Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Nothing feels rushed in Robert Hastie’s wonderful new production of The Yor Realist at the Donmar Warehouse, allowing this beautifully sad production to really touch the heart. A modern cl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMTuesday, February 6, 2018
The Bristol Old Vic’s production of Long Day’s Journey into Night at Wyndham’s wrings excellent performances from its leads and brings clarity to O’Neill’s huge canvas.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, January 31, 2018
Nicholas Hytner’s production of Julius Caesar at the Bridge Theatre is nothing short of a Roman triumph, capturing the wonderful lyricism of Shakespeare’s writing, in what are some of hi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, January 24, 2018
Following the success of The Flick, which had its UK premiere in the Dorfman in 2016, Annie Baker’s latest play, intriguingly called John, makes its London debut in the same space.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, January 19, 2018
Ian Rickson’s production is a tense and unnerving experience that utilises all the skills of its excellent cast to reinforce the oddity of one of Pinter’s most performed plays.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMFriday, January 5, 2018
A dark new Agatha Christie adaptation has become something of a Christmas tradition, and even though the BBC only started this tradition two years ago with an excellent multi-part interpreta…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, December 28, 2017
Naturally, facing what felt like a significant and unbreachable rift, instability and economic downturn was the likely outcome, which for the arts, could only mean one thing – cultural de…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, December 19, 2017
The Grinning Man may not be suitable for children (it has an age limit of 12 years), and it’s certainly not a Christmas show in any way, but within the grotesque world that Grose, Morris, …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, December 15, 2017
Because this is an exceptional year, imperfections seem more glaring, plays that haven’t quite found their rhythm are more obvious, and Amy Herzog’s new play Belleville, premiering at th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, December 12, 2017
On Sunday (10 December 2017), MyTheatreMates welcomed 15 theatre bloggers to the inaugural #MatesMeetUp at the Union Theatre in Southwark, London. In the Union's buzzing Over the Road cafe, …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:45AMTuesday, December 5, 2017
We are endlessly fascinated by spies and the nature of betrayal. For those who knew the men spying for Russia in the mid-Twentieth Century, more than country or ideology, it is the personal …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, November 22, 2017
It’s a layered story that opens with a pub quiz, setting the scene for the world of obsessive competition fanatics, laying a direct trail from that bar to the gameshow hot-seat.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, November 14, 2017
Network is enthralling, interpreting a strange story in a slick, fast-moving production that manages to reveal the media’s rather shallow relationship with truth and makes profound stateme…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMMonday, November 6, 2017
The Playhouse Theatre seems to attract a big American star at least once a year; this year it’s the turn of Christian Slater who takes on the lead role in the latest revival of Glengarry G…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:30PM 
