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 08:30AMShyGirl, 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 09:15AM"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 10:57AMThe 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 12:30PMPhilip 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 06:00AMNew 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 05:00AMAs 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 07:53AMAmerican 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 07:15AMRadio 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 06:19AMAfter 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 06:14AMA 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 09:21AMSan 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 10:00AMAttila 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 08:16AMWhat 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 05:00AMEschewing 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 07:00AMThe 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 07:59AMDirecting 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 12:00PMThe 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 06:30AMQuarter 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 09:14AMPeter 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 08:30AMMonty 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 05:00AM"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 04:30AMAfter 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 11:30AMFollowing 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 11:59AMBobby 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 05:58AMAdrian 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 05:15AMI 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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