Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Fringe innovators The Pensive Federation return to The Vaults with their annual new writing event, The Significant Other Festival, running from 17 to 21 April 2018. Ten new 10-minute plays w…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 03:30PMAfter a successful run at the White Bear Theatre, Mark Giesser’s 1920s-set, Anglicised adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s 1899 short story The Lady with a Dog transfers across town …
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 08:30AMSunday, March 11, 2018
ShyGirl, a 30-something delving into the uncharted world of vlogging for the first time (and a.k.a. writer and performer Siobhan McMillan), brings her new show MIRRORS to London’s Lei…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 09:15AMTuesday, January 9, 2018
"I am on a mission to get a younger audience to the theatre. In January 2017, I founded Fabricate Theatre, a company dedicated to producing theatre which is relevant to a younger audience."
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 10:57AMTuesday, December 12, 2017
The Crystal Egg Live director Elif Knight looks back on how a lack of 'connections' has impacted her career to date - and makes a strong case for all of us to put a stronger focus on diversi…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 12:30PMWednesday, August 30, 2017
Philip Correia explains how his debut play HYEM is inspired by society's craving for comfort and belonging in a time of anger, inequality and growing uncertainty.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThursday, August 24, 2017
New Vic artistic director Theresa Heskins has attracted critical acclaim for the globe-trotting zeal of her hit production of Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days, currently at London's…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 12:56PMDirector Hannah Boland Moore explains why she chose to revive The Provoked Wife - and how she's adapted it for a young cast of eight and set it at a modern music festival.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, August 21, 2017
As the first major London revival of Barnum is announced today, American director and choreographer Shanda Sawyer talks about her own experience helming numerous circus productions for Ringl…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:53AMThursday, August 17, 2017
American theatremaker Richard Foreman's King Cowboy Rufus Rules the Universe, in which a ruddy-faced Trump-like figure takes the title role, is currently receiving its UK premiere at the Lon…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:15AMTuesday, August 15, 2017
Radio classic Round the Horne returns to the London stage with a brand-new show Horne A'Plenty have a limited try-out season at the White Bear Theatre this month. Writer Brian Cooke explains…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 06:19AMMonday, August 14, 2017
After success at last year's Edinburgh Fringe, 'poetic economist' Serafina Salvador's Don’t Blame the Bankers…$toopid is now running for six performances only at London's Camden Fringe. …
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 06:14AMThursday, August 3, 2017
A Spoonful of Sherman celebrates a century of Sherman family music, including the childhood hits of Disney favourites The Sherman Brothers. Robert J Sherman, the son of 'brother' Robert B Sh…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 09:21AMMonday, July 31, 2017
San Francisco-based playwright Peter Sinn Nachtrieb’s hit Off-Broadway black comedy BOOM, the most produced play in the US in 2009 and 2010, receives its UK premiere at London’s…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, July 25, 2017
Attila Theatre's devised piece SKIN DEEP comes to Camden Fringe next week. Christopher Montague, co-artistic director of Attila and co-director of the production, flies the flag for collabor…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 08:16AMThursday, July 20, 2017
What have two twenty-something actors learned from starting their own theatre company? What advice would they give to others considering it
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThe inaugural Opera in the City Festival runs from 1 to 12 August 2017 at the Bridewell Theatre. Artistic director Pamela Schermann talks about the aims behind London’s new summer oper…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, June 1, 2017
Eschewing the path of development workshops and showcases, producer Hannah Elsy has built her original rock musical The Quentin Dentin Show into an ever-expanding, cult phenomenon in full vi…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, May 16, 2017
The European premiere of Late Company, running at London's Finborough Theatre until this Saturday 20 May 2017, has attracted a lot of Mates' attention. Here, director Michael Yale explains w…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:59AMWednesday, May 3, 2017
Directing a world, a future dystopian world, was one of the major challenges and highlights about directing Still I See My Baby. I’ve never done anything like it before, especially in such…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, April 21, 2017
The Pulverised is a deep-dive into a comfortingly familiar world - our jobs and our working lives, but suddenly rendered strange, frightening and comical. As a story it was inspired by a now…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 06:30AMMonday, April 10, 2017
Quarter Life Crisis presents an upbeat take on the millennial phenomenon of big dreams, no cash, going viral, YouTube tutorials, having numerous zero-hour contracts, and surrendering the 16-…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 09:14AMThursday, February 16, 2017
Peter Taylor directs Lucy Burke's new two-hander Glitter Punch, which is now premiering at the King's Head Theatre after first being performed as a scratch night in October. He explains the …
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 08:30AMMonday, February 13, 2017
Monty Python comedy legend John Cleese has adapted George Feydeau’s 1892 French farce BANG BANG for a brand-new staging which opens this month at Mercury Theatre Colchester… Tell…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, February 10, 2017
"Over three months, I trawled through London interviewing everyone from sex workers, adulterers, fetishists, lovers to the desperately bored and married, asking them about their sex lives."
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 04:30AMThursday, January 19, 2017
After an acclaimed tour in 2016, Antic Disposition’s production of Shakespeare’s Henry V returns in February to embark on a tour of eight of the UK’s most historic and beautiful cathed…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 11:30AMMonday, November 7, 2016
Following a sell-outat the Pheasantry earlier this year, up-and-coming singer-songwriter Lily Atkinson returns to London this month for two dates only at the St James Studio, with her own un…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 11:59AMFriday, October 21, 2016
Bobby Brook is the director of Jay Taylor’s new play The Acedian Pirates, which premieres at London’s Theatre503 next week. My journey with this play began, if my memory isn’…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 06:45AMHoward Brenton: In my play MAGNIFICENCE, a group of squatters, occupying the room of an empty house in protest against homelessness, write a slogan on the wall: ‘What are the weapons of ha…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:58AMMonday, October 10, 2016
Adrian Berry is the writer and director of From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads, a one-man show about an obsessive David Bowie fan (played by Alex Walton) which opens this month at Waterloo East…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:15AMSaturday, October 8, 2016
I have been a huge musical theatre fan for as long as I can remember - anyone who knows me well would agree with me when I say I was stagey from birth.
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