Tuesday, January 8, 2019
By the last ten minutes, the energy of the language and the characters’ burning need for meaningful relationships in Time is Love has set the place alight.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, January 7, 2019
Writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais turn the serious premise of Chasing Bono into a witty comedy of reconciliation and acceptance.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThursday, January 3, 2019
Ed MacArthur and Jeremy Legat are exceptional in all the roles they take on in Murder For Two. Both pianists and triple threats, they charm their way through the story that tries so hard for…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, December 21, 2018
Growing global discontent has been the hallmark of 2018, and 2019 is looking even worse. The last few years have marked a rise of the far-right, but theatremakers in opposition are letting a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSaturday, December 15, 2018
Snow White & the Happy Ever After Beauty Salon is a great take on a classic Christmas show and despite a few narrative shortcomings, it charms, entertains and gently addresses some of t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThursday, December 13, 2018
With the definitive MGM film never far from mind, it can be hard to find an original spin to put on Guys & Dolls. Joseph Pitcher’s production doesn’t stray far from the 1955 version…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, December 8, 2018
Leaving the Royal Court after watching Ellie Kendrick’s new play Hole, I overhear another audience member describe feeling like she has just been “hit over the head with a sledgehammer�…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, December 4, 2018
Burke & Hare, a story of two men who murder people in order to sell their corpses to doctors in 1820s Edinburgh shouldn’t work as a dark character comedy with music. But largely work …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, December 1, 2018
It’s difficult to work out who the musical Seussical is for and why it’s been revived. Trying to imagine how a 10-year-old might watch this show doesn’t help answer these questions.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, November 30, 2018
Excellently sung vintage tunes by great singers deliver plenty of camp Christmas cheer in Plaid Tidings at the Bridge House Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMWednesday, November 28, 2018
The Dark is an exhilarating and personal journey through the dusty backroads of Uganda in 1979. Jumping between then and present day, Michael Balogun tenderly tells author Nick Makoha’s st…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, November 27, 2018
Haley McGee’s The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale is an intimate work that draws on numerous techniques that both move and surprise, and the effect is one of warmth and care.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, November 21, 2018
Cuckoo by Lisa Carroll has all the elements of a wonderful coming-of-age story. Set in a small Irish town, this play packs many a punch, giving us a raw look at what it means to not fit in, …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSaturday, November 17, 2018
Pinter Four continues Jamie Lloyd’s Pinter at the Pinter season with the Lyndsey Turner-directed Moonlight starring Robert Glenister as a dying patriarch who bemoans his family’s absence…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, November 16, 2018
Hadestown is certainly a welcome contribution to London’s musical theatre. The excellent score and unrelenting criticism of corporate systems that enslave the poor in awful conditions and …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThursday, November 15, 2018
Pinter Three features 11 plays, allowing director Jamie Lloyd to vary tone, pace and style with shorter, more amusing sketches bookended by two more heavyweight works; Landscape and A Kind o…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWednesday, November 7, 2018
Fat Rascal Theatre Company has created magic in its gender-swapped, musical parody of Beauty and the Beast.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, November 6, 2018
Bury the Dead by Irwin Shaw paints a reality where soldiers refuse to be buried by standing up from their graves. Since soldiers, especially in WWI, were treated like currency the concept gi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:05AMMonday, November 5, 2018
A masterclass in one-woman storytelling, Pickle Jar is delicately told in the intimate setting upstairs in Soho Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, October 30, 2018
Forgotten at the ArcolaTheatre is a considered story serving an important function on the British stage, but the scope of this history is too big for the current length and structure.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, October 26, 2018
Dance shows can be a tough sell, especially those that are strictly tap dancing shows. Luckily for them, Dein Perry’s Tap Dogs is far from an ordinary dance show. Full of tricks, energy an…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, October 23, 2018
Scott Alan is a long-standing cult favourite amongst musical theatre enthusiasts and his most recent song cycle The Distance You Have Come weaves in his most popular numbers with some newer …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, October 21, 2018
This adaptation of Karel Čapek’s 1936 novel War with the Newts is set in a dystopian near-future where an intelligent animal species is first exploited by mankind, then rebels against the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, October 18, 2018
I’m a sucker for inventive adaptations of Shakespeare plays, so Paper Cinema’s Macbeth, a live-action, silent movie version, is hugely appealing.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, October 15, 2018
Elephant and Castle is a joy, quizzical and gently thought-provoking, delivering sound performances from Tom Adams and Lillian Henley, underscored witty lyricism, retro sounds and daft, brow…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSaturday, October 13, 2018
Drawing on myth and bodily strength in an ending that encapsulates her fight, Bryony Kimmings inspires us to keep going through the rough times that try to drown us in I‘m A Phoenix, Bitch.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThursday, October 11, 2018
Hogarth’s Progress is an ambitious production that, although not entirely flawless, alternates moments of great fun with thought-provoking, timeless questions on the arts, life and politic…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, October 10, 2018
The moments of pleasure are carefully balanced against the moments less satisfying, making The Art of Gaman at Theatre503 a difficult play to reconcile with.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, October 9, 2018
Joy Wilkinson’s The Sweet Science of Bruising, about ‘lady boxing’ in Victorian times, feels like such a riotous shock to the system. Best of all, it nails this with a story that break…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSunday, October 7, 2018
People Like Us at the Union Theatre follows a group of friends and their monthly book club. The show is split into two time frames: Pre-vote results and Post-vote results.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMWednesday, October 3, 2018
There are some moments of brilliance in A Kettle of Fish and the structural disintegration is impressive, but sometimes the experience is unpleasant what with its confusion and instability r…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM 
