Thursday, January 21, 2016
Pleasing on the eye and ear, this 1930s Noël Coward script is brought to life for 2016 by director Tom Attenborough and a cast of five. Telling the story of two newly married divorcees who …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:42PMTuesday, January 19, 2016
The RSC’s opening to Shakespeare's 400th anniversary year could neither have been more extraordinary nor ambitious: the full cycle of the Henriad performed as an entire historical epic.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:50PMMonday, January 18, 2016
Much has been made of McDonald's six Tony wins and she is typically spoken of with reverence. But with it having been nigh on 15 years since she last performed in London, it has only been th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:18PMSunday, January 17, 2016
Muted, being staged in a concert performance in early February, looks like an interesting and exciting venture, with the gig being timed to mark its album’s launch. Penned by the double-hy…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:53AMThe Big Brother House is no stranger to fevered egos, control freaks and folk in pursuit of fame. But right now at the King’s Head Theatre it is being graced with the presence of one parti…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:33AMThere's an irrepressible sugary charm that surrounds Legally Blonde. Late into the show's run and on a cold January night too, the Gatehouse Theatre was packed with a grinning audience picki…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:15AMThursday, January 14, 2016
It is a sound idea that has seen Chichester Festival Theatre send their acclaimed 2014 production of Guys and Dolls on the road. The UK tour that commenced in Manchester in November last yea…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:01AMSunday, January 10, 2016
The Christmas decorations may be taken down - but at Leicester's Curve the seasonal family show has another two weeks to run and judging by Friday’s packed, cheering audience it is continu…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:35AMThursday, January 7, 2016
Making its European premiere, Grey Gardens is a blend of fact and fiction that tells of Edith Bouvier Beale, aunt to and her daughter Edie. What sets this family apart is that the two women …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:10PMWednesday, December 30, 2015
London may have been sweltering under the warmest December since records began, but deep in a Piccadilly basement it was beginning to look a lot like Christmas the other night as Gary Willia…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:05PMMonday, December 28, 2015
As 2015 draws to a close, here is my personal look back on the performance highlights of the last 12 months. This list is entirely subjective - and marks out the shows I have seen, that, as …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30PMMonday, December 21, 2015
Commissioned by the RSC, Queen Anne is a new play by Helen Edmundson, directed by Natalie Abrahami in her debut season at Stratford-upon-Avon.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:14AMFriday, December 18, 2015
2015 you sly old fox, you’ve saved the best for last.
The Confederate flag flutters over the stage as the opening bars of Show Boat play out. An ugly image, the flag defining so much of A…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:43AMTuesday, December 15, 2015
This year's Christmas offering from the Landor is more bewilderment than Bewitchment that's often skating on thin ice rather than black. But if stars were to be awarded solely for ballsy amb…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:22PMThursday, December 10, 2015
Charles Perrault's classic fairy tale comes to the stage this season as Matthew Bourne completes his trilogy of Tchaikovsky's ballets. Sleeping Beauty (originally premiered in 2012) follows …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:56PMIn that little wooden candlelit nest of magic and wonder that is the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Sam Yates directs a dreamy, fairytale-like Cymbeline. Originally written to be performed across …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:56AMWednesday, December 9, 2015
The family friendly festive fayre at the St James this season is a delightfully performed take on Jules Verne's classic novel. The stagecraft is ingenious as Verne's visionary novel is conde…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:04AMWednesday, December 2, 2015
Imelda Staunton may have just wowed in Styne and Sondheim's Gypsy, but hard on her heels is Sheridan Smith's take on Fanny Brice. In a role that famously demands an unconventional beauty - a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:21PMThe arrival of Christmas in Bromley is well and truly heralded by the opening of Aladdin at the Churchill Theatre.
Starring Scott Maslen as the villain Abanazar, Jess Robinson as Slave of t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:22PMMonday, November 30, 2015
Christmas came early to the West End on Sunday night, for just like Max Bialystock, Mel Brooks’ legendary king of Broadway, Alex Parker has done it again with his own Kings Of Broadway. Th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:07PMFriday, November 27, 2015
Who is the nation’s greatest Dame? Maggie Smith, Judi Dench or Helen Mirren? Well, think again, for as pantomime season descends upon us, Clive Rowe yet again claims that illustrious honou…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:15AMSunday, November 22, 2015
Twelve years after the movie scored itself into the global psyche as a modern day Christmas classic, the musical version of Elf makes its London premiere at the Dominion Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:08PMFriday, November 20, 2015
Les Miserables has long impressed me, not just for having such a stirring libretto, but also for the cheekily economic creativity of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schoenberg that was able …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:55AMThursday, November 12, 2015
Julie Madly Deeply is a technically brilliant performance from Sarah-Louise Young that charts the life of possibly the queen of our national treasures, Julie Andrews. A self-confessed fan an…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:56PMIn a time of celebrity cast Shakespeare productions, it is a pleasure to observe Greg Doran’s take on Henry V and see not so much a band of brothers, but rather a company of craftsmen offe…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:56AMTuesday, November 10, 2015
As the RSC cycle of Shakespeare's Histories arrives at London’s Barbican Theatre, Alex Hassell appears first as Hal in Henry IV Pts 1 & 2, before maturing into the series' Henry V. 3…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:14PMMonday, November 2, 2015
In her one-woman cabaret, Maria Kesselman firmly proves herself to be a force to be reckoned with. A truly seasoned professional, she seamlessly blends an impressive voice and near-perfect t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:14PMMonday, October 26, 2015
There have been many interpretations of J M Barrie's Peter Pan story but this musical version by George Stiles & Anthony Drewe, with book by Willis Hall, deserves a place of note. The t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:57PMA concert of this sort – large numbers of quite well known people along with full backstage back-up giving their services for charity (Esther Rantzen’s Silver Line) on a Sunday evening u…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:29PMWednesday, October 14, 2015
Crazy Coqs, London*****The term ‘icon’ is often freely used with little regard for it’s true definition – however from last night’s gig at The Crazy Coqs, Franc…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:25AMTuesday, October 13, 2015
For one night only this week, the fabulous Tiffany Graves was in cabaret at the Crazy Coqs. The stunning performer, increasingly appearing as one of our finest leading ladies, offered a coll…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:07PM 
