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Sunday, May 22, 2022

‘Presents a diversity of believable working-class people’: HOXTON STREET – Hoxton Hall by Darren Ross

On the surface, there should be nothing radical about Hoxton Street. It is, essentially, a soap opera set in Hoxton Street in north-east London. 'It's Eastenders on stage' would be the eleva…

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Monday, April 11, 2022

‘The themes have taken on a tragic relevance that could hardly have been imagined when it opened’ CABARET – Playhouse Theatre by Darren Ross

Following its seven-times Olivier Awards triumph, here's Darren Ross' recap of his recent unforgettable visit to Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club in the West End's reconfigured Playhouse Theatre.

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Thursday, June 25, 2020

‘Perhaps something genuinely new in theatre:’ THE TIME MACHINE – Creation Theatre (Online review) by Darren Ross

So bizarre and unlikely is the story behind the creation of this play that one wonders whether writer Jonathan Holloway has time-travelled himself!

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PM
Saturday, May 30, 2020

Recalling Tom Hiddleston in CORIOLANUS: ‘One of the best nights of theatre of my life’ by Darren Ross

It is not often that one reviews a play one saw six years ago, but with the forthcoming National Theatre At Home streaming of the Donmar Warehouse production of Coriolanus, right now seems a…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM
Thursday, February 13, 2020

‘You leave the theatre being pro-Cherie’: CHERIE – MY STRUGGLE – White Bear Theatre ★★★★ by Darren Ross

Cherie - My Struggle is thoroughly enjoyable and one can imagine Cherie Blair seeing it and not feeling at all hard done by. The play is not a hagiography, but you leave the theatre being pr…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:03AM
Saturday, November 2, 2019

‘Find honour & truth in being yourself’: DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHERS – White Bear Theatre ★★★★ by Darren Ross

The past often offers a convenient intellectual space which we can all look down upon and feel smug about how far we have come in moral terms. Different From The Others gleefully kicks us of…

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Saturday, October 12, 2019

‘Glenn Chandler is a master mason, expertly layering themes into story & character’: THE GOOD SCOUT – Above The Stag Theatre ★★★★ by Darren Ross

The Good Scout achieves the impossible - finding an original, untold story from World War Two. In the 1930s, boys from the Nazi Hitlerjugend visit British Rover Scouts for a cycling holiday …

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:48PM
Monday, August 12, 2019

‘Burlesques on absurdism’: OUR WALK THROUGH THE WORLD – The Water Rats by Darren Ross

Ross Howard's six short plays are set in worlds that are burlesques on absurdism. Relationships don't so much fail to work as unnervingly malfunction.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:43PM

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards