Friday, 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 …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:03AMThursday, May 19, 2016
As musicals go, Jason Robert Brown's Parade is a tough gig. His Tony-winning score is an immense fusion of the sounds of America’s South, tackling a monstrous story of love in adversity an…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AMTuesday, May 17, 2016
Appearing as part of the (now ended) London Festival of Cabaret, Sarah-Louise Young's latest cabaret manifestation is a set entitled La Poule Plombée. Literally translated it means the "lea…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:05PMFor one night only, Daniel Donskoy with Inga Davis-Rutter created an evocative evening of cabaret, which if not quite as global as the title suggests, offered a bouillabaisse (or should that…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:09PMSunday 15 May 2016 saw the Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year Awards 2016 take place at London's Novello Theatre, with Guildford School of Acting's Courtney Bowman (pictu…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:35PMMonday, May 16, 2016
As Jason Robert Brown's Parade opens at Manchester's Hope Mill Theatre this week, I was invited to write the Foreword for the production's programme.With the producers' permission, my articl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:05AMSunday, May 15, 2016
The current London cast of Gordon Greenberg's Chichester production of Guys and Dolls, recently moved across town to the Phoenix Theatre, is a delight. This company's polished excellence giv…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:51AMWednesday, May 11, 2016
The Toxic Avenger - The Musical has received rave reviews on its European premiere at Southwark Playhouse. I had a coffee with "Toxie's" creator and the founder of Troma Pictures, Lloyd Kauf…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:08PMMonday, May 9, 2016
Inside the narrow space of The Hope Theatre in Islington, Ian Nicholson directs Nude, Paul Hewitt’s intense new work about love, life and fate that is deeply inspired by the classic verse,…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, May 7, 2016
Following its recent performance at the Palace of Westminster, Jack Gamble and Quentin Beroud bring their Richard II to the Arcola Theatre for a short run. It has been often said that Richar…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:15AMMonday, May 2, 2016
What Close is, is a Hollywood Legend of the grandest order, ranking in her generation alongside Meryl Streep, but not really many others. And that defines part of the magic of this productio…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:07PMThursday, April 28, 2016
Show Boat at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre was the best musical that I saw last year and its London transfer is setting a very high bar for 2016. Daniel Evans' production, mounted on Lez Brot…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:59AMWednesday, April 27, 2016
To describe the show as tongue in cheek could almost be an obtuse reference to the grotesque prosthetic (good work from Jonathan Moriarty North's studios) that Anderson sports as Toxie. But …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:22AMTuesday, April 26, 2016
Harington, albeit looking more comfortable delivering the modern sections by Teevan than the originals, convinces as the easily-duped Faustus. The real strengths of this production however l…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:33AMA packed Battersea Barge saw Evelyn Hoskins deliver a slick and intimate cabaret. Elfin / gamine / diminutive - take your pick of the adjectives, Hoskins' looks famously belie her age and fo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:49AMSaturday, April 23, 2016
“People”, who didn’t manage to nab their seats fast enough for the Menier Chocolate Factory’s Funny Girl can most definitely rest easy in the knowledge that this acclaimed and triump…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:37AMFriday, April 22, 2016
After playing Australia, New York’s Off-Broadway and to great acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe, Lennon: Through A Glass Onion, written and directed by John Waters, comes to Liverpool for a …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:36AMAt the curtain call, co-star Michael Xavier bowed down before Ria on stage and producer Michael Grade was first to grab her in the wings as the sound of the cast applauding her enveloped her…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:02AMTuesday, April 19, 2016
Paul Robinson directs with sensitivity as Simon Slater's sound and music enhance proceedings, with the production marking an impressive debut by producers Tiny Fires. Go see this play – th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:15AMSunday, April 17, 2016
Bartlett Sher’s interpretation of Fiddler on the Roof casts fresh eyes over one of the most beloved shows in the canon. Sheldon Harnick's lyrics remain as written, but much of the dance ha…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:45AMRarely does a new musical emerge from a book that is as heartfelt as Fun Home's and yet fails on stage to either inspire or deliver.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:34AMSaturday, April 16, 2016
The gingham tablecloths set the tone for Forever Plaid, currently downstairs at St James' Studio. Look closely and the "menu cards" are actually the evening's set list. If it wasn't for the …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:27AMIt says much for London's modest but acclaimed Menier Chocolate Factory that their production of The Color Purple, first staged three years ago, has been shipped back to Broadway to a rave r…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:45AMFriday, April 8, 2016
Hand to God is the cleverly written story of Jason (played by Harry Melling of Harry Potter fame) a quiet and awkward teenager, struggling to deal with his father's death six months prior.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:05PMWritten before he had become one of the nation's most prolific playwrights, yet as ever focusing upon his hallmark theme of domestic dysfunctionality, How The Other Half Loves is Alan Ayckbo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:07AMThursday, March 31, 2016
Green Day's concept punk album explored something that teenagers around the world have been doing forever - questioning societal constructs and their own purpose in life, and feeling as thou…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:25PMTuesday, March 29, 2016
Tracy Letts’ Bug at the Found111 space is a pressure cooker of paranoid chaos, as fascinating as it is terrifying. It draws a thin line between reality and neurosis, trapping the audience …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:02PMAs the 2016 Olivier Awards ceremony draws closer, new musical Mrs Henderson Presents is nominated in four categories. Ian Bartholomew is up for Best Actor In A Musical and I spoke with him a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:41PMFriday, March 25, 2016
It's a neat conceit - turning a long defunct magazine brand, synonymous with the childhood of girls of the 70s into a night to remember for those very same girls, now of course women.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:27PMThis week offered me a chance to re-visit Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In The Heights and a first time to see it in its Kings Cross home.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:21PMFollowing the acclaimed success of their production last year of Sad Stories of the Death of Kings, Scena Mundi mark their own celebrations of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death wi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:16PM 
