Thursday, 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 08:00AMMonday, April 10, 2017
In the rush to dole out the five star reviews that seem de rigueur for any big musical these days (22 for An American in Paris so their new poster shouts proudly), there appears to be a will…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThe news of Tim Pigott-Smith's passing at the age of 70 yesterday was a terrible shock, not least because he was still in a rich creative vein - a tour of Death of a Salesman was scheduled f…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSunday, April 9, 2017
Laura Wade's Posh first appeared in 2010 at the Royal Court, again in 2012 in the West End, and then in cinemas as The Riot Club in 2014 - each time piercing something of the privilege aroun…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMI'm fully on board with Yellow Earth Theatre's objectives of identifying and investing in British East Asian emerging and established actors, writers and directors, so it does pain me a litt…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, April 8, 2017
"It's an honour just to be nominated..." Come award season, these words are often heard but you do have to wonder what it feels like to be the only member of a four person ensemble that isn'…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, April 7, 2017
It's black and white - no means no. That should be enough right? Except all too often, sadly it isn't, and the many different ways in which this is true form the bedrock of Consent, Nina Rai…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMMonday, April 3, 2017
Designer Rūta Irbīte converts the stage into a section of the Suffolk coastline that writer Tallulah Brown grew up around and under Simon Gethin Thomas' sun-bright lighting and Daniel Balf…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMAn opportunity to see this play in dress rehearsal was snaffled away from me at the last minute so stubbornly, I'd opted not to see it. But the offer of a friend's spare ticket and the good …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMRiffing on the chuckles that come from mistranslated menus and signs (I swear, it is one of my favourite things to do in touristy abroad), Chinglish follows the efforts of an American busine…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSaturday, April 1, 2017
One of the most appallingly striking statistics around police brutality in the UK is that there has not been a single prosecution for homicide for a death in custody for over 30 years and a …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMI do admire a play - and a production - that isn't afraid to make its audience work. Christopher Bryant's The Mutant Man relays the true story of Harry Crawford, a man accused of murder, a w…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:30AMFriday, March 31, 2017
There's a moment early on in The Life where Sharon D Clarke's been-around-the-block-and-then-some Sonja has a moment akin to Jenna Russell's 'The Revolutionary Costume for Today' in Grey Gar…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, March 30, 2017
If you were so inclined, you could rip into Adam & Eve…and Steve for its tendency towards dramatic inconsistency and slight musical blandness but as Beelzebub pops up to tell us early…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMWednesday, March 29, 2017
Another way of looking at it is that you need to kiss a lot of frogs to find a prince and if this isn't an outright amphibian, it's also by no means royalty. Loosely based on a 405 BC play b…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, March 28, 2017
In light of Roman Tragedies reminding us of the vast potential of what Shakespeare can be rather than the tendency towards the ‘proper’ readings of his work that we tend to get here in t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMTickets for Angels in America sold out very quickly- a mark of the excitement for this 25th anniversary production of Tony Kushner's epic, but the folks at the National have come up with thr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, March 27, 2017
Fresh from taking the Barbican by storm (again) with Roman Tragedies, Ivo van Hove and Toneelgroep Amsterdam will be returning to London next month with a version of Luchino Visconti's 1943 …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSaturday, March 25, 2017
I was lucky enough to be invited to the first preview of 42nd Street at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane and whilst any official opinions about the show are under embargo until press night, I th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, March 24, 2017
Instead of writing another review in which I'd just end up repeating myself, I thought I'd just jot down some of the thoughts that came to me both whilst rewatching and on reflection afterwa…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMWednesday, March 22, 2017
Overlord of all that is authentic in British theatre, Trevor Nunn is now further redefining authenticity by presenting us with a Terence Rattigan premiere, cobbled together from two pre-exis…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMAn American in Paris now rocks up at the newly refurbished Dominion Theatre, just ahead of another huge dance-heavy Broadway musical in 42nd Street, producers clearly banking on audiences wa…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, March 21, 2017
A story about love and acceptance always has things to teach us, gay or straight, now more than ever and the story of St Tropez nightclub owners Georges and Albin is a touching one as throug…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, March 20, 2017
The Manchester Theatre Awards represent the cream of theatre in my native North-West.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSunday, March 19, 2017
The company to get me over myself were Waiting for the Call, the "original all-female long-form musical improv team", and their promise of a unique blend of comedy, improv and musical group …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMEight years ago, I'd barely started to blog, I didn't know who Ivo van Hove was, Andrew Haydon didn't know who I was, it was an altogether simpler time. And I'd be hard pressed to tell you e…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMDialogue heavy but conversationally acute, we eavesdrop on these women in their bathroom, sharing confidences, fantasies, stories of what it is like to be a woman in a society that continual…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, March 18, 2017
In the swish surroundings of the London Palladium, it was hard not to be entirely seduced by the lush sound of a 30-strong orchestra (under the musical direction of Freddie Tapner), a chorus…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThursday, March 16, 2017
Rachel Parris brought us her Best Laid Plans last week and Andrew Hunter Murray has also been appearing the Soho Theatre with his Round One (which has just announced two more dates later in …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, March 14, 2017
Recounted by the breathlessly energetic and recklessly teenage Katie, Bunny takes a snapshot of her life in the racially divided estates of Luton over the course of a hot summer's afternoon.…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM 
