Tuesday, June 4, 2019
Come From Away, the story of how one small town, Gander in Newfoundland, responded to events of 9/11 when 7,000 passengers from 38 diverted aircraft landed in their midst, is one of the most…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, May 24, 2019
Philip Ridley and Robert Chevara’s production of Vincent River emerges as a masterful depiction of oppositional but mutual need unexpectedly producing a healing catharsis.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, May 13, 2019
For Death of a Salesman, one of Arthur Miller’s greatest plays about the hollowness of the American Dream, Marianne Elliott and Miranda Cromwell and their cast make it an impressive, even …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, May 8, 2019
Avalanche is a sobering, haunting journey that carries as much warning as it does perhaps solace to those thinking of having IVF or have had it as well as a kind of delight in the sheer beau…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, May 7, 2019
It could all go horribly wrong but Ian Rickson’s production of Rosmersholm in Duncan Macmillan’s new adaptation brings Ibsen’s dense moral and political tragedy safely into port.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, April 28, 2019
‘A sweet sexy fairy tale’ is how one critic described Sweet Charity on its opening in London in October 1967. And Josie Rourke’s final production as the Donmar’s artistic director be…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, April 24, 2019
The achievement of Rebecca Frecknall’s new production, as with her recent mega success with Tennessee Williams’ Summer and Smoke is to speak to modern sensitivities with a clarity of vis…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMMonday, April 15, 2019
Don’t go to Rooms if you want an easy, escapist 75 minutes, but do go for language, atmosphere, the darkest corners of your own psyches touched with raw beauty.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMMonday, April 8, 2019
Even if you weren’t a card-carrying Labour Party member, you’d be hard put not to come away from Tony’s Last Tape at the Omnibus Theatre with the light of idealism burning a little bit…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, March 26, 2019
All in all, Joe Harmston’s production brings James Phillips’ extraordinary empathy with his subject to a tender and sensitive conclusion in The Rubenstein Kiss whilst weighing up the nob…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, March 8, 2019
Inside Bitch is a messy but enjoyable counter-balance to the usual women-in-prison scenarios. Roll on Clean Break.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, February 2, 2019
It was a stroke of marketing genius on the part of director Lucy Bailey and her producers to decide to stage one of Agatha Christie’s best-loved court room dramas in something approaching …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSunday, January 13, 2019
It’s a dangerous world out there but this engaging, entertaining and brilliant War of the Worlds couldn’t come at a better time as a reminder to practise caution and scepticism before bu…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, January 4, 2019
Almeida Theatre, London ***
Runs: 1hr 40mins without interval
© Marc Brenner, Simon Russell Beale. Richard II, down and out…
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SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, January 2, 2019
I love Christopher Marlowe. I love the raciness and rebel in him. And sometimes, particularly in Paulette Randall’s reframed version here at Shakespeare’s Globe with Doctor Faustus.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, December 30, 2018
The Cane, Mark Ravenhill’s latest, represents an investigation that remarkably refuses to follow today’s tropes of outrage and counter-intuitively and presents a different kind of moral …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, December 24, 2018
Rebecca Frecknall’s production of Summer & Smoke with its chorus of pianos fits as snugly into the Duke of York’s as it must have done at the Almeida.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMMonday, November 5, 2018
There is no one quite like debbie tucker green and her new play ear for eye, no one writing with the same urgency, disquiet and plain brilliance for adjusting and changing forms.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, November 1, 2018
There’s much to delight in Sarah DeLappe’s punchy debut play, an American account of a group of teenage girl soccer players.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, October 27, 2018
Though Robert Icke’s didacticism can be irritating, this Wild Duck undoubtedly pulls its modern audience into Ibsen’s tense, spiralling emotions to powerful effect.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, October 23, 2018
They don’t come much more glitzy than a new Sondheim production in the West End. That Company is one of Sondheim’s most popular if not THE most popular of his musicals could be gauged by…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, October 19, 2018
As opening statements go, Kwame Kwei-Armah’s musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, imported from New York’s Public Theater is probably as joyous a marker of future intent …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, October 16, 2018
I’m a Phoenix, Bitch is Bryony Kimmings’ story of survival but told with a flair, emotional and physical honesty and theatrical artistry that is, often, breathtaking in its courage.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMMonday, October 15, 2018
There’s every reason why Josie Rourke should have chosen Measure for Measure to direct in her final season as the Donmar’s artistic director. Anyone with half an ear to public events in …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, October 11, 2018
After huge UK successes with The Father, The Mother, The Truth and The Lie, now comes Florian Zeller’s The Height of the Storm, once again in the limpid, easy-on-the-ear translation of Chr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMMonday, October 8, 2018
In Gemma Kerr’s economic but effective production of To Have to Shoot Irishmen for Lizzie Nunnery’s own company, Almanac Arts, it is the atmosphere conjured of the complexities of a bloo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, September 25, 2018
You enter dark places when you enter the Royal Court and sometimes that can be enthralling and exhilarating. But there needs to be some kind of uplift. Sadly this time, it wasn’t present.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, September 18, 2018
Timing is everything. When Foxfinder opened at the Finborough in December 2011, it was hailed as a ‘darkly thrilling’ new voice and subsequently earned its writer, Dawn King, a glut of a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSaturday, September 15, 2018
Sometimes you just know you’ve seen the future. I missed seeing Misty at the Bush. I can only imagine that for once, the transfer has settled it into an even better, more appropriate venue.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, September 11, 2018
Missing is made by the brilliant quality of its performer/dancers as well as Dave Price’s pounding sound-track and Chris Swain and Lahav’s lighting underscoring changes of scene, mood an…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSunday, August 26, 2018
Midsummer is indeed a sweet, imaginative rom-com celebrating the madness and delirium of midsummer and the value of taking risks in life and love.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM 
