Friday, July 22, 2022
It’s that glorious Gershwin music that carries Crazy For You at Chichester Festival Theatre. Sure, there are some funny lines, and the plot has the classic boy-meets-girl-but-doesn’t-rea…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, July 1, 2021
If you’ve been starved of productions to make you think, Copenhagen at Mayflower Mast Studios, Southampton is an excellent way to ease yourself back into a stalls seat and re-engage your b…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, November 4, 2020
Crave is a blunt force impact of emotion, building to a frenzy and then, in a little under 50 minutes, it’s over and we leave. The world outside is just the same, but we’re refreshed –…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWednesday, April 22, 2020
When I want to scream, I go to see live sport. I can shout, scream and roar in support of my teams and vent any emotions that way. When I want to laugh, or smile (or cry), I have always turn…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSaturday, November 9, 2019
Bartlett Sher’s new production of Les Miserables may not have the cosy familiarity of the original Trevor Nunn (I still miss the revolve) but it makes up for that with a relentless energy.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, September 29, 2019
See this production of Macbeth for those masterful central performances, they’re more than worth the price of admission, even if so much of the rest is “full of sound and fury, signifyin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, August 29, 2019
Towards Zero is a play I wasn’t familiar with if I’m honest, but if it isn’t the best known of Agatha Christie’s works, it does have a reputation as the best of her stage adaptations.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, July 23, 2019
This year Chichester Festival Theatre is taking on Oklahoma! with their usual mix of respect for the piece and urge to find a new viewpoint on it.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, June 19, 2019
If, like me, you still love to stick your head in a book and long to remember the days you could read for hours unencumbered by the worries of the world then get along and see Matilda The Mu…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, June 14, 2019
We’re told Plenty is viewed as a modern classic. For the life of me I have no idea why and the sterling work of this excellent cast can do nothing to dissuade me.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, May 3, 2019
Shadowlands, the William Nicholson play that charts the story of C.S. Lewis’ correspondence-turned-relationship with the American poet Joy Gresham, is such a perfect fit for the Chichester…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWednesday, May 1, 2019
This Is My Family is a little gem from Calendar Girls/Neville’s Island writer Tim Firth which blindsided me with its warmth and sense of fun, even when dealing with painful situations.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMTuesday, January 29, 2019
This new production of American Idiot from Selladoor is as brash, raucous and punchy as you might expect and opens with all guns blazing into the title song. T
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, August 30, 2018
In a wonderful case of life imitating art I have now, at the third time of trying, finally made it along to see The Play That Goes Wrong, a show that has done its best to elude me both in th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMMonday, July 30, 2018
Bianca Del Rio made her name on season six of Ru Paul’s Drag Race nearly five years ago, but she’s been performing for far longer and it shows.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMTuesday, July 10, 2018
In Sheffield Daniel Evans made a name for himself with dazzling musicals that were, for all the razzamatazz, full of heart and he’s done the same here, taking a show so familiar and findin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, April 19, 2018
It’s not often you see a touring production greeted with a standing ovation but as one of the many on their feet I can say it was thoroughly deserved for Titanic the Musical. Shows like th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, April 17, 2018
It’s a happy 2nd birthday to Mischief Theatre’s The Comedy About a Bank Robbery, the laugh-a-minute farce has just announced an extension that will see it into its third year entertainin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, April 5, 2018
If you enjoyed Antony Sher’s Lear, his Willy Loman or any of his previous books this is a must read, and if you have any interest in the inner thoughts of a performer at the top of their p…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, February 1, 2018
The Weir is a piece of theatre that will remind you that at its best all you need are a few good voices with some well-chosen words for a thoroughly enthralling evening.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMCasting has been confirmed for the first ever UK and Ireland tour of Maury Yeston and Peter Stone’s Titanic The Musical.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMMonday, January 29, 2018
Hamilton is everything you might hope for. Lin-Manuel Miranda has written a piece that is at once gloriously current and utterly timeless. The cast at the Victoria Palace Theatre gleans ever…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMSunday, January 21, 2018
Ria Jones, so resplendent when she stepped into Norma’s shoes at the Coliseum in 2016 (we were lucky enough to be at one of those shows is once again in the title role and she gives a powe…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, January 13, 2018
It’s all too easy, as you enter the auditorium, to be sucked into The Play That Goes Wrong before it even begins. The cast, deep in character, intermingle with the audience to such effect …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThursday, November 16, 2017
Angus Jackson bookends the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Rome season, his traditional dress Julius Caesar having opened it he now caps it off with a modern set Coriolanus.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMMonday, October 2, 2017
Ian McKellen immediately makes the intimate space his own, the dialogue almost conversational and his Lear a warm-hearted soul with a twinkle in his eye. This is surely as good as it gets, a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, August 18, 2017
It’s somehow fitting that the last Shakespeare of Emma Rice’s final (summer) season is King Lear. A play that shows us how the established world can change based on one rash decision wil…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, July 31, 2017
Jez Butterworth and Sam Mendes are names pretty much guaranteed to make any theatregoing regular pay attention, both are synonymous with high quality productions (Butterworth’s Jerusalem r…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, June 25, 2017
As a regular theatre goer I’m often asked by friends what plays and musicals I’d most like to see a production of… not the shows I just haven’t had a chance to catch but the ones tha…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, June 23, 2017
Stephen Lowe’s Touched is a curious play… flat on the page, it comes alive on the stage! Lowe’s story of a trio of sisters, their friend and family and the curious time between VE day …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, June 12, 2017
There’s a reason it’s a lesser known play, all of the usual Tennessee Williams tropes are here; lust abounds, there are layers of manipulation and the sweltering south is almost a charac…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM 
