Tuesday, 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 05:00AMSunday, March 12, 2017
It tells the story of the lifelong love between Arthur and Jane, from their meet-cute in a bar over some spilled red wine, through 50 years, to the residential care home where she dutifully …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSaturday, March 11, 2017
It's a sensational piece of writing that barely seems to have aged since its 1962 debut, such is the sharpness of its caustic wit as Martha spouts forth her bitterness at life-plans gone awr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMWednesday, March 8, 2017
Who knew you could email the Samaritans? You learn something new everyday and often in the most unexpected of places.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMdebbie tucker green's a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun) comes with all the gnomic but still conversational energy of her best writing.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, March 7, 2017
Most reviews of La Strada will doubtless start with a potted history of the film but I have to be entirely honest with you and say that despite its illustrious Oscar-winning status, it's not…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMIt's always a bit of risk, booking a show you don't know to see a particular actor and I have to say I got my fingers burnt here with Amédée.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMBruce and Trevor Horn are delighted to announce that together they are creating a new work of musical theatre – provisionally entitled The Robot Sings with an original story and score by t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMMonday, March 6, 2017
Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s Snow in Midsummer is an adaptation of Yuan dynasty drama The Injustice Done to Dou E by Guan Hanqing, marking a key milestone in the vener…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, March 3, 2017
In Kate Fleetwood, Ugly Lies the Bone has the kind of hypnotically magnificent performance that almost makes you forgive any or all shortcomings.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThursday, March 2, 2017
Scarlett offers a sadly all-too-rare opportunity at the Hampstead to see a play that is written, directed and exclusively stars women, something they should be happy to be publicising. We fi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMA monthly micro-review from There Ought to be Clowns.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMAt a moment in British history when the political discourse around the contribution of (at least part of) the immigrant population has never been more highly charged, Patricia Cumper's Chigg…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, March 1, 2017
This production will doubtless have its detractors - it's not spoken precisely enough, it doesn't smell of war enough, there are too many watches - but for me, it is as exciting and engaging…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMLizzie proved to be considerably more interesting than I thought a rock musical would be, presented as something between a semi-staged musical and rock gig, it's a striking thing indeed.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, February 26, 2017
Set in 1945 in the 100 day period between VE Day and VJ Day, it focuses on the lives of the women left holding the country together in this time of great upheaval, which shows no signs of sl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMSaturday, February 25, 2017
There's nowt so queer as folk, at least not in Simon Godwin's version of Illyria here. A gender-swapped Malvolia longs after her mistress Olivia, hipster-fop Sir Andrew Aguecheek is entirely…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, February 24, 2017
Joe Hill-Gibbins' idiosyncratic 2015 take on Measure for Measure filled the Young Vic with inflatable sex dolls so it should come as little surprise that for his A Midsummer Night's Dream, h…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMWednesday, February 22, 2017
March's jazz-age tale of a tempestuous couple holding a gathering to end all gatherings allows for a real parade of vivid caricatures to come passing through in search of gin, blow, sex and …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, February 21, 2017
All John Spartan has ever wanted to do is go to outer space but like many a man with an obsession, this dedication has come at a cost to his friendships and marriage as he finds himself pack…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMOpening at Leicester's Curve ahead of a 8 month long UK tour, you can see where Nick Winston's production has made its key decisions - Francis O’Connor's set has its eye on quick get-outs …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSunday, February 19, 2017
Part of the New Diorama's Emerging Theatre Company Programme 2015, Lost Watch have spent the last four years building quite the reputation for themselves.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:30PMFriday, February 17, 2017
What a joy it is, a breath of feel-good fresh air that can't help but leave you feeling fabulous. With career advice flying by unheeded, all 16-year-old Jamie is really bothered about as his…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, February 16, 2017
Set in 1981, two young black gay men discover the safe haven of the London gay club scene, but only find real sanctuary when they take advantage of the connections they're building to create…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMKeeping on top of reviews is a challenge at the best of times, so throwing in a whole bunch of festival shows from the Vaults makes time management even more challenging. So I'm opting to ro…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMKeeping on top of reviews is a challenge at the best of times, so throwing in a whole bunch of festival shows from the Vaults makes time management even more challenging. So I'm opting to ro…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMArthur Schnitzler's 1897 play of 10 interlinked intimate encounters has proven enduringly popular over the years - adapted for the gays, for fans of musicals, for Charlie Spencer's libido - …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, February 14, 2017
Flickering between real life and fantasy, memory and myth, Franko Figueiredo's production is too often baffling as Álvaro Flores' Miguel bounces from repeated escape attempts to self-indulg…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM"Laugh at the king or he'll make you cry"The ever-modest Sondheim considers Anyone Can Whistle 'a laudable attempt to present something off-centre in mainstream musical theatre', whilst tryi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMGod, Russia, booze, ghosts, vomit, legacies, tables, blood, metal, tears, redemption, hatred, cruelty, love, sex - the programme notes couldn't capture Dostoyevsky's novel Crime and Punishme…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AM 
