Tuesday, January 30, 2018
The 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…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, January 26, 2018
But this starry revival of The Birthday Party which has just opened at – where else? – the Harold Pinter Theatre – is immensely enjoyable – even if you occasionally lose the plot.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, January 25, 2018
It has taken more than 20 years but Jennifer Saunders this week returned to the West End stage to make her mark in Lady Windermere’s Fan at the Vaudeville Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, January 24, 2018
A Passage to India opened its short national tour at Northampton’s Royal & Derngate Theatre last week and is now thrilling fans at Salisbury Playhouse.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMWednesday, January 17, 2018
Shocking, provocative and poetic. Steven Berkoff’s punchy verse play, East, has returned to its roots. No, not Bethnal Green or the Mile End Road, but the King’s Head Theatre Islington, …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, January 11, 2018
Phil Willmott navigates a steady course through Bernard Shaw's turbulent Heartbreak House though he occasionally drifts away from meaningful satire and into jolly farce.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, January 4, 2018
It’s been 12 years since I first saw The Rat Pack Live and not much has changed. That’s not a bad thing if you’re going to see this tribute show for a love of the music.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, December 22, 2017
James Norton and Imogen Poots find disappointment as Americans In Paris, in Amy Herzog's shocking, disturbing and riveting drama, Belleville.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMTuesday, December 12, 2017
Murder, ambition, back-stabbing and sex. Politics is a dirty business but never less than thrilling in Mike Poulton's Imperium, his terrific adaptation of Robert Harris's Cicero Trilogy.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMMonday, December 11, 2017
‘Tis the season to remember those less fortunate than ourselves and David Edgar’s stirring new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, for the Royal Shakespeare Company, does…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, December 6, 2017
The Old Vic’s gloriously exuberant production is a wonderful combination of classic Dickens with a touch of Brucie’s Generation Game thrown in. Presiding over it all is the belligerent E…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThe Woman In White, a play about a vulnerable woman, preyed upon by a powerful man, couldn't be more timely with strong performances from its cast.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, December 5, 2017
Unpredictable, thrilling and tense. Lizzy Watts is bold and fearless as Hedda Gabler in Patrick Marber's engrossing update of the Ibsen classic.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, November 30, 2017
Ria Jones dazzles in the poignant, wonderfully melodramatic and tragic Sunset Boulevard that is both a love letter to movies and a eulogy to Hollywood's silent era.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, November 27, 2017
It’s more than 30 years since the world fell in love with Jennifer Beals’ bad-ass welder turned dancer, Alex Owens, in the iconic dance movie Flashdance. The stage adaptation, Flashdance…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, November 24, 2017
Patriotism, propaganda and paranoia are played out in the shadowy and thrilling tale of spies and intrigue in Anders Lustgarten's The Secret Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, November 20, 2017
London’s Theatre Lab Company has triumphed with Lisa Evans’ dark and atmospheric adaptation of the Daphne Du Maurier classic, Jamaica Inn. It’s a thrilling production with, at its hear…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, November 19, 2017
The Wales Millennium Centre has come of age with its first major foray into story-telling on a truly epic scale. Tiger Bay The Musical is the most significant, largest and innovative product…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, November 14, 2017
James Graham has turned his attention to national greed and our addiction to TV game shows for his latest factional stage play, Quiz, which opened last night on the Minerva stage at Chichest…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, November 13, 2017
At one time Billy Haines, the subject of Claudio Macor’s play, The Tailor-Made Man, was as big as Clark Gable, Ramon Novarro and Montgomery Clift (look ’em up if the names mean nothing t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, November 9, 2017
Peep Show co-creator Sam Bain’s first play, The Retreat, opened at London’s Park Theatre this week and carried huge promise from the outset.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, November 8, 2017
This is a timeless Macbeth, stripped down to the bone and taken back to its original text – slightly abridged to get it into two hours – bloody, brutal and uncompromising.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThe Red Lion is more than a play about football – thank god. It is terrifically well written, beautifully acted by all three men but particularly the outstanding Tompkinson, and superbly d…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, November 6, 2017
With Stage Review’s editor, Anne Cox, still too traumatised from seeing the film as a teenager more than 40 years ago (yes, it’s true – ed), I was packed off, with nerves of steel and …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMIf you know anything about pre-war Berlin it is that it was known for its hedonism and excess. Weimar Berlin was the uninhibited party capital of Europe, offering every perversion, debaucher…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, November 4, 2017
Matthew Parker has announced the spring season in his fully curated year of shows at The Hope Theatre, an award-winning performance space in North London. The year features a mix of new writ…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:30AMFriday, October 27, 2017
It was the night when everything would change. The internet, still in its infancy, would crash – possibly – 9/11 was 21 months away and Friends was still the most popular comedy on TV.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, October 26, 2017
What better venue to have the protagonists in this enthralling production play to the gallery? Literally. The impassioned arguments from the immaculately spoken David Yelland and his nemesis…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, October 25, 2017
Sizzling with eroticism, this provocative, highly seductive two-hander sees Natalie Dormer and David Oakes exquisitely deliver pleasure & pain.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSaturday, October 21, 2017
There are moments of pure awkwardness when the play’s central character, Patrice Naiambana’s Davies, finds himself caught in the middle of difficult conversations and situations.
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