Friday, July 13, 2018
Me 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.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMWednesday, July 11, 2018
Notwithstanding high expectations, together with The King & I’s difficult issues that are made even more complex in a modern world of evolving values, this transfer of the 2015 Broadw…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMTuesday, July 3, 2018
In the final tragic year of the Great War’s centenary, and 102 years (almost to the day) since the commencement of the Battle of the Somme, For King And Country reminds us of the mental de…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, June 27, 2018
For the show to soar, all that is needed is a faultless cast – thus the greatest plaudits in this production belong to director/choreographer Nick Winston and his casting director Anne Vos…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, June 26, 2018
As part of this year's open-air concert line-up Live At Chelsea, some of the biggest names in musical theatre were joined by the Royal Symphonic Concert Orchestra to celebrate the 70th Birth…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, June 24, 2018
With the World Cup tournament currently in play, football parlance seems appropriate in describing Opera North’s Kiss Me, Kate, arriving this week for a short stay at London’s Coliseum a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, June 19, 2018
What happens if you throw together 23 songs, five musical theatre performers, a pianist, and tons of colour? The answer is It’s Only Life, a musical revue based on several ‘orphan songs�…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMWednesday, June 13, 2018
Julie may well be far from a definitive interpretation of Strindberg's classic, but nonetheless makes for an evening of thought-provoking theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, June 12, 2018
In what is the first staging of Return To The Forbidden Planet since the death of its creator Bob Carlton, John Plews has put together a production that captures the show’s irreverent spir…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, June 8, 2018
Arguably, the revival of a 25-year-old script is done for one of two reasons; either its excellent writing simply entertains, or it is pertinent to today’s societal trends. With Killer Joe…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSunday, June 3, 2018
Yet again, Southwark Playhouse is delivering an outstanding musical for a fraction of the price of a West End ticket. If you love the genre, it’s unmissable.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, June 1, 2018
It is rare to find a show so good-natured and yet ominous and academic, all at the same time. Come for the raucous humour, stay for the dramatic, dirty colonialism and the lesson in the pros…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, May 19, 2018
This is not Yasmin Reza’s Art, rather it’s an intense, well-written and tightly directed drama that in 90 minutes provides a rare insight into a man whose work seems baffling to the untu…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMMonday, May 14, 2018
Shuler Hensley is an American actor who, outside of the theatre world and especially the musical theatre world, is little known in the UK. Currently, he can be found in the Theatre Royal Bat…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, May 13, 2018
There was a 15-minute delay to the commencement of Nightfall on the occasion of this review, with an actor delayed on public transport. Sadly that delay was all too short, as what followed w…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMMonday, May 7, 2018
Grotty is a dark, grimy, and vivid exploration of the subcultures of London’s lesbian scene. The end result is a play about nothing in particular. Much like its lead character, Grotty trie…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMSunday, May 6, 2018
There’s a lot to process in The Whale, sometimes too much, but make no mistake – this is masterful modern drama.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSaturday, May 5, 2018
If you can get (or afford) a ticket, go and see Chess, if only because the score is unlikely to be played quite so sumptuously ever again. The whole production makes for an evening of stunni…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, May 3, 2018
Chicago remains fine Fosseian musical theatre. Strong story, stylish dance, and Kander and Ebb’s brilliant songs. Class, indeed.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMSunday, April 29, 2018
With Chicago returning to London, I spoke with Josefina Gabrielle who, as Velma, is sharing the show’s leading credits, about the piece and her career.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSaturday, April 28, 2018
Visiting New York offers a chance to catch up with the trans-Atlantic transfer of Bill Buckhurst’s ingenious take on Sweeney Todd, sited in a replica of Harrington’s eponymous Tooting pi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, April 27, 2018
The story of Hello, Dolly! may be froth and frolics, but underneath the razzle-dazzle of Jerry Herman’s songs and Michael Stewart’s book, there beats a heart-warming tale of simple human…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMThursday, April 26, 2018
The book and songs here may be dire, but the entertainment shines through in Strictly Ballroom’s dazzling dance. Drew McOnie choreographs the piece (he also directs, though thankfully with…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, April 25, 2018
Revisiting 42nd Street at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane – and it still remains the finest spectacle of dance to be found in the West End.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, April 22, 2018
For the most part, Sting’s The Last Ship is a thing of beauty. The Geordie songwriter/pop megastar has penned a well-crafted salute to the shipbuilders of his native Newcastle Upon Tyne an…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSaturday, April 21, 2018
This is a heartbreakingly beautiful interpretation of probably the darkest musical to have emerged from Broadway’s Golden Years but, and not unlike The Starkeeper himself, Jack O’Brien h…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMThursday, April 19, 2018
Judy Garland et al may be captured, beautifully, in that flickering light beam and one may know the movie thoroughly, but Gabriele truly takes this score of The Wizard of Oz over the rainbow.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMTuesday, April 17, 2018
Julian Woolford has scattered references to other famous musicals throughout his rewrite of Twang!! and West End Wendies in the audience will enjoy playing spot-the-show in the throwaway ref…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, April 16, 2018
From the opening number which promises so much, through to the second half that might feel as though it is dragging on just a bit too long, the audience’s plight is fully acknowledged in t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, April 14, 2018
A packed Palladium saw Jason Robert Brown, supported by the lush BBC Concert Orchestra and the composer’s own rhythm section record a Friday Night Is Music Night show for future broadcast.…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMThursday, April 12, 2018
A packed house at the New Wimbledon Theatre rose as one to salute Ria Jones’ bow at the close of Sunset Boulevard and with good reason. Jones remains magnificent, her definitive, decaying …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM 
