Thursday, 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.
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One of the benefits in producing such a wide-ranging festival as Pinter at the Pinter has been the flexibility in its programming, allowing for thematic evenings to emerge as opposed to a st…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMPinter Five sees Patrick Marber, someone who could call Harold Pinter a friend and colleague, take the directorial wheel as he presents a triple-bill of The Room, Victoria Station and Family…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, December 31, 2018
So many of the recommendations for shows to see next year focus on the West End. And for sure, I’m excited to catch big ticket numbers like All About Eve, Come From Away and Waitress but I…
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The extraordinary Caroline or Change makes the leap into the West End at the Playhouse Theatre, with a titanic Sharon D Clarke at the helm.
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Simon Russell Beale and Leo Bill shine in Joe Hill-Gibbins’ perfectly reimagined The Tragedy of King Richard the Second at the Almeida Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, December 18, 2018
Inspired by Mark Ravenhill’s realisation that some teachers retiring now would have been active when corporal punishment was outlawed in 1986, The Cane is his first new play for a goodly w…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, December 17, 2018
Fifty-four years is quite the wait for a sequel but the sweetness and charm with which Mary Poppins Returns lands on our screens makes it pretty much worth it.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSunday, December 16, 2018
Edgar Allan Poe via Anthony Neilson might not seem the typical recipe for your festive fare but The Tell-Tale Heart proves a gory and gothic delight. Marking Neilson’s National Theatre deb…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSaturday, December 15, 2018
I loved The Grinning Man in both its incarnations – from Bristol’s Old Vic to the West End – and so I was most pleased to hear that it would be immortalised in vinyl, or whatever the d…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, December 13, 2018
Tom Wells’ Drip popped up briefly in the library at the Bush Theatre last year, played Edinburgh over the summer and returns to W12 in the studio where its idiosyncratic charms prove well …
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Natasha Barnes really impresses with debut album Real, a shining example of contemporary pop done well.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMTuesday, December 11, 2018
We celebrate the fact that Nine Night is the first play by a black British female playwright to make it into the West End, as Natasha Gordon’s debut makes the move from the National’s sm…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, December 7, 2018
I’m not sure who we apply to for these things but I really would like to see Norm Lewis return to the West End stage – I didn’t catch him in Les Mis but I did get the briefest look at …
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The first of three opportunities to see Austentatious at the Savoy Theatre in December in a hilariously scandalous affair indeed.
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Chucking Michelle Visage into the cast of Everybody’s Talking About James at the Apollo Theatre is actually a rather inspired move.
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Alfie Boe’s As Time Goes By makes for a hugely enjoyable listen, infused with passion and a thrilling musicality that should see it stuffed into many a stocking come 25 December.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, November 30, 2018
Rebecca Frecknall’s production of Summer & Smoke has lost none of its charge, mainly through retaining the electric chemistry between its leads – an exceptional Patsy Ferran as Alma…
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Tonderai Munyevu’s The Moors at the Tara Theatre follows two African men on the hunt for Shakespeare and coming up hard against the realities for actors of colour.
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I try out the new smart caption glasses while watching Hadestown at the National Theatre and am blown away both by the show and the frankly amazing technology.
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Pinter Four serves up something of a difficult double bill at the Harold Pinter Theatre, but Bríd Brennan and Janie Dee are there to help us through the dark times.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMMonday, November 19, 2018
Matt Board and Reina Hardy’s new musical Fanatical taps into the apparently unstoppable rise of comic-book culture, but takes a refreshingly uncynical slant on the subject.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, November 12, 2018
Strong performances from Lucy Sheen and Flora Spencer-Longhurst make Jesse Briton’s A Pupil an interesting watch at the Park Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSunday, November 11, 2018
Capturing something of the tragedy of solitary confinement, Gilded Butterflies is an evocative hour at the Hope Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, November 9, 2018
There’s a neat symmetry to the life of Brass the Musical thus far. Originally commissioned by the National Youth Music Theatre to commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of the First Wor…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, November 8, 2018
It’s sometimes a little difficult to take seriously how old everyone is meant to be in Romeo & Juliet but Erica Whyman’s modern-day production for the RSC, playing in rep now at the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, November 3, 2018
At Waterloo East Theatre, The Greater Game is a sobering reminder of the individual stories behind the statistics of our war dead, and a fitting tribute too.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, November 2, 2018
Ear for eye, Debbie Tucker Green’s new play for the Royal Court, is ferocious and uncompromising and challenging and quite often breath-taking.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, October 31, 2018
It is still a shock to discover the history lesson that Daniel York Loh has in store for us in Forgotten 遗忘 at the Arcola Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMMonday, October 29, 2018
Despite a cast including Christopher Eccleston and Niamh Cusack, this proves another disappointment of a Macbeth as the RSC starts is autumn residency at the Barbican.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, October 28, 2018
The latest dementia play is Nessah Muthy’s Sundowning, currently showing at the Tristan Bates Theatre and based as it is, in part at least, on Muthy’s own family history, it is achingly …
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