Wednesday, November 25, 2015
This review wasn’t going to be written. Why? Well as this was a revisit to a show which I’d previously seen earlier in its run, I thought I’d just sit back and enjoy. However it soon s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:27PMSunday, November 22, 2015
As part of King’s Head Theatre‘s #Festival45 which is celebrating new writing, R J Wilkinson‘s new play The Smallest Story Ever Told has been one of the new works selected and it’s v…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:37AMMonday, November 16, 2015
Based on the classic 1988 film and subsequent Tony award-winning Broadway production this is an all-singing, all-dancing delight of a show. It's the story of a larger-than-life teenager who …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:41PMThe life and music of legendary Broadway composer Jonathan Larson will be celebrated in a special one-off concert on Monday 25 January 2016, when Seasons of Larson will play for one night on…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:36AMFriday, November 13, 2015
Can four people’s lives be shattered when an abominable act, which took just Four Minutes Twelve Seconds, is filmed, later uploaded, and shared? This intelligent play demonstrates just tha…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:09AMWednesday, November 11, 2015
Have you heard the story of the Johnstone twins…….? Sometimes as a reviewer, you finish watching a show thinking this is going to be the easiest review I’ve ever written and then you s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:24AMWednesday, November 4, 2015
American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist and novelist Ben Hecht was justly honoured not only with the first Oscar awarded for a screenplay in 1927, but in a career s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:26PMTuesday, November 3, 2015
For those that haven’t seen the 1997 film, this is set in 1980’s Sheffield, the home of steel and hit by Thatcher’s governmental reform leaving desperation, depravity and heartache in…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:52AMMonday, November 2, 2015
IMPOSSIBLE, the most dangerous show the West End has ever seen, will launch at Southampton's Mayflower Theatre from 3-6 February 2016 before embarking on its inaugural UK tour. The show feat…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:41AMSunday, November 1, 2015
As Christmas is now next month, this is the first of my family fun listings: shows, around the country, to be enjoyed by all the family, complete with website links and age recommendations. …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:54AMFriday, October 30, 2015
As subject matter goes, you don’t get a lot darker than death row (especially when the story’s set in Texas). In Epsilon Productions’ The State vs John Hayes, a woman convicted of murd…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:52AMThursday, October 29, 2015
I’ll be honest, I was a bit nervous about this one. The description of fanSHEN’s Invisible Treasure reads: ‘No actors. No plot. But there’s you.’ That’s a scenario that fills a r…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:38AMWednesday, October 21, 2015
How many shoes do you get through as the West End's Lord of the Dance? Just one of the questions Caroline Hanks-Farmer posed to Michael Flatley's protege, James Keegan...
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:45PMFriday, October 16, 2015
A darkly comic tale of tragedy set amid the parks of London, populated with misfits from all corners of British society. Peter Hamilton’s seventh Fringe play is worth a visit for its cleve…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:06PMWednesday, October 14, 2015
The evenings may be getting colder, but inside the King's Cross Theatre there’s a heatwave going on, in more than one sense. In the Heights was a word-of-mouth hit on Broadway before arriv…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:45AMMonday, October 12, 2015
Welsh National Opera Visit – Sweeney Todd On Tuesday 6th October I was extremely fortunate to be given the opportunity to visit the Welsh National Opera‘s (WNO) home in Cardiff […
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:25AMSaturday, October 10, 2015
Shakespeare liked to play around with ideas of male and female. From cross-dressing to multiple identities, appearances are never quite what they seem on his stage. So it’s fitting then, t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:34AMFriday, October 2, 2015
Two stories of disappointment and loneliness come together in the first UK revival of The Window and Blank Pages, single-act plays by playwright Frank Marcus (perhaps best known for his play…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:15PMThis is a review I’ve been pondering for a week or more now: where to start was my biggest issue. The epic proportions of this show are hard to comprehend, namely because, when you think a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:40AMThursday, October 1, 2015
I’d heard great things about the Regent’s Park Theatre production of Lord of the Flies by William Golding. The media and star ratings had led me to believe I was in for a great evening o…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMTuesday, September 29, 2015
A NEW MUSICAL COMEDY WITH MUSIC & LYRICS BY IRVING BERLIN BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT WITH STUDIOCANAL
DIRECTED BY THOM SOUTHERLAND STARRING LIZA GODDARD & BRIAN CAPRON THE SMALLEST SHOW…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:29PMFriday, September 25, 2015
Never Ending Night - The Vaults Waterloo
★★★
By Terry Eastham @Terry_Ea
"if you have never been to immersive or promenade theatre before then this is a lovely way …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:54PMSaturday, September 19, 2015
This harrowing story written by Frank McGuinness tells the tale of three men taken hostage in the Lebanon. Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me first premiered in 1992 and took the theatre world b…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:15AMTHE WHITE FEATHER - Union Theatre Until 17th October
★★★★
By Terry Eastham @Terry_Ea
“The White Feather” is an intense and emotional musical with…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:18AMWednesday, September 16, 2015
PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT THE MUSICAL - TOURING
The Mayflower Southampton until 19th September
★★★★★
By Caroline Hanks-Farmer
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:36AMSunday, September 13, 2015
As we take to our seat we see an open stage where Stephen Wight (Lee) cuts an isolated and tortured figure, pacing the stage, lost in his thoughts almost as if obsessive compulsive tendenci…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:08PMSaturday, September 12, 2015
This was my first visit to the Jermyn Street Theatre and what a lovely, unusual and intimate space to perform an exciting new show in.
A set of three pieces written by Ryunosuke Akutagawa…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:33AMFriday, September 11, 2015
"“Only Forever” is a play that doesn't end when the curtain comes. A true piece of great theatre."
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:05AMThursday, September 10, 2015
The King's Head Theatre present their October season - NOBODY’S BUSINESS and the ★★★★★ acclaimed 5 Guys Chillin’ “Interesting and complex; it&…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:28PM CHICHESTER FESTIVAL THEATRE ANNOUNCES WINTER 2015 SEASON A compelling mix of drama, family shows, comedy and music will feature in Chichester Festival Theatre’s Winter 2015 seas…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:31AMWednesday, September 9, 2015
Famed as the musical for people who don’t like musicals, I was delighted to be given the opportunity to revisit this quirky and surprising show. Not since 2007 have I been exposed to the B…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:08PM 
