Monday, December 20, 2021
The National Theatre has a good record in staging classic American drama by black playwrights. James Baldwin’s The Amen Corner, August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Lorraine…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:36AMWednesday, December 15, 2021
Moira Buffini's ambitious state-of-the-nation, climate-change play runs straight into the doldrums.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, December 6, 2021
After lockdown, the stage monologue saved British theatre. At venue after venue, cash-strapped companies put single actors into simple playing spaces to deliver good stories for audiences th…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:08AMThursday, December 2, 2021
One of the absolute highpoints of new writing in the past couple of years has been the Death of England trilogy.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, December 1, 2021
Why are we indifferent to anti-Semitism? In the past few weeks the Royal Court, a proud citadel of wokeness, has been embroiled in an appalling case of prejudice by allowing a character, who…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:30PMFriday, November 26, 2021
Al Smith's new play was jinxed before it started - and, bogged down in cartoonish detail, it never really recovers.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, November 23, 2021
Intense, but inconclusive: this powerful new play about black men's mental health fails to reach a satisfying resolution.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, November 18, 2021
I had a mind-expanding experience this week. And, listen, there’s still a chance for you to have one too.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, November 17, 2021
Powerful, poetic and profound: this well-deserved winner of the 2020 Papatango New Writing Prize now gets a cracking production on the main stage at the Bush Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, November 16, 2021
Hypocrisy. Is this the right word? I don’t mean the play, but the audience. Of course, in the middle of the current COVID-19 crisis, there’s bound to be a certain amount of discomfort w…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:27AMMonday, November 8, 2021
Saoirse Ronan makes her UK stage debut in Yael Farber's testosterone-fest, which is vivid, but much too long.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, November 2, 2021
Remembering the months of lockdown, I can’t be the only person to thrill to this play’s opening lines, “When shall we three meet again?”, a phrase evocative enough to be borrowed for…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:18AMMonday, November 1, 2021
This new coproduction between Graeae and Tamasha is not perfect, but it offers a moving insight into ritual and belief.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, October 29, 2021
This is a labour of love. Hilary Mantel has adapted The Mirror and the Light, the third novel of her Tudor trilogy, in collaboration with actor Ben Miles.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, October 25, 2021
Since 9/11 there has been considerable interest in staging stories about British Muslims, and the best of these avoid the stereotypes of arranged marriage and terrorism. Although religious o…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:13AMFriday, October 15, 2021
Bess Wohl's history play is an imaginatively-written, brilliantly chilling and resonant account of life at a Nazi summer camp, starring Patsy Ferran and Luke Thallon.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, October 10, 2021
This is a labor of love. Hilary Mantel has adapted The Mirror and the Light, the third novel of her Tudor trilogy, in collaboration with actor Ben Miles, who is the Royal Shakespeare Company…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:22AMMonday, September 27, 2021
Are we too obsessed with Nazism? Apart from countless television programs which revisit that grim era, as fact or as fiction, in monochrome or in color, briefly or at length, there has recen…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:34PMMonday, September 20, 2021
American playwright Aleshea Harris’ dazzlingly satirical 2018 extravaganza is about two women seeking justice and getting even, and it comes to the Royal Court from New York, trailing shou…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSaturday, September 18, 2021
I remember seeing Shelagh Stephenson’s contemporary classic at the Hampstead, when this venue was still an ageing prefab, and enjoying Terry Johnson’s racy staging,
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, September 17, 2021
For more than three decades, playwright Winsome Pinnock has been at the forefront of new writing, often experimenting with form as well as documenting the lives of Black Britons. Her new pla…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:34PMMonday, September 6, 2021
At its best, the subjective and poetic image creation in Rockets and Blue Lights at the National Theatre is both audacious and striking. At its worst, it is over-complex, confusing and overl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, August 18, 2021
Before seeing this play, I decided to eat a steak. I thought I needed some extra strength. And it seems exactly the right culinary equivalent to David Mamet, one of America’s most provocat…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:07AMTuesday, August 3, 2021
The Young Vic’s main stage reopens with Booker Prize winner Ben Okri’s short play Changing Destiny, directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:30PMSaturday, July 31, 2021
The great thing about Lucy Bailey’s 80-minute production of Oleanna is its sense of balance. And I have to say that it changed my mind about the power balance in the drama.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, July 28, 2021
By the end of Orange Tree Theatre’s production of Bryony Lavery’s Last Easter the certainty that friendship and love are life’s true miracles is quietly and effectively realised.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, July 25, 2021
I finally caught up with Michael Longhurst’s restaging of his 2012 Royal Court production of Nick Payne’s Constellations, a gem of a two-hander.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, June 29, 2021
With many theatres now reopening again, it is surely a good moment to celebrate all those venues which managed to stage live shows in the past few months — often in very stressful circumst…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:53PMWednesday, June 23, 2021
Although some theatres are tentatively reopening, the creative vigor of other companies is undimmed. Clean Break, which works with women in the criminal justice system, has recently released…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:47PMTuesday, June 22, 2021
After months (and months) of watching theatre on screens large, medium, small and tiny, I definitely feel great about going to see a live show again. Of course, it’s not the usual theatre …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:07PMSunday, June 13, 2021
Although some theatres are tentatively reopening, the creative vigour of other companies like Clean Break is undimmed.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM 
