Wednesday, 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 10:00AMTuesday, October 2, 2018
Jamie Lloyd is embarking on an epic project: to stage every single one of the influential playwright Harold Pinter’s short plays over a six month period at the theatre which bears his name…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, October 1, 2018
Choreographer Tony Adigun tries to take a new spin on a classic tale, but the story he tells cleaves too close to the original to fully do so.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMSaturday, September 29, 2018
Despite some structural shortcomings and a plot that doesn’t always thoroughly connect, Poet in Da Corner at the Royal Court has fire in its belly that needs to be in front of audiences.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, September 28, 2018
Drip Feed is certainly worth a watch for Karen Cogan’s performance and some really well-employed fairy lights.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWednesday, September 26, 2018
Adam Kashmiry is a man that was born in Egypt in a woman’s body. From a young age, he knew his soul didn’t align with the gender he was assigned at birth, but it wasn’t until he discov…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, September 24, 2018
If you close your eyes and I mention Arabian Nights what can you see? How does it feel, sound and smell? The description of Hoxton Hall will probably match what you imagine.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSunday, September 23, 2018
The fact that 42nd Street first came out in 1933 doesn’t date this wonderful revival of the show. It provides some good old-fashioned singing, dancing and tapping. Lots and LOTS of tapping.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, September 20, 2018
The New York Times listed Jennifer Kidwel and Scott R Sheppard’s razor-sharp comedy as one of the 25 best plays since Angels in America. Like a role-playing game that gets completely out o…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, September 19, 2018
Wasted at the Southwark Playhouse is an explosion of feminist energy, a dark and angsty account of the lives of the four most famous Brontë siblings.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, September 18, 2018
Vinay Patel’s marvellous history play documenting a couple formed only partly through their own volition traverses decades, continents and the collapse of an empire.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSunday, September 16, 2018
Abi Zakarian’s Fabric at the Soho Theatre is a little play with ferocity, venom and fight. Though the story it tells is horrendous, it also fights back.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSaturday, September 15, 2018
In a world where programmes such as Love Island are on primetime TV and cuts to the arts are the norm, About Leo is a fresh gust of wind.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, September 14, 2018
John King’s script for Eris at the Bunker Theatre has some Greek myth references that give it a nice touch but doesn’t add much to the totally contemporary story.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMWednesday, September 12, 2018
Combined with a good balance between the personal and political and their intersections, The Political History of Smack and Crack is an engaging story that humanises addicts and reinforces t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, September 11, 2018
These two, one-act plays explore relationship dynamics through a filter of pet ownership, though both struggle to translate big ideas into coherent storytelling.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSaturday, September 8, 2018
Continuing from its stratospheric success earlier in the year, now-cult classic musical Eugenius! sets to stun audiences with another limited run at The Other Palace.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, September 5, 2018
In a man’s world, Budding Rose Productions is creating space where women take the lead, playing the kings, the warriors, and fools.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, September 3, 2018
Black Cat: Bohemia is a French-style cabaret show combining many exciting acts, including fire eating, aerial choreography and hula-hoop jumping. All of this is interspersed with lots of sin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, September 2, 2018
Never doing anything by half, Shakespeare’s Globe’s latest rendition of Love’s Labour’s Lost pulls out all the stops with a stellar cast, bringing laughter and joy until the play’s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, August 26, 2018
This is an important play and a convincingly guttural response to Sandy Hook, but staging it outside of America makes me uneasy.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, August 24, 2018
Seeing a Korean company stake a claim on Macbeth and intersperse the story with its own cultural myths and legends is a potent reminder of the relevance of Shakespeare’s stories and themes.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, August 23, 2018
This is a bright and fun piece of theatre, but young company Poltergeist Theatre is still learning the ropes. Silly, charming ideas aren’t always enough to give a show cohesion and clear p…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, August 22, 2018
A devastating and often surreal critique of a state’s oppression of a minority, with a strictly limited dissemination in the country it was written in, A Little Hero is a brave first play …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, August 21, 2018
Doom and gloom shows are a dime a dozen at the Fringe, and these two address a particular brand of disaster with varying results.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTo see or not to see? That is the question. But this is a hilarious take on Shakespeare’s famous Hamlet, but not as you or I know it.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMMonday, August 20, 2018
Ink Asher Hemp (they/them) is trans nonbinary. They are taking up space and they are not apologising in this one-person show with a bit of spoken word that overviews trans and queer issues.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMMy hope of ever witnessing a true revolution for women in theatre began to disappear over the last year – until Emilia at Shakespeare’s Globe.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSunday, August 19, 2018
The Three Musketeers rip-roaring, swashbuckling, feminist historical romp the whole family can enjoy, especially in a heatwave.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThe six shows at the Roundabout exemplify Paines Plough’s focus on excellent new writing that’s relevant and thematically diverse.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, August 18, 2018
Theatre doesn’t need another all-white, all-male absurdist production ridiculing vulnerable people. Whilst fun in its staging and innovative in its storytelling, Flies lazily exploits cish…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM 
