High octane musical Bat Out of Hell deserves its five stars simply for the high quality of the musical numbers and their performance. Polec, Bennington, Fowler and Sexton are simply stupendo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMChicago is faultless, as always. There are no surprises from this revival but this multi-award-winning, slick and stylish, musical doesn’t put a foot wrong. Sublime musical numbers, choreo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMDevil With The Blue Dress is inspired and riveting testimony from the key players in the Monica Lewinsky Scandal which rocked American politics offering a timely reminder that little changes…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMPolly Findlay pulls out all the stops for her visually enticing production of Macbeth for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThis month award-winning actress Kacey Ainsworth is treading the boards at Nottingham Playhouse, taking the role of the tyrannical Warden in Nottingham Playhouse’s production of Louis Sach…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMThe latest Restoration comedy on offer in London is the Donmar Warehouse’s sumptuous production of William Congreve’s The Way of the World that stretches into the night for more than thr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMIt is Sophie Stanton’s powerful and radiant turn in the title role which dominates Jo Davis’ scintillating and uproariously funny production of The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSpirited, effervescent and fun, The Country Wife, offers a night of unbridled entertainment – and not a periwig or frock-coat in sight
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMPhilip Ridley’s fiercely powerful two-hander Vincent River may only run for 80 minutes but it packs an emotional punch that left its opening night audience reeling.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWilliam Golding’s Lord of the Flies has been dapted for the stage by Nigel Williams and directed with real verve by Ricky Dukes, with some key parts from the original all-male story given …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSummer & Smoke sizzles with repression. Lyrical, scintillating and stormy, it’s a show not to miss.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThe Dog Beneath the Skin is a bit of a dog’s dinner and a disappointing end to a patchy Scandal Season.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSome Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em is absolute pandemonium and a riot from beginning to end. Don’t miss one of the funniest stage shows in years.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMYou may find, by the finish of Brief Encounter, that you’ve got a little bit of grit in your eye too, but don’t be afraid to be swept along with this exquisitely flawless production.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMGore Vidal’s novel is fascinating and compelling but its power is diminished on stage.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTwo of the stars of Fat Friends the Musical, X Factor winner Sam Bailey and Coronation Street legend Kevin Kennedy, put down the doughnuts in-between shows to talk about the musical, which i…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMAt over two hours, Fat Friends the Musical is a little flabby in the middle and could lose a scene or two, but, overall it’s a heart-warming, lively and entertaining production.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMActor and writer Siobhan McMillan drew from personal experience, and a determination to control the course of her career, when she debuted her one-woman show, Mirrors, in 2015. Now she’s b…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFoul Pages, not as funny, original or inspired as it likes to think it is, runs at the Hope Theatre, Islington.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMAdvice columns have often suggested lonely hearts should take up dog walking as a sure-fire way of finding romance. They may be barking up the wrong tree but love-sick mutts are suckers for …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMDirected by Thom Southerland, Harold and Maude is an absolute delight. True to the book, but with a few diversions taken out, it will keep fans happy and introduce many more to Maudism and t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMNostalgic, trying too hard to shock and no longer a force to be reckoned with, Jubliee is, nevertheless, a period piece with a difference which will find fans hoping to relive their youth or…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMCharlie Brooks and Patrick Ryecart will play Sally and Mike in the UK tour and London run of Torben Betts’s new comedy, Monogamy. They join the previously announced Janie Dee as Caroline M…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:30AMA stage revival of taut psychological thriller Strangers On a Train is now touring the country and this week it had opening night audiences at Woking’s packed New Victoria Theatre on the e…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFrom its rock fest opening to its fast and furious battle finale, Nicholas Hytner's modern-dress Julius Caesar packs a powerful punch.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTerry Johnson's Ken pays homage to one of theatre's strangest eccentrics, the irrepressible fringe favourite, director, writer, actor and prankster, Ken Campbell, aided by an outstanding tur…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMLong Day’s Journey Into Night at London’s Wyndham’s Theatre is a powerful and moving production, but would be even more compelling with about an hour taken out of it.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMIn this touring production, Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men highlights the effects of climate change, economic uncertainty and migration on people’s lives.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMAnnie Baker’s absorbing and quirky John, which has just opened on the National Theatre’s Dorfman stage, is a slow burner full of the playwright’s trademark long-drawn-out silences and …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMAt the heart of the story of Rothschild & Sons at the Park Theatre, London is a family and race trying to carve out a place for themselves in history.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThe Open House comes to The Print Room, Notting Hill, from a successful premiere at Theatre Royal Bath’s Ustinov Studio and it is an engrossing character study of family life, post-The Ame…
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