Thursday, January 10, 2019
Paulette Tajah is best known as one of the Queen's of Lover's Rock. She has been a reggae recording star since the late 1980s. But this month she ventures onto a different type of stage to s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:05AMWednesday, January 9, 2019
How many writers and actors will it take to make you to FEEL... and then Feel More again? Proforça Theatre Company has pulled together a sensational line-up for its expanded "All the Feels"…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMTuesday, January 8, 2019
What do Franz Kafka, Truman Capote, Elizabeth Taylor, Billie Holiday and a sheepdog have in common? Ghost Fruit, a new absurdist comedy written and directed by Max Wilkinson, gets its world …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:44PMJermyn Street Theatre's 2019 PORTRAIT season opens this month with the stage premiere of Rose Heiney's one-woman play for our internet age, Original Death Rabbit. Less than a week until tele…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:47AMMonday, January 7, 2019
Inspired by true events, Ian Buckley's latest play, The Project, tells the story of an unusual World War Two transit camp where tragedy and cutting-edge entertainment meet. It receives its w…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:23AMHow do you prepare to play Martin Luther King Jr? We have a hint at the answer, as writer/performer Christopher Tajah gave us candid images of rehearsals for Dream of a King, which runs at t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:05AMFriday, January 4, 2019
At the start of the year we're all looking for inspiration. Director Bernie C Byrnes has already found hers working with writer/performer Christopher Tajah on Martin Luther King Jr play Drea…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:15AMThursday, January 3, 2019
New theatre company UnTied Productions will launch itself into the world with the premiere production of Eddie Palmer's comedy about a stepfamily, Out of Step. The debut production, directed…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:29PMThe European premiere of writer-director Ché Walker's Time Is Love / Tiempo es Amor officially opens tonight at London's Finborough Theatre, where it's running for a strictly limited season…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:17AMJermyn Street Theatre's 2019 PORTRAIT season opens this month with the stage premiere of Rose Heiney's one-woman play for our internet age, Original Death Rabbit. Less than a week until tele…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:37AMPub theatre, The Lion and Unicorn, kicks of 2019 with, appropriately enough, drama about a barman, Loop. But for this pub worker, life has become a constant, repetitive source of depression.…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:11AMHow does a YouTube video inspire a stage production about a broken world and how important is graphic design to the continuation of humanity? David Fenne tells us all about his debut play Th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:54AMWhile many of us have been eating far too many mince pies and celebrating the turn of the year, the team creating new drama Anomaly, have been hard at work preparing the play that opens at t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:51AMMonday, December 31, 2018
Peter Mulligan wrote Loop in reaction to his own experiences of working in a bar, coping with depression and considering taking his own life. Here he tell us more about this time in his crea…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:27AMSunday, December 30, 2018
Proforça Theatre Company reprises its critically acclaimed collection of monologues FEEL in a new, expanded "All the Feels" season at east London's The Space in February ahead of a UK tour …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:28PMSaturday, December 29, 2018
Olivier Award winner Sheila Atim returns to the Finborough Theatre and reunites with writer-director Ché Walker, who gave her early career breaks as both an actor and a composer. In our fea…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMFriday, December 28, 2018
Performer Alex Jarrett is taking on a tough role this winter. The young actor tells the story of a teenager sold into marriage in Ailia's one-woman drama AISHA. In our new interview she tell…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:42AMThursday, December 27, 2018
After relocating to Los Angeles, writer-director Chè Walker returns to London, and the Finborough Theatre, with the European premiere of his latest stage play, Time Is Love / Tiempo es Amor…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:33AMFrom 8 January 2019, Jay Parsons reprises his performance in Simon Perrott's new one-man play In Conversation with Graham Norton at London's Hope Theatre, where it had two tryouts in Septemb…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:30AMSoho Theatre's alternative Christmas show is the world premiere of Ian La Frenais and Dick Clement's new stage play Chasing Bono based on Neil McCormick's memoir I Was Bono's Doppelganger. H…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMSunday, December 23, 2018
Festivities continue apace at London's King's Head Theatre where The Boy Under the Christmas Tree has provided a gift to audiences and critics this season. We've rounded up some of our favou…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:06PMSaturday, December 22, 2018
Writer-director Che Walker, Olivier Awards winner Sheila Atim and the company of Time Is Love / Tiempo es Amor paid a special visit to the Finborough Theatre this month ahead of their Europe…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:25AMFriday, December 21, 2018
After selling out at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2016 and touring the UK and to Australia, Ross Ericson's First World War drama The Unknown Soldier will premiere in London in early 2019.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:27AM"A beautifully told story of nightmarish proportions" is a tremendous description of AILIA's harrowing child-marriage drama AISHA, which has impressed reviewers during its mini-tour of Londo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:54AMThursday, December 20, 2018
Writer and director Ross Dinwiddy had a vision of how Franz Kafka's 1904 short story In the Penal Colony could work onstage, with a female officer in charge. After success at Brighton Fringe…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:30AMWednesday, December 19, 2018
After 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 06:30AMTuesday, December 18, 2018
Fresh from his Netflix success with stage-to-screen hit Been So Long, writer and director Chè Walker returns from Los Angeles to direct the European premiere of his own new play Time Is Lov…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:33PMMonday, December 17, 2018
West End transfer marketing for Stig of the Dump sorted - the poster strapline will be "I dig Stig!" We definitely dig it. Meanwhile, the return of Clive King's much-loved children's literar…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:30AMMadcap musical whodunit Murder For Two has returned for a second run at The Other Palace this Christmas - and critics continue to be won over by the silliness of the two-hander parody and it…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:30AMWhat a great week the Barn Theatre had last week. After the final production in its inaugural year, Kirk Jameson's actor-musician revival of Stiles & Drewe's family musical Just So, ope…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMNeil 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 04:30AM 
