Friday, 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.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, September 7, 2017
And sure enough, surrendering to the thrill of Ruthie Henshall and Ute Lemper here was a genuine pleasure and a great way to revisit Kander & Ebb’s score.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMWednesday, September 6, 2017
Using the original book with just a smattering of small changes, this is musical theatre close to its most luxurious, and a bittersweetly life-affirming thrill to watch.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30PMThe story follows the pursuit of fame, money and love and how the three intersect in the intertwined stories of Trinity, Marcus and Lorna. But where the show has maintained a fairly positive…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMTuesday, September 5, 2017
Volume 2 of Ben Forster’s Acoustic Covers followed a year after the first, responding to its success and Forster’s rising profile. And in tribute to his fanbase, he crowdsourced suggesti…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMEric Bogosian’s play Talk Radio may date from 1987, but in its dissection of shock jocks and their role in manipulating media and fomenting the rise of the kind of right-wing ideology, it …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, September 4, 2017
Winner of ITV’s Superstar and now well-established West End leading man, current Phantom Ben Forster has released two solo albums of acoustic covers called, well, Acoustic Covers.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMDirector Joseph Hodges and casting director Harry Blumenau have really done the business in selecting a terrific trio to lead their show.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSunday, September 3, 2017
Drip by drip, the National is teasing us with the cast reveals for Network. Latest to be announced is Douglas Henshall who is to play Max Schumacher in this world-premiere of Lee Hall’s ne…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMCabaret is a show which has had many a revival and many a cast recording made from those productions but it is Rufus Norris' 2006 interpretation that seems to have lingered the longest; a ne…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMSaturday, September 2, 2017
Supported by the superb musicianship of Will Van Dyke and The Whiskey 5, Ashford is an effortlessly delightful performer, whether ripping through the vocal splendour of Dreamgirls' 'One Nigh…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMMusic, soft as easy listening. That's the somewhat surprising turn of events on Marin Mazzie's album Make Your Own Kind of Music, recorded live at her cabaret show at 54 Below.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, August 31, 2017
The rivalry between beauty moguls Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden has proven a rich one for theatrical exploitation, impressively so given that the pair never actually met.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMHere's a round-up of interesting titbits on upcoming productions Son of a Preacher Man and Jane Eyre, plus a new release from West End diva Madalena Alberto.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMWednesday, August 30, 2017
My heart jumped for joy when the Union Theatre announced their revival of Salad Days as the Julian Slade and Dorothy Reynolds classic is probably one of my favourite musicals (and following …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMTuesday, August 29, 2017
It is tempting to think that this revival of Alexi Kaye Campbell's 2009 play Apologia was mooted simply so that the above line could get the laughs it richly deserves for its prescience. As …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFrom the atmospheric parade of its opening to the desperate brutality with which it ends, Ricky Dukes' production immerses its audience in a world of toxic masculinity and political power-pl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMI'm not much of a fan of farce (my fault I fear...) and only really booked for two reasons. 1 - it's on the list. And 2 - Sinéad Matthews, future queen of all our hearts.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, August 26, 2017
Picking at the scab of the Brexit vote and the ongoing refugee crisis, Muthy reveals the kind of festering wound that is shocking to see, even as it has infected so many levels of our societ…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, August 24, 2017
I may be the wrong target audience for Anastasia, currently doing decent business on Broadway, being 18 when the film came out and never having made the effort to see it since.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, August 23, 2017
It's no secret that director Yaël Farber creates the most immersive of worlds in her theatre but it is still a sensory thrill to allow yourself to submerge entirely into it.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, August 22, 2017
"I'll be an inspirationA musical sensation"The cast recording for USHERS: The Front Of House Musical was released in advance of its 2014 run at the Charing Cross Theatre but ever the trail-b…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, August 21, 2017
Reviewing in list form: for and against Christopher Shinn's new play AGAINST, starring Ben Whishaw and Amanda Hale, at the Almeida Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMA 1990s musical of an 80s film - nostalgia has a lot to answer for but it was to Maltby Jr and Shires' 1996 adaptation of the Tom Hanks-starring film that producers turned for their big Chri…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMAs fizzy as a sherbet dip, as baffling as the rules of cricket, as delightful as the finest afternoon tea, Julian Slade and Dorothy Reynolds' Salad Days is quite possibly the best classic Br…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, August 19, 2017
Blue Stockings is set at the turn of the last century in the hallowed grounds of the University of Cambridge, Girton College to be precise, the first to admit women.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, August 18, 2017
On The Town is an undoubtedly frivolous show, a plot as light as gossamer, but seeing it recently at the Open Air Theatre reminded me just how tuneful a musical it is.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMWith the National's highly anticipated production of Follies about to start previews, I thought I'd listen to about a hundred different versions of perhaps its most famous song - Losing My M…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThursday, August 17, 2017
As A Spoonful of Sherman, a tribute to three generations of Sherman family music, including childhood classics by the Sherman Brothers, continues Live at Zedel until 20 August 2017, Ian Fost…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:30AMAs A Spoonful of Sherman, a tribute to three generations of Sherman family music, including childhood classics by the Sherman Brothers, continues Live at Zedel until 20 August 2017, Ian Fost…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:15AMAs A Spoonful of Sherman, a tribute to three generations of Sherman family music, including childhood classics by the Sherman Brothers, continues Live at Zedel until 20 August 2017, Ian Fost…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM 
