Tuesday, February 14, 2017
God, 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 04:00AMMonday, February 13, 2017
God, 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 07:00AMWednesday, February 8, 2017
Inspired by a true story published in the New York Times, Fledgling Theatre Company's They Built It. No-One Came. was a hit at the Edinburgh Festival last summer and has now resurfaced for a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:30PMI'll go anywhere for Alexandra Gilbreath and given that The Rover had the added bonus of Joseph Millson, the trip was a no-brainer.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMTuesday, February 7, 2017
Its rather lazy, and stereotypical, approach to laughing at the gays aside, there's a quite a lot to enjoy here in the Birmingham REP's production of the award-winning French play What's In …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMMonday, February 6, 2017
While John Tiffany’s gift for direction may be taking fantastical flight over at the Palace Theatre, rest assured it is no less magical here. Kate O’Flynn’s Laura first appears like a …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:30PMSunday, February 5, 2017
It can be easy to make grand, sweeping statements about the artistic vision of your theatre company but much more difficult to actually follow through. So it is impressive to see Playing ON,…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, February 3, 2017
The ways in which the titles of shows are worked into the script are a source of endless amusement and new musical Death Takes A Holiday is no exception, pointing up as it does the ridiculou…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, February 2, 2017
This particular 'new town' was designed to rehouse the overspill population from the poorer parts of Liverpool but the forced creation of new communities is rarely so simple as that, and it …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:30AMWednesday, February 1, 2017
Even without trying, I end up being contrary! The Critics' Circle Awards have announced their winners for 2016 and as I cast my eyes down the list, I was amused to see that their best new pl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, January 31, 2017
Once again, Gurira turns her focus to the African continent, exploring the kind of history that I'm pretty sure is rarely featured in the majority of Western schoolrooms. The year is 1896 an…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:30AMI ranked the play as the fourth best thing that I saw last year and though I don't always like to go back to things I enjoyed (in case it sullies the memory), I wanted to treat myself to thi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, January 30, 2017
PLAY - The Subterranean Season takes in plays 23-26 in their ever-growing programme of short plays, devised in just two weeks by a collaboration of writers, directors and actors up for the c…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSunday, January 29, 2017
If I had star ratings, RedBellyBlack would gain an extra one automatically for featuring the theme tune to 80s kids TV programme Round The Twist in their show A Year From Now. I would then p…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWith so much gloomy news dominating the headlines and cinemas filled largely with Oscar bait, two-hander Dirty Great Love Story arrives at the Arts Theatre to offer a well-timed and satisfyi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSaturday, January 28, 2017
I'm particularly excited for John's Angelica (she was most impressive in The Bodyguard recently) and Terera has long been a favourite around these parts so his Aaron Burr, sir, will undoubte…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWednesday, January 25, 2017
I do try and attend new writing nights here and there and I often ponder what, if anything, happens to the many works in progress that feature in their programmes. And in the case of Life Se…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:45PMTuesday, January 24, 2017
The RSC may have Simon Russell Beale and cutting-edge digital technology but the Southwark Playhouse has real heart when it comes to The Tempest.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMI enjoyed Stuart Slade's BU21 massively when it played the Theatre503 early last year but I hadn't intended to revisit the show - sometimes the memory of it is plenty sufficient.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, January 23, 2017
The Arcola launch their Revolution Season, marking the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution and exploring its considerable impact, with a new production of Gorky's The Lower Depths pl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, January 20, 2017
Roland Schimmelpfennig's 2013 play Winter Solstice receives its British premiere at the Orange Tree in this Actors Touring Company production directed by Ramin Gray. And it is well worth the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMOn the face of it, you could see why reviving Promises, Promises would be an appealing prospect - written by Neil Simon from a Billy Wilder film and featuring a score by Burt Bacharach and H…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWednesday, January 18, 2017
Established now as one of the major arts festivals in London, VAULT Festival returns from 25 January to 5 March 2017 at its original home beneath Waterloo Station and, for the first time, at…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, January 17, 2017
Its Amaluna arrives at Royal Albert Hall this month, but opening next month is Cirque du Soleil's first-ever UK arena tour of its signature production, Varekai.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, January 16, 2017
Joseph Moncure March's narrative poem managed the remarkable feat of having two musical adaptations thereof running in the same year in New York, one of which - by Michael John LaChiusa - wi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSunday, January 15, 2017
Fractured timelines can be an interesting way to tell a story – fragmented shards of drama shuffled in a non-linear narrative, forcing audiences to piece together a throughline to the trut…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMBrains is set in an office at the pharmaceutical company MediBite Inc. in a near-future world that has been ravaged by a virus that has turned much of the population into zombies.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, January 14, 2017
An interesting change of tack here from Andrew Maddock, who has been steadily carving out a niche for himself in doing creative things in and around the world of monologues (qv #1, #2, #3). …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSunday, January 8, 2017
No remedy for the January blues this, but one of the most brutally affecting pieces of theatre you could ever bear to see. Alezander Zeldin's Love follows what life can be found in the anony…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:30PMFriday, January 6, 2017
The first show of this year was something fantastic
Or was it? Can you tell I'm being sarcastic
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AMThursday, January 5, 2017
Whilst nothing comprehensive can be drawn from the 300 or so plays that I saw in 2016, I think it is interesting to break down the figures and see how they look.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AM 
