Tuesday, November 15, 2016
The 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…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMPlaying in rep with Twelfth Night at Highgate's Upstairs at the Gatehouse theatre, Arrows and Traps' Othello sees them take a slightly different approach to the tragedy, one which is closer …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:30AMMonday, November 14, 2016
School of Rock is a cheerily appealing slice of musical theatre. And with a seemingly endless roll call of talented youngsters who, as we're reminded at the beginning and the end of the show…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:59PMSean Micheal Verey's performance is outstanding, especially as he rattles through multiple characters in the blink of an eye. Recommended.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:30AMThursday, November 10, 2016
Hasn’t everyone seen this play by now? Since opening at the National in 1992, it has had three West End runs and six major national tours, not to mention a Tony-winning trip to Broadway to…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:59PMTurns out what I should have been on the lookout for was an Alan Ayckbourn play in sheep's clothing. And if that's the way your preferences go, as it seems with the majority of the print cri…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:15PMFranz Xaver Kroetz has the distinction of being the most often produced contemporary playwright in his native Germany but perhaps unsurprisingly given latent Brexit feelings, he's little per…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:16AMWednesday, November 9, 2016
"’Tis the time’s plague when madmen lead the blind"... Though no spring chicken myself, I'm not quite the right age to be truly excited about Oscar winning actress-turned politician-turn…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, November 8, 2016
It's no secret that I'm a big Ivo van Hove fan, I've been to New York and Amsterdam several times to see his work as regular readers will know, so booking for his latest show to hit London -…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:04PMMonday, November 7, 2016
Next week sees the 9th Gay Art Festival GFEST start, an eclectic showcase of art, films, and performance work by LGBTQI artists from London, UK and beyond. There's all sorts to choose from -…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:30AMSaturday, November 5, 2016
It may be music that feeds love according to Shakespeare but it is lust that drives Arrow and Traps' interesting production of Twelfth Night, playing in rep with Othello at the Upstairs at t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:45AMFriday, November 4, 2016
I think I have to rank Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years as one of my favourite new musicals (it was first performed in 2001) as any show with such a sequence of extraordinary songs a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:35PMArthur Miller's titanic All My Sons has been well served in recent years - the late Howard Davies reviving his National Theatre production to stunning effect in 2010 and Michael Buffong illu…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:53PMMonday, October 31, 2016
Simon Evans' production makes the most of the physicality of their interactions, whether slamming bodies into bedframes or doors into the shaky walls of the motel, their torment inescapable.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:30PMWith book and lyrics written by Bill Russell and music by Henry Krieger, Side Show has managed two abortive runs on Broadway since premiering in 1997, so it makes sense for Southwark Playhou…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:10AMFor much as I'd love us to be in a place where it doesn't matter, it still feels important to note that Hugh Maynard is the first black man to play the role of Sweeney Todd professionally in…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:19AMRichard Twyman's production of Harrogate proves to be rather unsettlingly brilliant, anchored by two expertly slippery performance from Sarah Ridgeway and Nigel Lindsay.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:20AMSunday, October 30, 2016
"Who needs men?"... In advance of the return of the real Glenda J (Miss Jackson if you're nasty...) in Deborah Warner's King Lear for the Old Vic, The Glenda J Collective proved to be most e…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:15PMSaturday, October 29, 2016
Finding the magic in the mundane is the stock in trade of many an insightful piece of writing but ultimately, all This Little Life... manages to do is extract the ordinary out of the extraor…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:25AMThursday, October 27, 2016
"It would make angels mourn"Perhaps fittingly, on an evening when beautiful tribute was paid to the late Howard Davies, whose invaluable contribution to the National Theatre (36 productions …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:20AMBeach Comet have clearly found their niche in creating spoof B-movie musicals and so Apocalypse Cruise Ship Love Affair now tracks the same path that its older sibling Vampire Hospital Waiti…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:32AMWednesday, October 26, 2016
As the hunger for escape-the-room games increases, so too does the ingenuity of those who come up with these activities, tweaking the format a little every time so that we keep on coming bac…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:15AMTuesday, October 25, 2016
Released earlier this month, Favourite Sins is 4-track EP of musical theatre tracks written by actor/singer/songwriter Alex James Ellison with lyricists Robert Gould (whose work I have previ…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:50AMOn Sunday 6 November 2016, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s State Fair will be performed for the first time on the London stage as a symphonic concert by the London Musical Theatre Orchestra unde…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:29AMMonday, October 24, 2016
"I'm not the sort of person to get AIDS"... Following on the success of The Chemsex Monologues, Dragonflies Theatre now turn to the world of HIV in gay men with The HIV Monologues: From AIDS…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:55AMSaturday, October 22, 2016
Created by Luke Adamson and Dan Bottomley and directed by Adamson with Phil Croft, The House of Usher takes an actor-musician approach to the material and is very much its own version of the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, October 21, 2016
Written by Carl Grose and directed by BOV AD Tom Morris, The Grinning Man is a deliciously dark fairytale of a show, sharing DNA with the likes of Kneehigh and The Light Princess in its thea…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:05AMThursday, October 20, 2016
A musical about cancer? As unlikely as it might seem, A Pacifist's Guide To The War On Cancer isn't even the first one that I've seen. That dubious honour goes to Happy Ending, one of the mo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:02AMMoby Dick's conceit is that it is a show-within-a-show, the students and staff of St Godley's Academy for Girls putting on a performance in order to save their school, and what a frantically…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:45AMWednesday, October 19, 2016
Which is a roundabout way of saying that Robert Icke's production of The Red Barn was not the play I thought it would be. And that my initial slightly cool reaction was as much a response to…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:45AMThe Wind in the Willows' charms are gentle, befitting any iteration of the beloved children's novel by Kenneth Grahame. Julian Fellowes' adaptation is faithful to that story and though the s…
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