Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Don’t you just love celebrity hype? Kim Cattrall’s name alone sold out this show, which runs over the notoriously difficult Christmas period. But sometimes star casting backfires, and wh…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:57PMMonday, November 30, 2015
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:08AMFriday, November 27, 2015
New RD Laing drama is an imaginatively and enjoyably surreal tribute to a great 20th-century thinker and radical.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:54AMThursday, November 26, 2015
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:56AMTuesday, November 24, 2015
A true theatre masterpiece can survive any directorial mugging. By this definition, Harold Pinter’s 1965 play, The Homecoming, is a robust work of genius. It has to be because, from the ve…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:58AMMonday, November 23, 2015
RD (“Ronnie”) Laing was a typically eccentric 1960s guru. A Scottish psychiatrist who was one of the leading lights of the anti-psychiatry movement, his 1960 classic The Divided Self hel…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:49PMSunday, November 22, 2015
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:13AMThursday, November 19, 2015
You’d think that there is no more to be said about George Bernard Shaw. You’d be wrong. As Professor Christopher Innes and mezzo-soprano Brigitte Bogar say in the informative booklet for…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:40AMNew play about an illicit encounter between a teen student and an older teacher is powerful and challenging.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:42AMWednesday, November 18, 2015
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:11AMMonday, November 16, 2015
This new play about the relationship between a Brit and a Pole has some good moments, but remains undernourishing.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMFriday, November 13, 2015
Very well-deserved West end transfer for thrilling new play about ethics in the age of the internet... How well do parents know their kids? Especially their teenage kids. Jack appears to be …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:30AMThursday, November 12, 2015
Do scandals have a sell-by date? When it comes to sex and politicians, the answer is no. The tabloids, and the news-hungry public, still seem to relish a good story about a powerful man who …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:26AMWednesday, November 11, 2015
One of the quiet joys of contemporary British theatre is the small play. You know the kind of thing: a boy meets girl story, told with sharp dialogue, and quirky humour. Usually with a cast …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:03PMTheatre is one of the glories of British culture, a melting pot of creativity and innovation. Beginning with the coronation of Elizabeth I and ending with the televised crowning of the curre…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:25PMTuesday, November 10, 2015
Do scandals have a sell-by date? When it comes to sex and politicians, the answer is no. The tabloids, and the news-hungry public, still seem to relish a good story about a powerful man who …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:04PMSunday, November 8, 2015
David Hare is one of those playwrights who talks with enormous imaginative sympathy about the work of other writers. To read what he says about John Osborne or Harold Pinter is to have your …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMFriday, November 6, 2015
Theatre should be an adventure. At least some of the time. But often it isn’t. So much of the time it’s rather predictable and, dare I say, a bit boring. After going to the theatre for m…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:42AMWednesday, November 4, 2015
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:48PMTuesday, November 3, 2015
David Hare's charming new play is a very English account of a very English institution - Glyndebourne. The Moderate Soprano tells the story of John Christie, an eccentric English businessman…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:31AMFriday, October 30, 2015
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:32AMThursday, October 29, 2015
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:08AMMonday, October 26, 2015
Lurid satire on the British tabloids returns with a vengeance in a hilarious evening of sharp jokes and farce
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SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWednesday, October 21, 2015
Once upon a time, quite recently, you couldn’t move for plays about youth. Now, there’s been an avalanche of dramas about ageing, usually in the context of dementia and family life. Mayb…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:30PMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:59AMTuesday, October 20, 2015
Once upon a time, quite recently, you couldn’t move for plays about youth. Now, there’s been an avalanche of dramas about ageing, usually in the context of dementia and family life. Mayb…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:52PMMonday, October 19, 2015
On my way to see this show, I had to walk across Soho in central London. No fewer than five people asked me for money; one was a real hassle. Yes, I know the government says that the economy…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:04AMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:09AMFriday, October 16, 2015
On my way to see this show, I had to walk across Soho. No fewer than five people asked me for money; one was a real hassle. Yes, I know that the government says that the economy is booming, …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:45PMTuesday, October 13, 2015
Over the past quarter century the reputation of toff playwright Terence Rattigan has been restored, mainly by strong stagings of his classic dramas, such as Deep Blue Sea. But his first smas…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:40PMMonday, October 5, 2015
Dementia is an increasingly common theme in theatre, television and film. But although there are plenty of stories about old people suffering from Alzheimer’s, what does it feel like to ex…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:56PM 
