Sunday, April 5, 2020
National Theatre at Home is a huge success. The type of scheme that only large institutions can hope to really pull off but even so, managing the kind of appointment-to-view occasion that wa…
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New musical #ZoologicalSociety, written by Vikki Stone and Kate Mulgrew, gets a well-timed concept album release.
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Aimie Atkinson is good but deserves far better than Pretty Woman: the Musical, the blatant cash grab at the Piccadilly Theatre.
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Lazarus Theatre’s ensemble-based take on Macbeth at Greenwich Theatre proves thrilling in its stylish directorial vision.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, February 27, 2020
In The Prince Of Egypt highly committed cast does their best to ride out inconsistent production choices to deliver work that fills the Dominion well.
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I go and see The Extraordinary Time-Travelling Adventures of Baron Munchausen at the VAULT Festival and end up playing a tree with killer leaves.
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As rap and spoken word emerge as the primary storytelling modes in Poet in da Corner, along with some evocative dancing, there’s a compelling sense of the potential of what theatre can be.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, February 10, 2020
Jack Robson’s I Woke Up Feeling Electric asks some morally and technologically challenging questions at the Hope Theatre.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, February 7, 2020
In Death of England, Rafe Spall delivers the performance of a lifetime in this punchy monologue by Clint Dyer and Roy Williams at the National Theatre.
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The perils of midweek drinking writ large – After(s) examines what it means to be in your mid-twenties today at the White Bear Theatre in Kennington.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, February 5, 2020
The Misadventures of David and Sam proves a good-natured and light-hearted piece of fun family theatre at the VAULT Festival.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, January 30, 2020
A fine revival of Lucy Prebble’s first play The Sugar Syndrome features a strong debut performance from Jessica Rhodes at the Orange Tree Theatre.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, January 29, 2020
Insofar as it is humanly possible for any one person to know everything that is happening at the VAULT Festival this year, I present a handful of my recommendations for 2020.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, January 26, 2020
Conor McPherson’s adaptation of Uncle Vanya featuring Toby Jones and Richard Armitage at the Harold Pinter Theatre is so good you can forgive the “wanging on”.
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Lucy Kirkwood returns to the National Theatre with The Welkin, starring a brilliant ensemble led by Maxine Peake.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, January 23, 2020
With its focus on the small things, Sam Steiner’s play You Stupid Darkness! is a delicate but delicious thing at the Southwark Playhouse.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, January 19, 2020
The Other Room’s The Story and Hela make a delightful and daring double bill of Welsh drama at Theatre503.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, January 17, 2020
BAZ Productions’ The Process proves bold and striking in its use of BSL and spoken English, if a little flawed too, now running at the Bunker Theatre.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, January 16, 2020
A musical adaptation of Tom Brown’s School Days at the Union Theatre has some moments, and performances, to treasure.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, January 12, 2020
As well as providing a welcome opportunity for performers to really cut loose, Six also – sadly – remains at the cutting edge of the zeitgeist.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, January 11, 2020
Holy What’s Antigone at the New Diorama shifts the focus of Sophocles’ play onto two young sisters to powerful effect.
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Ought To Be Clowns tackles a trio of Broadway cast recordings in the shape of Cole Porter’s The New Yorkers, Kiss Me, Kate! and Beetlejuice.
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Ought To Be Clowns barely saw 250 shows this year, quiet by his standards. And as is the way of these things, here’s a rundown of some of the productions that moved me most…
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Looking ahead to some of 2020’s exciting shows, most with an emphasis away from the West End and instead focusing at the London Fringe and across the UK.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, December 30, 2019
Ever behind the curve, I present 10 of my top moments in a theatre over the last ten years (plus a few bonus extra ones because whittling down this list was hard, and it will probably be dif…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, December 22, 2019
A Kander & Ebb premiere in the West End you say? Curtains makes its bow at the Wyndham’s Theatre and I had an arrestingly good time with it.
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Not too much more to say about Amélie the Musical, now in London at The Other Palace, other than book now for un moment merveilleux.
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Teenage Dick at the Donmar Warehouse does extremely well in dealing with disability but I think we’re kidding ourselves if we’re yet in a place where this would happen organically.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, December 18, 2019
Inua Ellams’ relocation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters to the Biafran Civil War proves devastatingly effective at the National Theatre.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, December 13, 2019
Not much festive cheer around at the Royal Court, but plenty of grimly insightful writing in Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti’s A Kind of People.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, December 6, 2019
Because nothing says Merry Christmas like a stage mum going off the rails! Gypsy offers a different festive treat at Manchester’s Royal Exchange.
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