Monday, April 15, 2019
Sounds Like Chaos is a youth theatre group co-founded by Roisin Feeny and Gemma Rowan and their latest piece, Wow Everything Is Amazing, imagines the digital world in 50 years time.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, April 9, 2019
Cillian Murphy and writer Enda Walsh’s collaborations on stage tend to lean towards the surreal and avant-garde and Grief Is The Thing With Feathers is no exception.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWednesday, April 3, 2019
Is it part of the irony within Joshua Harmon's Admissions that a play about white privilege and the hypocrisy of white liberals has only white characters?
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, April 1, 2019
Tom Coash's play is inspired by his time living in Egypt and learning of how a gay man had been arrested and tortured by police.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSaturday, March 30, 2019
I've read reviews of Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s play Emilia that describe its feminist message as ‘unsubtle’ and the titular character’s suffering as overblown. It’s comments like that…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, March 27, 2019
Following a five-star run at the Traverse Theatre, Fringe First winner Kieran Hurley brings Mouthpiece to Soho Theatre next month. Here he talks about the play, the point of theatre and maki…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, March 23, 2019
Downstate is a challenging, difficult play with humour and wit inflected with wisdom, carefully balancing entertainment without detracting from the seriousness of the subject matter.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, March 22, 2019
Random Selfies by award-winning writer Mike Kenny (The Railway Children) is the story of child loneliness in a busy world.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, March 14, 2019
Hiddleston, Ashton and Cox deliver precise, layered performances in a production that grips with tension. I think Lloyd has saved the best to last in his Pinter at the Pinter season.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, March 7, 2019
There’s a lot we don’t know about death and a lot we don’t know about the characters in Kathryn Gardner’s play Dead End.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, March 6, 2019
Ivo van Hove's production and stage adaptation of the film All About Eve is trademark van Hove and that is a good and bad thing.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, March 4, 2019
Mixing the more colourful and camp with the harsh realities of inequality and creative restraint for Iranian women is a powerful storytelling device in Lipstick: A Fairy Tale of Iran at the …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThursday, February 28, 2019
There is a heartbreaking inevitability to Florian Zeller’s play The Son which is currently on at the Kiln Theatre. Nicolas (Laurie Kynaston), a once bubbly teenager, has become withdrawn s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, February 10, 2019
Despite committed performances by Blanchett and Dillane, there is something cold and mechanical to what is going on in When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other at the National Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, February 4, 2019
Jean Anouilh’s The Orchestra is an interesting snapshot of a period of social history that is often overlooked.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, February 1, 2019
Cost of Living is a refreshingly bold play, it presents disability in a matter of fact way focusing on relationships while challenging inhibitions.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, January 28, 2019
The 2010 ‘spy in the bag’ murder is the inspiration behind Kompromat, a new play by David Thame which imagines the murderer using a honey trap to ensnare his victim.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, January 23, 2019
Jean Anouilh’s play The Orchestra tells the story of a third-rate orchestra in France just after the Second World War and it is a play that made a big impression on director Kristine Lando…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, January 21, 2019
Peter Darney is currently directing gay crime thriller Kompromat by David Thame, which was inspired by the 2010 ‘spy in the bag’ murders and opens at the Vault Festival this week.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, January 18, 2019
A Bodin Saphir’s play Rosenbaum’s Rescue, directed by Kate Fahy, is an engaging look at the nature of truth and whether it is merely a matter of perspective or personal belief.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, January 14, 2019
Pinter Six of the Pinter at the Pinter season is the first that I can say I quite enjoyed but it didn’t stop a nagging question I’ve had for a while: Was Pinter a misogynist? I’m not a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, January 11, 2019
Liv Warden’s play Anomaly, inspired by the Weinstein scandal, focuses on the family of a media mogul who’s been caught up in a scandal that can't be hushed up by PR.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, January 4, 2019
Starting off 2019 with plenty of theatre in the diary, these are the nine plays Rev Stan is particularly looking forward to seeing.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, January 2, 2019
A theatre announces that a classic male role will be played by a woman and gets a plethora of headlines as a result. While giving a woman a meaty, lead role is something to be applauded, it …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMSunday, December 30, 2018
It’s time for Rev Stan’s best plays of 2018 overall, gleaned from everything I’ve seen – large productions and small, commercial theatres, subsidised and fringe.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThursday, December 20, 2018
Seven years ago playwright Lynn Nottage started spending time in Reading, Pennsylvania, one of the poorest towns in America and wrote Sweat based on her experiences there.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSaturday, December 15, 2018
When tickets went on sale for the concluding play in Jamie Lloyd’s Pinter at the Pinter season – Betrayal starring Tom Hiddleston – those who had already booked tickets for other, argu…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMMonday, December 10, 2018
Hole, by Ellie Kendrick, is a mixture of speech, song, movement and music exploring female anger through a series of stories, themes and metaphors.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThursday, December 6, 2018
Kit Harington and Johnny Flynn prove themselves agile performers with quick-fire dialogue and sharp comic timing in True West at the Vaudeville Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, December 4, 2018
The Night Before Christmas is adult Christmas fare, counter-programming to the Dr Seuss musical which is on next door at the Southwark Playhouse.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, November 30, 2018
The PappyShow’s Boys is introduced as a ‘celebration of manhood’ which is then swiftly followed by a fight. In hindsight, it isn’t ironic, rather it’s getting a misconception or co…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM 
