This set of album reviews covers Mazz Murray – Midnight Mazz – Here We Go Again, Mascherato the Musical (Original Studio Cast Recording) and Howard Goodall’s Songs from the Musicals Vo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMReinterpreting the women of Greek mythology for today, the theatrical enterprise of 15 Heroines is a major achievement and a highlight of the year, digital or otherwise.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMEpisode Two of The Theatre Channel takes its Halloween theme and has a ball with it, with brilliant performances from the likes of Linzi Hateley, Jordan Shaw, Bradley Jaden and Sophie Isaacs.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThis innovative production by ALP Musicals of Hilmi Jaidin’s new digital musical Shift+Alt+Right points towards the future of new musical theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMAn hour plus of a straight white man justifying his affair or a modern classic? I go in for more Betrayal at the Theatre Royal Bath.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThe newly opened Golden Goose Theatre brings some interesting musical theatre to Camberwell with Now. Here. This.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMCovid-19 may have cut her time in Waitress short but Lucie Jones Live at the Adelphi is a great reminder of the leading lady she is and will surely continue to be.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMNot quite ‘when shall we three Zoom again’, Big Telly Theatre’s imaginative online version of Macbeth has some impressive moments.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMA rare foray into the world of podcasts sees Ian Foster listening to the Nina Sosanya-starring Seeds and getting properly freaked out by horror anthology At Your Peril.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMBritain’s Got Talent judge Amanda Holden releases her debut album Songs From My Heart, full of musical theatre treats and Sheridan Smith.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMDavid Hare gets in first with his Coronavirus monologue Beat The Devil at the Bridge Theatre, evocatively performed by Ralph Fiennes.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMA return to live theatre is well marked by these vibrant open-air productions of Henry V and The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Roman Theatre of Verulamium in St Albans.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMDoing the Macarena with the Queen of Hearts? But of course. Alice – A Virtual Theme Park does an excellent job of blending technical innovation with live theatre
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMHello Harry!, an online concert celebrating the incredible 40-year career of Harry Gabriel, the Shaftesbury Theatre’s Stage Door Keeper, was an absolute ray of sunshine.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMAs his new digital sheet music store New UK Musicals launches, I talk with multi-award winning composer and lyricist Darren Clark about the site and his career.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMHairspray Live! is such a joyous show it should perk up many a flagging spirit. It proves far superior to the previous week's NBC Live offering of The Sound of Music.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSometimes a musical just doesn’t grab you, and so it was for me with Rags The Musical. The universe clearly wants me to hear it one way or another though, as Ghostlight Records are now rel…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFinally, a show I haven’t seen before being streamed! And what a beauty Pieces of String turned out to be. “Sometimes it’s good to remember‘Sometimes it’s good to forget'” Fo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMVocal group The Songsmiths’ Tenors of the West End offers up some fascinating harmonies on some classic pop tunes.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMLes Misérables – The Staged Concert is released on digital download, along with a bonus featurette which is highly amusing.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThere was a moment in the last couple of days as I listened to ‘Make It Right’ for the umpteenth time that I wondered whether I’d been a bit harsh to The Prince of Egypt when it opened…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMNational Theatre at Home is a huge success. The type of scheme that only large institutions can hope to really pull off but even so, managing the kind of appointment-to-view occasion that wa…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMNew musical #ZoologicalSociety, written by Vikki Stone and Kate Mulgrew, gets a well-timed concept album release.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMAimie Atkinson is good but deserves far better than Pretty Woman: the Musical, the blatant cash grab at the Piccadilly Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMLazarus Theatre’s ensemble-based take on Macbeth at Greenwich Theatre proves thrilling in its stylish directorial vision.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMIn The Prince Of Egypt highly committed cast does their best to ride out inconsistent production choices to deliver work that fills the Dominion well.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMI go and see The Extraordinary Time-Travelling Adventures of Baron Munchausen at the VAULT Festival and end up playing a tree with killer leaves.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMAs rap and spoken word emerge as the primary storytelling modes in Poet in da Corner, along with some evocative dancing, there’s a compelling sense of the potential of what theatre can be.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMJack Robson’s I Woke Up Feeling Electric asks some morally and technologically challenging questions at the Hope Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMIn Death of England, Rafe Spall delivers the performance of a lifetime in this punchy monologue by Clint Dyer and Roy Williams at the National Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThe perils of midweek drinking writ large – After(s) examines what it means to be in your mid-twenties today at the White Bear Theatre in Kennington.
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