Thursday, April 12, 2018
A packed house at the New Wimbledon Theatre rose as one to salute Ria Jones’ bow at the close of Sunset Boulevard and with good reason. Jones remains magnificent, her definitive, decaying …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, April 8, 2018
First seen in Edinburgh and Chichester in 2014, David Haig’s acclaimed Pressure finally arrives at London’s Park Theatre where it runs for a month or so before heading into the West End …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSaturday, April 7, 2018
Ruthless! The Musical has been impressively cast, with a company whose voices and performances are well suited to the style.
The musical will be best savoured with a large gin alongside a g…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, March 23, 2018
Jordan Clarke’s band for Assassins is outstanding, and the two stars awarded by this review are for his quintet. See this show if you enjoy listening to Sondheim’s music played superbly.…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, March 22, 2018
An imaginatively staged take on The Scottish Play which, in its leading roles, is stunningly performed. All in all a bloody, good, Macbeth.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, March 21, 2018
If a successful future is to be unlocked for Lock and Key then much work is needed on its book. The show is crying out for credible characters who engage in plausible human interaction, and …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:00PMMonday, March 19, 2018
Janie Dee’s brief residency at Live At Zedel was a chance to glimpse a performance of understated excellence. A two-time Olivier winner – and just nominated for a third – Dee drew her …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMSaturday, March 17, 2018
Old Fools is brilliant, devastating theatre, marking Tristan Bernays out as an outstanding talent amongst his generation. It deserves a life beyond this stunning premiere – until then, it …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWednesday, March 14, 2018
The politics may be clumsy but the acting is beautiful at the National Theatre. Make no mistake, Rory Kinnear is a magnificent Macbeth.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, March 12, 2018
Paapa Essiedu’s Hamlet is likely to be remembered and talked about in years to come and Simon Godwin’s production is a beautifully accessible performance of a perfect play.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, March 5, 2018
This Pippin is one of those productions rarely seen on the fringe. It captures the sparkle of Broadway, transporting it to south London in a whirl of unmissable musical theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, March 2, 2018
Carefully curated by Chris Burgess, and starring Kieran Brown, Steven Dalziel, Natalie Green and Laura Sillett, A Night At The Oscars is a charming production of a delightful idea.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMWednesday, February 28, 2018
When told well, coming of age stories are very often a reminder of the fragility and beauty of life, inspiring a carpe diem attitude tempered with immense gratitude. That the ‘Harold and M…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, February 27, 2018
Back in London for a one-week residency, Scott Alan was in sparkling upbeat form as he played to a packed audience at Live At Zedel.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, February 26, 2018
As Tyrone Huntley and Georgie Henley tackle Philip Ridley’s six monologues for Angry alternately one apiece, each of them immerses themselves in a coruscating display of compelling physica…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, February 15, 2018
In the right hands (and voices) opera’s classics can work spectacularly on the Fringe, but all too often in Carmen 1808 one is left with the distinct feeling that Phil Willmott has done to…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, February 9, 2018
Cirque Berserk is a show that families can afford and all generations will enjoy. Prise your kids away from their screens – entertainment does not come more perfectly performed.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSunday, February 4, 2018
Surrounded by those with seated tickets and lorded over by scene after scene of masterclasses in the craft, the cheap seats in the pit for Julius Caesar at the Bridge Theatre are without dou…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, February 2, 2018
Much like a street card conman setting out his stall, Tom Salomon’s The Grift at the Town Hall, Bethnal Green, describes itself as “a practice in the art of deception”.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, January 31, 2018
The production of Rothschild & Sons at the Park Theatre is another example of London’s Off-West End at its finest, seeing a relatively obscure musical dusted down and shipped across t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, January 20, 2018
George Bernard Shaw’s Heartbreak House, stylistically inspired by Anton Chekhov, was first performed in 1920. Set on the brink of the First World War, its message about the very real dange…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, January 7, 2018
In what has been another full and stimulating year of reviewing countless revivals and some occasionally excellent new writing, below are the twelve productions that have impressed me the mo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFittingly, the reviewing year has ended in the grandest of styles at Paris’ Grand Palais to where the city’s illustrious Theatre du Châtelet have temporarily decamped, reviving their 20…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, January 5, 2018
Matthew Bourne’s Second World War staging was first aired in 1997, before a revival in 2010 leading to this 2017 slightly re-worked reprise and it makes for an uncompromising interpretatio…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSunday, December 24, 2017
“This is not a musical. This is not a concert. This is not a panto, or a play, or anything I can compare it to,” so proclaims Tom Fletcher in the show notes. And he is quite right. While…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, December 21, 2017
When a family-friendly Christmas clown show seems more akin to Waiting For Godot rather than an act from a big top, three-ring circus, something’s gone wrong.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMHeaded up with an engaging performance from RSC stalwart David Troughton as the frail but somehow still intimidating Titus Andronicus, the play is quite the ride with humour kept firmly at t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMMonday, December 18, 2017
Following critical and commercial success with last year’s Cinderella, QDOS Entertainment has again invested millions to make Dick Whittington the biggest, boldest and glitziest pantomime …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, December 15, 2017
Reprising his 2016 creation, Robert Lindsay is a gnarled and grizzled Ebenezer Scrooge, blossoming as he journeys to discover compassion and kindness.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, December 12, 2017
Miracle on 34th Street is a sparkling, joyful and heartwarming spectacle. For a very merry Christmas, this is just the ticket.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThis year's seasonal offering in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre is a grand affair as David Edgar (it was he who famously adapted Dickens’ Nicholas Nickleby for the company back in 1980) tac…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM 
