Thursday, April 18, 2019
The House on Cold Hill is a pleasant enough way to spend the evening but is rather dated and no different than dozens of other haunted house mysteries that have appeared over the years.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWednesday, April 17, 2019
BAFTA-nominated actor and winner of BBC1’s Strictly Come Dancing 2017, Joe McFadden stars in the touring production of The House on Cold Hill, Shaun McKenna’s stage adaptation …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, April 15, 2019
Pint of Wine Theatre Company has done a spectacular job of bringing the compelling chamber musical Queen of the Mist to the stage.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, April 8, 2019
Casting Antony Sher as a white, South African, Shakespearean actor in John Kani’s ferocious, funny and emotive new play Kunene & the King couldn’t be more perfect – …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, April 4, 2019
Mark Benton gives a compelling turn as a desperate salesman on the edge in Sam Yates’ revival of David Mamet’s riveting, prize-winning play, Glengarry Glen Ross, now touring.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMSunday, March 24, 2019
Writer James Kettle unearthed actor David Tomlinson’s story, collaborating with comic and actor Miles Jupp to create a wonderful, very emotional and exceptionally funny, one-man show …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, March 22, 2019
There couldn’t be a better time to revisit James Phillips’ 2006 debut play The Rubenstein Kiss and its story of idealism, especially in the current climate of global and nation…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, March 16, 2019
Joshua Harmon doesn’t beat about the bush when tackling difficult questions about diversity and equality in Admissions, a biting new comedy that couldn’t be more relevant, espe…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, March 15, 2019
Jamie Lloyd’s terrific Pinter season, at London’s Harold Pinter Theatre, climaxes with a revival of Betrayal, arguably one of the writer’s more personal pieces and one o…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, March 13, 2019
Mike Leigh’s classic Abigail’s Party is back in the theatre with its irrepressible hostess, Beverly Moss, handing out gin and tonics and cheesy-pineapple nibbles to the sounds …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSaturday, March 9, 2019
Athol Fugard’s blistering drama, A Lesson From Aloes, which proved so contentious that it was almost banned in the 1970s, has been revived to coincide with the 25th anniversary year o…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, March 5, 2019
Noël Coward’s A Song at Twilight may be billed as a comedy but this story of one man’s fear of mortality and exposure, is tinged with tragedy. The Theatre Royal Bath’…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, March 4, 2019
Neither Kazuro Ishiguro’s prize-winning novel, or the acclaimed film adaptation, of The Remains of the Day prepares you for the profound tragedy felt after seeing this heart-rending s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, March 1, 2019
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Stephen Adley Guirgis doesn’t pull any punches with his tough, uncompromising prison drama Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train at the Young Vic Theat…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, February 15, 2019
Playwright Torben Betts has come up with a new recipe for his haute cuisine comedy, Caroline’s Kitchen, tinkering with the ingredients to create a new dish about depression and discon…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, February 11, 2019
Pinter at the Pinter reaches its climax with Pinter Seven featuring an enigmatic and occasionally baffling radio play, A Slight Ache, and a real highlight in an already remarkable season, Th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, February 8, 2019
Losing your job can affect people in different ways but Judy Martin retreats into a 1950s Twilight Zone in Laura Wade’s surreal, bittersweet, comedy Home, I’m Darling which ope…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, January 28, 2019
Gentleman Jack and Taro, both written by Ross McGregor, artistic director of Arrows & Traps Theatre Company, celebrate wildly different women but, at their heart, they share a common th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, January 24, 2019
Violet is heartfelt and hopeful, the songs are infectiously good with a mix of hillbilly, honky-tonk, gospel and traditional country, and the show features powerful performances from the ent…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMTuesday, January 22, 2019
Absorbing and intense Rosenbaum’s Rescue questions our beliefs and memories, and offers a radical new version of one country’s wartime experiences.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, January 18, 2019
What I watched in Stop & Search has less to do with stop and search and more a jumble of thoughts and ideas thrown up in the air and left to sort themselves out into some semblance of a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, January 8, 2019
There are no balloons or party poppers but a good time is guaranteed with Party Time and Celebration, a standout Pinter Six from the consistently strong Pinter at the Pinter season in London…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, January 2, 2019
If you want to understand why working-class Americans voted for Donald Trump or even why people in Sunderland voted for Brexit then look no further than Lynn Nottage’s complex, urgent…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSunday, December 23, 2018
Borrowing a technique from American long-form TV drama, The Tragedy of King Richard The Second begins in medias res. The wonderful Simon Russell Beale steps forward, ashen-faced, to deliver …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, December 19, 2018
Journalist and playwright Jonathan Maitland will be kept on his toes rewriting his latest play, The Last Temptation of Boris Johnson, nightly to ensure it keeps up with the politicianâ€�…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, December 16, 2018
Neil McCormick’s autobiography has now been turned into an engaging new musical play, Chasing Bono, which has opened at London’s Soho Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:05AMSaturday, December 15, 2018
Former law professor, author and academic Norman S Poser is spending his retirement writing about his two passions, the Georgian era and English theatre, and, in particular, the life and tim…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, December 14, 2018
Paulette Randall’s gender-swap, colour-blind, version of Christopher Marlowe’s fiendish morality tale Doctor Faustus succeeds in ticking a lot of trendy boxes but fails to crea…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSaturday, December 8, 2018
Sibling rivalry and dysfunctional families are at the heart of Sam Shepard’s True West, a black comedy that has emerged from an initial drubbing Stateside with a revival in the West E…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWednesday, December 5, 2018
The twist in Plaid Tidings at London’s Bridge House Theatre is, of course, that the stars are dead, killed in a car crash. But when has a trivial mishap like that ever stopped a group…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, December 3, 2018
It has been nearly 80 years since Aimée Stuart’s enchanting and whimsical comedy, Jeannie, has been performed in London so thank god for the Finborough Theatre in staging a revival.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AM 
