Monday, January 13, 2020
This month, searingly funny play The Gift makes its world premiere in Coventry before embarking on a UK tour. Writer Janice Okoh and director Dawn Walton give insights into the true royal st…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:14AMFriday, January 10, 2020
The Gift, partly inspired by the remarkable true story of an orphaned African princess adopted by Queen Victoria in the 19th century, receives its world premiere this month at Coventry's Bel…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:06AMThursday, January 9, 2020
Weeping at her mother's performance, having her plays produced by her father and writing plays inspired by her own mental health troubles - watch Rosalind Blessed opening up about her produc…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:37PMFrom a scratch-night sketch to full-length play and baptism by fire on the fringe... Writer, performer and producer Tom Stocks gives an in-depth and honest account of his journey to date wit…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:36PMA cast of Irish talent will star in Joseph Crilly's On McQuillan's Hill when it receives it English premiere at Finborough Theatre next month, two decades after it debuted in Belfast. Time t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:05PMAfter his screen success in US fantasy series Once Upon a Time, London-born Daniel Francis returns to the UK stage to play an American detective in new 1950s-set play COPS at Southwark Playh…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:52AMTelling the story of Mary Prince, a woman born into slavery in the British West Indies, Amantha Edmead's award-winning Sold will play a a one-week run in London as part of the VAULT Festival…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:32AMWednesday, January 8, 2020
Tale of unlikely friends thrown together by circumstance, Essence will premiere at VAULT Festival, London's biggest, boldest and wildest arts and entertainment festival. Book your tickets no…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:45AMAfter its Christmas success with 42nd Street, Upstairs at the Gatehouse continues its string of Broadway revivals in 2020 with a brand-new production of Mary Rodgers' rarely seen fairy-tale …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:30AMTuesday, January 7, 2020
It's a reality that confronts Londoners every day, but how much do you notice the inequality existing side by side in the capital? Rhubarb Ghetto, premiering at next month's VAULT Festival, …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:06PMAfter hit runs at Canal Cafe and Baron's Court Theatres last year, Tom Stock's new play Netflix & Chill, directed by Luke Adamson, transfers to London's Drayton Arms Theatre for a limite…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:33AMFollowing an award-winning run at the Bedford Fringe in 2019, writer/performer Ana Luiza Ulsig brings her tale of finding one's own self, The Journey of a Warlike Mind, to the 2020 VAULT Fes…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:36AMMonday, January 6, 2020
You may have been munching mince pies over the holidays, but the police were working hard... including at London's Southwark Playhouse where director Andy Jordan has been preparing his four-…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMFriday, January 3, 2020
On 4 and 9 February 2020, Kinky Boots The Musical, the multi-award-winning stage hit based on the hit 2005 Britflick, will be screened at more than 650 cinemas across the UK and Ireland care…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:47PMUnleash the Llama's acclaimed, sell-out romantic comedy JEW...ish returns to London this month for six performances only at the King's Head Theatre, running from Tuesday 14 January to Sunday…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThe power of words and argument are put under the spotlight in new play For the Sake of Argument, set at the time of the Iraq war. Take a look at it's powerful new trailer and peek into rehe…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:31AMThursday, January 2, 2020
In Cops, written by ex American serviceman Tony Tortura, four policemen of different ages, classes and races in 1957 Chicago must work together to thwart the Mob. British director and produc…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:41AMWho wouldn't want to start 202o with a lot of laughter and something a bit magical? That's exactly what's in store with Paul Aitchison's Edinburgh hit, Could It Be Magic?. Check out the trai…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMSaturday, December 28, 2019
Kinky Boots returns to the big screen in February. More2Screen has announced the cinema release of the critically acclaimed, multi-award-winning West End and Broadway musical based on the hi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AMThursday, December 19, 2019
Magic Goes Wrong has just started previews as part of Mischief Theatre's year-long residency at the West End's Vaudeville Theatre and it's already creating a buzz with audiences. Also on soc…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:40AM"Delightfully amusing", "brilliantly written" and "deeply moving" - critics have fallen back in love with Charlotte Jones' award-winning comedy Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis. Check our…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:45AMWednesday, December 18, 2019
Following a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Paul Aitchison's hit show blending character comedy with phenomenal tricks, Could It Be Magic?, comes to London in 2020, playing a …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:31AMWhat can you expect from Rosalind Blessed's tale of lost souls, Lullabies for the Lost, which comes to the Old Red Lion Theatre alongside The Delights of Dogs and The Problems of People next…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:16AMMonday, December 16, 2019
Audiences are describing Jud Charlton's solo staging of Charles Dickens' festive classic, A (One-Man) Christmas Carol as "excellent" and "amazing". Take a look at what's been said about the …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:58AMLeopard print, rubber gloves and an Elvis impersonator; sounds like my kind of party! Take a look at the first images of Signal Theatre Company's revival of Charlotte Jones' award-winning co…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:58AMWednesday, December 11, 2019
Asya Sosis directs a new production of 1944 Soviet satire Dragon for two performances only this weekend, hot on the heels of the UK's general election. In the piece, a brave knight's attempt…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:14PM"A great piece of theatre", "really moving, very thought-provoking" - check out what audiences think of Graeae's touring production of drama One Under, and what critics have said, then book …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:23AMTuesday, December 10, 2019
"No-one wants to be dumped at Christmas!" Watch playwright and performer Natasha Santos talking to London Live about the personal experiences that inspired her comedy Getting Over Everest an…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:15AMMonday, December 9, 2019
As she prepares to bring two plays, The Delights of Dogs and The Problems of People and Lullabies for the Lost, to the Old Red Lion Theatre, Rosalind Blessed tells us about the personal expe…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:40AMFriday, December 6, 2019
New play For the Sake of Argument tests the old saying that the pen is mightier than the sword with its tale of a journalist at the time of the Iraq war that runs at the Bridewell Theatre ea…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:19AMThursday, December 5, 2019
How does a solo performer bring all the characters in Charles Dickens' festive classic to life for A (One-Man) Christmas Carol? Some of the answer lay in the production images below. Take a …
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