Tuesday, January 5, 2021
With director Stanley Kramer’s making of the groundbreaking film Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner as its subject matter, Tracy-Ann Oberman and David Spicer’s new radio drama has a compelli…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, December 29, 2020
Curve Leicester’s Sunset Boulevard certainly offers ‘new ways to dream,’ proving a beautiful and fitting finale to a year of considerable change for theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, December 22, 2020
Integral to the festive Birmingham experience, the chance to watch this delightful production of The Nutcracker from home is a rare silver lining in an otherwise troubled month for the perfo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, December 16, 2020
Andrew Lincoln brings a real gravitas to proceedings in A Christmas Carol, anchoring the production and delivering a performance of variety and skill that will leave you hoping he returns to…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, December 8, 2020
Filled with a real love of Dickens’ words as well as his characters the Bridge Theatre has found a fresh and exciting way to tell the familiar tale of A Christmas Carol and give Scrooge’…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, November 24, 2020
Philip Ridley’s play The Poltergeist made an intimate transition to the screen and will be unmissable as soon as live performances can be scheduled.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, November 17, 2020
15 Heroines is an impressive and energised reworking of Greek myth that leaves the audience keen to find out more about each of these women and their remarkable lives.
Being a woman in …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMMonday, November 2, 2020
A Sarah Kane play is by no means a safe option for any theatre looking to attract audiences back to its auditorium, but this bold and intriguing production of Crave at Chichester Festival Th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, October 27, 2020
One of the highest profile events in Nottingham Playhouse’s Unlocked Festival was Bubble, a hybrid production, performed in-house and live streamed over the weekend to a potential internat…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, October 12, 2020
This incredible concert version of Songs for a New World serves as an all-to-brief reminder of how it feels to listen to live music in an enclosed, traditional theatre space, responding to e…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, October 5, 2020
After You is a brief but well constructed story about musical theatre’s favourite theme – love – but is less the straightforward tale of boy meets girl who live happily ever after. It …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, September 29, 2020
Romantics Anonymous is a story predicated on equality, mutual support and finding your own path as individuals (and as a couple) rather than waiting for someone else to come and save you fro…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, September 15, 2020
The Bridge Theatre’s most savvy decision is in teaming The Shrine with Bed Among the Lentils, placing together two of our finest actors who effortless and regularly transition between stag…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, September 8, 2020
Good things come to those who wait, an axiom that applies in duplicate to Stephen Beresford’s latest play Three Kings screened via the Old Vic’s innovative In Camera series for just five…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, September 1, 2020
The first short play is Beat the Devil in which David Hare stakes first claim to what will surely be a new genre or at least a familiar theme in the coming months – the Covid monologue.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, August 17, 2020
Jesus Christ Superstar at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre may say concert on the poster but there is singing, dancing, performing and storytelling nine shows a week.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, August 13, 2020
Ben and Max Ringham’s work for Blindness is a masterpiece, a 70-minute performance that layers story, sound effects, music and lighting design to immerse the audience in a pandemic experie…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, August 4, 2020
The Greenwich Theatre production of The Secret Love Life of Ophelia showcases a selection of excellent young performers that inadvertently asks some big questions about how we cast Hamlet in…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, July 29, 2020
The National Theatre really did save lockdown and made us appreciate our phenomenal creative industries, but they may also have inadvertently pointed the way for the future as surely as Nati…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWednesday, July 15, 2020
Like Shakespeare’s greatest play, The Deep Blue Sea is grief channelled into art, aligning Hamlet and Hester as two souls enveloped by death and choosing whether to live.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, July 1, 2020
Theatre photography is one of the most important ways to promote a new production and simultaneously one of the elements audiences – and probably most creatives – actively think least ab…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, June 20, 2020
As Simon Evans’ cheeky new comedy points out, when the Government finally gives the go-ahead, the best-prepared teams will have their pick of the playhouses and first dibs on an audience d…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, June 10, 2020
For better or worse, the association between theatre, television and film has only grown closer in the last ten years, not just with artists moving between the different genres but also in t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThursday, June 4, 2020
When it was first performed in 2012 James Graham’s This House was an affectionate satire, using its 1970s setting to examine the still young Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition governm…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSaturday, May 30, 2020
As a great American dramatist, Williams’s timeless understanding of human emotion and the particularly explosive dynamics of family groups has always been such a notable feature of his wri…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, May 5, 2020
This is the theatre at its very best and on screen, both productions are gripping, using the camera work to richly convey the abstract shapes and grand vision of its boldly beautiful staging…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, April 24, 2020
Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s most frequently performed plays, and it is a story filled with death, danger and prophesy.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, April 17, 2020
Far from frivolous, this fashion-based drama is a great choice for Chichester Festival Theatre’s inaugural broadcast, from a venue that so often gets it right. Perfect escapism.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, April 8, 2020
The first show in the National Theatre at Home programme was the 2011 smash-hit One Man, Two Guvnors, one of the great success stories of the Nicholas Hytner era, a cheeky farce written by R…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSaturday, April 4, 2020
Three Sisters at the National Theatre, Uncle Vanya at the Harold Pinter and The Seagull at the Playhouse Theatre have all taken very different approaches to reworking Chekhov, bringing fresh…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, March 10, 2020
Shoe Lady is an intriguing and well-considered examination of the social and domestic pressures placed on women to perform multiple and often contradictory roles in our society.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM 
