Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Across 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…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, November 17, 2017
Our protagonist is Liam, a 15-year-old from South Shields who has moved to Hull cos his mum is seeing a guy named Barry who lives there. Making fast friends with Caz, the 'other queer studen…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMTuesday, November 14, 2017
A satire that managed to predict just how powerful a tool populist anger can be when leveraged effectively, it is transformed into the immersive bustle of a TV studio, that of UBS Evening Ne…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMOn a night when the big West End opening of the evening is an absolute testosterone-fest, it is rather gratifying to see people actually doing something about it, to try and start to redress…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:00AMMonday, November 13, 2017
Obviously, the choice to stage David Mamet's ode to toxic masculinity Glengarry Glen Ross was made long before the hashtag #MeToo shattered the blinkers of anyone unaware of what men have be…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSaturday, November 11, 2017
I may not be a Deaf Critic but I am a critic who is partially deaf, a state of affairs positions me rather uniquely when it comes to appreciating Deafinitely Theatre's latest production - a …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMWednesday, November 8, 2017
I have to hold up my hands and say I was pleasantly surprised by more than a few of the songs here. The first two-thirds of 'The Rose' are genuinely spine-tinglingly lovely and even when the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMMonday, November 6, 2017
There are returns to the material that has justly made her reputation. Her impassioned take on Cilla Black's swinging 'Anyone Who Had a Heart' remains an absolute joy and a full-throated ren…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, November 5, 2017
Enough of stories about men getting women half their age, it is time to redress the balance. Stronger roles for older women, a reappraisal of the sexual dynamic that dominates the cultural d…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSaturday, November 4, 2017
Set over a long night of the soul for the employees of a payday loans company, Kieran Lynn's play The Trap is described as "a biting new comedy". And for once, it does actually provide a fai…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMNativity remains a beautifully heart-warming story and if anything, has even more of a feelgood factor about it through all the liveness of this production.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, November 2, 2017
Miss Roach is played by the ever-marvelous Fenella Woolgar and she's partnered by Lucy Cohu, another favourite actress, and there are moments in this gently played Second World War-set story…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMnsignificance is not a play about physics and the two characters aren't just any random people. It's 1954 and though they're officially named The Actress and The Professor, we can - with rea…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, November 1, 2017
After a premiere in Birmingham last year, Sean Mathias' production of The Exorcist has resurfaced in the West End in the hope of recreating the chills and thrills of the 1973 movie, despite …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMTuesday, October 31, 2017
Glenn Berenbeim's grimly stoic book is set in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942 where a group of actors is trying to lift spirits by staging a play.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, October 28, 2017
MKEC Productions have been carving out a niche for themselves in conjuring fringe productions of lesser-known musicals and in Charles Miller and Kevin Hammonds' When Midnight Strikes, direct…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, October 27, 2017
Returning for half-term with some new cast members,
The musical's just as good as I remember.
It's heartfelt and funny and really quite moving,
A powerful message but not too reproving.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, October 26, 2017
30 years or so into a career that has seen her win two Olivier awards (so far - I'd watch out for her to be at least nominated for Follies, if not more), it seems remarkable that Janie Dee a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMSunday, October 22, 2017
Confession time - I've had this album for an unforgivably long time, mainly because I managed to forget about it, despite the fact I was meant to be reviewing it. D'oh, and sorry Mr G. And m…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, October 21, 2017
"I'll gather up my past, and make some sense at last" Unless you've caught him in tours of The Producers or Chitty Chitty Bang Bang or in occasional TV performances, you might not know that …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, October 20, 2017
In Natalie Dormer and David Oakes' hands, directed by Patrick Marber, the continual fluctuations in the relationship between actor and director, man and woman, sub and dom, are gripping thro…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWednesday, October 18, 2017
British theatre's amour fou for Florian Zeller continues apace with another of his comedies making it over to London but are we approaching diminishing returns as we delve deeper into his ba…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMEmma Rice's tenure at Shakespeare's Globe is winding to its close - the outdoor season is done but there's still a winter's worth of programming in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse to get through.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:30AMFirst things first, the foyer is extremely spacious and rather beautifully lit. So whilst there were hefty queues at the box office and the bar, there was still plenty of room to mill about,…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMSunday, October 15, 2017
Comrade Rockstar is based on the properly fascinating tale of Dean Reed, an American singer known as the Soviet Elvis after he defected to the other side of the Iron Curtain at the height of…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, October 13, 2017
The blurb for Graeme of Thrones mentions it could be seen as "an introduction for the unenlightened" but let's be frank, to expect a rapid-fire comedy show to catch you up on seven seasons o…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PM"I feel like my life's turning on the toss of a coin"There's something about the sweet spot as the embers of a house party start to die out - people lingering behind usually there for a reas…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThursday, October 12, 2017
There's something rather delicious about the winner of the Theatre503's International Playwriting Award hailing from Sunderland but a Mackem Andrew Thompson is, and what a winner In Event of…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMNothing becomes Medea (or at least this version of her) as much as her entry into the world. Into a liminal space shrouded in smoke, summoned by a clarion call from the ether, an unknowable …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, October 11, 2017
It's alive...barely. Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein staggers into the West End after some more time on the operating table since its 2007 Broadway opening. But for a piece of new musical the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSunday, October 8, 2017
Though often cited as one of the titans of new musical theatre writing, I think it is fair to say that Jason Robert Brown has never managed to nail a proper commercial hit on Broadway. Despi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PM 
