Wednesday, May 17, 2017
With some memorable performances and incredibly witty moments, Noel Coward's play This Was a Man is a refreshingly entertaining evening out. It also leaves you musing over the difference bet…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Monday, May 15, 2017
I met with Jesse Scott, Shannon Vitali and Johnathon Brown ahead of the press night for Driftwood. During the interview we talked about the ethos behind Casus, how Johnny is the newest membe…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 14, 2017
Currently playing at Theatre503 is No Place For A Woman which is written by Cordelia O'Neill and has actresses Ruth Gemmell and Emma Paetz in it.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 13, 2017
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte has been a much-loved book since it was written in 1847. It has inspired many unofficial sequels, plays, television serials and films. An important work, which …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PM[SHARE]Friday, May 12, 2017
Casus originate from Brisbane Australia, a contemporary circus renowned for creating delicately human circus. Following on from the international sensation of their premier work Knee Deep, D…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Monday, May 1, 2017
This radical production of Pygmalion is a collaboration between Nuffield Southampton Theatres, Headlong and West Yorkshire Playhouse. It was certainly bold and brave and bought it right up t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Arthur Kipps (Charlie Stemp), is an orphan and over-worked draper's assistant at the turn of the last century. Kipps unexpectedly inherits a fortune that propels him into high society.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 24, 2017
The cast taking their bows looked awkward, even embarrassed. At the end the polite clapping in the audience with some notable no-return gaps after the interval, gave more evidence that I was…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 22, 2017
Frank Wildhorn, Jack Murphy and Gregory Boyd have created a whole new take on this classic story bringing bang up to date with the musical Wonderland. In this version Alice is a 40-year-old …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Friday, April 21, 2017
Moonchild Theatre Company's ethos is "to create stimulating theatre that our audiences can discuss and evaluate." Written by Callum O'Brien their new play, Pluto, was definitely one to be di…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]I don't suppose many of us have ever lived in a lighthouse. These sturdy structures, perched on cliff edges or clinging to rocky outcrops figure strongly in the imagination as places of isol…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 17, 2017
I talk to Liam Joseph and Callum O'Brien, founders of Moonchild Theatre Company about their upcoming new play Pluto. Liam and Callum are both friends who met through working at the Harold Pi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PM[SHARE]Compagnie XY present It's Not Yet Midnight…, a huge visual display, where 22 acrobats engage in flips, tumbles and handstands that reach almost to the very top of the Roundhouse (where it …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Friday, April 14, 2017
Let's face it, you do not win six Tony Awards for being average, you win them for being sensational.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Bill Rosenfield has written something truly extraordinarily special. It's well constructed, funny and beautiful.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]I recently visited Oxford, where Wonderland was playing at the time. I grabbed a few minutes with Rachael Wooding (Alice) before she went on stage for that evening's performance.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 10, 2017
Written by Drama Desk and Richard Rodgers Award winner Bill Rosenfield, 46 Beacon is a memory play, directed by Alexander Lass and produced by Oli Sones and Ed Sinke. I caught up with 46 Bea…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 9, 2017
No sooner does Edward Albee die, than two of his most famous works hit the London stage: Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf opened last month while The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia followed this week.…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 8, 2017
Brought to London for the first time by producer Hoagy B Carmichael, This Joint is Jumpin' is an exuberant homage to Fats Waller, the famous jazz pianist, composer, and virtuoso talent of th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AM[SHARE]Friday, April 7, 2017
The Wedding Singer was originally conceived as a romantic comedy film starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore in 1998. Being made into a musical which premiered on Broadway eight years late…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PM[SHARE]42nd Street was made famous by the 1933 film based on the 1932 novel by Bradford Ropes. This glitzy, glamorous revival of 42nd Street is set to make your heart soar, and have you tap dancing…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 5, 2017
I first remember seeing Dave Willetts playing The Phantom in The Phantom of The Opera; it was my first real experience of live theatre. So it was nice to catch up and have a chat with this h…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]"I'm sick of poor people" shouts one of the thrusting young men seated around a table groaning with empty wine and champagne bottles. Uniformed buttons have been unfastened, waistbands loose…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 3, 2017
It is springtime and in a rural farm, the feathered inhabitants are getting ready to meet the new generation. For Ida (Ellie Nunn) this means sitting for hours on end on the nest while her p…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 2, 2017
We're in a familiar setting. At the dawn of time, God is tinkering about with his new toys and creating some humans. But there's a twist.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Scott Reid is currently touring with The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-Time playing Christopher Boone. I caught up with Scott and we had a chat about "Curious" and his journey so …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 1, 2017
The Life was described by the New York Times as "Broadway's best kept secret". Well, some secrets cannot and should not be kept, this is certainly true of, The Life. This sassy, sizzling, th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 30, 2017
I first saw The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time when it was at the Mayflower last year. Winner of 7 Olivier's and 5 Tony awards on Broadway the bar is set exceptionally high f…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 25, 2017
Delving into themes ranging from euthanasia to this generation's inability to detach themselves from a mobile phone, Dog Ends focuses on the life of an average British family as they deal wi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PM[SHARE]Two parallel narratives, set ten years apart, introduce us to the anonymous siblings. We first meet the teenage Her and the ten-year-old Him.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 24, 2017
This exhilarating adaptation by Sir Matthew Bourne OBE is based on the Academy Award winning 1948 Powell and Pressburger film The Red Shoes, which is renowned for its Technicolour cinematogr…
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