We’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…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMJames Graham’s new play Best of Enemies takes us back to the 1960s, demonstrating that the roots of our division partially lay in the creation of televised intellectual debating.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThe nostalgia musical is back in full force with crowd-pleasing easy listening stories that looks back to the 1950s and 60s for their inspiration.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTranslating poetry to the stage can be challenging for both performer and audience, the importance of the language while alive and vivid on the page can feel verbose or intangible, even stat…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMIt’s fascinating to see a play that, 35 years after its UK premiere, has the courage of its convictions, a drama that stays true to its characters with no soapy or simplistic conclusion th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMHilary Mantel and Ben Miles have combined a sizeable semi-fictional tome and the familiar historical story of Henry VIII, distilling them into a properly theatrical show with something new t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMCreating socio-political change and even recognition doesn’t just happen, somewhere, sometime, someone has to fight for it, and history is full of organisations who since the end of absolu…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMBrought to life by two theatre actors on their way to a big career and finally united at the Old Vic, Ferran and Thallon are great now and are only going to get better – make sure you’re…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMOnce Britain’s premier political playwright, David Hare’s more recent plays have received considerably mixed reviews, largely for issues around characterisation which particularly affect…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTaking a hard line on a troublesome musical is smart work and Sheader has given considerable thought to reconfiguring Carousel for twenty-first century audiences. In a mini-season of no…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThis rare revival of The Two Character Play at Hampstead Theatre proves an interesting addition to works that reassess Tennessee Williams’ impact as a dramatist – an intellectual exercis…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWho are we and who are the people we meet? These rather profound questions have, in one way or another, been at the heart of Sonia Friedman’s brief Re:Emerge season at the Harold Pinter Th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWe may not have been able to see our fellow digital audience members but we knew they were there, making The Dumb Waiter feel like a communal event.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFourteen months and four attempts later, Hairspray is finally back in the West End – the energy, sentiment and exhilaration of the show is completely irresistible.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMMaking Under Milk Wood a story within a story is a risk but one that pays off, adding a tender father-son connection that ties that multifaceted sprawl of Dylan Thomas’ story together.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMAs a modern movie musical, In the Heights employs many of its shot, direction and choreographic techniques to create a swirling visual experience that immerses the audience in the story.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMAlfred Fagon’s fascinating two act drama opened at the venue in 1975 and while some of its gender attitudes may have dated, so much of Death of a Black Man feels as fresh and challenging n…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMDuchess Theatre, London – 13 June 2021 As theatres reopen, the long influence of digital forms is already making itself felt. Jack Holden’s new play Cruise premiered online last month vi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThe Barn is a gripping two act piece whose perfect storm of story, tone and character will be a must-see on stage before too long.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTarantula isn’t perfect and is certainly too long but Ridley’s latest twin works have been ideally suited to the nature of hybrid theatre, utilising the intimate and seemingly one-to-one…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThe Royal Shakespeare Company joins forces with BBC4 for the world premiere of A Winter’s Tale, a production intended for the 2020 stage and all but lost to theatre history.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMA Splinter of Ice moves away from a basic biography by mirroring its spy subjects and never allowing the audience to be quite sure which of its many faces is the real one.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMNational Theatre and Sky Arts’ hybrid theatre and film production of Romeo & Juliet has been a fascinating experiment resulting in a smart, interesting and entirely collaborative piece…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThe Meaning of Zong and Afterplay showcase the power of audio drama to transport an audience’s imagination and to see the familiar a little differently. With light at the end of the t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMAssembly, the first production from the Donmar Local company, shows a lot of promise, combining an enthusiastic group of performers with a creative team eager to explore technical boundaries…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWhen we left 1 and A in Episode 14 of Athena Stevens’ Late Night Staring at High Res Pixels they were both in some kind of moral and emotional jeopardy, and it seemed appropriate on Intern…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMLate Night Staring at High Res Pixels has already become a gripping anatomy of relationships and the attempts to manipulate two quite different women.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWith a charitable donation for every digital ticket sold going to Women for Refugee Women, Little Wars is still an all too rare experience – a play that puts women at its centre without fo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFestivals are a vital part of the theatre ecosystem, a place to try out new material, explore form and style while giving a valuable platform to all kinds of performance. These activities ha…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThe RSC, Young Vic and Theatre for a New Audience have a difficult but fascinating task ahead in re-creating lost work Swingin’ the Dream that honours the original while offering something…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWith director Stanley Kramer’s making of the groundbreaking film Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner as its subject matter, Tracy-Ann Oberman and David Spicer’s new radio drama has a compelli…
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