Friday, 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…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, May 10, 2018
With just a couple of weeks left to catch The Ferryman in the West End and the chance to see Rosalie Craig in a non-musical role for once, the offer to return to the Gielgud was one I couldn…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, May 9, 2018
Quiz is a thought-provoking piece of theatre that will really make you question what you perceive to be the truth.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMMonday, May 7, 2018
Directed by Douglas Rintoul for Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch, this production of Priscilla Queen of the Desert marks the show’s regional professional premiere.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, May 6, 2018
A treat here in the premiere of Mike Bartlett’s first-ever play, never seen before in a theatre. But something of a qualified treat, because 2005’s Not Talking was written as a radio pla…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSaturday, May 5, 2018
There’s little sense of an over-arching plot in Absolute Hell which may turn some off but Hill-Gibbins proves that it isn’t needed, the connective tissue that holds them together is the …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, May 1, 2018
It’s taken over 30 years for Chess to return to the West End (though it was seen at the Union in 2013) and though it has a huge amount of resource thrown at it in Laurence Connor’s produ…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:31PMSunday, April 29, 2018
Humourous and heartfelt, Sunshine on Leith is utterly joyous. It is everything I want from my musical theatre and I couldn’t recommend it more.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, April 26, 2018
In The Grass Is Always Grindr web series writer Patrick Cash and director Luke Davies delve deep into Grindr and question what the hook-up app is doing to the community and the ways in which…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWednesday, April 25, 2018
Based on Helen Tse’s memoir Sweet Mandarin, In-Sook Chappell’s Mountains – The Dreams of Lily Kwok probes into the family history of the three generations of women behind the famous Ma…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, April 24, 2018
What it is is a strong piece of musical theatre. Drew McOnie may be the director but he’s a choreographer through and through and it is here that Strictly Ballroom shines.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:45PMMonday, April 23, 2018
Newly installed at the Dominion Theatre, after runs in Manchester, Toronto and at the Coliseum last year, Bat Out of Hell has lost little of the bizarre, baffling energy that saw it find a v…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, April 22, 2018
Circus Abyssinia: Ethiopian Dreams traces a true-life story of two Ethiopian brothers who were also responsible for founding the first circus in their country.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSaturday, April 21, 2018
An Officer and a Gentleman, beginning its national tour at Curve Leicester, is a show that is unashamedly feel-good, even through its darker moments, and just waiting to sweep you off your f…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, April 20, 2018
John Barrowman’s force of personality means the anecdotes flow out of him with barely any prompting from the wonderfully acerbic Seth Rudetsky, but with such a storied career he’s certai…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMWednesday, April 18, 2018
The result in Instructions for Correct Assembly at the Royal Court may be that we’re not as moved as we feel we ought to be, though there’s much dark wit here. Maybe we’re the problem.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWith the almighty back catalogue of Tina Turner to call on, there’s a thrilling sense of energy in Tina the Musical which is perfectly encapsulated in the star-making performance of a fric…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMSaturday, April 14, 2018
Opening this year’s CircusFest, Pirates of the Carabina’s Relentless Unstoppable Human Machine offers gentle delights at the Roundhouse.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, April 13, 2018
Fresh from winning awards, racking up her third novel, vlogging regularly and quite possibly plotting world domination, Carrie Hope Fletcher has now released her debut album When The Curtain…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, April 12, 2018
Brutal and bleak, Kenneth Emson’s Plastic is uncompromising about how desperate life can get for those feeling left behind.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWednesday, April 11, 2018
Sex and love in the modern age gets a little confusing, for everyone. In Love Me Now at the Tristan Bates Theatre it can be anything you want it to be.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMMonday, April 9, 2018
It has been a little while since our escape-the-room group has actually tried to escape a room, rather than just meeting to drink gin-based cocktails, but a special offer in Time Out led us …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSunday, April 8, 2018
Absolutely no disrespect to Terence Wilton and James Byng who currently tell this ghost story so well, it just feels like the time is now is now to expand The Woman in Black’s horizon.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, April 7, 2018
Brief Encounter is a love letter to both film and theatre in which Rice combines elements of David Lean’s 1946 film with the 1936 Noël Coward play Still Life that it was based on, and the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThursday, April 5, 2018
Fancy three and a half hours of Ingmar Bergman? At least the Old Vic’s seats are comfortable for Fanny and Alexander with a marvellous Penelope Wilton.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, April 3, 2018
Chelsea Walker helms a blistering update of A Streetcar Named Desire for English Touring Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSo not necessarily my cup of tea but in the fervour All Or Noting inspired in the majority of the audience, one can see why this show’s journey has been going for a good couple of years no…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, April 2, 2018
Ruthless? Charging up to over £70 for a show at the Arts. Ruthless? Advertising yourselves as an all-female musical when you’ve a man in the cast. Ruthless? Putting said man above the tit…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, March 31, 2018
As Women’s History Month draws to a close, the folks at the Old Red Lion have put on a double-bill featuring up-and-coming female theatre-makers – Tik-sho-ret Theatre Company’s Under T…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMIs it London if there’s isn’t at least a couple of Philip Ridley plays in the offing?! Hot on the heels of Angry in Southwark and with Vincent River now on at the Park, Lidless Theatre i…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, March 30, 2018
The Inheritance is a brave and epic piece of new writing from Matthew Lopez, taking a scalpel to contemporary gay life in New York, asking what does it mean to be a gay man today and just ho…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM 
