Tuesday, October 12, 2021
Director Adam Lenson has something to say about musicals. In this essential text for theatre lovers, he challenges your perceptions of what a musical can, is, and might be.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, October 8, 2021
Theatres were in trouble over the whole of 2020, and many are still waiting for audiences to return to their pre-pandemic levels.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, September 11, 2021
On 11 September 2021, it will mark the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. To commemorate the anniversary, Apple TV+ has filmed a performance of …
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Any new musical must bring cause for celebration, and so I approached this one with some interest. First planned as a stage production and billed as “the world’s first theremin musical…
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Twin sisterhood, space, and the uncertain near future are at play in Amy Berryman’s debut play, Walden, which recently enjoyed a run on stage as part of the Re:Emerge season at the Harold …
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Currently running in stage in the Little at Southwark Playhouse, Lazarus Theatre’s version of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé proves to be a daring, electric, and exhausting feat of theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, September 3, 2021
Paul is dead, killed at his own party. Everyone is a suspect, and most of them had a motive. Written and performed by Emily Head, directed by Guy Unsworth, The System is filmed live in one t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, August 30, 2021
Garry Roost’s play Warhol: Bullet Karma focuses on the events around his shooting by Valerie Solanas (this ground was covered from a more feminist perspective in Femme Fatale).
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, August 29, 2021
Lost in Love is a new play presented by Flow Stage Productions. A brash and funny lady, Emily (Rachel Pryde) has something to tell about her life and the men in it.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSaturday, August 28, 2021
Bette Davis Ain’t For Sissies (the title refers to a Davis quote of some years later about old age) references the women’s lot in the Golden Age of Hollywood – exploitative auditions, …
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Till Love Do Us Part isn’t one of the flashiest productions on the digital fringe in terms of its technical style, but the writing carries it through.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, August 26, 2021
Over on the ZOOTV platform at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, you’ll find Planet of the Grapes, a delicious livestream performed live in New York City. I’m told that on Sunday the city wa…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, August 25, 2021
Marie Lloyd Stole My Life is a beautifully written show, full of pathos and conjuring up the mores and expectations of the time – notably, both Power and Lloyd died prematurely, which high…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, August 23, 2021
Nuworks Theatre, from Australia, bring their lively and passionate musical (written, directed and designed by David Dunn, with choreography by Meg Dunn) about the fight for women’s suffrag…
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East Belfast Boy intrigues from the first frame, and lends itself perfectly to the new format, redefining the boundaries between disparate art forms.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSaturday, August 21, 2021
In Call Me Elizabeth Kayla Boye takes on the difficult task of writing about, and portraying the icon which was Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011). Just like Marilyn Monroe, you feel you already k…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, August 20, 2021
Celebrating 21 years as a hit radio show, the Dead Ringers team – in this case, Jon Culshaw, Debra Stephenson and Duncan Wisbey – have taken up a late August residency in the Big Top ven…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMOriginally planned to be performed live at Summerhall, Katie Bonna’s audio play, The Entertainment, is “about what we carry around inside us”.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, August 18, 2021
Written and performed by Patricia Légaré Eddisford, The Tarantula is just under an hour of monologue, a story that transcends its one-room location.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMQuackpot Productions has brought fresh and quirky show Meet Cute to the Camden Fringe, in which Tim and Gill’s budding romance goes anything but smoothly.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, August 16, 2021
Streaming now on the Summerhall Online platform at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Fow is a very clever and engaging love story from a deaf-led perspective.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, August 13, 2021
Not a lot happens, yet everything happens, as Big Big Sky’s premise is about ordinary people living ordinary lives. Under Tessa Walker’s direction – she has collaborated with Wells bef…
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Filmed entirely on Zoom, whether depicting calls or trips in the car or out into the garden. Regina Frod’s production of Nana and Paige is now streaming in the [email protected] platform at …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMTuesday, August 10, 2021
Captain Condom & the Covid-19 Conundrum masks a very serious message about sexual awareness and education in a funny show utilising the superhero theme.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, August 9, 2021
Now streaming at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe on the Pleasance Online platform, Popelei presents PUSH, a filmed theatre piece about a woman and a pregnancy test. The language is weird, stat…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMIn partnership with Crisis, the And Tomorrow Theatre Company has developed a quintet of plays (Abdictation, Dissolution, Isolation, Desolation) which take Shakespeare’s King Lear as inspir…
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Currently streaming on the Fringe Player platform at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Ithaca is a one-person stage to screen version of The Odyssey.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMFriday, August 6, 2021
Marrying Jake Gyllenhaal, a one-person show written and performed by Melissa Center, is a sweet and sometimes very funny piece which is honest about family and human connections.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, August 4, 2021
While John & Jen can sometimes veer into the sentimental, it does try to bring in numerous issues in modern America, and particularly succeeds in bringing to life the special bond betwee…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, July 28, 2021
Written and performed by Alice Underwood, and directed by Izzy Carney, Don’t Ask Don’t Get, Baby focuses on what happens if you are a “Donor Conceived Person? Honestly I think I prefer…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, July 26, 2021
Based on the true story of how the inhabitants of the small town of Gander, Newfoundland, coped with the diversion of numerous planes from American airspace on 9/11, Come From Away at the Ph…
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