Sunday, May 14, 2017
Despite 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 06:00AMOver in Canary Wharf, The Space Theatre might not necessarily be one that is on the radar of many London theatregoers but the announcement of their summer season ought to tempt the theatrica…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMThursday, May 11, 2017
Uneasy lies the head that waits for the crown. Mike Barlett's King Charles III was a deserved award-winning success when it took the Almeida by storm in 2014, transferring into the West End …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMTuesday, May 9, 2017
After a successful run in Edinburgh last summer and ahead of a tour in Germany this coming summer, new British musical Paper Hearts arrives in Highgate at the always charming Upstairs at the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMBirds of Paradise is a show that had an ignominiously brief off-Broadway run in 1987 and might well have faded into obscurity were it not for its lyricist and co-book-writer Winnie Holzman g…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, May 8, 2017
Pete 'n' Keely is a rather gentle show and Matthew Gould's production here possesses a warmly nostalgic glow that is well essayed by performers David Bardsley and Katie Kerr.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:45AMFriday, May 5, 2017
It's no less radical a reinterpretation - the two lovers are reconceived as gay footballers here - but where Andy Bewley's production really succeeds is in capturing the exultant highs of he…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMA group of world class actors and directors will look at how theatre has charted the LGBT+ experience through a series of rehearsed readings and post-show discussions in the Lyttelton Theatr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMNext month, the annual Tony Awards celebrate Broadway's best of the best. Notable nominations include Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 and Groundhog Day, both up for several award…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AMThursday, May 4, 2017
I have to admit that I wasn't much enamoured by the prospect of a Bob Dylan musical but when I stopped to think about it, I don't know why I was worried because I've long been of the opinion…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:30AMAfter decades of conflict, both politically in terms of Ulster as a nation and personally for sisters Sandra and Teeni Richardson who haven't spoken in a good few years, the notion of truth …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMGuess who's coming to dinner, Toronto-style. The table has been set at Debora and Michael's oh-so-tasteful upper class home but the atmosphere is thick with tension as their guests are Curti…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThe play's the thing though and here, Butterworth has constructed a Northern Irish epic. Set at harvest-time in 1981, deep in County Armagh, the Carney clan are gathering for a humdinger of …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMMonday, May 1, 2017
The Cardinal emerges as a revenge tragedy and Audibert's clear-sighted direction ensures that the intricacies of the plotting is lucid and consistently compelling.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:00PMIt has been impossible to ignore the reception of Ivo van Hove's Obsession, the slight sense of glee (from some) at being able to dole out a critical drubbing to the feted director. And so I…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThe opening production in the 'Summer of Love' is Daniel Kramer's Romeo and Juliet and following Rice's lead, it is bold and brash, full of light and sound, and the kind of ferocious energy …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSunday, April 30, 2017
Last year you couldn't move for productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream and whilst it hasn't quite gotten that bad yet, it looks like Twelfth Night is 2017's popular choice.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMSaturday, April 29, 2017
A stunning piece of provocative performance art, Cock and Bull grabs Tory political rhetoric by the pussy, slaps it on the arse, tells you to 'calm down dear' and then dares you to look away.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThursday, April 27, 2017
After their residency at the Apollo, the Showstopper team have skipped along to the Lyric where they have been performing their brand of improvised musical on a random selection of Mondays, …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMVictoria Willing's Spring Offensive is a spikily fresh take on the First World War and its enduring legacy, a bold move for the Clapham Omnibus and one which does pay some dividends.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, April 26, 2017
Blinded in a childhood accident, Louis Braille's keen intelligence saw him ruffle feathers at the Royal Institute for Blind Youth where he resided, mainly because prevailing societal attitud…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, April 25, 2017
Directed once again by David Mercatali, assisted here by Flore Vialet, the play is currently previewing at the Leicester Square Theatre in their lounge space, ahead of playing the French Fri…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, April 23, 2017
Inspired by the legend, for which there is no factual basis, that seventeenth century Mughal emperor Shah Jahan ordered that the hands of all the craftsmen who were involved in the construct…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSaturday, April 22, 2017
Anne Brontë might not be the most heralded of her sisters but that is to underestimate the different way in which she expressed herself. The striking feminism of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThursday, April 20, 2017
Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr have announced the opening programme for their The Bridge Theatre venture – the 900-seat commercial venue near to Tower Bridge which marks their re-entry int…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, April 19, 2017
In Polly Sullivan's starkly uncompromising arena, designed in the round and directed by Tom Attenborough, we first witness a psychiatric session between the high-functioning Mary and her cle…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMA monthly micro-review from There Ought to be Clowns.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMTuesday, April 18, 2017
It's fascinating to be able to revisit shows along their developmental cycle. I first saw Miss Nightingale in its initial chamber-musical incarnation at the King's Head back in 2011 and sinc…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWe talk about broken hearts at the end of relationships oh so easily, but what if it was actually true, what if a break-up manifested physically on the person left behind? That’s one of th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSaturday, April 15, 2017
Sadly, their current revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying - the first major one in this country since its 1963 premiere - falls on the side of the fatally old-fashione…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMThursday, April 13, 2017
There's much to enjoy in One Love: The Bob Marley Musical, not least the joyous celebration of some of the most enduringly famous music in the world. And writer and director Kwame Kwei-Armah…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AM 
