Monday, June 12, 2017
As canny a plan as it is, splitting rent and bills, its realities soon make themselves painfully apparent. They're basically all 30-somethings who are too old to be doing this, especially Me…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMI've been looking forward to Jeff James' reinterpretation of Jane Austen's Persuasion ever since it was announced, James having worked with Ivo van Hove as an associate director and the evid…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, June 11, 2017
The cast of Vivenne Franzmann's Bodies has been announced and as it is being directed by the marvellous Jude Christian, it will definitely be one not to miss. The company includes Lorna Brow…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, June 10, 2017
Former Noah and the Whale front-man and songwriter Charlie Fink is no stranger to the Old Vic, having composed the rather lovely score for The Lorax, but his return takes a rather unconventi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, June 9, 2017
The hugely convivial pre-show entertainment for Barber Shop Chronicles is such good fun that I thought to myself I could easily just watch this for an hour. As it turned out, press night del…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, June 8, 2017
Over the past few years where he may or may not have been studying sculpture at Saint Martin's College, Northampton-born playwright DC Moore has been putting together a résumé of quietly i…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, June 7, 2017
There's something special in the timelessness of some pieces of theatre, their themes and arguments as relevant to audiences today as they were when they were written years, decades, even ce…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, June 6, 2017
You wouldn't have put money on Richmond's Orange Tree Theatre becoming the destination for some of London's more radical theatre leanings but with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' An Octoroon, it has…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWith a singing style that is as strong as Theresa May's record on supporting the police and an accent that is as stable as the content of her manifesto, it's a bold move to make Miranda Hart…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, June 4, 2017
In Bechdel Testing Life, Bechdel Theatre presents four short plays by Isley Lynn, Rabiah Hussain, Guleraana Mir, and Lizzie Milton. Each play is inspired by a real-life conversation between …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, June 2, 2017
The four-hander is a deceptively simple show - a quartet of 20-something New Yorkers are spiritually lost, swept up in what should be the romance of the city but finding that adulting isn't …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, June 1, 2017
So having not gotten round to seeing The Girls for whatever reason (mainly that I didn't want to), I finally bit the bullet last week and within 24 hours, the show posted closing notices for…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWednesday, May 31, 2017
I'm not saying I want Barney Norris to write an all-out farce but it would be fun to see him stretch his considerable literary talent beyond these tales of gentle melancholy that he does so …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMBudding (and broke) photographer James and his relationship dramas lie at the heart of George Johnston's new play Snapshot. His barely-out banker boyfriend Daniel pays the lion's share of th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, May 30, 2017
In his first season as artistic director of Theatre N16, Scott Ellis presents a slew of new writing.
Olympilads by Andrew Maddock, produced by Lonesome Schoolboy and directed by Niall Phill…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSunday, May 28, 2017
Robert Hastie's opening salvo as the new Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres might not immediately quicken the pulse as we've hardly been lacking for productions of Julius Caesar. But it…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFred Haig must have thought that this was his year after landing starring roles in two of the big musicals of the summer but during Monday evening’s performance, he sustained an injury to …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, May 26, 2017
Hollywood and Broadway icon Stockard Channing will return to the London stage this summer, to star in a new production of Olivier Award winner Alexi Kaye Campbell’s acclaimed drama Apologi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, May 25, 2017
Frankie Bradshaw's design for Assata Taught Me at the Gate Theatre is nothing short of wondrous, with its turquoise walls patched with corrugated iron, faded tiles on the floor. Along with J…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThe production is set in the grounds of a 1950s-ish school camping trip, a canny move which neatly sidesteps some of the Orientalism issues and refocuses G+S's satire on the English politica…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, May 23, 2017
And it's a play that manages to hit two of my bugbear phrases in theatre writing, in that it is both 'darkly comic' and 'extremely timely'. But though reviewers and publicists may desperatel…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, May 22, 2017
The way in which one character rationalises his decision to join the National Front has chilling new currency in this post-Brexit world and the supercilious smile that another character occa…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMI'm glad I returned as I found myself enjoying the play a lot more second time round. Taking it for what it is, which is a Rattigan curiosity rather than a revelatory (re)discovery, this lig…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, May 21, 2017
It's a strong combination - there's endless dark humour in the snippets of life as a medical professional, climbing the ranks from inexperienced house officer to registrar in the field of ob…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, May 20, 2017
Sad to say, what I'm saying is that I was not a fan of The Addams Family at all. After a cracking opening number which promises oh so much, Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice's book grinds to …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMEven with the best of intentions, it can be a little too easy to forget that there's more to LGBT+ than just the G. Representations of gay men are increasingly common in our theatres but pic…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, May 19, 2017
Wertenbaker's play is set on the Winter Hill of the near future, as opposed to the not-so-near past, where a chunk of the land has been sold to developers who are constructing a luxury skysc…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMMonday, May 15, 2017
Written by Christopher Hampton in 1970, The Philanthropist was conceived as a response to Molière's The Misanthrope, it's the lead character's unflappable amiability that causes havoc aroun…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, May 14, 2017
In the many aspects of Angels in America that there are to enjoy and appreciate, the richness of Tony Kushner's writing was not one that I was particularly expecting. But at several points t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWell Daniel Evans looks set to be continuing one of Chichester Festival Theatre's longstanding traditions, of producing musical theatre that tempts the cognoscenti over to West Sussex in dro…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMDespite being blown away by True West, something about Sam Shepard makes me a little wary. I liked rather than loved Fool For Love and ultimately steered clear of the recent Buried Child and…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM 
