Friday, December 6, 2019
At the end of a year in which female-forward and feminist theatre has made so much progress, The Boy Friend looks regressive as well as nostalgic. On the other hand, it is a colourful and es…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, December 4, 2019
Coppélia may be the nearest classical ballet comes to pantomime and as a choice alternative to the usual slew of Nutcrackers and Sleeping Beauties, this one is a tuneful and comic delight.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMSunday, December 1, 2019
If you’re with a bunch of co-workers and up for a turkey and tinsel-free ‘night out’ for your department that won’t frighten Mavis from Accounts, The Wolf Of Wall Street may be just …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, November 12, 2019
The American leading ladies London seems to take to its heart seem to be belters, but Kelli O’Hara has more variety in her voice than any of them.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMThursday, November 7, 2019
Sydney & the Old Girl is a refreshing breath of foul air, a dark comedy with deeply unpleasant characters which manages to echo Pinter and Joe Orton in its macabre domestic antagonism.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, November 5, 2019
Time and again, this production of The Mikado comes up fresh as paint and is the perfect antidote to dark days every bit as much now as in 1986 or when Gilbert and Sullivan wrote it in 1885.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMTuesday, October 15, 2019
Islander most certainly isn’t a rehearsal, it’s a perfectly finished piece, like a stone polished by the waves.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMDon’t miss it A Day in the Death of Joe Egg. Makes you laugh, makes you think. Makes you realise Toby Stephens is one of our finest.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, October 11, 2019
Director Sean Foley had a huge success with The Ladykillers, turning the gentle fifties Ealing comedy into a smart farce. You can’t blame him for taking a second bite at the same cherry. U…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, August 14, 2019
Ned Bennett’s minimalist and thoughtful production of Equus is by turns thrilling and dull, sensationally staging the sexual and violent aspects of the story while confining the psychiatri…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, August 13, 2019
At last, someone has laid the sugary ghost of Elaine Paige. Jamie Lloyd’s stripped-back Evita at the Open Air Theatre in Regent’s Park has all the metallic modernity of their Jesus Chris…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, August 8, 2019
If a student disco is your personal nightmare, look away now. Tree starts and ends with a throbbing onstage party to wish the audience is persuasively invited. The last time this many Waitr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, July 30, 2019
Sally Cookson’s reinterpreted Peter Pan at the new, splendid, exciting Troubadour Theatre very near White City tube captures contemporary imaginations because they can see how it works, an…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, July 21, 2019
The Illusionists is not overpriced, it does hold your attention – even the row of 11 just-out-of-school-for-the-holidays girls on booster cushions behind me didn’t talk or fidget during …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, July 12, 2019
It seems appropriate that Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, the 1990s beach novel that launched a hundred thousand package holidays to Kefalonia should itself be staged in a lightly air-conditio…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, July 9, 2019
Thirty-seven years later, I’m back to see Noises Off re-staged with Meera Syal, Lloyd Owen and Daniel Rigby in a rather over-engineered production by Jeremy Herrin.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, July 8, 2019
Tam Williams’ production of Private Lives at the Mill at Sonning is clean and crisp, nicely framed with a lady accordoniste setting the location, and after a slowish start the piece moves …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, June 19, 2019
The most lyrical and romantic thing about Light In The Piazza is its title. That, and the luscious vintage-style 50s costumes which evoke the American idyll of Italy as captured by Audrey He…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWednesday, June 12, 2019
Afterglow at Southwark Playhouse is a classy production but still slow, and because every scene change is like cleaning up after a particularly acrobatic shag, there are more pauses and long…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, May 1, 2019
One wonders which came first for the Grade/Linnit company – the misguided desire to mount an epic scale production of Man of La Mancha, a musical which hasn’t been.produced in London sin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:38AMFriday, April 26, 2019
This is as unconventional production of Sweet Charity as you’re likely to see. Set firmly in the art milieu of Andy Warhol’s Factory, it’s so perfectly, silver-foil-wrapped acid-tabbed…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThursday, April 25, 2019
Remember the eighties? From Michael Douglas’ braces in Wall Street to Joan Cusack’s shoulder pads and big hair in Working Girl, they’re all here if a little distorted from the rear-vie…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, April 22, 2019
Katherine Parkinson was not a surprising choice for the joint venture by Avalon and BBC Arts whereby seasoned creatives were sponsored to write for the stage. Although her script for Sitting…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, April 19, 2019
At 53, Simon Evans isn’t so different from circuit comedians half his age – a rhetorical stream of invective squirted squarely at current events, with the exception that he speaks entire…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMFriday, April 12, 2019
“You put the grill on high, and the bread under it. Turn it over half-way through. And then you take it out and scrape it.” That extract from my eight-year-old school essay could just as…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, April 5, 2019
The London Fringe has been diligent in ploughing back catalogue after back catalogue for ‘forgotten’ musicals, and Maggie May has not been seen in London for 55 years.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMMonday, April 1, 2019
One of the best things about Admissions at Trafalgar Studios is how far it will get up the noses of the ‘woke’ twitterati. I can think of a couple of agenda-toting print critics who’ll…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, March 31, 2019
At last, Rufus Norris’ National Theatre has come of age. Breathtaking, brave and brilliantly acted, Downstate is a landmark play. It’s listed as a ‘collaboration’ between NT and Step…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, March 30, 2019
The Phlebotomist is an exceptional concept for a ‘first play’ and Hampstead has made a real discovery in Ella Road and partnered her script with Sam Yates’ slick direction.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, March 28, 2019
Maybe in a far-off dimension of time and space, at the crossroads of imagination and reality, our descendants will discover a stage adaption of The Twilight Zone which will fill them with th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThursday, February 28, 2019
With technically excellent 360 degree projection and sound, and some smart and crisp choreography from the passionate cast, Gingerline’s The Great Expedition is a truly enjoyable, immersiv…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM 
