Saturday, May 25, 2019
Notwithstanding its flawed message, in these times of unparalleled political polarisation The Lehman Trilogy will be lapped up by eager audiences. And for sheer technical theatrical genius, …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, May 12, 2019
Amour, a whimsical tale of a Parisian clerk who finds himself temporarily gifted with a superhuman ability to walk through walls, lends itself perfectly to London’s Off West End theatre sc…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, May 4, 2019
It has been 50 years since Man Of La Mancha last played in London’s West End and based upon this year’s offering from the ENO and co-producers Grade-Linnitt it is easy to see why.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, April 26, 2019
Not seen on a London stage for 40 years, Ain’t Misbehavin’ is gloriously revived at Southwark Playhouse in a co-production with Colchester’s Mercury Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, April 18, 2019
George A Romero’s 1968 movie Night Of The Living Dead not only unleashed zombies upon an unsuspecting world, but was also one of the first movies to fuse horrific gore with political alleg…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, April 12, 2019
Janie Dee and Joanna Riding are two of the UK's finest musical theatre performers. At the National Theatre the return of Dominic Cooke’s acclaimed production of Follies currently stars the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, April 11, 2019
Tony’s Last Tape arrives at Clapham’s Omnibus, four years after Andy Barrett’s perceptive work first played at the Nottingham Playhouse. A one-act monologue that lasts a little over an…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMMonday, March 18, 2019
Witness For The Prosecution, Agatha Christie’s murder thriller is playing very successfully at London’s ingeniously converted County Hall venue. RSC leading man Jasper Britton heads the …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMSunday, March 17, 2019
Rip It Up does exactly that to the conventional West End tried and tested jukebox musical. In part a reality TV show and in part a showcase, the evening encapsulates a musical time-machine t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, March 10, 2019
Of all the new musicals that Broadway has shipped to London in recent years, Waitress is quite possibly the greatest as Sara Bareillles takes an unflinching look at 21st century America thro…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, March 7, 2019
Musical theatre comedy done well is a blissful way to spend an evening. So it is with Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5, currently playing to packed houses at the Savoy Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, March 5, 2019
Waitress opens in the West End this week and I grabbed a rare, brief opportunity to chat with the musical's Tony-winning director Diane Paulus about the show.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, February 12, 2019
In the #MeToo era Madeleine Gould and Joel Samuels have written what could have been an interesting take on the subject of consent. A too short two-hander immerses the small audience into mo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSaturday, January 26, 2019
By the time director Shuntaro Fujita’s slick and sun-kissed production draws to a close, it’s impossible not to root for Violet’s happiness.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, January 25, 2019
Celebrating 10 years at the Lyric Theatre, a memorable production of Thriller Live played to a full house. Adrian Grant’s vision, breathed into life by Gary Lloyd’s direction and choreog…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, January 22, 2019
Witness For The Prosecution is a glorious fusion of classic storytelling, first class production values and top-notch acting.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSunday, January 13, 2019
Chasing Bono, the latest play from writing partnership Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, is currently playing at London’s Soho Theatre until 19 January 2019. The play is loosely drawn on th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThursday, January 10, 2019
In an impressive Duncan double-act, The Dame transfers from the Edinburgh Fringe to London’s Park Theatre and makes for compelling theatre. In her first play, Katie Duncan writes, for fath…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSunday, January 6, 2019
Transferring to the capital from a sold-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe, Richard Shelton’s tribute to Frank Sinatra makes for a fabulous evening.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, December 24, 2018
One of the best-loved ballets, Nutcracker returns to London’s Coliseum and is a real festive treat from start to finish.
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SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSunday, December 23, 2018
Caroline, or Change is a curious show that sees a five-star cast deliver distinctly flawed material. Set in an early 1960s Louisiana.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:05AMThursday, December 20, 2018
Simon Callow’s telling of A Christmas Carol at the Arts Theatre is theatrical perfection. A solo performance, aided only by subtly ingenious projections and the occasional, immaculately ti…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, December 19, 2018
With Berlin’s classic numbers and in the gifted creative hands of director Nikolai Foster and his choreographer Stephen Mear, White Christmas becomes a fabulous feel-good delight.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, December 18, 2018
Expectations are high for a festive ghost story from the National. With its world-class resources, the theatre offers a wondrous potential to stage the most chilling of tales and when the so…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, December 17, 2018
As one of dance’s most iconic productions, Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake returns home to a rapturous reception.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSaturday, December 15, 2018
Returning to the RSC and the Barbican for The Merry Wives of Windsor after his triumph in Titus Andronicus last year is David Troughton as the drunken and self-proclaimed womaniser, Falstaff…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, December 14, 2018
In another example of London’s fringe theatre at its unmissable finest, Chasing Bono at Soho Theatre offers an evening of flawless entertainment.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, December 12, 2018
In an exciting and ambitious move for one of London’s leading Off-West End venues, the Park Theatre splashes the cash on its Christmas production and with flying experts Foy on board, have…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, December 10, 2018
Writer/director Susie McKenna delivers her 20th festive production – Aladdin – with a show that captures the diversity of her London patch, yet cleverly avoids cultural appropriation and…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSunday, December 9, 2018
In eschewing any trendy political statement to hang around his work, Nunn has made it all the more poignant and powerful. Deservedly sold out for the rest of its Menier run, his Fiddler On T…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, December 7, 2018
You enter a dark basement in the heart of the West End. RuPaul is blaring, lights are flashing and there is dancing. Yet this is not a club. Instead, it’s Hot Gay Time Machine.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM 
