Tuesday, 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 09:00AMMonday, April 8, 2019
Caryl Churchill’s superb Top Girls receives a luxurious but clear-sighted production from Lyndsey Turner at the National Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, April 6, 2019
Cry Havoc tackles a powerfully emotive subject and with James El-Sharawy and Marc Antolin, Pamela Schermann’s production finds a compelling pair of lead performances.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, April 5, 2019
My first time getting Shit-faced…Shit-faced Showtime’s Oliver with a Twist is raucous if unfocused affair at the Leicester Square Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, April 1, 2019
It’s a rare moment of beautiful subtlety in a play that is more often considerably bolder in its sentiment, but it’s also a mark of just how nuanced Nicole Charles’ production and Morg…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSaturday, March 30, 2019
Just the one more trip to see the glorious Company at the Gielgud Theatre before it sadly departs. Marianne Elliott's multi Critics Circle Award-winning and Olivier-nominated revival of Step…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, March 25, 2019
Classical-crossover artist Joanna Forest takes us through a day in the life of a child with her enchanting new album The Rhythm of Life.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, March 22, 2019
Penelope Wilton almost, almost, makes it worth seeing a David Hare play with The Bay at Nice at the Menier Chocolate Factory.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSaturday, March 16, 2019
The Owle Schreame’s A Midsummer Night’s DROLL is a supremely silly and highly enjoyable Shakespearean adaptation at the VAULT Festival.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, March 14, 2019
Jinkx Monsoon and Major Scales’ cabaret show The Ginger Snapped mixes music, musings on mental health and moments of queer solidarity at the Leicester Square Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, March 13, 2019
I was a big fan of Tom Ratcliffe’s VELVET at the VAULT Festival and so was intrigued to catch this production of his debut play Circa at the Old Red Lion Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSaturday, March 9, 2019
Ooh, a real treat this. The world of new musical theatre can be a little unforgiving but on the evidence of The Limit, Freya Smith and Jack Williams’ Bottle Cap Theatre are marking themsel…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, March 8, 2019
Fresh from Broadway, hit musical Waitress proves funnier and lighter than you might expect at the Adelphi Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, March 6, 2019
Nicholas Hytner finally directs a play by a woman but Lucinda Coxon’s adaptation of novel Alys, Always is a disappointment for me at the Bridge Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, February 19, 2019
Four cracking performances make [title of show] a musical highlight of the month at the Above the Stag Theatre, more than holding its own with the West End.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:05AMSunday, February 17, 2019
Webborn and Finn’s cracking new musical The Clockmaker’s Daughter receives a delectable cast recording treatment that features the likes of Ramin Karimloo, Hannah Waddingham, Christine A…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, February 15, 2019
Courtesy of choreographer Adam Haigh, there is some seriously impressive dance going on at the Union Theatre right now. You might expect some good moves from a musical Can-Can! but the full …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, February 14, 2019
This Sell A Door tour of the excellent puppet musical Avenue Q shows just how well it is standing the test of time.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, February 13, 2019
Ivo van Hove’s take on All About Eve ticks all my boxes at the Noël Coward Theatre, great work from Gillian Anderson, Lily James and a stellar Monica Dolan.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, February 5, 2019
Flying Rabbit Productions’ Di & Viv & Rose at the White Bear Theatre is a smart production of a play that has endured well.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSunday, February 3, 2019
Any show that references Céline Dion’s epic key change in ‘All By Myself’ is onto a winner, never mind featuring a lip-sync there of. So I was always going to be well-inclined towards…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMIf Taro is to be Arrows & Traps’ final production, then it’s a hell of a high note to go out on. Bringing together so much of what has made them an enjoyable and enlightening compan…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, February 2, 2019
The delightfully daft The Noble Nine at the VAULT Festival asks what happens when people like The Famous Five grow up.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, February 1, 2019
Velvet proves a powerful piece, investigating #MeToo from a gay perspective at the VAULT Festival.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThursday, January 31, 2019
I’ve been watching the Showstopper crew for as long as I’ve been blogging (the King’s Head was a great venue for them), so it’s a real treat to see them constantly move onwards and u…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSunday, January 27, 2019
Improv done well is one of the greatest pleasures I know, and Sorry’s take on the form, which is inexplicably only playing at the VAULT Festival for a couple of dates, has to be some of th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, January 25, 2019
An impressive transfer sees one-woman show Songs for Nobodies move into the Ambassadors Theatre from a run last year at Wilton’s Music Hall and it is a striking, if ultimately a little sli…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, January 24, 2019
Strong performances from Cate Blanchett and Stephen Dillane make the challenging When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other worth the effort at the National Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, January 23, 2019
Great design work from Morgan Large and a strong lead performance from Kaisa Hammarlund make Violet an intriguing proposition at the Charing Cross Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, January 21, 2019
it is pleasing to see that Ross McGregor’s new play Gentleman Jack respects its subject enough to give a full picture of their life.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, January 17, 2019
With less than a week to go before the 2019 VAULT Festival opens, I wade my way through the catalogue and come up with 20 shows I think you should catch – in their own words.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM 
