Monday, January 30, 2023
Nellie Bly (1864-1922, played by writer/performer Katie Overstall) is set for an adventure, and she doesn’t want to be stuck writing on her newspaper’s gossip column.
Inspired by …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, January 26, 2023
This vibrant, vicious, violent, and vivacious two-hour adaptation by Scott Graham and Simon Hoggett for Frantic Assembly at the Lyric Hammersmith places Othello in a land of gangs, drugs, an…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, January 20, 2023
Ultimately, Iphigenia at the Hope Theatre is a fascinating piece which has lots of ideas about how women are treated, and where their choices lie, but it stops just short of being as emotion…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, January 17, 2023
In Dots and Dashes: A Bletchley Park Musical, which comes to London from the Edinburgh Fringe, the women of Bletchley Park are centre stage, clever mathematicians, linguists, and navigators …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, January 12, 2023
Wreckage, Tom Ratcliffe’s latest play to reach London (he also performs as Sam) is an ambitious and emotional powerhouse about love, loss, and regret at the Turbine Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, January 7, 2023
With a setlist that covers different moods, a striptease, some audience participation, a fair sprinkling of upstaging, and a large dollop of nostalgia through a prism of parody, A Night At T…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, December 21, 2022
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of Deafinitely Theatre, Talking Hands has been created in partnership with Paines Plough, allowing five deaf writers to share their stories of lockdown.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, December 9, 2022
It’s misty and cold in the Park Theatre’s main auditorium. An oppressive half-light frames the stage where the tale of the lost lighthouse keepers (the ‘wickies’) of Eilean Mor will …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, December 3, 2022
Mother Goose at the Hackney Empire moves along at a cracking pace. Even with a short salute to the 120 years of the Hackney(wood) Empire, Mother Goose is one of the best options available th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, November 30, 2022
The Rocky Horror Show started as a tiny fringe production upstairs at the Royal Court, nearly 50 years ago. Over time it has grown and developed, but still retains the connection with fans w…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, November 27, 2022
What happens when you cross A Christmas Carol with Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle and add a murder mystery and a love interest (Rosie Armstrong) from the past? It’s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, November 22, 2022
Now with the addition of a further four cast members, Love Goddess at The Cockpit has become a full-length musical, in which the events in the former Margarita Carmen Cansino’s life play o…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, November 6, 2022
In David Ireland’s charming two-hander Not Now at the Finborough Theatre his usual concern about the British-Irish question of identity remains, but without the explosions of violence char…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, October 31, 2022
Daddy Issues at the Seven Dials Playhouse a play which definitely adds to the conversation about mental health and what our parents pass on to us, but it didn’t quite get there in my opini…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMMonday, October 24, 2022
A day in the life of George, an Englishman living in America, in his fifties – a man alone following the death of his younger partner, Jim. A man of routine habits, but this is no routine …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, October 20, 2022
I shed a tear or two at the end of the symbolic and powerful tale that is Life is Pi at the Wyndham’s Theatre, which leaves the West End on 15 January 2023. If you can, take yourself along…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, October 16, 2022
The first of a double-bill I watched last night at the King’s Head Theatre Pub, Fame Whore (the creation of Tom Ratcliffe – writer/director, and Gigi Zahir – lyricist/performer) finall…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, October 11, 2022
There’s a new musical from Skitzoid Productions in town at the Waterloo East Theatre, and it is one with a message – or to be accurate, several messages. We are all present at a sales co…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, October 6, 2022
It takes a fair bit of courage to open a new London venue with a play about the honour of Russia given the current political situation; but that is what we have in Dmitry, currently playing …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, September 30, 2022
Jessica Walker and Joseph Atkins bring a touch of cabaret to English Touring Opera in this intimate show, co-produced by Royal & Derngate, captured on film and directed by James Dacre wi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, September 27, 2022
Abigail Thorn’s new play The Prince takes inspiration from Shakespeare and time travel to deliver a funny and deeply original take on gender norms and expectations.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, September 25, 2022
The set (by Tim Hatley) is absolutely beautiful in the much anticipated, new original play The Snail House from celebrated theatre director Richard Eyre, giving a sense of occasion and opule…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMThursday, September 22, 2022
When in 1964 Samuel Beckett (Stephen Tompkinson) and Harold Pinter (Andrew Lancel) play in the same cricket match in the Cotswolds, you might expect something out of the ordinary. Filmed liv…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, September 13, 2022
Finn (Elijah Ferreira) and Jass (Jade Johnson), who identify as queer, are the last two people left alive by circumstance after a suffocating fog in the charming one-act musical Help! We Are…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, September 9, 2022
There’s a fabulous new musical in town at the Playground Theatre. Several years in the making, Rehab The Musical is written and composed by Grant Black (whose dad Don was in the house on p…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, September 1, 2022
Both exhilarating and frustrating, Muses brings something new and innovative to the theatre space. It’s often just beautiful, and sometimes bizarre. I’m interested to see what Puro Caos …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, August 29, 2022
An epic musical available on-demand from The Space, The Brontës is the latest depiction of the famed Yorkshire family of writers in the 19th century.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, August 27, 2022
In a world heavily populated with jukebox shows The Osmonds is more Jersey Boys or Sunny Afternoon than Tina or The Cher Show. A fine evening’s entertainment.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, August 24, 2022
Dominique Izabella Little’s 40-minute show Sold By Mama comes to the Camden Fringe, playing at the Hen & Chickens Theatre. Prior to acting, Little worked as a docu-fiction filmmaker, a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, August 22, 2022
Just An Ordinary Lawyer is one of two shows which Tayo Aluko and Friends have available both live and online on-demand at the Edinburgh Fringe this year, and this one focuses on Nigerian Tun…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, August 17, 2022
Jo Emery Productions brings this show to the digital strand of Camden Fringe. Boiling Frog is a series of interconnecting monologues across 90 minutes.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM 
