Wednesday, May 4, 2022
Even 20th century drama is under threat. So can the National Theatre buck this trend with this rediscovery of The Corn Is Green, and some help from its star, Nicola Walker?
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, May 1, 2022
Although the current government has blundered through both Brexit and the pandemic, and is now deliberately making life more difficult for both low-income families and the rest of us, theate…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:28PMMike Bartlett is very prolific, but this Restoration-style satire on society at London's Lyric Hammersmith is sadly timid and predictable.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, April 26, 2022
What does it feel like to be British and black? Ryan Calais Cameron has recently emerged as the go-to guy for answers to this question. In February, the Soho Theatre revived Queens of Sheba,…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:00PMMonday, April 25, 2022
Ryan Calais Cameron does it again: he portrays the male black British experience with joy as well as pain.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, April 23, 2022
When do you have to take a stand? What compels you to do it? And what are the costs involved? These questions, which not only reflect the desire to protest against injustice in our increasin…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:28AMMonday, April 18, 2022
In 1987, Caryl Churchill — without doubt the best living playwright in Britain — premiered her Serious Money, a satire on financial capitalism written in the form of a scintillating Rest…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:51PMThursday, April 14, 2022
You can’t keep a great playwright down. Ron Hutchinson, whose award-winning stage plays, such as Rat in the Skull (1984) and Moonlight and Magnolias (2005), are contemporary classics, has …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:45AMTuesday, April 12, 2022
When theatres closed during the pandemic, the first reaction was shock. Then was born, at least among the more progressive spirits in the theatre community, a desire to build back better. To…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:44PMTuesday, April 5, 2022
Ruth Wilson delivers an acting masterclass in Jean Cocteau modernist classic adapted by Ivo van Hove.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, 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 04:34AMTuesday, 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 11:00AMWednesday, 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 stag…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:09PMFriday, 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 t…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:12PMWednesday, March 16, 2022
Feel the love as great staging enlivens this well-written monologue about a cross-generational relationship.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMTuesday, March 8, 2022
Effortlessly and energetically entertaining: Tyrell Williams’ debut play about football and gentrification is pitch-perfect.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, March 2, 2022
Florian Zeller's superbly anti-naturalistic play is a philosophical puzzle that dissects our existential solitude.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, February 10, 2022
Bizarre, beautiful and breathtaking - time-travelling fantasia boasts a brilliant staging and a spoof playtext essay.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, 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 12:19PMTuesday, 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 12:17PMSaturday, 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 c…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:17AMMonday, 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 11:00AMTuesday, 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 Ha…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:57AMSunday, 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…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:52PMFriday, 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 decad…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:49PMFriday, 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 pl…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:27AMWednesday, 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…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:26AMMonday, December 27, 2021
James Graham's latest history play has an eye on the present but a messy staging.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, 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 11:41AMTuesday, December 21, 2021
Race, rage and relevance: sensitive revival of American writer Alice Childress' 1955 anti-racist play shines bright.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, 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 
