Mike Rowbottom News Today

WE can write all sorts of clever phrases when reviewing but the bottom line with this Much Ado About Nothing is that I’m booking to see it again, it was t...

A PLAY recreating the trial of 18th century Henley murderer Mary Blandy is returning to the stage. Mary Blandy — A Retrial, in which the audience play the...

THIS year’s Henley Living Advent Calendar is on course to break its record for donations. The nightly shows have already raised more than £7,000 for...

CONFESSION: Aladdin has to be my most loathed pantomime. That said, Backstage Aladdin, a new play by Mike Rowbottom, did not make me wince, no, not even once. T...

I HAVE had a love-hate relationship with pantomime for decades and it’s that friction which gave rise to my latest, rudest and naughtiest play, Backstage ...

IT’S pantomime season again and there is a wide selection of festive offerings to choose from, with lots of fairy tales and famous names. Two shows starte...

Femke Bol's astounding finish earned women’s 4x400m gold for the Netherlands

A vividly exuberant Mary Moraa held off attacks from Keely Hodgkinson and Athing Mu to claim her first global gold in the women’s 800m

Beriso Shankule clocks 2:24:23 at the finish in Heroes’ Square ahead of defending champion Gotytom Gebreslase

Noah Lyles duly delivered the third part of his Budapest sprinting plan on Saturday