You enter a dark basement in the heart of the West End. RuPaul is blaring, lights are flashing and there is dancing. Yet this is not a club. Instead, it’s Hot Gay Time Machine.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSqueezed into a lean and tightly filled two hours, Sam Shepard’s True West is an acerbic glimpse of domestic dysfunctionality that plays out in sweltering Southern California, a blasted ba…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMEnnio Morricone played London for the last time this week, his farewell visit to the capital heralding the gifted composer’s imminent retirement.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMRunning at the National Theatre prior to a Broadway opening, Hadestown offers a uniquely folksy and enchanting take on the tragic tale of Orpheus and his love, Euridice.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMIn James Fenton’s adaptation of Cervantes’ 17th-century classic, the fabled antics of Knight Errant Don Quixote are given a contemporary understanding that still preserves the original�…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMRomeo & Juliet, with Karen Fishwick and Bally Gill as the leads, arrives at the Barbican as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s London residency. Although written over four centur…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM‘There’s no fool like an old fool’ is an adage that sums up much of Honour, now playing at the Park Theatre. The play introduces Henry Goodman and Imogen Stubbs as married couple Georg…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSholom Aleichem In The Old Country is at once charming, funny, sad and yet it is ultimately tragic. Not because of any serious disaster that befalls the characters, but rather because it off…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThis Macbeth should be an absolute blinder with such a strong and perfectly brooding lead… but unfortunately, the production falls a little flat in pivotal places.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMPerformed at the Bridewell Theatre in an enticing lunchtime slot, Welcome…? is a ground-breaking play that seeks to challenge the narrative around out-of-work pregnant female actors and is…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMGamblers, gangsters and nightclub singers mingle together in 1950s New York in Guys & Dolls, Frank Loesser, Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows’ ‘musical fable of Broadway’, which returne…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMScott Alan’s The Distance You Have Come – a song cycle drawn from Alan’s work to date – has been fashioned together in this two-hour gig and is an event of uplifting beauty and hope.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMAn evening at Marianne Elliott’s production of Company at the Gielgud Theatre is unquestionably fine theatre. Everybody rise.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThe Inheritance at the Noel Coward Theatre has been rightly lauded as a major piece of 21st-century theatre and Lopez has a gift for crafting argument and dialogue with sensitivity and innat…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMAs Brexit remains headline news across the country, People Like Us, a new comedy from writers Julie Burchill and Jane Robins, examines how this polarisation of political opinion has cut a sw…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMAt three and a half hours all in Antony and Cleopatra is a long haul, but with Fiennes and Okonedo making Shakespeare’s verse sing, there are moments here to be savoured.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFollowing a sold-out run at The Other Palace earlier this year, there’s been a lot of hype surrounding Heathers the Musical, with a strong fandom out in force and social media buzzing with…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMAny musical can only be as good as its underlying book and Wasted, based upon the lives of the four Brontë siblings (three girls and a boy) is written around a very strong core.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMAs Bill Buckhurst’s production of Sweet Charity takes the show squarely back to its 1960s origins with Rebecca Trehearn in the lead, the show delivers an exhilarating if somewhat brutal co…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMBeheadings are brutal and barbaric, whether they occurred five months or five centuries ago. And yet, with heads jauntily skewed, grim grins (albeit momentarily) and hand-held mics tightly g…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMAt Chichester right now, director Michael Blakemore’s revival of Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen has opened to rave reviews. Blakemore has a remarkable history with the piece, having directed…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMIn short, Swan Lake is a marvellous evening’s dance and a production that should appeal to both connoisseurs and novices alike. Now that’s what I call ballet.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMIn an ingenious conceit, Erik Ransom’s show embodies the Grindr app into a Mephistophelian being who wields a strange, yet credible power over all who engage with the software.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMYet again, the people of Newbury find themselves spoiled with this display of some of the finest talent in the land putting on a show that alongside being a rollercoaster of emotions, Sweet …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThis wonderful production of Sasha Regan’s all-male Iolanthe is now in the final leg of its UK tour. As such, the cast – who, reviews have suggested, were excellent to begin with - have …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMJohn Williams is a prolific composer whose work stretches across six decades. The remarkable breadth of his compositions ensured that throughout the two-hour gig there were melodies that tou…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMOffering two hours of compelling and arguably unmissable theatre combining humour and cliche together with many unpalatable home truths, End of the Pier is one of the most stimulating new pl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThe strengths of The Rise & Fall of Little Voice will always flow from the young woman playing LV and in Sarah Louise Hughes, director Michael Strassen has unearthed a gem.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMIt Happened In Key West takes risks which more often than not, pay off. As beguiling as it is macabre, this morbid musical comedy needs to be seen to be believed.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThe Lehman Trilogy is an intelligent look behind the scenes of the American Dream and the smoke and mirrors of the corporate world, brought to light by Mendes’ astute direction and a stell…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMe and My Girl’s politics may be of the dark ages – but its ability to put grins on faces and set toes tapping is the mark of a modern show that knows how to please its audience.
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