Monday, March 4, 2019
"Very funny", "Talented actors" and "reminiscent of the sitcoms of yesteryear" - find out how new comedy Cheating Death has been making audiences laugh themselves silly at the Cockpit Theatr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:25AMTwo actors, a handful of costume changes, a rural backdrop and a massive trunk - that's what you need to stage a fantastic production of Stones in his Pockets, certainly if these brillian…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:39AMInspired by a horrifying true story, five-star thriller We Know Now Snowmen Exist brings its tale of icy terror to London later this month, playing from 19 to 23 March at The Space. Book you…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:49AMFriday, March 1, 2019
The revival of James Saunders' relationship drama Bodies at Southwark Playhouse has garnered a host of four and five star reviews. As it heads towards its final week, take a look at these fa…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:54AMPowerful, gut-wrenching, brutally honest, funny, engaged, delivered with honesty and compassion... What else do critics say about sisters Stacey and Nicola Bland's playwriting debut Call Me …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:46AMWhat is truth? In today's crazy times, what can we learn from the past? Stars Ruby Bentall, Sean Rigby and Stephen Billington discuss the timeliness of Devil You Know's first London revival …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:16AMThursday, February 28, 2019
Royal Shakespeare Company veteran Eileen Page gave her final stage performance last year at Tara Theatre, reprising her legendary performance in one-woman history play Eleanor of Aquitaine. …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:37PMHave you been to Madrid? You’ll certainly want to once you’ve dipped into some of the theatrical tapas being served up at London’s home of Spanish drama, the Cervantes Theatre in March…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:04AM"It’s not enough to want the visibility, you have to know it’s going bring real change" As the second Black Women in Theatre event, taking place on March 6, draws closer, Ovalhouse's Exe…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:31AMIt was a great big family affair for my post-show Q&A at Call Me Vicky at the Pleasance Theatre this past weekend. The new one-act comedy-drama marks the playwriting debut for sisters St…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AMCrowns, contortion and the most neatly arranged mood wall you're ever likely to see - take a look into rehearsals for Richard III, then book your tickets to see it as it comes to the newly r…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:19AMTuesday, February 19, 2019
In the face of protests outside and online, All in Row received its world premiere last night at London's Southwark Playhouse. Theatre critics have started delivering their verdict on the pl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:48AMFar from a winter of discontent, March 2019 is the spring of excitement, as Alexandra Palace mounts its first ever co-production, staging Shakespeare's Richard III with Headlong, Bristol Old…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:48AMMarvellous musical improvisers Notflix are set to create fabulous fun-filled films before audiences eyes as they bring their hit, entirely made-up show to the VAULT Festival from 6 to 10 Mar…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:49AMMonday, February 18, 2019
Janet Suzman's first-ever London revival of Athol Fugard's 1978 Apartheid-era, South African classic A Lesson From Aloes comes to the Finborough Theatre next week. Sneak a peek inside rehear…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:02PMAmy Ng's tale of tradition vs modern life and personal ambitions vs family loyalty, Under The Umbrella, will have its world premiere at the Belgrade Theatre next month before embarking on a …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:26AMWhat would a dead man do if he came back to life? Shots might be the answer according to these images from the rehearsal room of Maz Nowaz's comedy Cheating Death, which plays at the Cockpit…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:12AMMichel de Montaigne is credited with inventing the essay writing form. What would he have made of the proliferation of today's equivalent blogging and vlogging? How might he have voted in th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:30AMFriday, February 15, 2019
Folk horror comedian Katy Schutte brings her one-woman show Let’s Summon Demons, which she’s written and performs, to London next month for the final week of this year’s V…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:09AMOscar Wilde meets Shameless and the critics and Offies judges love it. We've rounded up our favourite review highlights for the new Yorkshire-set Th'Importance of Bein' Earnest, which contin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMThursday, February 14, 2019
Just a few more chances to see Proforça Theatre Feel and spin-off monologues Feel More at The Space. And the reviews, including from our Mate Marika Visser, say you definitely should. We've…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:31PMA Hundred Words of Snow, the acclaimed one-woman play about female empowerment and climate change, transfers to the West End next month. We caught up with playwright Tatty Hennessy about her…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:30AM"Fantastic", "excellent", "wicked" - all words that have been used by audiences who have seen Sunrise for the Blind at the Tristan Bates Theatre and have leaped onto social media to share th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:30AMAs Endeavour commences its sixth season on ITV this week, one of its stars, Sean Rigby, has entered the rehearsal room for a timely revival of James Phillips' award-winning The Rubenstein K…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:14AMFollowing a successful run at The Playground Theatre in January, Christopher Tajah's hit one-man play about Martin Luther King, Dream of a King, returns to the stage this spring. A tour of L…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:33AMWednesday, February 13, 2019
Which world-changing writer/director/producer popped in to see Tilda Swinton Answers an Ad on Craigslist this week? And what did he think? There's really only one way to find out. We've coll…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:50PMCheating Death, Max Nowaz's dark comedy about a dead man who wakes up, will receive a new lease of life when it is staged at the Cockpit Theatre this spring. First Time Productions present t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:33PMShunt, a collective of theatremakers that had huge success with their site-specific productions around London Bridge from 2000 to 2010, has also spawned Darkfield, founded by former Shunters…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:52AMTuesday, February 12, 2019
A drunken cycling accident inspired Tom Powell to become a playwright; an Easyjet flight to Bulgaria inspired his latest play Little Echoes, premiering this month at London's Hope Theatre. H…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:46PMTom Hartwell's hit play about the targets we aim for by certain ages of our life, Before 30, returns to London this spring. The one-man show runs at Waterloo East Theatre from 26 February to…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:08AMAs Nigel Williams' tale of a troubled sibling relationship, My Brother's Keeper?, receives its first major London revival since its 1985 premiere, Andy de la Tour tells us about how the play…
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