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Monday, December 11, 2017

SNOW GLOBE – Bristol Old Vic ★★★★ by Kris Hallett

For Kid Carpet’s latest show for the younger generation at BOV is packed full of questions like this. Children’s theatre may be seen as the poor relation to the more grown up stuff by so…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PM

LITTLE MATCH GIRL & OTHER HAPPIER TALES – Touring ★★★★ by Kris Hallett

As Black Friday and New Year bashes grow exponentially, child poverty in the UK is on the rise. The Little Match Girl may have her origins in the Victorian era and snow flecked tales of Hans…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM
Saturday, December 9, 2017

BEAUTY & THE BEAST – Bristol ★★★★ by Kris Hallett

If Christmas shows are measured by the smile it puts on our faces and the gales of laughter elicited from the younger ones, then this is a stone-iron smash.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM
Sunday, November 19, 2017

How to Disappear Completely & Never Be Found – Bristol ★★★★ by Kris Hallett

Funny how some plays can disappear completely and take a while to be found. When Fin Kennedy won the John Whiting award for this work, not one theatre had responded to its open submission.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PM
Sunday, November 12, 2017

THE TIN DRUM – Touring ★★★★ by Kris Hallett

Never let it be said that Cornish theatre company Kneehigh lack in ambition. Gunter Grass’ The Tin Drum has accrued significant cultural acclaim since its publication in 1959, gaining its …

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM
Thursday, November 9, 2017

HOW TO WIN AGAINST HISTORY – Touring & London by Kris Hallett

Only the British could have produced as flamboyant and controversial a character as Henry Cyril Paget, the Fifth Marquis of Anglesey who lost his family fortune to a blitz of frocks and jewe…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PM
Tuesday, November 7, 2017

EDUCATION, EDUCATION, EDUCATION – Touring by Kris Hallett

If we were playing A Desert Island of theatre than Wardrobe Ensemble's Education, Education, Education would be what I would ask for. It ticks all the boxes I most love.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM
Tuesday, October 31, 2017

PEOPLE, PLACES & THINGS – Touring ★★★★★ by Kris Hallett

Emma is a role to stand shoulder to shoulder with Rooster from Jerusalem. It wouldn’t surprise me in years to come if female actors mention the role in conversations about dream roles in t…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PM
Thursday, October 26, 2017

WAITING FOR GODOT – Bristol by Kris Hallett

Premiered in 1953 in France and 1955 in London Waiting for Godot was immediately dismissed by a majority of the London intelligentsia as a work of pretentious twaddle. After Harold Hobson an…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AM
Saturday, October 21, 2017

ICE ROAD – Bristol ★★★ by Kris Hallett

The crème of Bristol artistic talent has come together for Ice Road, an immersive work at a former Victorian bathing house near the centre of town, that places its audience directly into th…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:30AM

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards