Thursday, 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…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:40AMSides is Nadim Naaman's second album and it is a pleasure to catch up with this talented young man's vocal interpretations of some of Disney's and the West End's greats along with a selectio…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:51AMWednesday, August 3, 2016
The Watermill has cast the show perfectly, with Tom Chambers and Caroline Sheen leading the Crazy For You company.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:02PMThere are some imaginative touches in Iris Theatre’s Treasure Island – the trouble is, in a play that is 2 ½ hours long, they are too few and far between. Daniel Winder has taken Robert…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:09AMMonday, August 1, 2016
The show’s truly impressive feature is Lindon Barr's choreography. The ensemble were incredibly tight and despite the ever changing story line, the movement in each scene was perfect. Barr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:12AMThe original numbers have been reworked by Stiles and Drewe with a few new songs added too, in what is a light-hearted and delightfully dated snapshot of the English class system and its soc…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:15AMcould a stage presentation of the latest episode(s) of the Harry Potter series match the buzz of the books or the hype and hysteria that has surrounded the much loved movies? The answer is m…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:40AMThursday, July 28, 2016
There's an aura of timeless quality that pervades the touring production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, currently in its second week at Wimbledon. Ian Fleming's wonderfully imaginative tale, so…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:45AMWednesday, July 27, 2016
Superman and Me is a short, (if not so) sweet, two-handed snapshot of domestic dysfunctionality. Focusing on journalists Lois and Clark (geddit?) who met while working on the same newspaper,…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:18AMMonday, July 25, 2016
Florian Zeller is a precocious writing talent. The Truth is his third play to enthral London theatregoers in a year. While the French playwright's breakthrough import The Father reduced some…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:35AMIn what is unquestionably a Superstar for the 21st century, Timothy Sheader's Jesus is no long-haired prophet. In an electrifying performance that captures both Christ’s charisma and his f…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:15AMThursday, July 21, 2016
There can truly be no finer night to visit Martin Lloyd-Evans' new production of Die Fledermaus than the hottest day of the year. As the sun set over the Opera Holland Park arena, west Londo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:16PMWednesday, July 20, 2016
Stalking The Bogeyman is a brave and challenging play. Co-written with Markus Potter who directs, David Holthouse tells his very personal and true story of having been raped at the age of se…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:40AMMonday, July 18, 2016
The show, however, is driven by the astonishing performances of Lucy Williamson as Violet and Ken Christiansen's Grahame. Williamson's performance is a powerhouse.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:15PMGreen Day’s anarchic and rebellious, teen-angst filled musical, American Idiot is back on the London stage with a star-studded cast who battle, and floor, the age-old scepticism of putting…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:30AMTuesday, July 12, 2016
What better way to showcase Ceili O'Connor's cabaret than as The Understudy - treating a packed audience at the Century Club to a whirl through many of the numbers that she had evidently hon…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:36AMSunday, July 10, 2016
Frank Sinatra famously said, “The rest of us will be forgotten – Never Judy.” This is a quote that has lasted the test of time and Through the Mill gives but a handful of the many exam…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:20AMSaturday, July 9, 2016
Claudio Macor's Savage is a brave play examining yet another facet of the depravity that was Hitler's regime, where along with other minorities in Nazi occupied Europe, homosexuals were roun…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:47AMThursday, June 30, 2016
Seeing Bugsy Malone not long after having re-visited The Untouchables (Brian de Palma’s Al Capone gangster movie) and the West End’s revival of Guys and Dolls makes one realise just how …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:15AMMonday, June 27, 2016
After a dramatic Friday of tears and fears, agony and ecstasy and the resignation of a prime minister, a late-night cabaret of debauched unreality at the Hotel Black Cat proved to be quite t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:05AMAs Ray Rackham's Through the Mill prepares to open at the Southwark Playhouse, Paul Vale takes a look at this play based around Judy Garland and the men she loved.There can be no doubt…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:10AMSunday, June 26, 2016
The final production at the Union Theatre's old residence has been an absolute cracker. Jim Cartwright's The Rise and Fall of Little Voice is a brilliantly observed study of life in a northe…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:57PMSaturday, June 11, 2016
Where Taylor’s recent Sheffield outing flooded the stage with talent, albeit with no big star on board, the casting feature of The Go-Between is of course England’s grand-daddy of musica…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:46AMTuesday, June 7, 2016
Unlike its ill-fated namesake, Thom Southerland’s production of Titanic has now made a triumphant trans-Atlantic return crossing, tying up at London’s Charing Cross Theatre for a ten-wee…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:26AMSaturday, June 4, 2016
Richard Eyre, in one of the bravest and most visionary casting decisions ever, chose Hoskins to play Frank Loesser's low-life Nathan Detroit in what was to be the National Theatre's groundbr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:13AMThursday, June 2, 2016
Jennifer Selway has written both play and lyrics for the occasional songs that break up the action. Selway's script has rare moments of sage comment as well as levity but for the most part t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:09AMMonday, May 30, 2016
There was much anticipation ahead of New York composer Rob Rokicki’s one night cabaret in Chelsea’s Pheasantry. Rokicki’s songs offer a refreshing alternative to much of the balladry o…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:29PMSaturday, May 28, 2016
Flowers For Mrs Harris marks Daniel Evans’ farewell production at Sheffield’s Crucible and he bows out premiering a musical that is elegant, charming and beautifully crafted.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:35AMThursday, May 26, 2016
There is a heartbreaking majesty to this Talawa Theatre production and in this anniversary year of Shakespeare’s death, and with more Lears on the way, Don Warrington sets the bar very hig…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:45AMSunday, May 22, 2016
Quite simply, Barnes is a stunning, revelatory astonishment. The role is huge, with the actress onstage almost throughout as she charts Brice’s rise from a self-confident Brooklyn kid to B…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:25PMFriday, May 20, 2016
My letter below was published in The Stage todayDear SirI read with interest the very detailed British Theatre Repertoire Report 2014 (May 12) and the trends that it highlights.It …
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