesday, July 26, 2017
Continuing the resurgence of Tennessee Williams plays is the Young Vic's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. This is the popular theatre's first production to make its debut in the West End, in contrast …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:18PMThursday, July 20, 2017
Matthew Dunster brings some desert sun to a so far patchy summer, with his Mexican inspired production of Much Ado About Nothing. It truly is the beating heart of the Summer of Love, running…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:24PMFriday, July 14, 2017
'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.' The opening line of Charles Dickens' classic novel seems quite apt in describing the current Regent's Park Open Air Theatre's season to…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:42AMTuesday, July 11, 2017
With this year's Pride still fresh in Londoners' minds, there couldn't be a more appropriate time for Joseph and David Zellnik's musical about gay US soldiers in World War Two to open in cen…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:12AM 
