Saturday, 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 07:00AMMonday, May 16, 2022
There is a stillness that descends over a theatre audience when they are gripped and fidgeting when they aren’t. In the first half of The Breach at Hampstead Theatre, the audience was fidg…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, April 27, 2022
Gloria has taken refuge in her attic, distracting herself from the dark winter months and grief by playing punk and dictating entries for her memoir into her laptop.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, April 18, 2022
The family at the centre of the story is that of Richard Myers (Robert Lindsay), an eminent geneticist who now has Parkinson's Disease.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, March 26, 2022
In Jonathan Crewe's play Under the Radar, female journalist Lee Stilling (Eleanor Hill) is profiling male inventor Martin Christensen, who has built his own submarine.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, March 18, 2022
Anthony McCarten's new play The Collaboration at the Young Vic kicks off as you arrive in the auditorium with an 80s DJ set. It's toe-tapping, hip and creates a party, edgy, youthful yet nos…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThursday, March 3, 2022
Henry V opens with a burst of energy at a club with a worse for wear party prince. It's lifted from Henry IV part 2 and is an important reminder of Henry V's past and subsequent transformati…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, February 24, 2022
The play follows Pierre, a successful surgeon who's married and the father of a grown-up daughter, as he juggles his professional and family life with having a mistress.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, February 4, 2022
Alistair McDowall's The Glow at the Royal Court is a play I've had to ponder - a lot - and I still don't have any firm conclusions.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, January 15, 2022
The Donmar Warehouse's stage has been converted into a French ski resort for Force Majeure.
Force Majeur...
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, January 7, 2022
Peggy Ramsay is a play agent, but she is more famous than the playwrights and the work that she represents.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, January 3, 2022
Fair Play is set in the world of female athletics. Ann joins a running club, meets Sophie, and the two bond over their love of running.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, November 25, 2021
As the stage was plunged into darkness at the end of Manor on the National Theatre's Lyttelton stage, I was thinking: What was the point?
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, November 23, 2021
Al Smith's new play Rare Earth Mettle at the Royal Court is a meaty piece that covers a lot of ground.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, November 5, 2021
The play is set in rural America, where a mother (Stockard Channing) and daughter Jessie (Rebecca Night), who has epilepsy, live together.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, October 26, 2021
Are you allowed to call yourself a theatre fan if you haven't seen The Mousetrap, the West End's longest-running play? Possibly. But I've ticked that box now.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, October 5, 2021
The Normal Heart is a play of fights. Set in the early 80s, in New York, gay men are dying, but gay activist Ned Weeks (Ben Daniels) is struggling to get anyone to do anything.
Only Dr Emma…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, September 22, 2021
Two actors on stage describe their characters as if the direction in the playtext is part of the script. It is the first of many quirks in Aleshea Harris’ dark revenge comedy Is God Is.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, September 14, 2021
Chloe Nelkin has run theatre, arts and opera PR company, Chloe Nelkin Consulting, for 10 years, and we sat down to talk about how theatres responded during lockdown and what the legacy will …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, September 13, 2021
The three sisters in Shelagh Stephenson’s play The Memory of Water – Teresa (Lucy Black), Mary (Laura Rogers) and Catherine (Carolina Main) – have gathered at their mother’s home ahe…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, July 29, 2021
The Two Character Play at London’s Hampstead Theatre was at times interesting and enjoyable and at others frustrating and perplexing.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, July 19, 2021
Last year a critic described a dramatic response to the Black Lives Matter protests, to which Benedict Lombe contributed, as ‘more lecture than theatre’. The quote is projected onto the …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, July 16, 2021
Anna X by Joseph Charlton is a fresh, contemporary play set in New York that explores identity and acceptance in the modern age.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, June 25, 2021
J’Ouvert bursts onto the stage and it is the theatre experience I've been waiting to get back to. Theatre that can pack a powerful punch and do it while at the same time be entertaining.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, May 30, 2021
I really wanted to like Walden, it was my first trip to the theatre since they were last open in early December, but it just didn’t deliver the promised tension and drama.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, March 7, 2021
London has an abundance of pub theatres, and the Old Red Lion in Islington is one of my favourites. The space is tiny with pew-like seating on two sides of the tea-tray sized stage.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, January 22, 2021
Travis Alabanza's play Overflow is set in the toilet of a club from where transgirl Rosie (Reece Lyons) has locked herself in.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, October 20, 2020
All By Myself is a production by Part of the Main theatre company for Applecart Arts and it explores identity during the Covid crisis when your only connection to the outside world is via th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, September 13, 2020
The Young Vic is celebrating its 50th birthday and while I've only been visiting since 2007-ish, I’ve seen many fantastic and memorable plays there in that time.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, September 5, 2020
Three Kings, beautifully written by Stephen Beresford, gives Andrew Scott even more scope to sprinkle his performance magic. Created especially for the Old Vic’s In Camera season, it is de…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, August 8, 2020
Blindness is adapted by Simon Stephens from a novel by José Saramago and tells the story of an epidemic in which people suddenly go blind.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM 
