Tuesday, April 5, 2022
Ruth Wilson delivers an acting masterclass in Jean Cocteau modernist classic adapted by Ivo van Hove.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 2, 2022
Is there really such a thing as an unmissable show? Depends on your taste of course, but for sheer hype this event takes some beating: two-time Olivier Award-winning star Ruth Wilson (last s…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:34AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 29, 2022
Mike Bartlett's Cock invites suggestive comments, but the main thing about the play is that it has proved to be a magnet for star casting.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Football stories are never just about a game " they are also about life and how to live it. In Tyrell Williams's Red Pitch, his debut play now getting an enthusiastically energetic stagin…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:09PM[SHARE]Friday, March 18, 2022
Let's start with stereotypes: British theater is naturalistic, down-to-earth and explains everything clearly to the audience; Continental drama is absurdist, abstract and suggests rather tha…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Feel the love as great staging enlivens this well-written monologue about a cross-generational relationship.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 8, 2022
Effortlessly and energetically entertaining: Tyrell Williams' debut play about football and gentrification is pitch-perfect.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 2, 2022
Florian Zeller's superbly anti-naturalistic play is a philosophical puzzle that dissects our existential solitude.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 10, 2022
Bizarre, beautiful and breathtaking - time-travelling fantasia boasts a brilliant staging and a spoof playtext essay.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 2, 2022
Peggy Ramsay is a theater legend. Around the time of her death in 1991, the Australian-born agent was honored with a meticulous biography by Colin Chambers and a personal memoir by Simon Cal…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:19PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 1, 2022
Bizarre. Breathtaking. Beautiful. I leave the Royal Court theatre with these Bs, as well as others such as bewitching and beguiling, buzzing in my mind. Alistair McDowall, whose previous lef…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:17PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 29, 2022
History is a prison. Often, you can't escape. It imprints its mark on people, environments and language. And nowhere is this more true that in Northern Ireland, where the long history of con…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:17AM[SHARE]Monday, January 24, 2022
History is a prison. Often, you can't escape. It imprints its mark on people, environments and language. And nowhere is this more true that in Northern Ireland.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 18, 2022
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 Hansberr…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:57AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 16, 2022
It's a sign of the times that one of my last trips of the year, to Ella Road's Fair Play at the Bush Theatre, was cancelled because of COVID. Not that much of a surprise really: it's o…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:52PM[SHARE]Friday, January 14, 2022
At the end of the 1960s, American soul poet Gil Scott-Heron said that the revolution will not be televised. Maybe that's right, but a lot of other things were being broadcast in that decade,…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:49PM[SHARE]Friday, December 31, 2021
A couple of days ago, I watched a live stream of Milk and Gall, an American-based playwright and screenwriter Mathilde Dratwa's new play at Theatre 503. Set in a Brooklyn apartment, the plot…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:27AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 29, 2021
Is the Bosnian conflict of 1992"95 the war that Europe forgot? Maybe, although most fans of new writing for the British stage will remember its massacres as the inciting incident for Sarah K…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:26AM[SHARE]Monday, December 27, 2021
James Graham's latest history play has an eye on the present but a messy staging.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 26, 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 11:41AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 21, 2021
Race, rage and relevance: sensitive revival of American writer Alice Childress' 1955 anti-racist play shines bright.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]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 08:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 15, 2021
Moira Buffini's ambitious state-of-the-nation, climate-change play runs straight into the doldrums.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 01:08AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 01:30PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 07:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 05:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 whe…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:27AM[SHARE] 
