Monday, June 19, 2017
It’s a rarity indeed when I take to my own blog to speak of all things Break A Leg but I felt that after four years of nurturing my labour of love and the new step that I’ve taken – it…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM"I play Sebastian, one of the shipwrecked Italians on the island. He’s not exactly a pleasant man when you first meet him and it isn’t long before he begins to take advantage of the situ…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSunday, June 18, 2017
Human Story Theatre secures funding and launches new play, The Fourth Dog by Oxford playwright, Zena Forster, at Offbeat Festival 2017 and beyond. The Fourth Dog is a one hour comedy about b…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, June 17, 2017
The Quentin Dentin Show is a new rock musical with an exciting science fiction vibe. It’s about a couple in their mid-twenties who are stuck in an unsuccessful and unproductive rut who fin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThursday, June 15, 2017
Footloose as an individual track is a tune I have been familiar with and known the words to since I can remember. Footloose as a show with a full range of foot-tapping musical numbers (which…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, June 13, 2017
The Rat Pack is of course formed of Frank Sinatra (David Alacey), Sammy Davis Junior (Des Coleman) and Dean Martin (Paul Drakeley) and a tribute show to the popular late trio wouldn’t be a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, June 6, 2017
"‘Chummy’ is a beautiful neo noir story written by John Foster about a cat and mouse game played between a private investigator and a wannabe serial killer. I play Jackie Straker, an ex …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSunday, June 4, 2017
Waiting For God was a television comedy series that I thoroughly enjoyed watching when it was on our screens, Stephanie Cole and Graham Crowden were a dream team in my humble opinion. I wond…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, May 30, 2017
I enjoy working with the different ‘Billys’, they all bring some different to the role and they’re all so talented. My favourite moment is when Billy shows his letter from his mum to M…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, May 29, 2017
Following a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe 2016, Pharmacy Theatre present the London transfer of their debut show – a highly-acclaimed adaptation of death penalty investigator Rene…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSunday, May 28, 2017
Pop-Up Opera have announced their Summer Season as they continue to challenge the way opera is traditionally performed. This summer, Pop-Up Opera return with a rarely-seen opera from the lat…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThursday, May 18, 2017
Break A Leg favourite, Rebecca Johnson is currently appearing in All Our Children at Jermyn Street Theatre and she took time out in between shows, to chat about her latest role in the five s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, May 17, 2017
"The production of Cyrano is based on a man called Cyrano de Bergerac and he is a poet, a swordsman, a musician, everything you could possibly want but he’s got this massive nose which peo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSunday, May 14, 2017
I have recently had the pleasure of watching Harry on stage alongside Anne Reid and James Bolam in a new play called Fracked! Or please Don’t Use The F-Word. I was delighted to chat with H…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThursday, May 11, 2017
After a critically acclaimed run at the Arts Theatre in 2015, Madelaine Cunningham’s Full Circle plays London again at Theatre N16 this May, which she first performed in her native South A…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:30AMClaire Machin is an actress who has been on my little radar for quite some time, she’s a versatile performer with an incredible singing voice and I think that her latest role as Cora in Th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:30AMWednesday, May 10, 2017
Welcome to Break A Leg’s first vlog, it’s an exciting time to be able to move forward and consider a different way of featuring our interviewees. I’ve really loved doing this first one…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, May 8, 2017
Dennis Potter’s controversial and previously banned, dark, harrowing and twisted comedy, is perhaps not as shocking today as it undoubtedly was back in the 70’s. However, what’s notabl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMStephen Unwin is a name I am familiar with as a director, and in my experience he’s an incredibly talented director. His debut play, All Our Children is set in 1941 and throws a spotlight …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, May 5, 2017
Mamma Mia is a smash hit West End musical and its easy to see why, I’ve seen it a few times before in the west end – many years ago, now. Therefore I was keen to see how it would work as…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMTuesday, May 2, 2017
The Scarecrows’ Wedding is a stage adaptation of the bestselling book by Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler. It’s a love story about two scarecrows – Betty O’Barley & Harry O…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, April 30, 2017
"I’m probably biased, but I would say that I think it’s the ultimate feel-good night out at the theatre and my parents have seen it twenty times (and counting!) so that’s got to be a g…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM"Firstly, it’s an honor to be playing the first English translation of ‘The Pulverised’ after it won the prestigious Grand Prix de la Literature at the National Theatre of Strasbourg. …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSaturday, April 29, 2017
Paper Hearts is an uplifting rom-com musical set in a high street bookshop. Think ‘You’ve Got Mail’ but this time it has an awesome pop/folk score and it’s half set in Russia. It sou…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, April 28, 2017
Fracked or Please Don’t Use The F-Word is written by Alistair Beaton and couldn’t be a more current piece in the current political climate. The fact that it has two more mature character…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMVictoria Yeates is best known for her role in Call The Midwife, she is usually found beneath a wimple as Sister Winifred – however she is currently appearing Elizabeth Proctor in The Cruci…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, April 27, 2017
I’m really looking forward to seeing Brimstone & Treacle and I always thoroughly enjoy productions at The Hope Theatre – so I caught up with Matthew Parker, award-winning Artistic D…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, April 25, 2017
I love playing Mrs Lyons, it’s a great part and an acting part which is what I do but as I’m also a singer it’s a lovely opportunity to do both, really.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMIt’s 1968. America’s Swingin’ Sweethearts, Pete Bartel and Keely Stevens, are performing live on national television! The only catch? They haven’t spoken to each other in five years.…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThursday, March 9, 2017
Dark Vanilla Jungle is running at Theatre N16 from 25 March to 31 March 2017. Break A Leg chatted to Director, Samson Hawkins about the production.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMLes Petits Theatre Company are currently touring with a stage version of The First Hippo On The Moon which is a number one best selling children’s book by David Walliams. The story takes y…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM 
