As Biden tried valiantly to make a distinction between the so-called MAGA extremists (Make America Genocidal Again) and ordinary Republicans, one is reminded of the tension – the liberal g…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThe use of music and dance (all types) along with some interesting guests via video makes Jean-Paul Gaultier – Fashion Freak Show at the Roundhouse one of the most interesting and diverse …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMAcclaimed screenwriter John Goldsmith brings his first play The Throne to Charing Cross Theatre this summer. It is set in 2002, the year of the Golden Jubilee, and imagines an encounter betw…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMDoes A Doll’s House really need an epilogue? On this evidence it’s a sound choice. The force and weight of Ibsen’s play came from the decision to abandon institutional forces – the h…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMOne thing that I have really, really missed over the last two years is just good plain fun. This is what Viper Squad has in spades.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThe iconic 1980s romance is re-worked for the stage in this straightforward but energetic production. Full confession: I grew up obsessed with Dirty Dancing, and I kind of still am.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMDesigning an immersive experience for an audience as obsessive as Doctor Who fans would seem almost completely impossible.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMF Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby was first published nearly 100 years ago yet it still continues to inspire modern adaptations and interpretations.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTheatrical spinoffs from popular movies are usually ill-conceived and redundant; a double whammy from which you’re less likely to come back than Chrissie Watkins after a swim off the beach…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMI’m a huge fan of Back to the Future. I saw it for the first time in January 1986 and maybe a hundred times since.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMJames Graham finds an analogue for today's culture war in 1968 USA care of Gore Vidal and William F Buckley.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTheatre, still recovering from economic and talent loss, following Covid-19 is understandably taking a safe approach to productions.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMBusiness and boxing collide in this revival of Yasir Senna’s play by Razor Sharp Productions. Alisha Harper-Gill is on the ropes, fighting for her career.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMThe first thing you’ll notice when you enter the auditorium is the incredible set design which brings you right into Beverley and Laurence Moss’s decadent lounge.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMYou gather in an unassuming office reception to start – looking much like any of the thousands of office receptions in the surrounding part of the city.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMA young woman listens to pop music on headphones. The people around her can’t hear it. We, the audience, can – a bit. But it’s a solitary experience; unshared. Something universal is a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMI like Six because it is short, the costumes look amazing, it focuses on female talent from the six leading queens to the backing band and it has a range of songs and talent rarely seen in m…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFans will no doubt revel in recognition of their favourite songs during this rock opera based upon the epic power ballads of Meatloaf and Jim Steinman.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMLucy Bailey’s site-specific production of Agatha Christie’s courtroom drama has returned to London County Hall, after a lengthy, if unplanned adjournment, and remains one of the most eff…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMIn this one-woman show, writer and performer Beth Burrows fascinates her audience even as she exposes some of the flaws of her famous male subjects: Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMGod, teenagers. Don’t you just want to shake them sometimes? Scream at them that their lives are a marathon, not a sprint.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThe intimate and interactive nature of the setting meant that we, the audience, were completely immersed in the performance of The Scottish Play.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMIn Alyssa: Memoirs of a Queen, primped, preened and double vaxxed, Alyssa not so much dominates the stage as blows it up entirely.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMJack Holden’s Cruise is a timely look at LGBT history, for fans of Russell T Davies’ It’s a Sin it touches on similar themes of 80s London in the shadow of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. It is…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWith no audience to see for themselves, how do you believe in the magic? I was intrigued then to find out more about The Secret Connection who recently started doing online magic shows.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTestament places some of the Bible’s most interesting bit part players in a modern setting and gives them centre stage.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMIt’s fitting that Next Thing You Know revolves around four young people searching for moments that are rare and precious in a life that is achingly normal.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThe big question is whether the big sound of Pippin translates to an outdoor space on the edge of the Vauxhall one way system. The answer is a resounding yes.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMIt is in the second half of Squad Goals where the play comes to life and comes into its own. The football tournament is depicted through two long, dance sequences that burst with a ferocious…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMOne amazing thing that has come out of Covid-19 theatre is more filmed theatre. My latest theatre experience from the comfort of my own couch was Moment of Grace by Bren Gosling, presented b…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMNow if you think that The House That Slipped is simply a well-meaning, worthy play, you would be wrong. The script, direction and the way Zoom is an essential part of the story, make it witt…
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