Sunday, July 24, 2022
Nikolai Foster’s vision beautifully evokes a sense of community against a delicately balanced backdrop of political and emotional turmoil in Lee Hall and Elton John’s Billy Elliot The Mu…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, July 17, 2022
“What will happen in England after we have won this war? Bunting! Bunting everywhere!” Richard Bean and Oliver Chris’ new play Jack Absolute Flies Again at the National Theatre takes R…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, June 26, 2022
All three plays in Chris Bush’s Rock/Paper/Scissors triptych run in Sheffield Theatres’ three spaces simultaneously with one cast. The overall piece is a logistical coup-de-théâtre. It…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, June 15, 2022
Mark Bell’s production of Cluedo, adapted from Sandy Rustin’s US play which itself is based on Jonathan Lynn’s screenplay of the 1985 film Clue, has been transposed to 1940s England.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, June 10, 2022
School of Rock presents the recipe for a perfect 21st century family musical. A simple story with likeable characters and a heart-warming message, played out to a soundtrack of bombastic, fo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, May 14, 2022
Now a global hit and having spawned a BBC series and other Goes Wrong spin offs, this latest tour of The Play that Goes Wrong maintains its breathless energy.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, May 3, 2022
Ian Rickson’s production of Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem now returns to the Apollo Theatre with all the vitality and urgency it had first time round.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, April 29, 2022
The premise sees Cher (Debbie Kurup) about to go onstage for her farewell tour. Facing a crisis of confidence the singer addresses her younger selves (Danielle Steers and Millie O’Connell)…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, March 23, 2022
In Beautiful, we see singer-songwriter Carole King’s journey, from turning out hits at 1650 Broadway for the biggest household names to how she broke the mould of what a star can be.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMTuesday, February 1, 2022
Waitress offers a sweet slice of Americana, well-balanced with fleshed-out, morally-compromised characters and topped with a belter of a ballad in ‘She Used To Be Mine’.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, January 19, 2022
I doubt I will see another show in 2022 that matches the allure and sense of occasion as Rebecca Frecknall’s much-anticipated production of Cabaret.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, January 18, 2022
Having seen the show a few times beforem I knew exactly what to expect from the affectionate pastiche of old B-Movies, but my husband (and co-blogger) was a newcomer, having never even seen …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, December 17, 2021
In recent years, Curve have really hit their stride producing guaranteed Christmas hits. Their latest offering, A Chorus Line, is a solid and technically dazzling addition to the oeuvre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, October 28, 2021
The Watermill Theatre’s 2016 production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black’s one-woman, one-act musical has been revived for a UK tour.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, October 16, 2021
A new piece from Matthew Bourne is always a talking point and a treat to get dance fans excited. I’ve been a fan for around a decade now.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, September 21, 2021
This past weekend saw the return of the much-loved West End Live in Trafalgar Square. A free festival for theatre lovers, the event has increased in popularity each year (I still remember th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:17AMMonday, September 20, 2021
Twenty-five years after its first performance at the Rep, Ayub Khan Din’s comedy about a British-Pakistani family in 1970s Salford returns home to Birmingham. In Iqbal Khan’s production …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, September 10, 2021
Anthony Almeida has created not only a highly entertaining piece of theatre in Cat On a Hot Tin Roof at Curve Leicester, but a tableau of family life that can still resonate with modern audi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSaturday, June 12, 2021
The songs featured in The Music Of Andrew Lloyd Webber have become standards for a reason and it is a pleasure to hear them performed by an excellent cast.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, February 19, 2021
Following on from the immensely successful Sunset Boulevard in Concert, Curve has reunited the company of 2019’s The Color Purple (a co-production with Birmingham Hippodrome) to once again…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThursday, March 12, 2020
Now in its 68th year in the West End, The Mousetrap is also touring and shows no signs of slowing down. And whilst the play is more than a bit of a warhorse, it has become a staple of Britis…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMFriday, March 6, 2020
This production of The Phantom of the Opera is spectacular in the truest sense and even the most curmudgeonly of spectators will find something to enthuse over.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, December 24, 2019
Here’s our Top 10 list for 2019 with three musicals – Come From Away, Curve’s West Side Story and the touring production of Amelie dominating the top spots.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMTuesday, December 3, 2019
Nikolai Foster and co. have wrung West Side Story for every last drop of emotion, intellect and topicality. It has been given the full blooded revival it merits and I would love to see this …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMFriday, November 1, 2019
Winsome Pinnock’s 2005 play One Under has been revived in a co-production by Graeae and Theatre Royal, Plymouth, now touring the UK.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWednesday, October 30, 2019
Bijan Sheibani’s production of A Taste Of Honey is entertaining without being flashy, showcasing Shelagh Delaney’s text in all its humour, honesty and melancholia.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMSaturday, September 28, 2019
In a co-production with Belgrade Theatre Coventry, Everyman Theatre Cheltenham and Leeds Playhouse, Nikolai Foster and the Curve company’s adaptation of My Beautiful Laundrette has shone a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, September 20, 2019
The National Theatre production of Michael Morpurgo’s novel War Horse is both the most visceral depiction of war I’ve seen on stage and a masterpiece in theatrical storytelling.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, September 6, 2019
Nikolai Foster’s 2016 production of Grease returns to Curve as part of a major tour, and, while it doesn’t quite have the pizzazz of three years ago, the show remains a solid, thoughtful…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, September 2, 2019
The Entertainer is an interesting state-of-the-nation play, and although a period piece, it’s undeniably a prescient time to revive it.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMFriday, August 9, 2019
Making use of the intimate studio space, director Siobhán Cannon-Brownlie recreates the indie movie theatre setting of the play, while a cast of locals dive head-first into the dazzling wor…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM 
