Friday, January 8, 2016
Director and producer Thom Southerland and Danielle Tarento solidify their reputation for salvaging ancient wrecks off the American coast. Having rescued Titanic equally from the icy waters …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:39AMWednesday, January 6, 2016
History-Boy-made-good Jamie Parker is beyond excellent, refining Sky Masterson with a crisp intelligence and occasional glimpses of hesitant motive and the inner workings of a genuinely thre…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:20PMFriday, December 25, 2015
If you enjoyed the ITV Sound of Music ‘live’ – or even if like me you thought Kara Tointon wasn’t really up to it and the whole production felt a bit clunky – you may have been str…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:14AMFriday, December 18, 2015
Can you remember rationing? Fondly? Do you perhaps have in your attic a lavender-scented aunt who likes to bang on about how good life was before the internet/microwave pizza/non-stick pans…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:45PMSunday, December 13, 2015
Dear Santa, in 2016 can we please have no more fringe pantos put on for fifty quid? I want transformations, flying and glitter. Thank you.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:38PMSaturday, December 12, 2015
We already know from Sarah Brightman’s confessional on the Graham Norton show that she married Andrew Lloyd Webber not because he was the handsomest boy in the playground but because ‘he…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:15AMWednesday, December 9, 2015
Let’s get it off our chests now: it will have you ‘in suspense’, it ‘goes with a swing’ there’s plenty of ‘gallows humour’, it’s a plot that ‘leaves you dangling’, jer…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:54AMSunday, December 6, 2015
For a period in history of which I had almost no knowledge, I found it wildly entertaining and equally informative – excellent on the personal relationship between Anne and Sarah Churchill…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:20PMAs diminutive interpreters of popular song go, Edith Piaf outshone Paige ‘as daylight doth a lamp’ and entered French national consciousness close behind ‘Marianne’ as a symbol of tr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:30AMTuesday, December 1, 2015
How do you like your musical theatre? An occasional treat for your Nan’s birthday? A full-on Christmas outing to the latest Disney blockbuster via Pizza Express for mum, dad and the kids…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:23AMThursday, November 26, 2015
The wit and charm of US comedian Wallace Shawn is lost on me. I never saw him as Alicia Silverstone’s teacher in Clueless and haven’t caught whatever comedy series made him popular, on a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:01PMMonday, November 23, 2015
The Barbican staff fuss about with warnings about ‘strong magnets’ and not bringing in coats or bags, so you’re prepared for The Body to be something interactive and physical, and exci…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:30AMThursday, November 12, 2015
Classic. Expressionist. Socialist. Eugene O’Neill. You could add to that depressing list ‘directed by Richard Jones’, the man who sucked all the life out of Annie Get Your Gun across t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:52PMWednesday, November 11, 2015
Southwark Playhouse’s recreation of Xanadu is a fabulous, over-the-top, well-staged entertaining evening. Everybody leaves smiling and the enthusiasm is genuinely deserved.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:16AMAnita and Me deserves respect for Meera Syal’s semi-autobiographical 1996 novel chronicling an awkward schoolgirl’s struggle to escape the cloying embrace of her traditional Punjabi fami…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:27AMTuesday, November 3, 2015
Rotterdam is something quite special. A thoroughly well-crafted piece of comic writing, with naturalistic and credible characters in situations which engage you, smartly staged and directed,…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:25PMSunday, November 1, 2015
You’d really need to be Prince Charles to get the most out of this curio: or at least a septuagenarian devotee of the Goons and inveterate nostalgist for the era when BBC radio announcers …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:48PMFive years ago, Tyler Clementi, a bespectacled 18-year-old freshman at Rutgers University in New Jersey jumped off the George Washington Bridge. His room-mate Dharun Ravi had set up a video …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00AMWednesday, October 28, 2015
‘Write what you know’ has never been more apt. When a former Daily Express entertainment editor writes a play in which the showbiz section of his lightly fictionalized newsroom is called…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:58AMTuesday, October 6, 2015
It’s doubtful whether I share many readers with the Daily Express which each week seems to trumpet some new ‘cure’ for Alzheimer’s – like this one, and this one – but go see The …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:31AMFriday, October 2, 2015
I love an untold story. And it’s beyond intriguing that seven years after the end of the second world war, there was a boarding school in Ongar full of evacuated children still uncolle…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:03AMThursday, October 1, 2015
‘Wanna Sing a Show Tune’ starts Michael Feinstein, cementing a career which has stretched across thirty years of meticulous analysis and delivery of the entire catalogue of …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:20PMIt would be easy to dismiss Roaring Trade as ‘Boring Trade’, a 2009 quadrille for four unpleasant people in a dealing room which was stale long before the recession cut the rug from unde…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:41AMThis was a glamorous night (yes, I know that’s by Ivor Novello): Joan Collins, Petula Clark, Richard Fleeshman, Michael Feinstein, Gloria Hunniford, Nanette Newman, Hayley Mills and Una St…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:41AMTuesday, September 22, 2015
When You Me BumBum Train took the site-specific theatre world by storm in 2004 at the Barbican with its unique concept of an audience of one in a wheelchair and a cast of hundreds, and …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:59PMThursday, September 17, 2015
A staging of 1973 Robert Redford/Paul Newman caper The Sting with its complicated and long-forgotten plot would need the smart and snappy treatment of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels to bring it to …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:15AMMonday, September 14, 2015
All the reviews of F*cking Men at the King’s Head referred to its setting ‘in the gay community’. If it does nothing else, Memphis writer Joe diPietro’s re-…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:37AMSunday, September 13, 2015
Sometimes the thing you didn’t want to cross town to see becomes the play you absolutely must recommend. Until they open the new venue in Balham, Theatre 503 is the most tedious fringe…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:19AMTuesday, September 8, 2015
With the turmoil of three months ‘in previews’ and gossipy leakage over cast changes and backstage bickering which might warrant a musical in itself, Dusty has become London’s Off-West…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AMTonight Side by Side by Sondheim opens tonight at the Brockley Jack studio theatre, without Su Pollard. According to the email sent to reviewers five days ago, she would not be headlining th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:23AMFriday, September 4, 2015
‘Write what you know’ remains the best advice to any author and the story of how Michael Kirk picked up the plot of Hatched ‘n Dispatched from his 9-year-old observations of sexual she…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:13AM 
