I’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…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:06PMRehearsals are now underway for the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company’s Plays at the Garrick season. The Winter’s Tale will play in repertory alongside the Rattigan double-bill of …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:02PMCheck out the teaser trailer for the forthcoming play starring Nicole Kidman and directed by Michael Grandage. It opens September 5th at the Noel Coward TheatreFor more information head…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:20PMFinal casting has been announced for the World Première of Pure Imagination, which celebrates the songs of Leslie Bricusse, one of the most prolific and well loved film and musical thea…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:28PMBorn in the heart of London, Genesis Ballet is a newly formed dance company that fuses classical, contemporary with other contributing styles. A brainchild of artistic experimentation, Genes…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:05AMOkay, so I’m a little late to the party, you’ve probably already read a number of reviews of Grand Hotel all raving about it. I can honestly tell you though that they’re al…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:05PMMeet Chowsie. She’s a bit of a diva, but when you’re dazzling West End audiences like she is who can blame her? Chowsie takes us on a tour Backstage at the Savoy Theatre wh…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:34PMIt’s fitting that in a Chichester Festival Theatre season that ends with three of Chekhov’s early works they also feature a play so indebted to his introspective, often melanchol…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:46PMThe wonderful Willemijn Verkaik has announced a solo concert next month and we’re very excited! Read on for more details…Dutch vocal powerhouse Willemijn Verkaik will play …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:38PMFull casting is announced for the Swan Theatre production of Marina Carr’s new play based on the epic tale of Hecuba, directed by RSC Deputy Artistic Director Erica Whyman with Derbhle…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:17PMRichard II is one of Shakespeare’s great treats and, for this writer at least, contains some of his most beautiful writing as well as one of the more fascinating storylines in the cano…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:12PMIt won’t shock any of our readers to hear we’re very excited about The RSC presenting Henry V as part of their winter season. Their Henry IV was a highlight of 2014 and both prod…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:21PMMack and Mabel has long been known as a troublesome musical. Various reasons have been given for why it has repeatedly failed to secure itself a spot as a permanent favourite of the theatreg…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:25AMI can finally tick it off the list, and if I waited longer than I should have, I can reassure myself that I made a fantastic choice in my first show there. I’ve followed Lazarus Theatre’…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:13PMCheck out this gorgeous take on “Girl In The Mirror” from Grand Hotel. A lovely vocal from Victoria Serra!GRAND HOTELBook by Luther Davis Music and Lyrics by George Forrest and R…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:23AMTake a blockbuster movie, add a bunch of songs and some sparkly costumes and stick it on a stage… A tried and tested recipe for success and one that seems to be a guarantee of success. It …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:01PMMeasure For Measure is one of Shakespeare’s problematic plays, a comedy that can be difficult to come to terms with for modern audiences. The mix of bawdy banter and religious fervour …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:52PMCider with Rosie is one of those plays… you know, the ones you’ve definitely heard of and you think you know a bit about but that you’ve somehow never seen. Determined to r…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:21AMREBECCA is timeless; the book beloved by generations and the iconic Alfred Hitchcock Oscar winning film a classic. Now REBECCA arrives on the stage! Emma Rice, the award winni…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:14AMThe forthcoming UK tour of Terence Rattigan’s FLARE PATH, directed by Justin Audibert, has today announced the full cast, headed by the previously announced Leon Ockenden as Peter Kyle, Ol…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:05PMIt has been said that ‘You won’t succeed on Broadway if you don’t have any Jews’. Broadway wouldn’t be what it is today without the Jewish composers and writers whose melodies we…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:35PMWe’ve always been fascinated by those shows that never make it… the ones that arrive in a furore of excitement and almost immediately disappear again. So as you can imagine, this…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:43AMIt’s consistently hailed as one of the greatest musicals, topped Mark Shenton’s list of favourites and was one of the best things we saw last year… and now Chichester Festi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:21PMIn recent years Chichester Festival Theatre has had a knack of creating hit after hit from fresh takes on classic musicals. I suppose it was inevitable then that they would eventually come t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:10AMFinal casting is announced today for the European premiere of Orson’s Shadow, a critically acclaimed comedy by Austin Pendleton, about the time when Hollywood giants Orson Welles and L…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:25PMI’m constantly amazed that these days if I miss a major production of a play in the West End I can generally pop along to the local cinema and watch it there or even in some cases but …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:51PMBeverley Knight is to star in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s record-breaking musical Cats to play the role of Grizabella. Returning to the London Palladium from 23 October 2015, Lloyd We…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:34AMTom Bateman, Jessie Buckley, Jack Colgrave Hirst, Hadley Fraser, Michael Pennington, Zoe Rainey, Miranda Raison, John Shrapnel, Kathryn Wilder and Jimmy Yuill join the cast of the Kenneth Br…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:24AMOnstage seating for the West End transfer of Claire van Kampen’s critically-acclaimed new play Farinelli and the King, starring Mark Rylance, will be released to the general public on …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:52AMIf you’ve ever taken time to listen to Andrew Keates talking about being diagnosed as HIV positive, if you’ve read his tweets or impassioned blog posts or in any way been influen…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:30AMAntic Disposition are renowned for their fascinating site-specific productions of classic stories, whether it’s a visually striking Shakespeare or some of the best loved tales in Briti…
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