Sunday, 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 01:00PMThursday, October 5, 2017
Seeing the plays from different perspectives felt appropriate as that is the nature of Ayckbourn's trilogy written in 1973. Three times we visit the same group of six characters over the sam…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, October 4, 2017
Toneelgroep Amsterdam have made the Barbican their base pretty much every time they've visited London, so it was little surprise that is where their 2017 residency was announced. We say resi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMTuesday, October 3, 2017
As I wrote when the full cast was first announced, "the world is hardly crying for more productions of King Lear, but if you're going to put it on, you might as well go balls out on some ama…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, October 2, 2017
It's a bold move to put a character as flawed as Madeline front and centre in your debut play; still more to not give her the kind of redemption arc that conventional wisdom suggests we crav…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMRia Jones’ extraordinary history with Sunset Boulevard might well be entitled The Norma Conquests... And, 26 years on, was it worth the wait?
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, October 1, 2017
What would you do for six million dollars? That's the question underlying Lynn Ahrens (book and lyrics) and Stephen Flaherty's (music) 1988 musical farce Lucky Stiff.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMRecorded just after he completed his 2014/5 return to Cabaret at Studio 54, Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs - Live at the Cafe Carlyle is one of the best cabaret records I've had the pleasure…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMGiven how she's doing such amazing work in Follies at the minute, it's kinda gobsmacking to discover that Janie Dee has not one but two cabaret shows lined up for the beginning of October. R…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, September 29, 2017
Chances are that Arrows & Traps' version of Frankenstein will disarm you and make you consider it anew as it introduces a new, crucial character into the narrative - Mary Shelley hersel…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, September 27, 2017
I always find it fascinating to watch how the critical community deals with a play that becomes a big success. The overnight rush to acclaim genius, the enthusiasm with which some greet it, …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWhat I found particularly pleasing was that The Band actually proves an engaging and entertaining piece of theatre, one that has clearly thought about the jukebox form and how it might be pl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, September 26, 2017
Ostensibly, these are concert presentations of musicals but the joy in what you actually get, the bonuses that get incorporated into the creation of genuine one-off experiences makes LMTO on…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMI saw an earlier incarnation of The Revlon Girl a couple of years ago and I was deeply impressed then and deeply moved. But now, in these post-Grenfell times, its relevance stings.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSunday, September 24, 2017
This is modern musical theatre, probing into rock and folk as much as showtunes and pizzazz, and as with any collection so mixed, there are going to be some songs which work much better for …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSaturday, September 23, 2017
West End leading lady Madalena Alberto will perform in the new concert series Pizza Express Live! in Holborn on Sunday 3rd December 2017, 8pm.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, September 21, 2017
What surprises most about the play is the way in which it manages to combine its smart study of the fluidity of sexual identities with a classic comedy model, and pull both off successfully.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, September 20, 2017
Jukebox musicals are fine in their place, movie adaptations likewise are ever increasingly the norm, but they need love and inspiration to elevate them.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThe world of artificial intelligence may feel like the realm of sci-fi but in reality is closer than we think, the next frontier in the progression of scientific knowledge. And Ian Dixon Pot…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSunday, September 17, 2017
The floorboards in Sidney Bruhl's isolated barn conversion may squeak underfoot, but there's nothing creaky about Adam Penford's smart revival of Ira Levin's 1978 play Deathtrap.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMFriday, September 15, 2017
Ferociously strict principal Sister Aloysius is convinced that there is inappropriateness occurring between parish priest Father Flynn and the school's first black pupil, but her views are c…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMAusterity bites. And it seems like it often bites hardest on the arts, government thinking considering them a luxury rather than a necessity as libraries and those relying on arts funding ha…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, September 13, 2017
Tony Cox's play Mrs Orwell did sufficiently good business in its run at the Old Red Lion last month that it has quickly transferred south of the river, to the Southwark Playhouse for an addi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMlove a good actor-musician production but here, the integration of musicianship and drama just hasn't been thought-through, even down to instruments getting in the way of scenes - it feels a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, September 12, 2017
Shona White is a rather under-rated (for my money at least) Scottish actress and singer perhaps most famous for stints in Mamma Mia which were 12 years apart, but whose musical theatre credi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, September 11, 2017
True story, until last week I thought Bombay Dreams was written by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Not having seen it onstage nor listened to it before, all I knew was the Lord's name was attached to i…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThe announcement of the new cast for Broadway's hugely lauded Hello, Dolly! has been a most strange affair - names trickling out one by one, rather than one big splash.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMAlex Gwyther's Eyes Closed, Ears Covered is beautifully put together in the way that it reveals just what that is - exploring the intersection of past trauma on present behaviour, questionin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, September 10, 2017
The Coney Island setting undercuts any attempt to get close to the gothic horror of the opera house, the 'freak show' elements are desperately tame there. The swerves into rock are ill-advis…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSaturday, September 9, 2017
Noel Sullivan will forever be a member of Hear’say first and foremost to me, the product of one of first of this generation of Saturday night music talent show - Popstars – but since the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMFriday, September 8, 2017
This mahoosive new tour of Hairspray started in the middle of last month and stretches right through to June 2018 and it certainly feels like it has the potential to be a great success.
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