Sunday, 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 …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, October 27, 2018
Probably best not to read this beforehand if you’re planning to see Game of Thrones’ star Maisie Williams in her stage debut in I and You at the Hampstead Theatre…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, October 25, 2018
Ultimately, Stories might not necessarily be too profound or truly enlightening, but it does speak to the ways in which a plan for life can lead you most astray and I did find it entertainin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, October 23, 2018
There’s nothing quite like being smacked around the head by the brilliance of a theatre company and that was my experience the first time I saw Out of the Forest Theatre with their strikin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, October 21, 2018
A striking look at immigration and dementia, Jericho’s Rose brings the loop pedal and no little invention to the Hope Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSaturday, October 20, 2018
A Scott Alan song cycle promises much but The Distance You Have Come doesn’t quite deliver at the Cockpit Theatre, despite its excellent cast.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, October 19, 2018
Phone rings, door chimes, in comes an adaptation of Company that subtly but definitively realigns it for a contemporary audience and makes you wonder how you could ever go back to the origin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, October 18, 2018
A youthful and enthusiastic Much Ado About Nothing from Exploding Whale in the Katzpace Studio Theatre in London Bridge.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, October 17, 2018
Too often, the term ‘play with songs’ is abused by marketing types to avoid using the word musical in all its apparent divisiveness. So what a blessed relief to find that Lizzie Nunnery�…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, October 16, 2018
After a scorching run at the Young Vic, Matthew Lopez’s The Inheritance makes a well-deserved transfer into the West End.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMMonday, October 15, 2018
A two-hander full of game-playing, Parents’ Evening is an intriguing new play at the Jermyn Street Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, October 14, 2018
I’m Not Running is David Hare’s 17th new play to be presented at the National Theatre but for a playwright known for espousing the state of the nation in his work, there’s a frustratin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSaturday, October 13, 2018
Adaptor/director Ross McGregor turning to Bram Stoker’s classic Dracula makes sense, not least as it offers ample opportunity for Arrows & Traps to refresh its rather dustily antiquat…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, October 11, 2018
Marcus Stevens and Oran Eldor’s Mythic may have a rather unassuming demeanour by comparison, but it proves to be something of a gently Olympian success from director/choreographer Sarah O�…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, October 10, 2018
Such pleasure in watching Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins onstage plus The Height of the Storm at the Wyndham’s Theatre is great for post-show reconstruction of this deconstructed story.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, October 9, 2018
This regional UK premiere of Once the musical should see you falling slowly towards Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch in order to book your tickets.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, October 8, 2018
Beginning with a burst of confetti and ending in a sombre drop of petals, Pinter One is the far darker side of Pinter at the Pinter“They don’t like you either, my darling”
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SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, October 7, 2018
The Broadway @ The Leicester Square brand is one which surfaces infrequently but always pays rich rewards when it does. Having attracted Patti LuPone, then Audra McDonald and John Barrowman …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, October 5, 2018
My Top 10 ‘Losing My Mind’ post has been one of the most popular on the site, so I thought I would repeat the exercise with what is arguably Company’s most iconic song ‘Being Alive�…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThursday, October 4, 2018
Impeccably acted and insightfully staged, Pinter Two a most effective double bill and a promising start to a season I may yet fall for more completely.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, October 3, 2018
Released by SimG Records, the cast recording for the National Youth Music Theatre’s Imaginary is just a lovely thing indeed.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMTuesday, October 2, 2018
Sundays are obviously the right time to catch improv companies in London and when their work is this good, why wouldn’t you indulge?
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMMonday, October 1, 2018
You ignore what Ionesco has to teach us in The Lesson at your peril – the Hope Theatre is onto another winner here with a strong in-house production.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSunday, September 30, 2018
The oft-misquoted George Santayana once said “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” and taking a glance at Nick Dear’s Hogarth’s Progress, you can’t help b…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, September 29, 2018
Or Cleopatra and Antony as it turns out. Ralph Fiennes is plenty good in Simon Godwin’s modern-dress production of Antony & Cleopatra for the National Theatre, but Sophie Okonedo is s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, September 26, 2018
I liked 42nd Street when I saw it last year but I can’t say that I truly loved it, it felt a 24-carat production of a gold-plated show. But upon revisiting, to celebrate Bonnie Langford’…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, September 24, 2018
Some of the beauty of Flowers for Mrs Harris gets lost at Chichester Festival Theatre but it remains a striking new musical
“It’s a work of art… something not real, made t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, September 22, 2018
One woman, her drums and a whole lotta rage against the patriarchy, Hear Me Howl is a defiant roar at the Old Red Lion Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, September 21, 2018
Two new music releases – Renée Fleming tackles Broadway classics in style, and The Quentin Dentin Show releases its cast recording
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMThursday, September 20, 2018
Produced by Aria Entertainment at the Southwark Playhouse in conjunction with their From Page To Stage Festival celebrating new musical theatre, this European premiere of Unexpected Joy is s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMWednesday, September 19, 2018
Produced by the ever-excellent Proud Haddock, Square Rounds an adroit choice for the centenary of the last year of the First World War.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM 
