Monday, November 7, 2016
“They fuck you up, your mum and dad” wrote Philip Larkin and it is precisely that sentiment that sits squarely at the heart of Sam Shepard’s Fool For Love currently playing at Found 11…
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Opening with two lovers sharing a kiss, for Samantha Barks' Cathy, an aspiring actress it is her tragic last, while for writer Jamie, played by Jonathan Bailey, it is a trepidatious first.
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Through their fascinating and unconventional lives, Side Show succeeds in engaging the audience with an open question about individuality and identity; the two girls’ struggle to just be t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:19PMWednesday, October 26, 2016
There’s a well-earned hurrah (or should that be scream?) for this evening of hokum that's currently playing in Birmingham over the Halloween fortnight. As the audience take their seats the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:25AMMonday, October 17, 2016
Yet again director Thom Southerland has assembled a virtually flawless cast and crew in his revival of Ragtime, a show that is probably Flaherty and Ahrens' finest collaboration.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:17PMFriday, October 14, 2016
There's a timeless nostalgia to Ronald Harwood's The Dresser that captures a particular snapshot of England during the Second World War. With the country's fit young men called up to fight, …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:18AMWednesday, October 12, 2016
The tale of murder, deception and glamour is played out against the backdrop of Cook County Jail, where dazzling black costumes and stage lights replace orange jumpsuits and jail bars. The m…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:59AMTuesday, October 11, 2016
In a powerfully devastating and unrelentingly humorous look at the dark and unspoken truths manifest in the psyches of men and women after decades spent together in a relationship, the doubl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:23PMFriday, October 7, 2016
Park Theatre, London**Written and directed by Michael Yale With music by Charlie Round-TurnerJames Robinson and Kate BatterThe strapline to This Little Life of Mine invites us to "be at…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:52PMThursday, October 6, 2016
What sets this show apart from most other emerging productions is its casting. Of the four lead roles, two are filled by actors more used to headlining casts in multi-million pound West End …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:45AMMonday, October 3, 2016
Murder Ballad has got a bit of rock music in, a bit of country, a bit of musical theatre. It is completely sung through, it deals with real people's situations and, obviously, there's a murd…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:40AMSunday, September 25, 2016
It is all too rare that an established musical is performed as a stand-alone concert. Taking the rich beauty of Howard Goodall's score and having it sung by some of the industry's biggest na…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:05AMFriday, September 23, 2016
Every once in a while the theatrical planets align to create a pairing of such fine actors that it may well be unmatched for a generation. So it is with Harold Pinter's absurdist gem No Man'…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:25AMIn a non-stop performance of virtuoso theatre, The Pianist of Willesden Lane sees Mona Golabek, an accomplished American concert pianist, pay the most remarkable of tributes to her late moth…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:45AMFriday, September 16, 2016
First performed in 1610, Ben Jonson's powerful and timeless satire of city life is presented here at its best, thanks to a flamboyant and utterly enjoyable RSC production.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:18PMWith Racky Plews' production, and some 40 years after Jack Heifner's play premiered in New York, Vanities in its musical iteration finally crosses the Atlantic to make its London debut. A th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:26AMThe premise behind 27 is both noble and tragic. Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse, Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin all died at that age and Sam Cassidy's musical seeks to explore some possible greate…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:15AMFriday, September 9, 2016
We meet the Bottom Brothers (Rob McClure and Josh Grisetti), two playwrights continually frustrated with living in Shakespeare's shadow. Nick Bottom is desperate, just for once, to trump the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:40AMWednesday, September 7, 2016
Transporting us through the history of musical theatre’s golden age, The MGM Story dives into the tale of how the Hollywood studio nurtured the talent of stars that were to include Judy Ga…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:29AMMonday, September 5, 2016
Told from the perspective of one Melbourne Bumblescratch, a laid-back, sleazy, pick-pocketing plague rat, Bumblescratch is a new musical comedy based around this remarkable rodent’s unique…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:07PMSaturday, September 3, 2016
William Shakespeare's tragedy depicting the 17th Century King's descent into madness has been given a pared down, modern retelling by director Gregory Doran in this new production at the RSC…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:05AMTuesday, August 30, 2016
Listening to a CD offers a greater opportunity to consider a show’s songs in more detail. Reality TV is fertile ground for writers. A couple of years ago I Can't Sing! had a short-lived ou…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:03AMMonday, August 29, 2016
In the first musical to be staged at Park 90, the Park Theatre's smaller space, The Burnt Part Boys proves to be one of the finest examples of Off West End musical theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:16AMFriday, August 26, 2016
Two years after its premiere in Leeds, the National Youth Music Theatre's production of Brass arrives at the capital's Hackney Empire. And yet again, under the aegis of this remarkable organ…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:14PMWednesday, August 24, 2016
Sixteenth century farce that, unlike much of Shakespeare's work, barely skirts around the human condition, doesn't easily stand up to modern scrutiny. The Comedy Of Errors is an implausible …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:33AMSunday, August 21, 2016
With Paramour, Cirque du Soleil widen their scope venturing into musical theatre and incorporating dialogue and songs sung live alongside their signature circus wizardry. Set in the Golden A…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:15PMMove over Mrs Lovett, there's a new baker on the block. Waitress, Sara Bareilles' female-fuelled take on modern Americana, is perhaps the finest example of new musical theatre writing in qui…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:15PMMonday, August 15, 2016
Directed by Christian Durham, this production of Children of Eden marks the show’s 25th anniversary. It is also only the second production to be staged in Southwark’s newly built and re-…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:05AMSunday, August 14, 2016
Allegro is the third musical born from the long standing genius that is the duo of Rodgers and Hammerstein. While neither their most successful piece, nor their most daring and despite it be…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:15AMFriday, August 12, 2016
The Battle of Boat is a new musical from the National Youth Music Theatre. Set in a seaside town on the English south coast in 1916, the carefree happiness of a group of young children is sh…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:15AMThursday, August 11, 2016
Robert J. Sherman (he of the illustrious songwriting line of Shermans and no relation to Rory) has scored the reflective Mondays, recorded by Rosemary Ashe. There's an innate sense of wisdom…
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