Florian Zeller’s name is fast becoming a byword for gripping, fascinating and often brilliantly funny theatre. Productions of The Mother and The Father have racked up critical raves and wh…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:27AMLike most of Shakespeare’s tragedies, Macbeth works best when viewed on the strength of the relationships between its characters. Sure the blood and guts murders are ways to get bum on sea…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:26AMAnarchy! It’s not what you expect from a Shakespeare play… even one that has been performed in as many ways as A Midsummer Night’s Dream has been tackled. Emma Rice’s debut piece in…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:38AMCan I start with a confession? I never really “got” Titanic… Sure, Maury Yeston’s music and Peter Stone’s book had the requisite bombast, but I’d never seen much evidence of the …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:15AMPress week was delayed when Kathy Rose O’Brien was injured and unable to perform but, as we should expect in a year where Ria Jones and Natasha Barnes have stepped up and stolen the show i…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:25AMThe mix of Damon Runyon’s characters with Frank Loesser’s music has always been hugely popular and this vibrant production, directed by Gordon Greenberg brings it bang up to date with pu…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:05AMHugh Bonneville, making a long-awaited return to the stage, plays the role of Dr Stockmann to perfection with a mix of zealous need to do what is right and just a touch of egotistically need…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:03AMBefore today I knew she was good but by the time I left the theatre I was sure of one thing… Ria Jones is a star!
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:15PMFinal casting is announced for the return of the multi award-winning production of the Broadway musical Titanic, first seen at Southwark Playhouse, which is coming back to London with direct…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:20AMI’m a bit of an Avenue Q fan, I think we can admit that. In fact, every time this production has appeared anywhere near home I’ve made a point to go see it, you can read my thoughts on t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:49AMBut how do the plays translate to the small screen? Surprisingly well actually. The RSC’s theatre is tailormade for filming a production with the thrust stage allowing for a variety of ang…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:02PMIt’s been almost a quarter of a century (well, 23 and a half years) since Stephen Daldry’s revival of An Inspector Calls first opened in London and it was 18 years ago that I first saw i…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:48AMThis year may be the battle of the Cymbelines, with the Royal Shakespeare Company presenting their take while the Globe present two versions, one currently running in the Sam Wanamaker Playh…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:21AMGreat rehearsal images from Hamlet, starring Paapa Essiedu in the title role. Hamlet opens 12 March 2016 in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. Photos by Manuel Harlan for th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:44AMIn the theatre news round-up this week: Dreamgirls, The Painkiller, In the Heights and more.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:11AMAnother week has passed and somehow I still haven’t been to the theatre (damn that day job!), but that doesn’t mean there hasn’t been a whole heap of theatre news to excite us all. Her…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:52PMThe festive season is long gone, pantomimes have finished and hundreds of actors are putting away their Dame costumes for another year, the presents have been put away (or exchanged) and aft…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:52PMFor some Christmas begins when they leave the office for the last time before the holidays. For others it’s the moment the Coca-Cola advert starts running on the TV. For me Christmas begin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:04PMIt’s that time of year again, when critics, theatre writers and bloggers all put together their lists of the shows that have most impressed them this year, so after a great deal of thought…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:13AMThe BFG is perhaps the most beloved of Roald Dahl’s brilliantly twisted stories for children (though theatre fans may have fallen for Matilda in recent years). It’s certainly one that pe…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:38PMbeing laid up on the sofa has allowed me to keep my head above water with the volume of theatre news emerging lately, so I thought this would be a good time to start my new weekly round-up o…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:17AMDirty Rotten Scoundrels was last year’s must-see musical in the West End, with audiences and critics lapping up the jokes and raving about Robert Lindsay’s performance. Predictably I did…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:05PMShakespeare has loomed large over London’s theatre scene in 2015, from the fevered anticipation to Benedict Cumberbatch’s performances in (the underwhelming) Hamlet to Kenneth Branagh fo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:00AMAs the Royal Shakespeare Company King and Country cycle hits London's Barbican Centre, Matt Merritt is catching up on this insightful interview with the company's industrious composer, Paul …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:19AMRomeo and Juliet is, of course, one of (probably the) most famous love stories ever told. It seems then a fitting subject for a ballet and I was excited to see how English National Ballet wo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:32AMWith Sweeney Todd being my favourite musicals, I had been looking forward to the Welsh National Opera’s staging for quite some time. There is something about the tragedy coupled with Sondh…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:24AMThe Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) returns to the Barbican in November with Henry V, followed by a major theatrical event in January 2016 to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:01PMHow do you approach a play when the film based on it is steeped in generations of lavish praise and is a regular on “favourite” and “best” lists? Well, if HumdrumR…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:46PMI was hugely impressed by the Regent’s Park Theatre production of To Kill A Mockingbird when it toured earlier this year, so I was eager to see how they’d approach another modern…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:28PMI’ve long been a Miss Saigon fan and adored the new production when it opened in London last year, so when I was offered the chance to head back to the gorgeous Prince Edward Theatre a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:08AMI’m often asked by friends and workmates why I’m so passionate about theatre and what got me hooked on going to see shows. I normally just turn the question back on them with wha…
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