Alan Bennett’s The Habit Of Art has returned to its meta-spiritual home this week, arriving at the Oxford Playhouse to amuse and entertain its erudite audience with in-jokes about the city…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMStill Alice is a sharply observed, bold and courageous portrait that captures the bravery of one woman’s battle against a malevolent and unrelenting disease.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMBlack musical comedy Heathers The Musical has graduated with honours to the West End, opening at the Theatre Royal Haymarket to whoops of laughter and screams of delight from enthusiastic au…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMEyam, the final production of The Globe’s summer season, drags in the autumn with a grim tale of human endurance and sacrifice, reimagining for the stage the true story of a plague-ridden …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTartuffe could be an episode from a TV sitcom and proves, if any proof was necessary, that a satire written in 1664 – albeit much rewritten and refined by 21st-century adaptors – is stil…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFlowers For Mrs Harris, a 2016 Sheffield hit for director Daniel Evans when he was there, is the big musical flourish for Chichester Festival Theatre, where Evans is now completing his secon…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMEnter the Elephant Jazz Bar at Wilton’s Music Hall, London for the Watermill Ensemble’s coats-and-tails dive into the 1920s, where the cast of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night serve up a de…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSuicide is the single biggest killer of men under 45 in the UK. It’s a sobering fact to be presented with at the start of Alex McSweeney’s exceptional new drama, Distance, which has open…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMYou’re riveted from the very first second of The Lovely Bones. Shocking, horrifying and heart-wrenching this remarkable 100-minute stage adaptation of Alice Sebold’s international best-s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMIt’s been 26 years since Tony Harrison’s anti-war polemic Square Rounds baffled and amused audiences and it has lost none of its bite.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMBill Kenwright’s first outing with his new The Classic Screen to Stage Theatre Company is a revival of Dan Gordon’s Rain Man, based on the Oscar-winning film that starred Tom Cruise and …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMLove’s Labour’s Lost is altogether good fayre and definitely a crowd-pleaser. Michelle Terry’s tenure at The Globe continues to gallop confidently forward with this romp of a show.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMJude Owusu cuts a blood-soaked swathe through history in an ambitious, epic and savage retelling of Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine at the Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMI was as baffled as anyone to explain why I was on the edge of my seat and engrossed by the inner workings of quantum engineering, astrophysics and nuclear fission as explained in Michael Fr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTom Latter’s production of The Rise & Fall Of Little Voice is, like the title, one of highs and lows. The only time the show delivers any energy is in the second act when LV is thrust…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMArthur Miller’s 1968 play The Price at Theatre Royal Bath gives its star, David Suchet, another landmark stage role in an already exemplary career
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMRegent’s Park Open Air Theatre finishes its summer season with an outrageously kitsch and eccentric production of Little Shop of Horrors that will leave you singing its infectious title so…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThe estuary accents, Dolce & Gabbana leggings, bling and selfies are a bit of a giveaway that Fiona Laird’s production of cheeky Shakespearean comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor is geo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMIt makes for very uneasy watching. On the one hand, her story-telling is gritty and brave, but there’s a strand which is deeply exploitative with a terrified young girl tortured and maimed.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThe Actors Centre in London’s West End is partnering Blacktress UK to curate the October-December John Thaw Initiative Season, which will feature work by and about black women.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:30AMMark Rylance turns Shakespeare's most sinister & Machiavellian of villains into a fawning clown in his wife's disappointing and workmanlike production of Othello at The Globe.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMIn The White Rose Ross McGregor gives us a story of a young generation’s courage, as they fight to reclaim their country from those who are destroying it.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMA chance to turn the clock back and hear Simon and Garfunkel at their very best pops up now an then at the Lyric Theatre. And for fans of the duo, which produced some of the most influential…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMCharles Dorfman’s Buckland Theatre Company has revived Two For the Seesaw for London’s Trafalgar Studios 2 and the intimate space works well for this very intimate story of opposites hop…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMIn these ultra-sensitive, snowflake times, writing, and performing, comedy is fraught with danger. One wrong word or gag and a once glittering career can lay in tatters. TV and radio writer,…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMShakespeare’s slight and silly comedy As You Like at the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre is just the thing for midsummer.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMActor Ryan Pidgen will remember this night. It was the moment when he went out on stage an understudy and came back a star after single-handedly saving a show and the neck of its worried dir…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWith plastic swords and rubber mezzanine set – complete with safety rails – that wobbled as it lurched from one scene change to another, the only credit to come out of this mess of a mus…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMNot everyone knows who Joan Littlewood was but by the end of Sam Kenyon’s enthralling biographic musical, Miss Littlewood, we’re closer to understanding what drove this maverick director…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThe Play About My Dad is a force of nature itself, blowing conventional storytelling out of the window. Poignant and heartbreaking, the hurricane is used as a framing device to tell the stor…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThis is a superb and brilliantly performed production of Shakespeare’s ‘problem’ play. If you know the Globe, this Winter’s Tale is a terrific summer show. If you don’t know the ve…
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