Monday, December 17, 2018
Neil McCormick's real-life story of failure has been transformed into a stage success. Critics are raving about Ian La Frenais and Dick Clement's "brilliantly funny" stage adaptation of Chas…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:30AMSaturday, December 15, 2018
Director Russell Labey can stumble into London's Tabard Theatre from where he lives. Small wonder he considers it a second home. Here, he recalls why returning, after ten years, with a secon…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMFriday, December 14, 2018
With the real world feeling like it is constantly on the brink, the White Bear Theatre kicks off the new year with a show set in a world entirely in chaos. Umbra Theatre's dark comedy The Em…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:59PMRave reviews are already pouring in for Ian La Frenais and Dick Clement's "brilliantly funny" stage adaptation of Chasing Bono, based on Neil McCormick's memoir I Was Bono's Doppelganger. We…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:19PMYikes! We're getting the shudders just watching the trailer for Franz Kafka – Apparatus, which transfers to London's White Bear Theatre next month after a hit run at Brighton Fringe. Meet …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:57AMGlenn Chandler's The Boy Under the Christmas Tree officially gets its world premiere tonight (14 December 2018) at London's King's Head Theatre and Santa has just delivered some holly-jolly …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:57AMThursday, December 13, 2018
Martin Luther King Jr was a man who undoubtedly deserves and defines the often overused accolade 'icon'. His message and story has inspired many, including writer/performer Christopher Tajah…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:26AMMany of us will recognise the inside of a pub, especially during the festive season... but how does the boozer at the centre of Peter Mulligan's Loop look and what's going on in his bar-set …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:25AMWednesday, December 12, 2018
How does the Tabard Theatre's staging of Clive King's much-loved children's literary classic Stig of the Dump look ten years on? Fresh as a daisy! Check out our gallery of new production pho…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:30AMTuesday, December 11, 2018
New play Anomaly shines a light on three women affected by an abuse scandal - not those that have been abused, but the daughters of the abuser. Director Adam Small told us why he felt this w…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:15AMMonday, December 10, 2018
Following sell-out runs in the Camden Fringe and at the Brewdog in Leicester, Tiny Room returns to London in January with an extended version of Loop. This updating of Peter Mulligan's play,…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:03PMNew one-man play Dream of a King, set on the night of Martin Luther King's assassination, will explore the man behind the legend when it opens at the Playground Theatre in 2019. The solo pla…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:47AMAfter an acclaimed try-out in September, the world premiere of Simon Perrott's debut play In Conversation with Graham Norton returns for a full new year season at London's Hope Theatre. Time…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:24AMSunday, December 9, 2018
Half Me, Half You, Liane Grant's new play exploring the possible long-term consequences of Donald Trump's regime, comes to London's Tristan Bates Theatre for a fortnight's run after acclaim …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:55PMFriday, December 7, 2018
Did you miss the European premiere of musical whodunit Murder For Two in 2017 at the Watermill Theatre and The Other Palace? Good news for London theatregoers: it returns next week to The Ot…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:49AMThursday, December 6, 2018
We've got a theatrical #ThrowbackThursday for you! Clive King's much-loved children's literary classic Stig of the Dump returns tonight (6 December 2018) to London's Tabard Theatre, where it…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:40AMGlass Half Full Theatre's new play Walk of Shame has taken its own journey to being staged as a week-long production at the White Bear Theatre this winter. Co-writer and star Stephanie Silve…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:36AMWednesday, December 5, 2018
"Tour de force", "powerful", "captivating" and "tremendously important" are just a few of the ways audiences have described child-marriage drama AISHA. Written, directed and produced by AJ, …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:21AMMonday, December 3, 2018
The Finborough Theatre presents the first London production in 35 years of Athol Fugard's Apartheid-era, South African classic A Lesson From Aloes in the new year, with Janet Suzman directin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:21AMSunday, December 2, 2018
Ten years after it first ran in Chiswick, the stage adaptation of the late Clive King's much-loved children's literary classic Stig of the Dump returns to London's Tabard Theatre for a stric…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:21PMJamie Loxton, Daniel Grice and Sam Sheldon star in the world premiere of Glenn Chandler's The Boy Under the Christmas Tree at the King's Head Theatre this Christmas. Can you tell from the ph…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:30AMFriday, November 30, 2018
What happens to the families of high profile men arrested for their abuse of power? That's the question posed by new play Anomaly, which premieres at the Old Red Lion Theatre from 8 January …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:25AMThursday, November 29, 2018
A tale of one evening told from two different viewpoints, Walk of Shame is the latest production from Glass Half Full Theatre. At the start of Christmas party season, it brings the story of …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:21AMWednesday, November 28, 2018
An Honourable Man, the debut play from Westminster insider Michael McManus, is undoubtedly "a political play with a difference", declares Terry Eastham in his four-star praise for the premie…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:14PMAfter success at this year's Brighton Fringe, Franz Kafka – Apparatus, a chilling reimagining of Kafka’s 1914 short story In the Penal Colony written, will transfer to London for a stric…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:34AMMonday, November 26, 2018
How much do you know about the real Burke and Hare? Tom Wentworth's new stage comedy about the Edinburgh serial killers, who got their just comeuppance on Christmas Day, gets its London prem…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:34AMFresh from Arts Ed, Daniel Grice makes his professional debut playing the title role in the world premiere of Glenn Chandler's The Boy Under the Christmas Tree at the King's Head Theatre. Wh…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:05AMThere was an explosion of green at the start of rehearsals for the world premiere of Chasing Bono, Ian La Frenais and Dick Clement's new play based on Neil McCormick's memoir about his rival…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:50AMJamaica Kincaid's A Small Place is being staged for the first time at London's Gate Theatre. It may be difficult to know what to expect from an acclaimed non-fiction book being brought to th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:31AMAfter a try-out in June, the Popular People's Movement has returned to the White Bear Theatre en route to Westminster (or perhaps the West End?) care of An Honourable Man, a frighteningly ti…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AMSunday, November 25, 2018
Fresh from Arts Ed, Daniel Grice makes his professional debut playing the title role in the world premiere of Glenn Chandler's The Boy Under the Christmas Tree at the King's Head Theatre. Wh…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:47PM 
