Mairead McKinley

Review: PORTIA COUGHLAN, Almeida Theatre

Marina Carr’s award-winning play returns to London directed by Carrie Cracknell and starring Conversations with Friends starlet Alison Oliver (who trod the same boards earlier this year in Women, Beware the Devil). A compelling analysis of toxic dysfunction and female pain, Portia Coughlan is a jarring family drama shackled by tragedy. It propels Oliver into theatre stardom. 

Review: THE DRY HOUSE, Marylebone Theatre

An arduous deep dive into the moral murkiness of alcoholism and grief

Ryan Calais Cameron's RETROGRADE Leads Our Top Ten Shows for April

April has some truly exciting theatre in store. From Ryan Calais Cameron's new play about Sidney Poitier to a revival of Brian Friel's Olivier Award-winning play and one of Noël Coward's darkly comic masterpieces, BroadwayWorld has some brilliant recommendations for your theatrical delectation.

Photos: See Kathy Kiera Clarke & More in Rehearsals for THE DRY HOUSE AT Marylebone Theatre

Check out rehearsal photos of The Dry House at Marylebone Theatre!

Review: AKEDAH, Hampstead Theatre

Akedah won the 2019 Bruntwood Prize Original New Voices Award, and is Michael John O’Neill’s first full length play. It’s a tricky show in every sense of the word: the themes are very heavy, with little levity, and the plot is often hard to keep track of, as new details about the characters’ past are gradually added. The result is a very bleak, emotionally fraught production that’s difficult to unpick.

Kathy Kiera Clarke Joins THE DRY HOUSE at Marylebone Theatre

The incredible, all-female cast has been announced for the world premiere of actor and playwright Eugene O’Hare’s The Dry House at Marylebone Theatre.  The ensemble cast includes Derry Girls’ fan-favourite Aunt Sarah, Kathy Kiera Clarke (The Pale Horse and Bloodlands, BBC; Tartuffe, National Theatre; Medea, Citizens Theatre), who plays the role of Claire.   

Birmingham Repertory Theatre Presents THE STRING QUARTET'S GUIDE TO SEX AND ANXIETY

The tempestuous relationship between sex, anxiety and music comes to a head in a remarkable new production from one of Europe's most exciting theatre directors, Calixto Bieito.

Photo Flash: Hampstead Theatre Presents the World Premiere of FILTHY BUSINESS

Hampstead Theatre presents the world premiere of Ryan Craig's fiery family drama Filthy Business. Directed by Artistic Director Edward Hall, this new production takes a closer look at the entrepreneurial outsiders who became part of the beating heart of modern Britain. Critically acclaimed actor Sara Kestelman takes on the lead role of matriarch Yetta Solomon in this epic new work.