Friday, April 28, 2023
Jules and Jim at the Jermyn Street Theatre is an exploration of love and friendship told through the lens of three people living an unconventional lifestyle. Jules (Samuel Collings) is a Ger…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, April 23, 2023
Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa is a memory play told from the perspective of Michael (Tom Vaughan-Lawlor), nephew to five sisters living in a cottage near the fictional town of Ballybeg…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, April 17, 2023
The first thing I said to my friend during the interval of Private Lives at the Donmar Warehouse was, ‘I don't remember this being a play about domestic violence’. We’d just witnessed …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, April 3, 2023
The fat has been cut from this Bristol Old Vic production of Hamlet, leaving the meat of the play. There is no Fortinbras subplot, the ghost and player scenes are stripped to the bare essent…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, March 23, 2023
“I'm holding out for a hero” is Bonnie Tyler’s famous song, and it could be the theme tune for David (Danny Lee Wynter) in Black Superhero. He’s long held a torch for friend King (Dy…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThursday, March 9, 2023
Bjorg Vik’s play The Journey to Venice at the Finborough Theatre invites you into the world of Edith and Oscar, and it is a world full of literature, poetry, imagination, and pretend trave…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, March 6, 2023
Women, Beware The Devil at the Almeida Theatre is a difficult play to pin down. It starts in the modern day with the ‘literal’ devil (Nathan Armarkwei-Laryea) breaking the fourth wall to…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, February 23, 2023
They say moving is one of the most stressful things you can do. What happens when you move to your dream beachfront home that is ‘in need of renovation,’ you have a baby on the way, and …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, February 11, 2023
Helena Wilson and Maggie Bain in Linck & Mülhahn, Hampstead Theatre, Feb 2023. Photo: Helen Murray
Writer Ruby Thomas was in the British Library when she came across a reference Lin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, January 25, 2023
Nicolas Billon’s The Elephant Song at the Park Theatre takes us through a game of cat and mouse as Dr Greenberg tries to talk resident Michael into revealing the information he has. Michae…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, January 20, 2023
No One at the Omnibus Theatre bursts onto the stage with a scene in a club, complete with a live DJ, which quickly descends into a fight. Then we jump to a police station and investigation i…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, January 8, 2023
The Art of Illusion won several awards when it opened in Paris in 2014. Now it gets its London premiere at the Hampstead Theatre but will this play about magic and illusion conjure up some E…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, December 29, 2022
This feels like a moment; I haven't been able to do a best of theatre list since 2019 because of ‘you know what’. It’s been huge fun revisiting the plays I’ve seen – nearly 50. And…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, December 7, 2022
The National Theatre’s Lyttelton stage has been transformed with steps and terraces around the performance space, creating a look that is a cross between an ancient greek theatre and a fig…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, November 23, 2022
Anna Coombs’ adaptation of Shakespeare’s Richard II sees the story slimmed down for five actors, with three of the cast playing more than one character. It focuses the attention on King …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, October 26, 2022
King Hamlin at the Park Theatre is a play which has its serious and important subject matter drowned out. In the end, I wanted much less of Quinn and Nic and more of Hamlin and his mum.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, October 16, 2022
A victim of rescheduling because of theatre lockdowns, Good, starring David Tennant, finally gets in front of an audience but is it worth the wait? Tennant is a household name because of his…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, October 12, 2022
Written by Peter Oswald and Alexander J Gifford ‘after’ an unfinished play by Friedrich Schiller, Dmitry is the story of the much loved, youngest son of the Tzar of Russia who was murder…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, September 28, 2022
There is a scene in Eureka Day at the Old Vic during which the audience is roaring with laughter, but it isn’t anything to do with the actors who are on stage or what they are saying. And …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, September 16, 2022
Tea drinking features heavily in Dipo Baruwa-Etti’s posh kitchen-set play The Clinic at the Almeida Theatre. But this tea may or may not have intoxicating or calming effects; even those wh…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, September 10, 2022
I can now say I've seen Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio on stage. OK, so they were on telly on stage, but that is technically on stage. Kate and Leo were in Titanic mode, the favourite fi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, September 7, 2022
Silence at the Donmar Warehouse is based on a non-fiction book by journalist Kavita Puri who interviewed people who lived through the partition of India in 1947 and subsequently settled in t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, August 5, 2022
There was a point while watching Monster at the Park Theatre when I realised I had my hand over my mouth. What was unfolding on stage was shocking, and I haven’t had a reaction like that t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, July 29, 2022
Mark St Germain’s play Freud’s Last Session at the King’s Head Theatre in Islington is a compact yet powerful play which imagines a clash of intellect and reasoning between two famous …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, July 23, 2022
I liked the tone of this production of Closer at the Lyric Hammersmith and the sense of sadness that underpinned it, even if I was glad to leave the characters behind. It is an interesting e…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, July 13, 2022
Roy Williams’ play The Fellowship centres on a small family unit, but there are a lot of big things going on. Dawn (Cherrelle Skeet) is grieving the loss of a child while caring for her te…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, July 8, 2022
At the Harold Pinter Theatre this is The Seagull as a tragic love story turned up to the max. It opens up new avenues in what is a familiar play and takes a fresh approach to what you'd expe…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, June 19, 2022
The thing is, you can’t fault the acting in Jitney at the Old Vic – the actors are superb. And Tinuke Craig’s expert direction means the cab office setting doesn't feel static or force…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, June 4, 2022
While elements of Britannicus at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith feel like hollow embellishment, as a family drama about a toxic family who happens to be the ruling class it is a gripping yarn.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, June 1, 2022
Amy Adams’ Amanda is a matriarch full of bustle and bristle in Jeremy Herrin’s production of The Glass Menagerie at the Duke of York’s Theatre. She is an irritating spark to her despon…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, May 21, 2022
The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs at the Soho Theatre is one of those plays that unashamedly bursts off the stage, much like the lesbian choir around which the story revolves.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM 
