The titular knowledge is famously what is required to become a licensed London black-cab driver, a process so demanding that 70% of hopeful candidates fail to make the grade.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTo stage Parade at the Frogmore Paper Mill, a preserved factory that dates back to the Industrial Revolution, was an inspired idea from director Dan Cowtan.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMOslo, a new play from JT Rogers is evidently meticulously researched. It is a tale of diplomacy and negotiation, and as a history lesson, it offers moments that are fascinating.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMIt’s been a while since the National Theatre last revived a great song and dance extravaganza and a Sondheim one at that. But with Dominic Cooke’s production of Follies, the NT’s reput…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMDeadline Day is a delightful spin on the world of football that takes place, intriguingly, in the back of the limo that’s taking (Newcastle) United’s gifted young striker Danny south to …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMAs a performer Dixon is blessed with exceptional technical skills – her voice is pitch perfect and she liberally dilutes her vocal turns with perfectly syncopated tap routines throughout t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThis is a dinner that, much like Titus Andronicus' endgame, is a meal that not one person around the table wishes to attend.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMStephen Mear’s take on Top Hat, just opened at Leicestershire’s Kilworth House Theatre is further proof that for this summer at least, the very best musical theatre openings are all taki…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMIt says much for the National Youth Music Theatre (NYMT) that they have amongst their young company the talent and resource to deliver what is unquestionably an impressive take on this most …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMIt’s a surefire treat after a hard day of toil or tourism, to slip into the comfort of a collection of songs from the Sherman dynasty.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AMImaginary follows the friendship of two young boys, Milo (Tom Price) and Sam (Josh Gottlieb). As Sam’s only friend the pair do everything together, playing all day and letting their imagin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThe enchanted narrative of A Little Night Music sees the summer night famously smiling three times: once upon the young, again upon the foolish and finally, upon the old.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMVerkaik’s vocals were flawless throughout the informal evening and it’s no wonder that she’s been entrusted with one of the most vocally challenging roles in the canon, across the glob…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTaken from Melvyn Bragg’s acclaimed description of England’s Lake District as the 19th century passed into the 20th, The Hired Man is a richly fruited glimpse of a way of life long since…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMOmid Djalili steps up to the pivotal role of Tevye the milkman. Married to Golde and with 5 daughters (3 of marriageable age) Djalili captures a hen-pecked, hardworking weariness of the poor…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMIn 2011 Beyoncé Knowles proclaimed in a mightily catchy hook that girls run the world, a far cry of course from James Brown's 1966 declaration that "This is a man’s world”.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMIn a literally magical production, the London transfer of Stratford-upon-Avon's 2016 hit sees Simon Russell Beale as Prospero shipwrecked on an enchanted island in the Med.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThe performances in Brexodus! are, for the most part, top notch – it’s only a shame that the written material doesn’t quite match up to the acting talent on stage.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMRidiculous, slightly bizarre, but also just a little bit brilliant - this is Owen Lewis and Daniel Clarkson’s delightfully comic spin on Hollywood’s classic tale of adventure, love, wond…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMBlanche McIntyre strives to give an aura of political correctness to her take on the bloodiest of Shakespeare’s plays - but she misses the point. Titus Andronicus is always going to be mor…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMRamps On The Moon’s production of Tommy, directed by Kerry Michael, is a truly wonderful production. As the rock opera created by The Who is famously about a “deaf, dumb and blind kid”…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThese Trees Are Made of Blood is quite the title, and “political musical cabaret” is quite the concept. Inspired by the director’s study year in Buenos Aires and the harrowing yet insp…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSet in the 1180’s, King Richard the Lionheart (played by Neil Moors) proclaims he will set off on a Crusade, and go to war with Saladin in the Middle East, leaving the county in the hands…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMJim Steinman’s Bat Out Of Hell has just landed in the West End and with no intention of being a quiet neighbour in theatreland either. From the onset the audience are confronted with an im…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMAndrew Scott’s take on Hamlet, in Robert Icke’s Almeida production that has just transferred to the West End, is a testament to the versatility of Shakespeare’s prose. With Benedict Cu…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMAlexandra Silber’s first novel After Anatevka is a carefully crafted study into love and life in Russia in the early twentieth century. Much like Marc Chagall was to paint enchanted images…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMWith a story that, in principle, is timeless Bromance is all about the beer, the ball games and the bravado that fuels male bonding. Tom, Dick and Harry are three buddies whose friendship ex…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMIt is remarkable how the mundane, simple and modest elements of hard graft, so often taken for granted, become the catalyst for the way you think and live your life, despite your best effort…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMAny new musical from either Stephen Schwartz or Lin-Manuel Miranda makes for big news - so it is even more intriguing and exciting that this week at Southwark Playhouse sees Working make its…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThe idea that opera can pop-up is delightful and Pop-Up Opera’s simple approach to the genre, even more so. It’s no wonder Cimarosa’s Il Matrimonio Segreto, or The Secret Marriage, is …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThe Color Purple’s book, movie and musical have all told the extraordinary story of a Celie, a brutally oppressed woman who against all odds, overcomes racism, abuse and misogyny to find h…
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