Wednesday, 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 05:00AMSunday, September 16, 2018
With the recent imprisonment of two Reuters journalists – U Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo – for ‘violating a state secrets act’ in Myanmar, Guy Slater’s new play Eastern Star gains the k…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSaturday, September 15, 2018
Short and sharply observed, impeccably sung and filled with irrepressible spirit, this is precisely the kind of work that advances the form of musical theatre for contemporary audiences.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, September 13, 2018
Far from providing a straight-up biopic, Michael Oakley’s production of Alice Allemano’s play About Leo is something much more interesting.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, September 12, 2018
Based on Elchin’s play Citizens of Hell, Laurence Mark Wythe (music and lyrics) and Timothy Knapman’s (book and lyrics) musical adaptation Midnight is so very good at translating the eer…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, September 11, 2018
Mike Leigh’s 1977 play Abigail’s Party is sure to be considered a British classic. And as it is set in Romford, it makes great sense for Douglas Rintoul to stage it at the Queen’s Thea…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, September 9, 2018
Dance Nation at the Almeida Theatre is a pretty damn fine piece of writing by US playwright Clare Barron, and a damn fine piece of theatre directed by Bijan Sheibani.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, September 8, 2018
Kaite O’Reilly’s And Suddenly I Disappear – The Singapore/UK ‘d’ Monologues (the first multilingual, intercultural, deaf and disability-led theatre project created between the UK a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, September 5, 2018
The notion that Michael Fentiman’s The Importance of Being Earnest has ruffled a few feathers by daring to do something different, plus the kind of casting that I could never resist, meant…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, August 31, 2018
It’s a different way to experience a West End musical and I’m not too sure that many others would suit the singalong treatment in a similar manner, so why not give your vocal cords a tre…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, August 29, 2018
What is a national theatre for? You’d be forgiven for answering ‘complaining about’ given the amount of sniping regularly aimed at the institution. But with the launch of Public Acts, …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, August 28, 2018
Rightfully tough to take in its exploration of mental illness, Meghan Tyler’s Medicine impresses at the Hope Theatre
“You taught me the wrong things”
It’s a re…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, August 24, 2018
The National Youth Music Theatre does a mighty fine job of eerily atmospheric new musical The Legend of Sleepy Hollow at The Other Palace.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMMonday, August 6, 2018
Katherine Parkinson is simply spectacular as Judy, a vision in froufy frocks and pin-up hair, a woman who has entirely reinvented herself, right down to the way she holds herself.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, August 3, 2018
In some ways, Allelujah! is perfectly symptomatic of the problem I have with the Bridge Theatre. Does London really need any new theatres, no matter how much people think they want interval …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, August 2, 2018
Out of the Forest Theatre’s contribution to the genre comes in the form of Bury the Hatchet, self-described as a “true crime podcast meets bluegrass musical” and all sorts of fun with …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWednesday, August 1, 2018
And as an absurdist drama, Exit the King suggests a bit of different thinking. On the face of it, it’s a simple enough tale – a man is told he only has a day left to live and struggles t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, July 31, 2018
You can never have too much charity it would seem, and as Rebecca Trehearn prepares to take on the role of Charity Hope Valentine in Nottingham next month, Gemma Sutton tackles it here at th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, July 26, 2018
Come mid-January, the Strand will look a fair bit different for theatregoers as both Kinky Boots and Dreamgirls have posted advance closing notices, leaving the Adelphi and the Savoy respect…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, July 24, 2018
I was lucky enough to see an early screening of Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again last week and I thought it was fricking fantastic.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, July 23, 2018
As strong as the cast is (Abraham Popoola and Siobhán McSweeney stand out), the hyperactive knowing style in which they deliver Pity also grates.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, July 21, 2018
For all the weight of the subject, The White Rose is engagingly and captivatingly staged, losing none of the visual inventiveness that has characterised so much of Arrows & Traps’ pre…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, July 19, 2018
The prospect of a Much Ado About Nothing drenched in 1950s Americana was one that piqued my interest, even if the well-realised shiny set design sits a little incongruously among the Roman r…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWednesday, July 18, 2018
Almost impossibly tender and true, Ben Weatherill’s Jellyfish is a minor-key masterpiece at the Bush Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSunday, July 15, 2018
The Lehman Trilogy is a tale of boom to bust: Stefano Massini’s epic play, adaptedby Ben Power, takes a generational viewpoint to move us through 170 years of American history and three ge…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, July 10, 2018
Joseph Skelton’s writing in Fat Jewels layers in a dark vein of comedy which adds an additionally discomfiting level but crucially, it also points towards a possible way forward through al…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSunday, July 8, 2018
The website for Knights of the Rose leads with the quote “is this the most epic rock musical?” and bold as that is, well, the answer is most definitively no.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThursday, July 5, 2018
First seen at the RSC last winter, Mike Poulton’s adaptation of Robert Harris’ Cicero novels have a suitably epic feel to them and, anchored by an excellent lead performance from Richard…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, July 4, 2018
The 2018 RADA Festival kicks off in fine style with the extraordinary physical work of New Public’s Lucid and the enchanting charm of Hot Coals’ Knock Knock.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, July 3, 2018
Imperium II: Dictator continues a compelling look at (Roman) politics at the Gielgud Theatre but I do feel obliged to point out just how male-heavy the piece skews.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, July 2, 2018
Paying tribute to the NHS in its 70th year, the specially-commissioned monologues of The Greatest Wealth made for a great night at the Old Vic.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM 
