Tuesday, April 26, 2022
The show tells the story of three best friends, Effie White, Deena Jones and Lorrell Robinson, on their quest to become music stars in 1960s America and what happens to them on their way to …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, October 19, 2021
I want to start by saying how happy I am to be back reviewing musical theatre. How happy I am the big tours are back and how overjoyed I was to be back in my home turf of the Wales Millenniu…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, October 6, 2021
The Boy with Two Hearts is an adaption of the book by Hamed and Hessam Amiri adapted for the stage by Phil Porter. The book which was a Radio 4 book of the week, combines the account of the …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:01AMSaturday, July 24, 2021
‘You are here, at the start of a moment’. Those words in Come From Away never felt more true. Four hundred and 95 days after last being in a West End theatre, 495 days after last seeing …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, December 29, 2020
I resolutely wasn’t doing a round up for 2020. I mean what on earth were we going to round up? This year has, with no exaggeration, broken our hearts in theatre. There’s no other way …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, August 23, 2020
I accidentally wrote a viral tweet. It came out of a moment of possibly ill-thought frustration. Out of feeling brushed aside, dismissed one too many times. But wow did that tweet resonate.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, July 4, 2020
Rent recently marked its 24th anniversary since its Broadway opening. Every year I try to write something. This year, in particular, it seemed important to.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, June 6, 2020
My play Paper Cuts went live on Bloom Theatre's YouTube channel last month. This play was a long time coming… hopefully, this isn’t the end, and it’s got a way to run.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, May 7, 2020
I've struggled to write about theatre at this time. To be honest, I've struggled to write anything about anything. It took me weeks to get my head remotely functioning.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, January 21, 2020
For every introverted socially awkward nerd Romantics Anonymous feels like seeing your fears and secrets on stage without being mocked.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, January 3, 2020
And so here it is... my top 10 musicals of the decade. It turned out to be a slightly emotional journey. But it turns out musicals meant a lot in that time and I’ll fight anyone who says m…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMThursday, January 2, 2020
This isn’t a ‘best of’ list it’s my best-of list, these are the plays that shaped me this decade and will stay with me well into the next.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMWednesday, September 4, 2019
From the mid-2000s there has been an upsurge in reviving ‘Aids plays’ – from the 2008 Broadway revival of The Normal Heart
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMWednesday, June 12, 2019
By Emily Garside. Emily Garside discusses Y Brain/Kargalar, in which the playwright, Turkish refugee Meltem Arikan, who settled in Wales, explores her conflicting identities.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:00AMWednesday, May 15, 2019
For anyone who has been under a rock for the last couple of years in London theatre, this stripping back to the essence of a classic is one of Marianne Elliott’s (many) talents. And here w…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, March 27, 2019
I thank all the theatre I’ve endured that has perhaps made me a better person, but in future I’ll be asking first just how much joy it’s going to bring me, and if I’m perhaps better …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMMonday, March 11, 2019
On the top layer, Waitress is sweet and fun with beautiful ingredients in the form of a stellar cast. But dig a little deeper and we find there are a lot more layers to the pie.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, February 14, 2019
Fascinating All About Eve is, engaging perhaps not always. But anyone hoping for the same level of emotional payoff that Anderson’s other stage roles have demonstrated will likely end up f…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, January 28, 2019
I’ve spent this last couple of weeks thinking about Rent a lot. It’s not unusual to think about Rent. For me it’s always kind of there, in the background.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMMonday, December 31, 2018
I wanted to record all the productions in 2018 that had had a profound impact on me, so here is the collection that will be with me for a long time.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, December 19, 2018
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
The Other Room has established itself as the Channel 4 of Christmas in Cardiff, with its alternative Christmas show. And this year, up and coming company Big Loop is resident with Cheer.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWednesday, November 28, 2018
Rachel O’Riordan’s last production as director at the Sherman Theatre is Mike Kenny’s warm-hearted new adaption of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:25AMMonday, November 5, 2018
Directed with intelligence, and a clear passion from Matthew Holmquist and with writing that balances a particular brand of Cardiff humour with universal themes and important questions, Card…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSaturday, October 27, 2018
Tuck takes us on a journey of sequins and glitter that eventually blur through tears. It’s fierce and fabulous and goes out fighting.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMMonday, October 22, 2018
The moment Company opened younger audiences who had never seen it before similarly lamented that it could ever have been done with a man. ‘But it’s a woman’s story’. And for 2018 it …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, October 10, 2018
If Isley Lynn’s Skin A Cat teaches us anything it’s to be bold in talking about everything about sex, especially for women.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, September 10, 2018
Eugenius! manages that perfect balance of pop music and musical theatre- storytelling through song but with an infectious and catchy side.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSaturday, August 18, 2018
Allan Neve’s play is an exploration of a father-daughter life over the decades. Starting when daughter Lucy (Georgia Theodoulou) comes home to look after her father Charlie (Keiron Self), …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMTuesday, July 10, 2018
This reading of The Destiny of Me was a rare (especially for a Brit) opportunity to see this rarely performed play. The fact Kramer has done re-writes gives me hope there will be a productio…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMThursday, April 26, 2018
I like to spend time unpacking a play and in particular the writing a little more. So here is my not-review of Brad Birch’s new play Tremor at the Sherman Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AM 
