Tuesday, May 17, 2022
Harold Pinter’s The Dwarfs is a fascinating glimpse into the development of one of the major playwrights of the 20th century and this production does it full credit.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, May 6, 2022
All three of the short plays that feature in Fizzy Sherbet’s audio series centre on writer/performers who, not unnaturally, bring a depth of emotion to their own work.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, April 23, 2022
I’m not sure whether I’ve actually been to Woking. It’s that sort of place – although how I’d know that if I’ve never actually been there, I really couldn’t say. I suppose it…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, April 19, 2022
One of Sondheim's earliest works Anyone Can Whistle has just opened at Southwark Playhouse. Notoriously a flop back in 1964, many have tried but few have succeeded in reviving its fortunes.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, April 8, 2022
Diary Of A Somebody is credited to John Lahr, though technically he might be said to be the arranger/editor. For the actual words are those of Joe Orton as recorded in a journal that he deci…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, April 7, 2022
After a trying day (don’t ask), it was particularly pleasing therefore to unwind with Sasha Regan’s All-Male HMS Pinafore at Wilton’s Music Hall in the East End.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, April 2, 2022
Having seen Marcus Brigstocke’s name attached to it, I instantly assumed this would be a broadly comic play that was strong on laughs and reasonably light on subject matter.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, March 18, 2022
Animal behaviour but within a human framework. This is a powerful new play from Ruby Thomas at Hampstead Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSaturday, February 12, 2022
Kipps – The New Half A Sixpence Musical is “new” in the sense that it’s an updated version of a musical first performed in the early 1960s to showcase the singing, dancing and banjo …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, January 20, 2022
East Is East is a recent addition to National Theatre's At Home catalogue and only appeared as a live production back in October.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, January 13, 2022
Ruth Wilson is strong casting in the central role with a, for once, restrained Ivo van Hove directing.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, January 10, 2022
Light as a souffle but such a delight. It’s doubtful whether there has ever been a classier bit of froth than this Cole Porter show.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, January 5, 2022
The Shrek franchise opts for a modern-day spin on the traditional form, undermining expectations and undercutting some of the more winsome aspects with one-liners and witty put-downs.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, December 30, 2021
The holidays have always been a time of rich pickings for dramatists, bringing together people (pre-Covid at least) who probably avoid each other for the rest of the year.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, December 20, 2021
A full-on immersive event - part play, part museum exhibit, part theme park ride and part party.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, December 15, 2021
The Death Of England sequence by Clint Dyer and Roy Williams has had an interesting history. Starting life as a ten-minute microplay film courtesy of the Royal Court.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, December 12, 2021
Anna Christie, which predates The Hairy Ape, won the 1922 Pulitzer prize for drama and therefore had to have something going for it.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, December 3, 2021
It’s only happened a handful of times in my theatregoing life, but at Wyndham's Theatre, I had the urge to leap to my feet and instigate a standing ovation. In fact, I felt that way as the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, December 1, 2021
There's a world (indeed, a universe) of possibilities in this intriguing play about decisions and repercussions.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, November 14, 2021
Remembrance Day seemed a perfect moment to review a production set just before and during the First World War, Hugh Salmon's finely rendered Into Battle.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, November 6, 2021
The live version of Northern Comedy Theatre's lockdown Zoom hit sees Shakespeare diced, sliced and put through the mincer at the Bridewell Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, November 3, 2021
After becoming a fan of their online comedies during lockdown, I chat with Northern Comedy Theatre artistic director Shaun Chambers and writer David Spicer as they transfer their Zoom hit Do…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, October 29, 2021
Stephen Smith of Threedumb Theatre is something of a Gothic horror aficionado, especially when it comes to the works of Edgar Allan Poe.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, October 27, 2021
Following a brief run at London's The Space and ahead of a tour, Brian Coyle’s 2018 one-man play Timeless was made available as an on-demand stream.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, October 13, 2021
This latest star-studded digital offering from Henry Filloux-Bennett and the Lawrence Batley Theatre is a pleasing comedy about the tribulations of putting on a post-pandemic production.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, October 8, 2021
I remember a student I was once trying to get to read more saying “What’s the point, there are just too many books”. Perhaps I’m beginning to have the same reaction to digital theatr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, September 30, 2021
New online theatre material keeps popping up all the time – or at least it eventually comes to my attention which amounts to much the same thing; this latest one did so by a somewhat circu…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, September 29, 2021
It’s been a while since I’ve reviewed one of the many shows which youth theatre Chickenshed put out during the pandemic. In fact, their last released piece came out in May so apologies t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, September 28, 2021
It is not with a little sense of surprise that I found myself yesterday experiencing my 800th online production which is the subject of this review. Back in April 2020 I, probably along with…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, September 27, 2021
One of the huge advantages of online theatre over the last eighteen months or so has been being able to catch up with plays that any self-respecting reviewer should have seen but for whateve…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, September 26, 2021
The Greek myths have endured across the centuries partly because they are timeless stories that can be endlessly updated and reinvented.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM 
