Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Feel the love as great staging enlivens this well-written monologue about a cross-generational relationship.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMTuesday, March 8, 2022
Effortlessly and energetically entertaining: Tyrell Williams’ debut play about football and gentrification is pitch-perfect.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, March 2, 2022
Florian Zeller's superbly anti-naturalistic play is a philosophical puzzle that dissects our existential solitude.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, February 10, 2022
Bizarre, beautiful and breathtaking - time-travelling fantasia boasts a brilliant staging and a spoof playtext essay.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, February 2, 2022
Peggy Ramsay is a theater legend. Around the time of her death in 1991, the Australian-born agent was honored with a meticulous biography by Colin Chambers and a personal memoir by Simon Cal…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:19PMTuesday, February 1, 2022
Bizarre. Breathtaking. Beautiful. I leave the Royal Court theatre with these Bs, as well as others such as bewitching and beguiling, buzzing in my mind. Alistair McDowall, whose previous lef…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:17PMSaturday, January 29, 2022
History is a prison. Often, you can’t escape. It imprints its mark on people, environments and language. And nowhere is this more true that in Northern Ireland, where the long history of c…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:17AMMonday, January 24, 2022
History is a prison. Often, you can’t escape. It imprints its mark on people, environments and language. And nowhere is this more true that in Northern Ireland.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, January 18, 2022
The National Theatre has a good record in staging classic American drama by black playwrights. James Baldwin’s The Amen Corner, August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Lorraine Ha…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:57AMSunday, January 16, 2022
It’s a sign of the times that one of my last trips of the year, to Ella Road’s Fair Play at the Bush Theatre, was cancelled because of COVID. Not that much of a surprise really: it’s…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:52PMFriday, January 14, 2022
At the end of the 1960s, American soul poet Gil Scott-Heron said that the revolution will not be televised. Maybe that’s right, but a lot of other things were being broadcast in that decad…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:49PMFriday, December 31, 2021
A couple of days ago, I watched a live stream of Milk and Gall, an American-based playwright and screenwriter Mathilde Dratwa’s new play at Theatre 503. Set in a Brooklyn apartment, the pl…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:27AMWednesday, December 29, 2021
Is the Bosnian conflict of 1992–95 the war that Europe forgot? Maybe, although most fans of new writing for the British stage will remember its massacres as the inciting incident for Sarah…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:26AMMonday, December 27, 2021
James Graham's latest history play has an eye on the present but a messy staging.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, December 26, 2021
After lockdown, the stage monologue saved British theatre. At venue after venue, cash-strapped companies put single actors into simple playing spaces to deliver good stories for audiences th…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:41AMTuesday, December 21, 2021
Race, rage and relevance: sensitive revival of American writer Alice Childress' 1955 anti-racist play shines bright.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, December 20, 2021
The National Theatre has a good record in staging classic American drama by black playwrights. James Baldwin’s The Amen Corner, August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Lorraine…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:36AMWednesday, December 15, 2021
Moira Buffini's ambitious state-of-the-nation, climate-change play runs straight into the doldrums.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, December 6, 2021
After lockdown, the stage monologue saved British theatre. At venue after venue, cash-strapped companies put single actors into simple playing spaces to deliver good stories for audiences th…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:08AMThursday, December 2, 2021
One of the absolute highpoints of new writing in the past couple of years has been the Death of England trilogy.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, December 1, 2021
Why are we indifferent to anti-Semitism? In the past few weeks the Royal Court, a proud citadel of wokeness, has been embroiled in an appalling case of prejudice by allowing a character, who…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:30PMFriday, November 26, 2021
Al Smith's new play was jinxed before it started - and, bogged down in cartoonish detail, it never really recovers.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, November 23, 2021
Intense, but inconclusive: this powerful new play about black men's mental health fails to reach a satisfying resolution.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, November 18, 2021
I had a mind-expanding experience this week. And, listen, there’s still a chance for you to have one too.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, November 17, 2021
Powerful, poetic and profound: this well-deserved winner of the 2020 Papatango New Writing Prize now gets a cracking production on the main stage at the Bush Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, November 16, 2021
Hypocrisy. Is this the right word? I don’t mean the play, but the audience. Of course, in the middle of the current COVID-19 crisis, there’s bound to be a certain amount of discomfort w…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:27AMMonday, November 8, 2021
Saoirse Ronan makes her UK stage debut in Yael Farber's testosterone-fest, which is vivid, but much too long.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, November 2, 2021
Remembering the months of lockdown, I can’t be the only person to thrill to this play’s opening lines, “When shall we three meet again?”, a phrase evocative enough to be borrowed for…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:18AMMonday, November 1, 2021
This new coproduction between Graeae and Tamasha is not perfect, but it offers a moving insight into ritual and belief.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, October 29, 2021
This is a labour of love. Hilary Mantel has adapted The Mirror and the Light, the third novel of her Tudor trilogy, in collaboration with actor Ben Miles.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, 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 02:13AM 
