Monday, June 26, 2017
There's something a little depressingly predictable about my inability to resist a neat bit of star casting - Marcia Gay Harden's long-in-the-making UK theatrical debut being the guilty part…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMBooking an interactive show in which we the audience get to play the role of the jury?
Using a gimmick to cover the business of reviewing the play....?
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMI was rather seduced by The Quentin Dentin Show's charms when I saw it last year - riding post-Edinburgh enthusiasm, this sci-fi musical slotted into the late-night berth at the Above the Ar…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSunday, June 25, 2017
A Theatre Trip for Every Child, Lewisham is a new giving scheme to provide a free theatre ticket for every 5-year-old in the Borough of Lewisham. ‘Every Child’ enables businesses and ind…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, June 23, 2017
Truth be told I hadn't intended to see Gloria, my own little act of protest at the Hampstead's continuing gender imbalance - six shows straight on their main stage both written and directed …
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, June 22, 2017
Elliott & Harper Productions have announced their first West End show in the form of Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle, a Simon Stephens play which will take up residency at the Wyn…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMWednesday, June 21, 2017
Ovalhouse and BraveNewWorlds' Trinity describes itself as a design-led performance and it does feel more art installation than conventional theatre. And like much of modern art, it benefits …
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, June 20, 2017
Camden Stands with Grenfell Tower: An evening of music and poetry in aid of Grenfell Tower Fire Fund.
Hosted by Ché Walker, Friday 23rd June sees a night of music and poetry in honour of t…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMAdding to the fundraising efforts already established, actor Giles Terera and producer Danielle Tarento have put together a theatrically inclined evening of song, dance and comedy in aid of …
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThe scale of the intimate family drama that Robert Icke has fashioned from Shakespeare's ever-present tragedy amplifies effectively, and Andrew Scott's deeply conversational style still reso…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, June 17, 2017
Christine Edzard will be writing and directing a new version of The Good Soldier Schwejk, based on the satirical Czech novel by Jaroslav Hašek, and creating a daring theatrical and filmic e…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, June 16, 2017
Even thinking about the plot gives me second-hand embarrassment. US evangelist Reverend Bobby Del La Ray launches GOD-TV, Britain's first pay-to-view religious channel, which soon flops but …
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMAfter a well-received run at Theatre N16 last year, Courtney Larkin's production of John Patrick Shanley's Danny and the Deep Blue Sea has popped up again at the Old Red Lion, an ideal home …
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMMonday, June 12, 2017
Gary Owen's Killology is a challenging watch - both structurally in its non-linear format and emotionally in its subject matter. Killology is a new gaming experience in which you score more …
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMAs canny a plan as it is, splitting rent and bills, its realities soon make themselves painfully apparent. They're basically all 30-somethings who are too old to be doing this, especially Me…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMI've been looking forward to Jeff James' reinterpretation of Jane Austen's Persuasion ever since it was announced, James having worked with Ivo van Hove as an associate director and the evid…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, June 11, 2017
The cast of Vivenne Franzmann's Bodies has been announced and as it is being directed by the marvellous Jude Christian, it will definitely be one not to miss. The company includes Lorna Brow…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, June 10, 2017
Former Noah and the Whale front-man and songwriter Charlie Fink is no stranger to the Old Vic, having composed the rather lovely score for The Lorax, but his return takes a rather unconventi…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, June 9, 2017
The hugely convivial pre-show entertainment for Barber Shop Chronicles is such good fun that I thought to myself I could easily just watch this for an hour. As it turned out, press night del…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, June 8, 2017
Over the past few years where he may or may not have been studying sculpture at Saint Martin's College, Northampton-born playwright DC Moore has been putting together a résumé of quietly i…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, June 7, 2017
There's something special in the timelessness of some pieces of theatre, their themes and arguments as relevant to audiences today as they were when they were written years, decades, even ce…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, June 6, 2017
You wouldn't have put money on Richmond's Orange Tree Theatre becoming the destination for some of London's more radical theatre leanings but with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' An Octoroon, it has…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWith a singing style that is as strong as Theresa May's record on supporting the police and an accent that is as stable as the content of her manifesto, it's a bold move to make Miranda Hart…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, June 4, 2017
In Bechdel Testing Life, Bechdel Theatre presents four short plays by Isley Lynn, Rabiah Hussain, Guleraana Mir, and Lizzie Milton. Each play is inspired by a real-life conversation between …
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, June 2, 2017
The four-hander is a deceptively simple show - a quartet of 20-something New Yorkers are spiritually lost, swept up in what should be the romance of the city but finding that adulting isn't …
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, June 1, 2017
So having not gotten round to seeing The Girls for whatever reason (mainly that I didn't want to), I finally bit the bullet last week and within 24 hours, the show posted closing notices for…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWednesday, May 31, 2017
I'm not saying I want Barney Norris to write an all-out farce but it would be fun to see him stretch his considerable literary talent beyond these tales of gentle melancholy that he does so …
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMBudding (and broke) photographer James and his relationship dramas lie at the heart of George Johnston's new play Snapshot. His barely-out banker boyfriend Daniel pays the lion's share of th…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, May 30, 2017
In his first season as artistic director of Theatre N16, Scott Ellis presents a slew of new writing.
Olympilads by Andrew Maddock, produced by Lonesome Schoolboy and directed by Niall Phill…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSunday, May 28, 2017
Robert Hastie's opening salvo as the new Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres might not immediately quicken the pulse as we've hardly been lacking for productions of Julius Caesar. But it…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFred Haig must have thought that this was his year after landing starring roles in two of the big musicals of the summer but during Monday evening’s performance, he sustained an injury to …
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