Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Shoe Lady is an intriguing and well-considered examination of the social and domestic pressures placed on women to perform multiple and often contradictory roles in our society.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThursday, March 5, 2020
It may be almost 20 years old, but Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years feels timeless and recognisable and this bold restaging at Southwark Playhouse is a triumph.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, February 25, 2020
The psychology of Blithe Spirit snaps convincingly into place in Richard Eyre’s production while at the same time it fully utilises every opportunity to make the audience laugh.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, February 20, 2020
A Number packs a lot of themes, meaning and ideas into just an hour of stage time in a production that asks big questions about scientific progress.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, February 13, 2020
Tom Stoppard’s personal story in Leopoldstadt sees the writer return to form as a commentator of cultural, social and historical patterns.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, February 5, 2020
Much is to be taken from the strangeness of the settings and fine characterful performances in Endgame and Rough For Theatre II which should please Beckett fans and providing plenty of thoug…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, January 29, 2020
In opening-up the female experience of the era in Faustus: That Damned Woman, Chris Bush reinforces the decision to switch the gender of the central character.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, January 24, 2020
This Uncle Vanya is more roundedly entertaining than other recent productions and while that detracts a little from the emotional undercurrents of the original, the fluidity and richness of …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, January 8, 2020
In The Tyler Sisters Alexandra Wood reverses expectations of storytelling and in the process fills a notable gap in charting the experience of just being a sister day-to-day and year-to-year.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, December 31, 2019
With a new year fast approaching, it is an interesting time to reflect on small changes across the theatre landscape in 2019 that will continue to shape how UK theatre will look as it moves …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, December 24, 2019
In a strong year for new London productions, Curtains finishes 2019 on a high with a true song and dance show that glories in its love of the stage and the process of putting on a production.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, December 17, 2019
In Teenage Dick Mike Lew has created a version of Richard III that suits the high school context extremely well, asking the audience to consider attitudes to disability, power and social str…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, December 10, 2019
With its comment on the burden of expectation placed on women, class struggle, race and sexuality, more than six decades on A Taste Of Honey has lost none of its bite.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSaturday, December 7, 2019
Reimagined for the modern stage with a contemporary cast led by James McAvoy, Jamie Lloyd’s production of Cyrano de Bergerac feels at every moment like theatre at its most exciting, libera…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, November 27, 2019
Melly Still’s reworking of April De Angelis’ adaptation of My Brilliant Friend gives the show both a flowing and episodic quality as the interior monologue of the protagonist in the book…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, November 13, 2019
The skill with which this production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane has been developed clearly demonstrates a theatre company with a revitalised energy.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMTuesday, November 5, 2019
If this inaugural show, Ghost Quartet, means the new Boulevard Theatre is setting out its stall for a programme of unusually staged and challenging productions in the future then there is ev…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, October 31, 2019
While the descent into a kind of collective insanity may seem strange in lieu of a plot in Annie Baker’s Antipodes at the National Theatre, as with all her work you find your thoughts retu…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, October 22, 2019
Part of the success of Lungs is that it is not the uber-liberal, finger-wagging climate change play you expect it to be, plus both the production’s stars are superb and entirely believable…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, October 3, 2019
It has been a long time since the West End saw a truly great Macbeth so perhaps this is a chance for Simm and Kirwan to buck the trend with impressive performances that offer a different per…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, September 26, 2019
Marina Carr’s coherent vision for Blood Wedding delivers a production that is unforgiving, creating a portentous world in which notions of love and freedom will always be trampled by the s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, September 12, 2019
In A Very Expensive Poison Lucy Prebble has serious arguments to outlay about the relationship between international governments and narrative misdirection, but the broadly comic approach to…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, September 4, 2019
Hansard is a great political play, one that tells us everything about the society we have become and why the impasse of the last three years cannot be easily broken.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, August 27, 2019
Jacobs-Jenkins explores how even fairly recent national history can be sanitised and reduced when examined from only one perspective in Appropriate at the Donmar Warehouse.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, August 22, 2019
Like its predecessors, 2019’s Les Misérables: The Staged Concert will be long remembered as another notable event in the musical’s performance history, heralding the return of Michael B…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, August 13, 2019
Actually has its issues as a drama and the heavily discursive competing narratives approach limits how the play is staged that can feel repetitive at times, but Ziegler has created a scenari…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, August 9, 2019
With plenty to say about the shallow foundations of political leaders hiding behind their PR machines, Jamie Lloyd’s triumphant Evita is raw, fresh and intense – “oh what a show!”
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, July 29, 2019
As the conclusion to a strong season of unusual Williams revivals, Southern Belles proves valuable and illuminating, concluding with an important moment of solidarity that leaves the audienc…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, July 24, 2019
Max Vernon’s musical The View UpStairs making its European debut at the Soho Theatre and running for just five weeks, commemorates the 1973 arson attack on a gay bar in New Orleans which w…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, July 17, 2019
Gripping performances from Clive Owen and Lia Williams, and James Macdonald’s slow-burn direction allows Tennessee Williams’ writing in The Night Of The Iguana to cast its spell.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, July 12, 2019
The staging and orchestration of the Palladium’s new version of Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat looks to the future, as a whole new set of children fall in love with this pe…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM 
