Friday, 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 06:00AMThursday, March 29, 2018
Chekhov’s Three Sisters, presented here by Arrows and Traps in a new version by Ross McGregor, continues that strong tradition, paring back the starch to locate a real emotional directness…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, March 27, 2018
The allure of Assassins, this slice of Americana, as much musical history as it is socio-political, has proven enduringly popular as it explores something of the people behind the nine recor…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, March 24, 2018
Rivera and Baker’s adaptation does focus more on the personal than the political, so this does feel very much like the story of these two men rather than a searching insight into the LGBTQ…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, March 22, 2018
Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori’s complex and challenging civil rights musical Caroline, or Change makes its long-awaited London return to the Hampstead Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMWednesday, March 21, 2018
A lively and emotional actor-musician production of The Secret Garden marks a fantastic debut for the brand new Barn Theatre in the Cotswolds.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMMonday, March 19, 2018
I really appreciated my experience at Suffragette City. The attention to detail from the designers and directors is second to none and the company miss few opportunities to gently educate an…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSunday, March 18, 2018
This Frankenstein ends up feeling a little po-faced as seriousness alone does not dramatic imperative make, especially when the material is as familiar as this.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSaturday, March 17, 2018
Upon reaching 70 this year, Andrew Lloyd Webber is clearly in a reflective mood and hot on the heels of his autobiography Unmasked released last week, comes this new compilation album Unmask…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, March 16, 2018
Scathing humour, bluff directness and an innate desire to empathise rounds all three characters out beautifully in The Last Waltz, as underwear is forgotten, grapefruit searched for, wine dr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMA nippy little thing this, Lock and Key. A new musical from writing duo Barlow & Smith, a couple of cracking musical theatre actresses in Tiffany Graves and Evelyn Hoskins, and the swea…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, March 15, 2018
This production of Brighton Rock has a striking physicality to it, utterly eyecatching but careful not to overly glamourise this noirish world.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWednesday, March 14, 2018
A stirring and compelling evening of monologues exploring women’s rights – Maxine Peake curates One Hand Tied Behind Us at the Old Vic Theatre in London.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, March 13, 2018
Who knew that fascists could rhyme? WH Auden and Christopher Isherwood tackle inter-war Europe in The Dog Beneath The Skin at the Jermyn Street Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, March 9, 2018
A whole lot of post-apocalyptic hurly-burly and sadly not much more besides – the National Theatre’s Macbeth really is something of a red-trousered disappointment.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThursday, March 8, 2018
In Philipp Oberlohr’s gentle hands, teasing out moments of blissful happiness or tearjerking sincerity, the show becomes a call to action in living your best self, in being unafraid to try…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMWednesday, March 7, 2018
The enduring presence of the gods in this modern reading of Electra is a circle that is never squared, the potential intrigue of its revolutionary politics are hampered by the reliance on a …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, March 6, 2018
The Best Man says nothing directly about today’s White House or the most recent struggle to occupy it – obliquely though, there’s insight aplenty.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMMonday, March 5, 2018
Curtains has a play-of-the-day feel to it as it seeks to deal with its big issue – euthanasia – and, in some ways, achieves a measure of success.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, March 4, 2018
Katie Caden’s Conquest at The Vaults asks questions of how pro-active feminists need to be in contemporary society.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, March 2, 2018
Given that Milly Thomas’ one-woman show Dust at the Soho Theatre is centred on a young person’s suicide, there’s a surprising amount of humour contained therein.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, March 1, 2018
Improvised murder mystery show Murder She Didn’t Write brightens up the last Sunday of the month at the Leicester Square Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, February 28, 2018
What could merely be dismissed as make-believe in The Winter’s Tale gains real significance in what it can achieve for social cohesion, planting seeds in the minds of future theatremakers.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMTuesday, February 27, 2018
Structurally playful (the way captions are introduced for each chapter is ingenious) but thematically consistent (the world is going to shit, no really THE WORLD IS GOING TO SHIT), there’s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMMonday, February 26, 2018
In its exploration of artistic compromise and the perils of pursuing both sexual and political freedom, Foul Pages makes for strange eventful history.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, February 25, 2018
In its emotional forthrightness and playful theatricality, this touring production of Great Expectations is one to watch out for.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, February 22, 2018
As time ticks away in Rope at the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch, the tightly wound coils of this expertly constructed thriller remain as poised as ever.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWith Monica Dolan in scintillating form with her effortless naturalism, The B*easts at the Bush Theatre proves an intelligently provocative play.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, February 21, 2018
A big selling point of Philip Ridley’s Angry, a set of six monologues, is that they’ve been written to be gender-neutral and depending on the night you go, they’ll be performed by a ma…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMTuesday, February 20, 2018
In the claustrophobic atmosphere of Chloe Lamford’s design, Vicky Featherstone’s production of Gundog provides too little variation of tone, especially as Simon Longman’s storytelling …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, February 17, 2018
The publicity for Abi Zakarian’s I Have A Mouth and I Will Scream at The Vaults puts it better than I ever could – it’s “a play-performance-art-protest-thing”.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AM 
