Exploitation can take many forms and sometimes it even begins with a creative opportunity. Sonali Bhattacharyya’s lead character in new play Chasing Hares at the Young Vic takes a while to…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMNot quite a perfect version of Closer at Lyric Hammersmith but a compelling one. If the heart really just looks like a fist wrapped in blood then why, Lizzimore’s production asks, does it …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMDelayed by Covid for over two years, Jack Absolute Flies Again finally lands on the Olivier stage when we have never needed Richard Bean and Oliver Chris’ goofy and hilarious romp more. An…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFirst female friendship is the focus of Roy Williams’ latest play The Fellowship, premiering at the Hampstead Theatre as class, race and past activism haunts this family saga.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMAmbassadors Theatre, London – until 4 September 2022 For the second time in successive weeks an American family drama opens in the West End and while Jitney may be a less obvious group of …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMJitney, revived at the Old Vic in a production by Tinuke Craig, is a piece that took the best part of 40 years to make it to Broadway in late 2016 after decades of smaller productions around…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTony Blair became an MP and Prime Minister with the sole intention of meeting Mick Jaggers [sic], at least in Harry Hill and Steve Brown’s new satire Tony! [The Tony Blair Rock Opera] at t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMAmy Adams, already an acclaimed and multi Oscar-nominated film actor with some notable stage experience in the US, makes her West End debut in Jeremy Herrin’s new version of The Glass Mena…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMDelayed two years by the pandemic, one of the most hotly anticipated shows of 2020 finally makes it to the stage in 2022. The combination of TV writer and former Dr Who showrunner Steven Mof…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMIf you want to see a My Fair Lady that feels like a scene for scene remake of the film, then this production at the London Coliseum will not disappoint, but equally for anyone looking for a …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMAs Jez Butterworth’s production returns to the West End, with original cast members Mark Rylance and Mackenzie Crook, it is interesting to reflect on how well-anointed modern classics fare…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThe Young Vic presents a rather sexy version of Oklahoma! that replaces twee interpretations of cowboy country with a throbbing desire that inflicts the inhabitants of this rural town, and b…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMJackie Sibblies Drury’s new play is an entirely female affair, no male characters are present, implied or even speak, only the time-travelling idea of Mary, her ghostly mother, Mary’s da…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMike Bartlett has made a bit of an art out of notions of the counter-factual future. In The 47th, he grounds his flights of fancy in the knowledge of institutions, people and political tides.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThis wacky tale of faked miracles, town economics, mental health and social segregation is a puzzling one, combining some really great Stephen Sondheim songs and some strong female character…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMAaron Sorkin’s much-anticipated production of To Kill a Mockingbird may have had to exchange original British lead Rhys Ifans for the equally impressive Rafe Spall, but otherwise emerges r…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMIvo van Hove puts aside his filmic style for an intimate monologue about the end of love. Starring Ruth Wilson, Jean Cocteau’s play The Human Voice, is a sympathetic study of a woman drive…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTheatre has always been a place to explore identity by using different character perspectives to consider points of view, social structures or inherited notions of what an individual can and…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThe Woods feels decidedly old-fashioned in style and structure, using its characters as ciphers for David Mamet’s abstract conclusions about relationships between men and women.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMHenry V is the greatest war play ever written and is the template for all literary responses to conflict since produced.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMIn Nadim Naaman and Dana Al Fardan’s new musical Broken Wings, there are plenty of soaring melodies for lovers and just as many haunted and broken-hearted ballads for the less romantic.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMIt has been an extraordinarily fruitful partnership between writer Florian Zeller and translator-playwright Christopher Hampton over the past few years with adaptations of Zeller’s disconn…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMIt may be the second time in as many years that Caryl Churchill’s A Number has been performed in London, but it is a play that bears restaging, yielding greater insights every time you see…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMBeautiful, sexy and luminous are words most associated with Hollywood starlets of the 1940s, 50s and 60s, and indeed they were, but they were also talented and savvy movie actors who command…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMStephen Dolginoff’s 2003 musical Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story was the latest in a long line of cultural products inspired by this infamous murder case in 1920s America.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMForce Majeure is a random act of God that cannot be predicted or measured that entirely disrupts planned activity, something we can all appreciate a little better in the past two years.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWhat is a play? A message to the future, a fart in your face or a pain in the arse? What is a play? A message to the future, a fart in your face or a pain in the arse? Just a few of th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWith its interest in identity, ownership, tradition and the ‘rules’ applied to written rather than oral forms, Nell Leyshon’s play, which aired on Radio 3 in 2021, now earns a fully-st…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMIt has been another complicated year for theatres with venues unable to welcome in-person audiences for more than five months of 2021 and the tail end of the year returning to enforced closu…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMDirected by Rupert Goold with a cast of highly talented young performers, this energetic production about teenage desire and the failure of parental direction is a rare musical choice for th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWe’ve all spent far too long sitting alone in our rooms so the cabaret is exactly where we need to be. What emerged as a delicious theatre rumour a few months ago has not only become a rea…
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