Friday, July 12, 2019
The staging and orchestration of the Palladium’s new version of Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat looks to the future, as a whole new set of children fall in love with this pe…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, July 4, 2019
In The End of History Thorne shuffles various perspectives within the family, examining their different experiences of the same events from multiple angles, and while these differences drive…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, June 20, 2019
Bitter Wheat is not only frustratingly irresponsible in its treatment of the events that led to the #MeToo movement, it is also a poorly constructed drama.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, June 12, 2019
It is the slight rearrangement of the text and its implication for the female characters that is Nicholas Hytner’s most notable achievement here in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Bridg…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, June 6, 2019
However light its frame, ultimately Education, Education, Education has serious points to make about the short-termist approaches to education funding used cynically as a political tool to w…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, May 30, 2019
Femi Elufowoju Jr’s production of The Glass Menagerie is fascinating with the tense and vibrant second half in particular proving both gripping and illuminating
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThursday, May 23, 2019
Thornton Wilder’s writing in Our Town feels as fresh and innovative as it must have done in the 1930s and taking an early season risk on a less conventional play ultimately pays off.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, May 16, 2019
Even a middling Tennessee Williams play – Orpheus Descending – is better than most, and this one still has plenty to say about sacrifice and suffocation in small-town America
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, May 10, 2019
It’s Marianne Elliott’s impressionistic approach that yields considerable insight into the themes of Death of a Salesman, the characters’ attachment to material possessions as indicato…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, April 24, 2019
With compelling performances from the four leads this production of All My Sons fulfils its promise, a gripping Miller tragedy that concludes with a lasting sense of devastation.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, April 17, 2019
It is a vibrant and meaningful interpretation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters that reaps rewards. Keep on an eye on this new theatre partnership, it could be around for many years to come.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, April 4, 2019
Grief on stage and in popular culture is rarely considered as a psychological state of its own but as a means or driver for other behaviour.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, March 27, 2019
In just six months, Jamie Lloyd’s creative team and ever-changing company of actors has utterly transformed our perspective on Harold Pinter.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThursday, March 21, 2019
Whether rehabilitation is truly possible for such serious crimes committed by sex offenders, Bruce Norris never really decides, leaving only a dramatically engaging but morally troubling out…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThursday, March 14, 2019
Betrayal is everything you could hope for. The Pinter at the Pinter season has set a very high standard for itself, but what a swansong this has turned out to be.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMTuesday, March 5, 2019
For 45 minutes the audience may be gripped, stimulated and entertained in The Jumper Factory but this remains the everyday experience of all the men who contributed to the show, and it sligh…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, February 12, 2019
This All About Eve is something quite different, same story deliberately new frame with staging that pushes at the boundaries of theatre and film.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:55PMThursday, February 7, 2019
What a difference a few months can make; when the Jamie Lloyd Company first announced its Pinter at the Pinter season finale show back in May (before Betrayal was added to the programme), th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, January 30, 2019
The BBC’s adaptation of Les Misérables has been a huge success, gripping Sunday night viewing for the last five weeks offering the first truly comprehensive dramatisation of Victor Hugo�…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, January 22, 2019
Someone at the Globe may have sold their soul to the devil after all because it is the companion piece to Doctor Faustus, Dark Night of the Soul, that is exactly the kind of successful initi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, January 15, 2019
Aspects of Love may perhaps benefit from a modern reworking to iron out the more distasteful elements, but it should be fondly remembered.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSunday, January 6, 2019
The purpose of Jamie Lloyd’s still and contained approach is extremely well and atmospherically realised by a top-notch cast who bring such clarity to Pinter Six’s social commentary.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, January 5, 2019
The collective works that make-up Pinter 5 feel as insightful and meaningful as any of the Pinter at the Pinter anthologies that have come before.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, December 21, 2018
Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Sweat comes to London for the first time, examining the personal and local consequences of a firm’s strategic decision to change the way it ope…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, December 18, 2018
Caroline or Change has a lot going for it and three potentially interesting plot lines that should fully engage, yet it never quite unites as tidily and explosively as it promises to do, the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, December 13, 2018
Mark Ravenhill’s fascinating new play The Cane at the Royal Court Theatre examines the issues of culpability for small-scale endorsed acts of violence and the nature of justice.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, November 27, 2018
The revival of Alan Bennett’s 1991 classic The Madness of King George III at Nottingham Playhouse couldn’t then be more relevant, a play that speaks to our interest in the people who gov…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, November 21, 2018
At the Ambassadors, Joanna Murray-Smith’s new play Switzerland arrives in the West End for the first time, putting Patricia Highsmith in the spotlight with an intriguing duologue about the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, November 14, 2018
Now the National Theatre has a vibrant production of the musical Hadestown which premiered at the New York Theatre Workshop in 2016.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, October 17, 2018
Marianne Elliott brings Company to the West End with a production that may well change the musical forever.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30PMFriday, October 12, 2018
In a year of revelations about the abuse of power and sexual misconduct, the timing couldn’t be better for Measure for Measure at the Donmar Warehouse, an intriguing tale of blackmail, mor…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM 
