Friday, March 25, 2016
Following the acclaimed success of their production last year of Sad Stories of the Death of Kings, Scena Mundi mark their own celebrations of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death wi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:16PM[SHARE]An informal performance of Buddle and Connor's new song cycle Heart of Winter offered a chance to hear this new-release played live, by Corinne Priest, and to discover its collection of witt…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:10PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 23, 2016
As the lights come up on Simon Godwin's Hamlet with Marcellus and Barnardo keeping watch on Elsinore's perimeter, there are crickets chirping. For whilst Denmark has always been fixed in a t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:15AM[SHARE]Friday, March 18, 2016
Miss Atomic Bomb blasts onto the St James stage with a visually impressive bang. In a show that's a chain reaction of spectacular dance work (including some delicious tap routines), choreogr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 17, 2016
The Churchill's curtain rises, revealing a crashed plane in a jungle-esque setting. To a deeply reverberating score plied with ominous overtones, the stage is set for this darkest of tales.
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SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:53PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 12, 2016
Ten years after it opened (and swiftly closed) in the West End, there's a fringe revival of this tuneful take on life in a women's prison. Drawn from Bad Girls, their popular TV series, Chad…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:14PM[SHARE]Friday, March 11, 2016
Upstairs At The Gatehouse, London****Music by Jule StyneLyrics by Don BlackBook by Jack RosenthalBook revised by David ThompsonLara Stubbs, Sue Kelvin and Robert MaskellJule Styne and Don Bl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:55AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 10, 2016
In a new and novel cabaret set, Colin Savage attempts to teach Michael Webborn, through quick witted comedy and song, the way to get a girl. We discover that pianist Webborn has struggled th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:49AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 9, 2016
Churchill Theatre, Bromley*****Written by Peter QuilterDirected by Daniel BuckroydIt's a well-known story, but a heartbreaker each time it is told. It's the one about the dark side of talent…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 2, 2016
Churchill Theatre, Bromley****Music by Andrew Lloyd WebberLyrics by Tim RiceDirected by Bill KenwrightThe CompanyA technicolour spectacle is promised by the cast and crew of Joseph and it is…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:41AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 1, 2016
With three Olivier Nominations just announced, Florian Zeller's modern French masterpiece The Father and its remarkable insight into the effects of Alzheimer's Disease makes a four-week retu…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:23PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 27, 2016
Miss Julie is set on Midsummer's Eve during a party on the estate of a rich Swedish Count whose daughter is known for behaving, not only with wild abandon, but also below her status. She fin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 25, 2016
Once upon a time Jews wrote the shows…Now it seems they ARE the shows, with revues and plays, some good, some Bad lining up to have the "J" word in the title. The latest pot-pourri - or sh…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:53PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Scott Alan has recently brought out a Deluxe version of the album he released last autumn that featured the paired voices of Cynthia Erivo and Oliver Tompsett. Alan has worked with many of t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:29PM[SHARE]Imagine a play that presents itself as a cocktail of (an extreme take on) TV's Only Fools And Horses with just a twist of Harold Pinter's menace and you start to get close to contemplating t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:50PM[SHARE]Churchill Theatre, Bromley****Written by Willy RussellDirected by Bob TomsonA heart-wrenching tale of a family ruthlessly torn apart by society and yet intrinsically linked by fate, Blood Br…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:13PM[SHARE]Monday, February 22, 2016
Transferring from a sell-out run at Hampstead's Downstairs theatre last year, Phil Davies' Firebird tackles the ghastly undercurrent of child sexual exploitation that blights so many of this…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 21, 2016
In a world that sees the phrase "legend" used far too freely, Ennio Morricone defines the word.
The maestro has been composing film scores since the 1960s and (whilst his name may possibly …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:23PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 20, 2016
As the Shrek UK tour draws to a close, it was fun to catch up with the show's final week at Manchester's Lowry Theatre. Long long ago, before Shrek became a stage musical, it was an award wi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:13PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Fresh out of the 'Bath' as it were and straight into London's West End comes the eagerly anticipated transfer of last year's adaptation of the film Mrs Henderson Presents. Perhaps most commo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:53PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 13, 2016
Much of what makes The RSC great is embodied in Maria Aberg's Doctor Faustus, now playing in Stratford's Swan Theatre. A classic Elizabethan text that is given an invigorating and challengin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:07AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 11, 2016
Stephen Sondheim's Road Show pulls in to Union Street this week for a February residency. It's a curiously intriguing tale, part fact part fiction, inspired by the real life architect Addiso…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:25PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 9, 2016
There really is such a thing as the perfect murder, so the audience is informed by a gleeful Victor Smiley near the beginning of this play: it's the one you've never heard of.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:05PM[SHARE]Friday, February 5, 2016
I Loved Lucy is Lee Tannen's "autobiographical" biography of the final chapters of Lucille Ball's life. An age gap of 40 years separated Ball and Tannen, who had been a devoted fan of Americ…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:04PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 4, 2016
Kander & Ebb's repertoire is famously bleak with musicals that have focused on the rise of Nazism, torture and misery in a Latin American jail, racism in the Deep South and celebrity cr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:46PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Slow down Mr Baz!We all know that moment in The Railway Children….there’s been a landslide, the track is strewn with rocks and rubble that can only spell disaster for the train w…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:13AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 28, 2016
Marty Feldman was a unique comedy turn who could have been a giant. His distinctive boggled eye face and wild hair set him apart visually and as a peer of some of the late 20th century comed…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:08PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Jonathan Larson died tragically young, aged just 35. A writer who touched so many lives, it was an inspired idea that saw Katy Lipson and Guy James mark the twentieth anniversary of his pass…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:21PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Churchill Theatre, Bromley****Music and lyrics by The BeatlesDirected by John MaherThe bandLet It Be, kicking off its tour in Bromley this week, serves as a remarkable reminder of The Beatle…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:13PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 23, 2016
Alan Ayckbourn's latest play sees this most prolific of playwrights fire off yet another salvo of domestic dysfunction. Hero's Welcome, set in a northern English town, treats his audience to…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:27PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 21, 2016
Pleasing on the eye and ear, this 1930s Noël Coward script is brought to life for 2016 by director Tom Attenborough and a cast of five. Telling the story of two newly married divorcees wh…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:42PM[SHARE] 
