The 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…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMLong before the era of the modern day jukebox musical, Hollywood was already hard at work re-hashing classic George and Ira Gershwin numbers from the 20s and weaving them into Vincente Minne…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMAdapted by N. Richard Nash from his original play The Rainmaker, 110 In The Shade tells the story of Lizzie Curry, an intelligent lonely woman, living in a small town in the western USA that…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMHighlights from the evening were excerpts from The Wonderful Musician, two specific numbers from Gould’s most recent project performed by Hywel Dowsell and new graduate Danny Michaels. The…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFrom the moment the overtures commences with the iconic clicks from the cartoon/TV series the audiences are not only on side but clicking along. The story, characters and settings are iconic…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMSet around the dinner table of the bereaved parents, their guests for the evening are Bill and Tamara Dermot together with their son Curtis, a peer of Joel’s at school and the ringleader o…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThere's a magnificent story behind The Braille Legacy. Louis Braille, the blind French boy who applied himself to developing a language of tactile dots that brought literature to the sightle…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMIt's rare to watch a West End musical that is so wonderfully British - and Half a Sixpence really is just that, in so many ways. The direction, choreography and music of the piece frame the …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMRodgers and Hammerstein considered Carousel to be their finest work. The show is this year's semi-staged Coliseum offering from Michaels Grade and Linnit and they have laid on a sumptuously …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMIn the unnamed town that the five characters inhabit, any hope or joy is promptly quashed and left in a pool of despair on the floor, just like the mysteriously dying rats that plague the st…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMOne wonders if McDonald, being such an idolised performer in the world of musical theatre can live up to the sheer gravitas behind her name and will deliver?
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThe script is sprinkled with as many songs as anecdotes – who knew for example that Bart could not write music? He would hum out a tune on his kazoo, while his good friend Eric Roberts (wh…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMIf you need convincing that women can be just as derogatory, obtuse and vulgar as certain men can sometimes be, get your bottom down to the Pleasance Theatre in Islington and check out Posh,…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM42nd Street at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane is a feast of musical theatre. This revival of the 1980s show, itself inspired by the 1930s recession busting movie of the same name, is nothing l…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMCy Coleman has a fine track record of taking an acerbic view of iconic American cities. With City Of Angels his score parodied a film noir view of Los Angeles - and here, with The Life, he p…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:35PMManchester’s Hope Mill theatre yet again presents another powerful show with their energetic and touching production of Yank!, a show first brought to life off-Broadway in 2010.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMT’Shan Williams plays Queen and we spoke during a break in rehearsals.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMAt first glance, I’m Gonna Pray For You So Hard appears to be a somewhat self-indulgent glance into the life of David, an egotistical celebrated playwright complaining about a ‘hard done…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMStewart Permutt's new play is billed as a comedy and indeed director Tim Stark, interviewed in the programme notes as, describes the work as "very, very funny". The trouble is, it isn’t ve…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMShowbiz, entertainment and glamour are three things one expects on a trip to Las Vegas. Well for one night only, courtesy of the London Music Theatre Orchestra; Vegas came to London – with…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThe shared vacuum of George and Martha's lives is filled by bitter sniping, infidelity and alcohol, the pain of their desperate mutual neediness broken one night by a drunken and impromptu i…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSouthwark Playhouse's website describes The Diary Of A Teenage Girl as "a coming of age adventure of a San Francisco teenager who begins a secret affair with her mother's boyfriend". Rarely …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMRevisiting Funny Girl, now on tour after its tumultuous (but always impressive) London run that had started at the Menier Chocolate Factory, it’s almost impossible to believe how Michael M…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMLizzie, based around the true tale of the allegedly patricidal Lizzie Borden, is more akin to rock concert than musical.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:30PMThe evening’s pieces were segued with carefully researched introductory comments from the Maestro, telling us for example that Steiner along with Erich Korngold and Alfred Newman were the …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMDrawn from Joseph Moncure March's 1928 poem of the same name the show is an unrelenting tale of bastardry in 1920s New York. Frances Ruffelle's Queenie and her husband Burrs are a pair of fa…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWhile Mrs Henderson Presents may have been drawn from the Windmill Girls' wartime titillating tonic, Gary Barlow and Tim Firth’s The Girls is of a more classic vintage, savouring the sauce…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMusicals are nothing if they do not explore the human condition - and The Girls pulses with a humanity that touches almost everyone in the audience.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMIn My Land's Shore, Christopher Orton and Robert Gould’s new musical, one learns so much more about the history surrounding Dic Penderyn (aka Richard Lewis), a martyr to the cause of Welsh…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMThat's Jewish Entertainment doesn’t just focus on the showbiz greats made famous by Jewish writers or performers, but also takes in snatches of liturgy from the synagogue alongside a sprin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThere's a madcap edge to David Spicer’s new comedy that spoofs so much of modern England. Stephen Boxer is Gerry Duffy, a middle aged frog farmer who's been supplying amphibians for diss…
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