Why is writing about sex so tricky as a woman? Laura Mead recounts her own sexual faux-pas on her way to exploring them onstage in new play Vanilla, premiering at Tristan Bates Theatre in a …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:40AMAfter phenomenal success with the world's longest-running detective series, Taggart, Glenn Chandler has been writing, directing and producing for the stage with gusto. For his latest, KIDS P…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:17AMAfter a sell-out run at this year's Edinburgh Fringe, Taggart creator Glenn Chandler's new, award-winning stage play KIDS PLAY transfers to London's Above the Stag Theatre this week, for a s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:17AMAfter a sell-out run at this year's Edinburgh Fringe, Taggart creator Glenn Chandler's new, award-winning stage play KIDS PLAY transfers to London's Above the Stag Theatre this week, for a s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:43AMSummer Light Theatre brings its dancefloor Shakespeare hit Much Ado About Salsa to London's Drayton Arms Theatre later this month for three weeks only. What have audiences been saying so far…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMGrade II-listed Victorian London landmark Hoxton Hall is this week transformed into the ancient world of the Middle East as Iris Theatre moves in to premiere its brand-new adaptation of Arab…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMWhat does punk mean to you? What's your favourite song ever and why? What makes you howl with rage? It's time for the all-female team behind one-woman punk play HEAR ME HOWL, starting perfor…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:45AMSoldier On, Jonathan Lewis' extraordinary piece based on and involving real servicemen and women, returns to London next month mark the centenary of the end of the First World War. The full …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:45AMSummer Light Theatre's new version of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing adds more than salsa to the mix. Writer Joanna O'Connor and co-stars James Kingdon, Jennifer Biggs and James Edward…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:30AMWhat makes you howl with rage? And how loudly can you do it? We're counting down to the premiere of Lydia Rynne's one-woman play HEAR ME HOWL, in which 30-year-old Jess joins a punk band. Ch…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:29AMDo modern sex lives belong to the Internet? After development while at the National Theatre, up-and-coming playwright Laura Mead's latest play, Vanilla, premieres at London Tristan Bates The…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:26AMProud Haddock's intimate, all-female revival of Tony Harrison's Square Rounds, marking the centenary of the end of the First World War, has attracted the attention of military historians as …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:15PMFull casting - including Caroline Harker - has been announced for the world premiere of The Sweet Science of Bruising, Joy Wilkinson's new play about Victorian female boxers which comes to L…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:45PMAre you feeling the nip in the air? Fend off autumn with some salsa-and-sun-infused Shakespeare fun as you hit the dance floor with Much Ado's Ben and Bea in Summer Light Theatre take on the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:05AMWe're counting down to the world premiere of Fringe First award winner Rib Davis' latest stage politically-infused play, The Sword of Alex, which premieres at London's White Bear Theatre thi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:30AMAlice Pitt-Carter stars as thirty-year-old Jess, who chooses punk over having children, in Lydia Rynne's one-woman play HEAR ME HOWL. Check out these fab photos of Alice as she unleashes her…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMAfter performances at the Landor Space, Barbican and Plymouth Fringe, Lydia Rynne's debut play, one-woman punk revolution HEAR ME HOWL, now transfers to London's Old Red Lion Theatre for a l…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:57PMHow dangerous is the rising tide of nationalism in countries around the world? His concerns inspired Rib Davis to write his latest stage play, The Sword of Alex, premiering this month at Lo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMKevin Mandry's new play EROS, exploring female objectification, has been attracting a wide range of responses at London's White Bear Theatre. In addition to reviewers - we've rounded up sele…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:22AMWhat happens when you cross Shakespeare with… salsa? Summer Light Theatre relocates the bard’s classic comedy Much Ado About Nothing from 17th-century Italy to modern Spain wher…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:08PMAequitas Theatre Company follows its take on Brecht's Fear and Misery in the Third Reich with a new version of Sophocles' Antigone, opening this week at London's Bread and Roses Theatre. In …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:43PMAequitas Theatre Company explores unjust laws and their consequences in Sophocles' timeless Greek tragedy Antigone. Their brand-new production, relocating the action to 1980s Britain, runni…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:26PMKevin Mandry's new photographer studio-set play EROS, now in previews ahead of its world premiere tomorrow (30 August 2018) at London's White Bear Theatre, captures the moment in time when t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:06AMJonathan Lewis' play SOLDIER ON transfers this autumn to The Other Palace Theatre for a limited five-week season to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the end of World War One. Writer/di…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:30AMSquare Rounds is the seventh production from Proud Haddock, founded in 2014, and the first of its two this autumn to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War. Founder and artisti…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AMHot on the heels of EROS comes another topical, and highly political, new play at London's White Bear Theatre. Rib Davis' The Sword of Alex, which presents two competing versions of national…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AMWhat would you do if you lost your smartphone? Are we all in need of a digital detox? In our interview with EROS author Kevin Mandry, he discusses screen addiction, Herbert Lom onstage, his …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:14AMWe're counting down to the world premiere of Kevin Mandry's EROS, running at the White Bear Theatre from 28 August to 15 September 2018. This brand-new play is set in a photographers' studio…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:30AMAre we all now addicted to the internet? How has this shaped our body images? And the boundaries between fantasy and reality? What's any of that got to do with the Irish poet WB Yeats? In th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:30AMThe poetic, comical and sometimes unsettling Tokyo Fugue makes its Camden Fringe debut 23 to 26 August 2018 at the Cockpit Theatre. Take a look at these mesmerising production photos and bra…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:56AMTokyo-based physical theatre company tarinainanika are preparing for their Camden Fringe debut of Tokyo Fugue, a mesmerising piece of physical theatre about feeling lost, set in the maze-lik…
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