Thursday, 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 11:00AMI saw, and rather liked, the musical of Finding Neverland when it premiered in Leicester back in 2012 but given the extreme redevelopment it underwent thanks to Harvey Weinstein's involveme…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMWednesday, August 16, 2017
Hitting the West End just before I moved to London and well before I started blogging, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Woman In White has the ignominy of being one of his less successful shows.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMTuesday, August 15, 2017
The chance to see see the Peter Quilter play Glorious! with the marvellous Stella Gonet in the lead was one I gladly took. It also meant my first trip to the Frinton Summer Theatre out by th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMTelling the contrasting but complementary stories of two young women who have gone missing - one from t'north, one from the capital - Abigail Hood's Dangling is a brutal, at times harrowing …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThe show has slimmed down its personnel from four to two, Helena Blackman and Daniel Boys taking up the singing duties, with third generation songwriter Robert J Sherman stepping in once aga…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMMonday, August 14, 2017
I'm not one to blow my trumpet too much, honestly, but it was nice to discover that my blog has been named one of Feedspot's Top 50 Drama Blogs and Websites.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSaturday, August 12, 2017
As somebody who grew up on the outskirts of a depressed Lancashire town in the 1980s, I wasn't quite sure what to expect from the Royal Court's revival of Jim Cartwright's seminal debut play…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThursday, August 10, 2017
Cradeaux Alexander's Funeral Meats is a more oblique piece than Coming Clean, set in the aftermath of a funeral where the remnants of the wake come together and clash.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMIt is rare that I feel so completely out of kilter with the general reception for a show to the extent that I did with Groundhog Day.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMIn terms of recent gay history, Coming Clean is instantly dated as a pre-AIDS play but its emotional world is one that still resonates strongly.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, August 9, 2017
"It's not just about the soundIt's about the eventA radical change in the state of things"Though the quote above is taken from the play boom, it could also be about the epithet 'fag' which i…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, August 8, 2017
"I should warn you that nobody likes me"Truth be told, I resisted seeing Ink for the longest time, mainly because I had zero desire to see a play about Rupert Murdoch. I feel the same way ab…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:30PMMonday, August 7, 2017
Not every performer is able to ascend these heady heights, but it gives me enormous pleasure to report that Josefina Gabrielle delivers one of those utterly transcendent moments with a nigh-…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, August 3, 2017
"What's new, Buenos Aires?"As the 'new' is ushered out of the Phoenix, set to tour the UK from next summer, there's a return to the tried and tested, the old if you will, as Evita returns to…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMAfter premiering at the Curve Theatre in 2015, Pippa Cleary and Jake Brunger's musical adaptation of Sue Townsend's tale of Leicester's most famous teenager has undergone its own version of …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, August 2, 2017
You go away for a week, hoping they'll put any exciting news on hold but no, there were headlines aplenty...
Michelle Terry being revealed as Emma Rice's successor as Artistic Director of t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, August 1, 2017
Set at the turn of the previous century in the unforgiving rural landscape of Cumbria, The Hired Man himself is the hard-working John Tallentire, a man who will turn to any aspect of working…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, July 28, 2017
It's a busy play, packed full of sorrow and soul, rueful realism and tentative hope, and is blessed by a crack cast filled with the likes of Ciarán Hinds, Shirley Henderson, Ron Cook, Debbi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMThere's certainly the attempt to raise the temperature - Andrews has his leads Jack O'Connell and Sienna Miller in various states of undress for large swathes of the play - but for all the s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, July 25, 2017
Though my life has long been filled with musicals, Fiddler on the Roof has never been the one. I've only ever seen it the once (2013's touring version) and though I quite enjoyed it then, I …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThe House They Grew Up In is a difficult play to watch though, a drama focused on reclusive siblings Daniel and Peppy whose hermit-like existence in their South-East London home sees them su…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMCompleted shortly before his death in 2014, Kevin Elyot’s Twilight Song now belatedly receives its premiere courtesy of the Park Theatre. The play doesn’t emerge as one of his strongest …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, July 20, 2017
I want to be able to resist anything to do with Alan Ayckbourn but the cast and creatives for Chichester's production of The Norman Conquests is making it very hard indeed. Wunderkind direct…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, July 19, 2017
I only booked for Dessert at the Southwark Playhouse because of the extraordinary Alexandra Gilbreath, one of our finest - and somewhat unheralded - actors.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, July 18, 2017
It feels important to recognise what the NT (and the Old Vic) were trying to achieve, though. Queer Theatre looked "at how theatre has charted the LGBT+ experience through a series of rehear…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSasha Regan's high-spirited, fun-loving production has a wonderfully playful energy about it, and the cast are clearly having a whale of a time, but it isn't too hard to see why the show has…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, July 17, 2017
Mae West wrote The Drag in 1927 where its frankness about gay lives (and once again, drag ball culture!) scandalised its out-of-town Connecticut and New Jersey audiences so that it never mad…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:30AMHarrowing is barely the word to describe this dramatisation of the way in which the Nazis persecuted gay men in Germany before and during World War II.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:15AMFollowing the lives of four gay couples and told predominantly in duologues, it had the slight sense of yet another version of La Ronde as established pairings disintegrate and new ones refo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMcCraney is now an Oscar-winning writer after the phenomenal success of Moonlight (based on one of his unproduced plays) and RuPaul has dragged drag into the mainstream
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