Monday, April 23, 2018
Newly installed at the Dominion Theatre, after runs in Manchester, Toronto and at the Coliseum last year, Bat Out of Hell has lost little of the bizarre, baffling energy that saw it find a v…
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Circus Abyssinia: Ethiopian Dreams traces a true-life story of two Ethiopian brothers who were also responsible for founding the first circus in their country.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSaturday, April 21, 2018
An Officer and a Gentleman, beginning its national tour at Curve Leicester, is a show that is unashamedly feel-good, even through its darker moments, and just waiting to sweep you off your f…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, April 20, 2018
John Barrowman’s force of personality means the anecdotes flow out of him with barely any prompting from the wonderfully acerbic Seth Rudetsky, but with such a storied career he’s certai…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMWednesday, April 18, 2018
The result in Instructions for Correct Assembly at the Royal Court may be that we’re not as moved as we feel we ought to be, though there’s much dark wit here. Maybe we’re the problem.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWith the almighty back catalogue of Tina Turner to call on, there’s a thrilling sense of energy in Tina the Musical which is perfectly encapsulated in the star-making performance of a fric…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMSaturday, April 14, 2018
Opening this year’s CircusFest, Pirates of the Carabina’s Relentless Unstoppable Human Machine offers gentle delights at the Roundhouse.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, April 13, 2018
Fresh from winning awards, racking up her third novel, vlogging regularly and quite possibly plotting world domination, Carrie Hope Fletcher has now released her debut album When The Curtain…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, April 12, 2018
Brutal and bleak, Kenneth Emson’s Plastic is uncompromising about how desperate life can get for those feeling left behind.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWednesday, April 11, 2018
Sex and love in the modern age gets a little confusing, for everyone. In Love Me Now at the Tristan Bates Theatre it can be anything you want it to be.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMMonday, April 9, 2018
It has been a little while since our escape-the-room group has actually tried to escape a room, rather than just meeting to drink gin-based cocktails, but a special offer in Time Out led us …
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSunday, April 8, 2018
Absolutely no disrespect to Terence Wilton and James Byng who currently tell this ghost story so well, it just feels like the time is now is now to expand The Woman in Black’s horizon.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, April 7, 2018
Brief Encounter is a love letter to both film and theatre in which Rice combines elements of David Lean’s 1946 film with the 1936 Noël Coward play Still Life that it was based on, and the…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThursday, April 5, 2018
Fancy three and a half hours of Ingmar Bergman? At least the Old Vic’s seats are comfortable for Fanny and Alexander with a marvellous Penelope Wilton.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, April 3, 2018
Chelsea Walker helms a blistering update of A Streetcar Named Desire for English Touring Theatre.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSo not necessarily my cup of tea but in the fervour All Or Noting inspired in the majority of the audience, one can see why this show’s journey has been going for a good couple of years no…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, April 2, 2018
Ruthless? Charging up to over £70 for a show at the Arts. Ruthless? Advertising yourselves as an all-female musical when you’ve a man in the cast. Ruthless? Putting said man above the tit…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, March 31, 2018
As Women’s History Month draws to a close, the folks at the Old Red Lion have put on a double-bill featuring up-and-coming female theatre-makers – Tik-sho-ret Theatre Company’s Under T…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMIs it London if there’s isn’t at least a couple of Philip Ridley plays in the offing?! Hot on the heels of Angry in Southwark and with Vincent River now on at the Park, Lidless Theatre i…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, March 30, 2018
The Inheritance is a brave and epic piece of new writing from Matthew Lopez, taking a scalpel to contemporary gay life in New York, asking what does it mean to be a gay man today and just ho…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThursday, March 29, 2018
Chekhov’s Three Sisters, presented here by Arrows and Traps in a new version by Ross McGregor, continues that strong tradition, paring back the starch to locate a real emotional directness…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, March 27, 2018
The allure of Assassins, this slice of Americana, as much musical history as it is socio-political, has proven enduringly popular as it explores something of the people behind the nine recor…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, March 24, 2018
Rivera and Baker’s adaptation does focus more on the personal than the political, so this does feel very much like the story of these two men rather than a searching insight into the LGBTQ…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, March 22, 2018
Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori’s complex and challenging civil rights musical Caroline, or Change makes its long-awaited London return to the Hampstead Theatre.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMWednesday, March 21, 2018
A lively and emotional actor-musician production of The Secret Garden marks a fantastic debut for the brand new Barn Theatre in the Cotswolds.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMMonday, March 19, 2018
I really appreciated my experience at Suffragette City. The attention to detail from the designers and directors is second to none and the company miss few opportunities to gently educate an…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSunday, March 18, 2018
This Frankenstein ends up feeling a little po-faced as seriousness alone does not dramatic imperative make, especially when the material is as familiar as this.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSaturday, March 17, 2018
Upon reaching 70 this year, Andrew Lloyd Webber is clearly in a reflective mood and hot on the heels of his autobiography Unmasked released last week, comes this new compilation album Unmask…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, March 16, 2018
Scathing humour, bluff directness and an innate desire to empathise rounds all three characters out beautifully in The Last Waltz, as underwear is forgotten, grapefruit searched for, wine dr…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMA nippy little thing this, Lock and Key. A new musical from writing duo Barlow & Smith, a couple of cracking musical theatre actresses in Tiffany Graves and Evelyn Hoskins, and the swea…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, March 15, 2018
This production of Brighton Rock has a striking physicality to it, utterly eyecatching but careful not to overly glamourise this noirish world.
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