City Stories returns to London for two nights only on 20 and 21 October 2016. A suite of short plays set to music, the fully-titled City Stories: Tales of Love and Magic in London is a seque…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:30AMWhen you get an email saying you are invited to attend a Salsa class, speak to the cast and celebrate In The Heights first birthday, it’s definitely a case of where do I go and what time d…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:40PMThe first thing most people would agree on here is that the venue for Floyd Collins is spot on. Wilton’s Music Hall is steeped in history, and its ruggedness serves as the perfect backdrop…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:34PMHaving been entranced by Andrew Maddock’s In/Out (A Feeling), which received an Off-West End award nomination, my hopes were high. This new play is a set of two monologues entitled The We …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:22AMStephen Jeffreys’ play tells the true story of John Wilmot, a 17th century gentleman and writer, who wasted his considerable talent on a life of drunken debauchery, before dying at just 33.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:45AMI pretty much bullied my way in. I was an unpaid extra for a promo shoot for a film with Jack Silver (director) and was impressed at how quickly he had brought together a great team, with a …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:20AMWhat it’s like being on tour? I’ve done a few tours and I really enjoy them. The different theatres and places you go to and different audiences reaction. I get paid to sing and dance do…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:35AMTheatre and it’s purpose are very much objective. Whether you view theatre as a form of pure entertainment or an effective tool for education or maybe even somewhere in the vast space betw…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:05AMWe have Abba’s back catalogue, a Greek island, a wedding, a mother and daughter and three possible father’s so what show do we have? Yes of course it’s the smash hit musical Mamma Mia!…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:24AMWe laughed, we cried, we left The Hope Theatre with a strange inclination to go home and watch The Poseidon Adventure. It is rare that a show can combine the tongue-in-cheek humour of a drag…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:19AMSometimes when you review something, an instinct kicks in, is it going to be a marmite show? You either love it or hate it. So which side of the fence did I sit on with 27?
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00PMWe are in what appears to be an attic room – a teenager’s haven. Throughout the play it refashioned itself into a stage, a roller rink and a place of dreams and nightmares. This is Micke…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:30AMI felt very privileged to be invited to spend the day with Chichester University Musical Theatre graduates of 2016. The day took place at the Electric Theatre, Guildford and consisted of an …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:42PMThe story of this work of art is that of the strength and beauty that lies in the hearts of all female siblings. Women of all backgrounds contribute, their words form the basis of the dialog…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:29AMThis all-American musical tells the story of three best friends growing up in Dallas at a time when image and style were more important than brains and ambition. With never seen before mater…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:39PMExiled in America for his beliefs and a national disgrace Benjamin Britten must decide which way his conflicted political ideals lie but the constant parties, doomed affairs and John Dunne, …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:30AMIf Waiting For Godot is the last word in the absurdity of the human condition, this play is its hilarious epilogue. Starring The Fast Show’s Simon Day, Dave Hanson’s Waiting For Waiting …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:03AMNiamh Cusack as Joan is fantastic. Veering from vitriolic to sardonic, she is a pleasure to watch, especially in her interactions with Tom (Sean Campion), which have a weariness and familiar…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:30PMThe stage is set beautifully. A gathering of men, singing to the sky, tell of the distant depths they travel to for their work, and their hopes of returning to the surface to see the sun onc…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:35AMThe performers were accompanied by The Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, whose conductor Richard Balcombe musically directed the evening to perfection, orchestrating some beautiful arran…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:18AMWe meet the different women that come and go and share their daily concerns. From new-to-town Anelle, who is guarding a troubled past, to outspoken Clairee, all of human life is here. In a s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:22PMSo why haven’t many Rodgers and Hammerstein aficionados heard about it and why has this never been performed in the UK? Is this forgotten musical best placed as just that or have we been …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:37PMThis summer, Selfridges have joined forces with one of the most exciting emerging young British theatre companies in the UK, The Faction, to celebrate Shakespeare400 with a new staging of Mu…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:22AM‘The Go Between’ by Richard Taylor and David Wood Based on a book by L.P. Hartley Apollo Theatre Directed by Roger Haines This was my second visit to this […]
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:10AMJoining the cast from Monday 5 September are Siôn Lloyd as ‘Monsieur Firmin’; Mark Oxtoby as ‘Monsieur Andre’; Paul Ettore Tabone as ‘Piangi’ and Daisy Hulbert as ‘Meg’. Als…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:40AMWhen we were issued our tickets, we were told if we were either Pirates or Privateers; an intriguing concept.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMThis show is scripted and designed with a young appreciated audience in mind and I believe it does its job brilliantly. It left me feeling enchanted, heart-warmed and charmed when I left the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:13AMI like many have followed Matt Wycliffe's career for some time now. So when I saw two news items involving him, the first his joining the cast of Million Dollar Quartet, the second an announ…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:20AMbehaviour. So, in-keeping with listing the seven deadly sins, I’m going to list my seven favourite things about this show.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:10AMGary Wilmot is a much-loved British comedian, singer and actor. First finding fame through the television programme New Faces, he has enjoyed a brilliant and varied career. Possibly best kno…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:29AMOther forms of theatre have scratch nights, where companies can perform an excerpt from their work in progress, in return for audience feedback. Producer Hannah Elsy observed that there was …
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