There’s something very timely in Angry Alan, Penelope Skinner’s portrait of a lost man finding refuge in the “men’s rights movement”.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMOscar Wilde’s comedy of manners is rightly regarded as a classic, so we must give thanks for Ayesha Casley-Hayford and Kudzanayi Chiwawa coming along and giving The Importance of Being Ear…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSet in Belle Époque France, Can-Can! sells itself as a fun and frivolous new dance musical adapted from Offenbach’s original operetta Orpheus in the Underworld featuring a 17-strong all-s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFight Night is an immersive, underground boxing match as the audience’s actions and reactions determines the winner.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMA first-rate piece of children’s theatre, this retelling of the familiar myth Icarus (by playwright Katrin Lange, directed by Cressida Brown) challenges a young audience to reflect on whet…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMCommitting to review a show that you adore is a risk, especially a show you saw ten years ago, obsessed over, bought the soundtrack, played it a hundred times over and to which you know almo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMDanielle Ward’s The Half, which transfers to London after a sold-out Edinburgh 2018 run, is a brutal look at friendship, comedy and being a woman.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSeance is a sensory rather than a theatrical performance. In a small audience, you find yourselves being asked to contact the dead, in 20 minutes and in the blackest darkness with headphones…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMVictor Sanchez Rodriguez’s Cuzco makes its English debut with translation by William Gregory. It is a passionate play about a couple She (Dilek Rose) and He (Gareth Kieran Jones) who find …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMAt the end of Motown The Musical you will leave the theatre feeling a love of Motown music that you have never experienced before.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMKompromat at the Vaults Festival is a thoughtful production with warm performances that distracts its audience with missed marks.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMAt first glance Notre Dame de Paris appears as a mashup of an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical and a Cirque du Soleil show in French. But it goes deeper, as it should, being based on Victor Hugo�…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMExperience the fun of this spectacular live concert, celebrating Michael Jackson’s legacy as an artist; a singer, songwriter, composer, arranger, dancer and all-round entertainer who creat…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMViolet is a warm, considerate musical with a lot to say about the past and some real faces of the future to look out for.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMA Modest Little Man is a pacey and engaging one-act play. The characters are – for the most part – well fleshed out and well realised.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMIn the light of #metoo, post-Weinstein, post-Spacey and post all the other creeps that have been exposed Liv Warden’s debut play Anomaly (produced by Wildchild Productions) looks at what h…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThe themes and ideas Rosenbaum’s Rescue centres around are explored in a fascinating manner, and it’s one of the best pieces of theatre I’ve seen in years, I’d urge all to see it, wh…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMDavid Grieg’s play about an uninhabited outer Hebrides island doesn’t know whether it wants to be a political thriller, based on the true story of Gruinard Island which was conta…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMArthur Miller’s adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People could have easily been adapted in the last couple of years as a, not at all subtle rebuke to the election of Donald Tr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMPlayground Theatre will host the premiere of Dream of a King, a one-man play written and performed by Christopher Tajah (directed by Bernie C. Byrnes), depicting Martin Luther King Jr on the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMWhile you may be tempted to see a classic like The Nutcracker, you’ll quickly learn that it sold out last August, so you could do worse than comfort yourself with Peppa Pig’s Adventure.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThe chaise longue has been dug out of storage for this re-imagining of William Congreve’s 1693 marriage farce The Double Dealer at the Orange Tree Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMNeural Enhancement With Dr Leon is an immersive experience which began life as a Secret Cinema activity and continues to return and entertain audiences.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:05PMIt is appropriate that Park Theatre is staging Jacky Ivimy’s Dialektikon at this time of year. Theatres are full of pantomimes, humorous re-workings of classic fairy tales, so why not a le…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMArriving at the Trafalgar Studios after a wave of critical acclaim at its National Theatre run earlier this year, Nine Night already bears the acclaim and intense scrutiny that comes with be…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMDirector and performer Sofi Lee-Henson on what keeps audiences coming back to Neural Enhancement with Dr Leon, running at a secret location in SE1.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMLittle Women is a flawed but ultimately charming production. An edit in the first half and a better familiarity with the performance space and it would be even better. But as it is, I would …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMA Christmas Carol with a supporting cast of 200? A Christmas Carol with four alternating casts of 200, involving as many in making Christmas as possible, with the maximum social benefit? I c…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMIt’s such a wonderful idea to re-create a Dickens reading. With John O’Connor’s skill, this proves to be a magical evening of storytelling. A thoroughly fun Victorian Christmas experie…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSeussical the Musical is so utterly and completely charming I’m not ashamed to say it brought me to happy tears of joy at the end. Fast-paced – frenetic even – the action never stops, …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMIn short, Philip Pullman’s Grimm Tales is a fine Christmas show for all the family – but don’t be surprised if you have some questions to answer afterwards!
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