Friday, December 29, 2017
Anne Washburn (she of the extraordinary Mr Burns) has fashioned this play out of eight of the stories told by The Twilight Zone and presents them as if shuffling a pack of cards.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThursday, December 28, 2017
Emma Rice scores one of her biggest hits on Bankside with a musical that couldn't be more Emma Rice if it tried. As it is, it fits perfectly into the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, shaking up the …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, December 27, 2017
The album is nearly completely stymied by its song selection, misguidedly mishmashing its genres so that we're taken from traditional carols to easy listening to the Fleet Foxes to original …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSaturday, December 23, 2017
Between hosting The Chase, appearing in his regular Peter Pan panto and preparing to become one of the 13th Doctor's new companion, it's a wonder he's managed to find time to record a new al…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, December 22, 2017
There's superlative work from Gyre & Gimble's puppetry, Loren O'Dair and James Alexander-Taylor's work with the wolf is exceptional, and the whole show is just as satisfying and challen…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, December 21, 2017
Change doesn't just happen, it has to be ushered in by visionaries determined to shake up the status quo to allow the rest of us to shuffle in in their wake.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:15PMMatthew Parker is best known as the Artistic Director of the Hope Theatre but this production of 1920s Aldwych farce Thark sees him go west, to the Drayton Arms pub theatre, a lovely fringe …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, December 20, 2017
Already a tale of stirring adventure, the joy of Russ Tunney's adaptation for the stage is that it revels in its theatricality, taking a much different but no less effective route.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, December 19, 2017
No matter the weather, as you walk into the Lyttelton's auditorium for Pinocchio, you’ll find that it is snowing. A simple trick but one that inspires just the right childlike wonder for a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, December 18, 2017
No opportunity to parody Disney's Beauty & The Beast is passed up, from the wealth of French influences (the Camembert Art Fair; the under-rated star of the show - Bicyclette!) to James…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSaturday, December 16, 2017
"Buck up kiddies"Theatres that aren't putting on pantomimes face something of a dilemma - what do you do to ensure you capture audience attention in this most lucrative of seasons? Some thea…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, December 14, 2017
A sadness that is at first unspoken, then as the letters they read take a poignant turn - revealing a year's worth of bad news in some cases - their melancholy bleeding out to force them to …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMTuesday, December 12, 2017
Michael Buffong's reinterpretation of Guys and Dolls, a co-production between the Royal Exchange and Talawa Theatre, is just that, a bold re-envisioning of the classic musical that consequen…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMMonday, December 11, 2017
This musical version of Louisa May Alcott’s much-loved novel is a wonderful piece of adaptation. Streamlining plot whilst simultaneously enriching character, it translates the travails of …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMThere's a wonderfully rough magic to Justin Audibert's production of The Box of Delights that makes it the perfect choice for Wilton's Music Hall's festive show.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMAs many of us lurch from swapping random Secret Santa gifts at office parties to necking eggnog at pantos (just me?!) in preparation for the culinary bliss that is my dad's Christmas dinner,…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, December 10, 2017
Can I recommend Goats, even with live goats appearing onstage with the cast? Not by the hairs on my chinny chin chin. There's definitely something interesting at the nub of Liwaa Yazji's pla…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThe race to declare the most exciting show for 2018 has well and truly been declared by Complicite with Grief is the Thing with Feathers, a new production based on the award-winning novel by…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, December 9, 2017
I could try and describe a plot that included strict fathers, thought-dead mothers, butterfly collecting, mannequin construction, and cat murder but it's impossible to convey how sublimely s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, December 8, 2017
La Soirée is a scrumptious smörgåsbord of entertainment, an ever-changing line-up of acrobats and daredevils and comedians and burlesque acts and so on and so forth, who ask you to put yo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThursday, December 7, 2017
A piece of magic-infused escapism that shifts tonally between whimsical frivolity and real psychological acuity, tear-jerking drama and comic romps, and as such, can feel hard to pin down.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AMWednesday, December 6, 2017
Marisha Wallace's Soul Holiday is a delightfully warm and happy collection, destined to put smiles on faces this Christmas.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSaturday, December 2, 2017
Unmissable director Jude Christian is helped here by a magnificently fearless piece of writing from James Fritz, split almost schizophrenically into two contrasting parts.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, December 1, 2017
That it is sold out shouldn't stop you from trying to get tickets - there's Friday Rush and there's refreshing this page in case of returns, and boy is it worth it.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThursday, November 30, 2017
Sarah Redmond's production for the Brockley Jack thankfully forgoes any gimmickry with a relatively straightforward interpretation, and if the result is comforting rather than pulse-quickeni…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, November 29, 2017
Revelling in the club-like intimacy of this theatre, Simon Green as Captain Terri Dennis nails the flirtatious nature and fierce integrity of a performer, of a man, seizing his hard-fought o…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, November 23, 2017
Written by Dan Gillespie Sells and Tom MacRae and adapted from a BBC documentary, Jamie casts off the archetypal coming out and gay bashing stories (though not completely ignoring them) in f…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMHow far can immersive theatre push you? How far should immersive theatre push you? The disclaimer for Les Enfants Terribles’ Inside Pussy Riot warns us it is "not for the faint hearted, co…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, November 21, 2017
At the heart of it, Iain Hollingshead and Timothy Muller's new musical has an interesting conceit - exploring the history of the 20th century (at least, from 1919 to 1989) through the experi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMDirector Melly Still fills her stage with a cast of nearly 40 and Anna Fleischle's looming industrial design, whilst a 15-piece orchestra led by David Mahoney fleshes out Daf James' bold sco…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMAcross the 14 tracks of the collection, there's a variety of approaches as they tackle songs from a wide range of musicals. Each singer gets a couple of solo numbers, and they all chip in wi…
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