Saturday, December 7, 2019
As always, Chickenshed’s Christmas show Snow White is a festive treat that’s guaranteed to warm your heart and send you home feeling a little bit better about the world. Who can say no t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, November 27, 2019
Before long the stage is overflowing with so much joy, romance and goodwill to all that ultimately, much like the snow song, this White Christmas proves impossible to resist.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, November 11, 2019
Kathryn O’Reilly’s second play Poisoned Polluted focuses on the fragmenting relationship between two women – in this case, sisters.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, October 28, 2019
While this reimagining of Gaslight doesn’t necessarily deliver on all its promises, the production does successfully highlight the continuing relevance of both the story and its core issue.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSunday, October 20, 2019
Based on a true story, Kate Barton’s play Fast invites its audience into the disturbing world of “Dr” Linda Hazzard (Caroline Lawrie), whose controversial fasting diet method claimed t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSaturday, September 28, 2019
As with any dystopian drama, the central idea of Florence Bell’s The Open – the GBGC itself – sounds far-fetched, but the foundations on which it’s built aren’t all that implausibl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, September 7, 2019
Arrows & Traps’ The Strange Case Of Jekyll & Hyde is one for a new generation: an endlessly thought-provoking, unsettling, enthralling production that’s not to be missed.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, August 12, 2019
Just as much as the emotional impact, though, it’s the unique and original approach to the subject matter that makes this debut production from Turn Point Theatre particularly memorable.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, August 9, 2019
Touching on themes of religion, sexuality and more than one form of mental illness, the play asks some difficult questions and frequently makes for unsettling viewing, and yet Ned Bennett’…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMSunday, July 21, 2019
While most of us would probably be willing to admit that Taming of the Shrew is far from Shakespeare’s best, Canadian actor, writer and comedian Gillian English has gone a step further and…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMTuesday, July 16, 2019
Writer and director Ben SantaMaria experienced for himself growing up as a gay man in 80s Britain. He wrote the autobiographical show Really Want to Hurt Me as a way to explore what has – …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMSunday, July 14, 2019
With immigrants across the USA bracing for planned Ice raids this weekend, Lunatic 19’s, a topical new play by Iowa-based writer Tegan McLeod, shines a spotlight on the soullessness and ab…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, July 9, 2019
One Giant Leap is a very silly story with no other mission in mind but providing two hours of pure entertainment.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, July 2, 2019
Dark Sublime is a rare personal drama about an older gay woman trying to find her place and identity in a changing world, with plenty of laughs – particularly aimed at the world of showbiz…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, July 1, 2019
In touching on topical issues like knife and gun crime, drugs, discrimination, misogyny and the disaffection of young people in the UK today, Othello: Remixed demonstrates how Shakespeare’…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, June 28, 2019
There’s nothing historic about the issues Bare: A Pop Opera tackles, as is emotionally demonstrated in the powerful finale of this new London production at The Vaults.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, June 27, 2019
James Martin Charlton is an award-winning playwright whose previous work includes the critically acclaimed Fat Souls, I Really Must Be Getting Off and Coward. This week sees the premiere of …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, June 22, 2019
Insightful, relatable and beautifully performed, let’s hope, unlike the eponymous hedgehog, Hedgehog has a long life ahead.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, June 16, 2019
Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky could have come up with a more creative title for their acclaimed political comedy Brexit – but they didn’t really need to, given that actual Brexit has been…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, June 14, 2019
Over the last five years, 13-time Offie-nominated Arrows & Traps have become a regular fixture both on the London Fringe scene and on this blog. And the good news is they’re not going …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, June 13, 2019
Cuttings is a sharp, witty and hugely enjoyable play about an industry we all know exists, but somehow seem to forget every time we watch an emotional YouTube apology or read a remorseful st…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, June 12, 2019
Action-packed, irreverent and hilariously weird, Kill Climate Deniers nonetheless still succeeds in making a serious and important point, and provides more than enough food for thought to gi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, June 11, 2019
It may be called Precious Little, but this thought-provoking play at the Brockley Jack Studio Theatre has plenty to say.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, June 10, 2019
The image we’re left with is not one of violence in J’Ouvert at Theatre503, but of pride, friendship and resilience, and a community that’s prepared to keep fighting for as long as it …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, June 2, 2019
The plot of Country Music may at times be slightly muddled, but the sense of waste and irretrievable loss at its heart comes through powerfully in this excellent revival.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, May 28, 2019
A complex, surprising and very wordy play, Harper Regan by Simon Stephens certainly fulfils the remit for newly formed theatre company Contentment Productions, whose aim is to champion excit…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, May 21, 2019
This week playwright, director and performer Michelle Payne brings her one-woman show Sad About The Cows to Tristan Bates Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, May 20, 2019
Summer Street never pretends to be anything other than what it is: a spoof comedy musical that takes an already over-the-top TV format and takes it up another notch or three.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, May 15, 2019
Maybe what’s most shocking about Hair isn’t the nudity or the drugs, but the fact that 50 years have passed and nothing’s really changed.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, May 13, 2019
A polished and carefully directed production, Lemons is the kind of thought-provoking play that keeps giving, with plenty of material to ensure an excellent debate in the bar afterwards.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, May 10, 2019
The Sign of Four is fast-paced family fun, a great piece of storytelling with a little bit of everything: mystery, comedy, romance (and bromance), and even a bit of a history lesson.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM 
