Monday, 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 05:00AMFriday, June 29, 2018
As Wicked powers towards its 13th year on the West End, Alice Fearn’s Elphaba ensures visitors to the Apollo Victoria won’t be disappointed.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, June 28, 2018
It’s fitting that Fun Home should open in Pride month, not least because it is an all-too-rare show that focuses on the L in LGBT+. But as stirring and gratifying and significant as it is …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:06AMSophie Treadwell’s 1928 play Machinal may be the story of one woman battling societal pressure but Natalie Abrahami’s production for the Almeida Theatre teases out a more elemental strug…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, June 27, 2018
Under the glossy veneer of amazing choreography, the fulsome sound of Opera North’s orchestra and some spectacular performances, its gender politics are simply presented as they are. And p…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMMonday, June 25, 2018
Key to Sea Wall’s effectiveness is Andrew Scott’s ability to connect so entirely with his audience. Laughing and joking, we’re totally with him in the anecdotes of his ideal life.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSunday, June 24, 2018
Written by Nadim Naaman and Dana Al Fardan, the concept album of new musical Broken Wings marks an ambitious debut and an impressive arrival.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSaturday, June 23, 2018
How many productions does it take for a playwright to have a moment? We could be on the cusp of a William Wycherley wave, with the second production of The Country Wife to arrive this year (…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, June 22, 2018
The US composer and lyricist John Bucchino is the man of the moment here, but it is tempting to consider director Tania Azevedo the real star, leading a superb company of cast and creatives …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, June 21, 2018
Based on the novel by Muriel Sparks, David Harrower’s new stage adaptation of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie not only marks the 100th anniversary year of Spark’s birth but provides a scor…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, June 19, 2018
On the one hand, it is really great to see a gay rom-com being unashamedly romantic and comedic in such an inclusive manner. On the other, I couldn’t help but wish that Sam Ward’s produc…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, June 18, 2018
The idea of Kiss Chase is an intriguing one, as it promises “a part-interactive, part-verbatim speed dating event” in the confines of the Bunker Theatre, with the bar staying open throug…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMSaturday, June 16, 2018
In the world of Cockamamy, a Lustrum Award-winning play, Louise Coulthard uses her own experiences to depict the experience of how dementia can affect a household.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWednesday, June 13, 2018
I Am Of Ireland is a challenging play to be sure, and one which rightfully provides no easy answers, but it is an intelligent and uncompromising interrogation of a nation’s past that Engli…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, June 12, 2018
Killer Joe is a horribly misjudged revival at Trafalgar Studios that makes a mockery of #MeToo, you and all of us.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, June 11, 2018
An elegant and occasionally startling adaptation, Julie at the National Theatre is anchored by mesmerising performances from Vanessa Kirby and Thalissa Teixeira.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, June 5, 2018
I do love me a bit of Anita Dobson so I was pleased to see her name appear in the cast for 3Women, the new play by Katy Brand playing at the Trafalgar Studios 2. An intergenerational take on…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, June 4, 2018
I turn my attention to the latest set of Broadway cast recordings with Frozen, Prince of Broadway and Mean Girls.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, May 31, 2018
A trio of West End cast recordings (well, one’s off-West-End…) show that it is sometimes hard to recapture the stage magic.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMWednesday, May 30, 2018
The notion of updating Into the Woods to a specifically 21st-century context is an intriguing one, as director Tim McArthur draws in influences such as The Only Way is Essex, Made in Chelsea…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThe Rink is one of those musicals that history hasn’t treated too kindly, despite a premiere that starred Chita Rivera and Liza Minnelli but with Adam Lenson’s expert hand at the tiller,…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, May 29, 2018
Who do you instinctively believe – the accuser or the accused? Tim Cook’s Adam & Eve does an intriguing job of subverting how we think such a drama might play out.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSaturday, May 19, 2018
Of all of Sasha Regan’s all-male Gilbert and Sullivan productions, Iolanthe is the one which I remember most fondly so the news that it was the choice for this year’s revival for a UK to…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, May 17, 2018
A strong opening gambit then from Michelle Terry with As You Like It and Hamlet, and one which makes me quietly excited for her tenure as she further explores how inclusive Shakespeare can b…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:47PMThe world of Nightfall is small and intimate but the Bridge is neither of those things and the intricacies of Norris’ writing becomes lost like the wafting smell of interval madeleines.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, May 16, 2018
A brilliantly inventive, inclusive and entertaining take on A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a great success at the Watermill Theatre. Newbury.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMAs Kensington Palace gears up for one royal wedding, Iris Theatre is jumping down the aisle first with its musical take on stately nuptials, H.R. Haitch, now playing at the Union Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, May 15, 2018
Casting my eye over some recent musical theatre album releases: Audra McDonald’s live album Sing Happy, Louise Dearman’s latest collection For You, For Me and the long-awaited cast recor…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, May 13, 2018
Izzy Tennyson’s Grotty at the Bunker Theatre is a brutally frank depiction of an element of LGBT life not much explored on London’s stages.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSaturday, May 12, 2018
This year’s Wandsworth Arts Fringe has now opened and on a scorching hot day, I took the opportunity to dive into the cooling Arches under St Mary’s Church to see Word of Mouth and Rache…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, May 11, 2018
The first half of Michael Head’s Worth A Flutter is full of the kind of broad, sitcom-like humour of which I’m no real fan. But after the interval, a more thoughtful strand to his writin…
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