Friday, June 14, 2019
Nicholas Hytner gives us an utterly inspired take on A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Bridge Theatre, with Gwendoline Christie in stupendous form.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMWednesday, June 12, 2019
Internationaal Theater Amsterdam’s Hans Kesting was my first ever Best Actor award winner and has continued to be one of the most interesting actors around, in any language.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMTuesday, June 11, 2019
The outgoing Evening Standard theatre reviewer Henry Hitchings takes a little time to reflect with 10 easygoing questions.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, June 10, 2019
From Coldplay to Claude Debussy, crossover soprano Justine Balmer’s debut album Simple Thing is a collection of songs that work well together.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, June 9, 2019
How many of us can say we’ve inspired some branded condoms?! Find out more as playwright Tom Wells becomes the first person to answer 10 questions for 10 years.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWednesday, June 5, 2019
A sensational performance from Cary Crankson anchors a powerful production of Simon Stephens’ Country Music at Clapham’s Omnibus Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, June 4, 2019
The inimitable Kneehigh retools The Beggar’s Opera in Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and other love songs).
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMMonday, June 3, 2019
Despite a cracking design, White Pearl doesn’t convince as an effective play at the Royal Court.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, June 2, 2019
Some properly tasty food makes the Game of Thrones-inspired immersive show Dinner is Coming an entertaining night indeed at The Vaults.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, May 31, 2019
Middle-aged white male wish fulfilment writ large, The Starry Messenger is a dull, disappointing and delusional three hours at the Wyndham’s Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, May 30, 2019
A pair of dreamy album reviews with Matthew Croke’s Only Dreaming & Anna O’Byrne’s Dream.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWednesday, May 29, 2019
As sweet-sharp as a diabolo grenadine, Amélie the Musical has lost none of its inimitable charm as it gears up for a considerable UK tour.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMAugust Wilson’s King Hedley II is something of a flawed play but it receives a strong production from Nadia Fall at Theatre Royal Stratford East.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, May 28, 2019
A sensationally good new British musical that I couldn’t recommend more. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button at the Southwark Playhouse is something special.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, May 20, 2019
Tennessee Williams’s Orpheus Descending may not be his greatest play but Tamara Harvey’s production for the Menier Chocolate Factory proves most affecting in the end.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSaturday, May 18, 2019
Bold as you like, Chalk Line’s Testament is a breath of bracingly fresh air into the Hope Theatre with its blend of physical theatre, metaphysical narrative and contemporary issue-baiting.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, May 17, 2019
Aussie soap opera musical Summer Street proves an amiable if unchallenging watch at the Waterloo East Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, May 15, 2019
Neil Austin’s lighting design in Rosmersholm at the Duke of York’s Theatre is a thing of beauty and Hayley Atwell is excellent but Ibsen is still Ibsen…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, May 9, 2019
Maxine Peake is magisterial at the Barbican in this heart-breaking monologue Avalanche; A Love Story.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMTuesday, May 7, 2019
On the one hand, you might consider Little Death Club as just another late night cabaret show, but on experiencing this extraordinary hour, you see that it really is more than that, somethin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, May 2, 2019
Andrea Levy’s novel Small Island comes to life most beautifully in this adaptation by Helen Edmundson at the National Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, May 1, 2019
The Hired Man might perhaps disappoint those looking for the bombast of a large-scale musical but in its subtle portrait of a slice of social history, there’s something more intriguing and…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, April 27, 2019
Some titanic acting performances from Sally Field, Bill Pullman and Colin Morgan in this superb All My Sons at the Old Vic Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, April 26, 2019
Twelfth Night in the roaring twenties? OVO Theatre brings its inventive musical take on Shakespeare to the Rose Playhouse.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, April 25, 2019
A sensational adaptation of the film, Amélie the Musical completely captures my heart – see it now at the Watermill Theatre and then touring across the UK.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSaturday, April 20, 2019
Nowhere near enough charm in this Sweet Charity for my liking. Josie Rourke’s farewell to the Donmar Warehouse is grey rather than silver.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, April 17, 2019
Just a quickie for this revisit to Follies, which remains as perfect a piece of musical theatre as I could hope for. I loved it then but I really love it now.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSaturday, April 13, 2019
Aletta Collins’ new choreography is just one of the highlights of a most successful West Side Story at the Royal Exchange.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, April 12, 2019
This 50th anniversary tour of Hair the Musical does more than any to make me like the show.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThursday, April 11, 2019
A twisted but thrilling true crime two-hander, Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story is a must-see at the Hope Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, April 9, 2019
Daring and detailed, Operation Black Antler is a powerfully thought-provoking piece of immersive theatre booking out of the Southbank Centre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM 
