Monday, October 25, 2021
Since 9/11 there has been considerable interest in staging stories about British Muslims, and the best of these avoid the stereotypes of arranged marriage and terrorism. Although religious o…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:13AMFriday, October 15, 2021
Bess Wohl's history play is an imaginatively-written, brilliantly chilling and resonant account of life at a Nazi summer camp, starring Patsy Ferran and Luke Thallon.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, October 10, 2021
This is a labor of love. Hilary Mantel has adapted The Mirror and the Light, the third novel of her Tudor trilogy, in collaboration with actor Ben Miles, who is the Royal Shakespeare Company…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:22AMMonday, September 27, 2021
Are we too obsessed with Nazism? Apart from countless television programs which revisit that grim era, as fact or as fiction, in monochrome or in color, briefly or at length, there has recen…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:34PMMonday, September 20, 2021
American playwright Aleshea Harris’ dazzlingly satirical 2018 extravaganza is about two women seeking justice and getting even, and it comes to the Royal Court from New York, trailing shou…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSaturday, September 18, 2021
I remember seeing Shelagh Stephenson’s contemporary classic at the Hampstead, when this venue was still an ageing prefab, and enjoying Terry Johnson’s racy staging,
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, September 17, 2021
For more than three decades, playwright Winsome Pinnock has been at the forefront of new writing, often experimenting with form as well as documenting the lives of Black Britons. Her new pla…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:34PMMonday, September 6, 2021
At its best, the subjective and poetic image creation in Rockets and Blue Lights at the National Theatre is both audacious and striking. At its worst, it is over-complex, confusing and overl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, August 18, 2021
Before seeing this play, I decided to eat a steak. I thought I needed some extra strength. And it seems exactly the right culinary equivalent to David Mamet, one of America’s most provocat…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:07AMTuesday, August 3, 2021
The Young Vic’s main stage reopens with Booker Prize winner Ben Okri’s short play Changing Destiny, directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:30PMSaturday, July 31, 2021
The great thing about Lucy Bailey’s 80-minute production of Oleanna is its sense of balance. And I have to say that it changed my mind about the power balance in the drama.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, July 28, 2021
By the end of Orange Tree Theatre’s production of Bryony Lavery’s Last Easter the certainty that friendship and love are life’s true miracles is quietly and effectively realised.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, July 25, 2021
I finally caught up with Michael Longhurst’s restaging of his 2012 Royal Court production of Nick Payne’s Constellations, a gem of a two-hander.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, June 29, 2021
With many theatres now reopening again, it is surely a good moment to celebrate all those venues which managed to stage live shows in the past few months — often in very stressful circumst…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:53PMWednesday, June 23, 2021
Although some theatres are tentatively reopening, the creative vigor of other companies is undimmed. Clean Break, which works with women in the criminal justice system, has recently released…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:47PMTuesday, June 22, 2021
After months (and months) of watching theatre on screens large, medium, small and tiny, I definitely feel great about going to see a live show again. Of course, it’s not the usual theatre …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:07PMSunday, June 13, 2021
Although some theatres are tentatively reopening, the creative vigour of other companies like Clean Break is undimmed.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMOnline performance, streamed instead of attended, has given theatre companies an immense amount of flexibility. Suddenly, the digital world offers all kinds of different freedoms. A good exa…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:23AMSaturday, June 5, 2021
Amy Berryman’s ambitious debut play Walden about siblings, climate change and space travel is full of ideas, but what happened to the emotions?
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, May 31, 2021
I think I can safely say that polymath playwright Philip Ridley has had a good lockdown. In March last year, when The Beast of Blue Yonder, his new show for Southwark Playhouse, was closed d…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:33PMWednesday, May 26, 2021
Harm, which has already been screened on BBC Four with Leanne Best, is a new monologue by Bruntwood Prize-winning playwright Phoebe Eclair-Powell and now the one-woman show stars Kelly Gough…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, May 18, 2021
Uncertainty can sometimes provoke creativity. When the opening of Shereen Roushbaiani’s one-woman show, Saving Britney, at the Old Red Lion theatre was cancelled in January, its creators D…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:07PMMonday, April 26, 2021
Over the past year we’ve become used to a variety of home theatre: recordings of live performances, streamed shows, online films. But I haven’t really explored much sonic theatre, those …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:57PMSaturday, April 24, 2021
Does a subjective theatre piece encourage a subjective critical response? I think it might, especially when it’s a memory play about dementia, so here goes: First I turn off the lights, th…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:11PMThursday, April 22, 2021
The camera can take you to places where the naked eye rarely goes. Like close. Very close. Close up. And then some. This is exemplified by Fraser Watson’s brilliant filming of The Separati…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, April 10, 2021
Uncertainty can sometimes provoke creativity. When the opening of Shereen Roushbaiani’s one-woman show, Saving Britney, at the Old Red Lion theatre was cancelled in January, its creators D…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, March 30, 2021
Mark Ravenhill’s new play Angela is a fragmentary sonic autobiography, both tender and occasionally fraught.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, March 24, 2021
This film version of the Oscar Wilde classic The Picture of Dorian Gray is a brilliant critique of the digital age.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, March 18, 2021
The Band Played On, the latest show from Chris Bush, is a tuneful celebration of stoicism, resilience and humour.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWednesday, March 10, 2021
As the events of last year made clear, the police have a problem with race on both sides of the Atlantic. In the UK, BAME people are more than twice as likely to die in police custody while …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:32AMSunday, February 28, 2021
Typical, a film version of a powerfully poetic and painful 2019 monologue about institutional racism, is brilliant.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM 
