Thursday, December 8, 2016
It is now Drew McOnie who takes the directorial chair, the choreographer-director's rising star an ideal fit for a musical all about dance. And what dance it is.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, December 7, 2016
Matthew White's production is as pretty as a picture, as a music box in fact, Paul Farnsworth's luxe design emerging as an exceptional piece of work, using four mini revolves to great effect…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:31PMTuesday, December 6, 2016
The end of the silent movie era and the arrival of the talkies has proved fertile ground for many a storyteller, not least Betty Comden and Adolph Green's immortal Singin' in the Rain, but M…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:30PMI loved the Michael Webborn and Daniel Finn musical when I saw it premiere at the Landor last year and whilst we wait patiently for a cast recording (I asked Santa again and I have been a go…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:22PMSunday, December 4, 2016
I don't tend to see much circus. But the invitation to see NoFit State Circus' BIANCO was one that stood out for me, for I actually went to visit the company a few years ago when they were b…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:30AMFriday, December 2, 2016
Lucy Kirkwood's new play further ups the ante in making her protagonists sexual beings, her trio of retired scientists are battling not only the fallout from nuclear disaster but from the co…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:30AMYes it is universal but yes, it is also unashamedly all the shades of the LGBTQ+ rainbow - and as director Matthew Parker gives us one final fabulous surprise at the last, my heart filled wi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:15AMThursday, December 1, 2016
What you do get from the trilogy day though is a huge sense of occasion, and the undeniable truth of the significance of what has been achieved here. Unabashedly all-female productions of Sh…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:30AMWednesday, November 30, 2016
Marianne Elliott, Whoopi Goldberg, Joe Hill-Gibbins, Robert Lindsay, Roald Dahl and Arthur Darvill are amongst those rounded up here.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWhen The Last Five Years announced an extension of a week just after opening, it meant I was able to nab a pair of cheap tickets down the front, conveniently on the side where the shirtless …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, November 29, 2016
Playing out in real time, Top to Bottom starts off as a dinner party gone awry. Alison and Jeff have gone over to Mark and Tom's for dinner and as they knock back glasses of wine and amuse-b…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, November 28, 2016
If I want to have a good laugh, I would not go back to The Comedy About A Bank Robbery, for it really wasn't my cup of tea, at all.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThere’s something wonderfully political about the Lyric Hammersmith’s pantomime Aladdin this year. Not just in Joel Horwood’s script but in almost every aspect of Ellen McDougall’s p…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSunday, November 27, 2016
This revival of Soho Cinders at the Union Theatre is a little more festively timed and through Will Keith's direction and Joanne McShane's choreography, provides a level of entertainment to …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMSaturday, November 26, 2016
For Catch Me is a musical based around male suicide, the mental health struggles that lead people to such an act and the repercussions it has on those left behind.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMWednesday, November 23, 2016
"I'm dreaming of a white Christmas...." The festive season is nearly upon us. If you're making a shopping trip to the bright lights or you just love the feel of Christmas in London, here are…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM"You can never go back to before"... Mother may spend a song telling us that we can never go 'Back To Before' but fortunately you can go back to Ragtime with no fear.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, November 22, 2016
With over 100 cast, writers, directors and crew, and 25 plays (none of which were by Agatha Christie!) spread over 7 programmes, Sphinx Theatre's Women Centre Stage: Power Play Festival was …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:15PMThe middle session of Women Centre Stage: Power Play Festival saw our first trip into the Hampstead's main house for PRIDE and Prejudice.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMThere was undoubtedly a lot of theatre during the Women Centre Stage: Power Play Festival but for me, the New Women session in the middle of the day was the highlight - three cracking pieces…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:45PMCaught somewhere between theatre and dance, art installation and gay club extravaganza, Stuart Saint's Princess makes for a fascinating project, conceived as a response to traditional Disney…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:30PMThe Sphinx Theatre Writers Group have been developing new ideas for six months now and the penultimate session of the Women Centre Stage: Power Play Festival allowed us to peep at the fruits…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:30AMMonday, November 21, 2016
Somewhat appropriately in the week following International Men's Day with its theme this year of male suicide, two shows tackling the subject open in London.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMIt is rather pleasing to see that the winner of a new musical theatre prize – inspiringly named the New Musical Project – is something that tests the boundaries of what we conventionally…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSunday, November 20, 2016
I try to test my prejudices when it comes to playwrights for whom I have little fondness but the reality is that its hard to psyche yourself up in the name of being open-minded. Harold Pinte…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSaturday, November 19, 2016
Derek Jacobi and Anne Reid and Michael Ball and Alfie Boe could form a weirdly intriguing supergroup, it's actually two separate CDs that they've released in pairs.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, November 18, 2016
It was no surprise to discover that Half A Sixpence would be transferring into the West End - its run at Chichester Festival Theatre was a huge success and with Cameron Mackintosh on produci…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:20AMThursday, November 17, 2016
There's many a mirror that has gone down in fame but in its current form, new musical The Mirror Never Lies doesn't look set to join them. Based on the Barbara Pym novel The Sweet Dove Died …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMWhen I was at primary school, we did a thing in needlepoint where we sewed seemingly random shapes in a line and only when we'd finished and Mrs Holcroft (I think it was) told us to look at …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:45AMTuesday, November 15, 2016
Yesterday (14 November 2016) saw the launch of the Women Centre Stage: Power Play Festival at Hampstead Theatre and The Actors Centre. Produced by Sphinx Theatre Company and Joanna Hedges, W…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AMThe Hope Theatre's Gothic Season continues with The Worst Was This - a steampunkish take on Elizabethan London where the troubled relationship between two guys named Will and Chris plays out…
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