Monday, September 24, 2018
Rib Davis is a keen proponent of large-scale, history-based plays. The Sword of Alex is an epic play in a small space. It deserves to be seen.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, September 22, 2018
Arinze Kene’s visceral writing for Misty places us from the offset within the throbbing organ that is London; packed night buses in its veins, we are its cells colliding against each other…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, September 21, 2018
This was the first time I have visited Hoxton Hall, one of the last remaining music halls in London, and it seemed a very fitting venue for this economic production of Arabian Nights.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThursday, September 20, 2018
The End of Eddy, starring Alex Austin and Kwaku Mills (in his professional debut) star in this tale of growing up poor, an outsider in a rural France.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMMonday, September 17, 2018
Eastern Star is intriguing and for the most part engaging discourse around the intersection of journalism and dissidence but, despite its revision since last year, it still feels like work-i…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, September 16, 2018
A new rock musical which debuted at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe before transferring to London, the soundtrack album for The Quentin Dentin Show is now available.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, September 15, 2018
A Winning Hazard is a winning farce, full of improbable misunderstanding and horse spooking, in which Wooler, with tongue firmly in cheek, sends up the material imperative behind marriage.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, September 14, 2018
Divorced, Beheaded and now LIVE! Following its run in Edinburgh and its previous run in London, Six brings an electrifying, sexy and entertaining history lesson you won’t forget.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, September 13, 2018
Vinay Patel’s An Adventure leaves no stone unturned in unpacking the frustrations of reality against two people building a dream.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMTuesday, September 11, 2018
Alex McSweeney’s Distance playing at the Park Theatre displays an innovative representation of the experience of depression, but with a slightly wandering narrative.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSunday, September 9, 2018
Tony Harrison’s Square Rounds returns to the stage, a poetic reconstruction of an industrious age, when Jewish German scientists thought about shit, or rather, with horses redundant, the l…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSaturday, September 1, 2018
I have seen various versions of Swan Lake and St Petersburg Ballet Theatre’s Swan Lake is one of the best, it is superb.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThursday, August 30, 2018
Antic Disposition has done it again – breathed new life into a much-loved and performed play. Gray’s Inn Hall is a wonderful setting for this updated production.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMTuesday, August 28, 2018
The revival of The Rise and Fall of Little Voice brings high expectations from an audience eager to see this British classic about a big talent in a small town.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSunday, August 12, 2018
Coelacanth, a dark one-act comedy which is part of this year’s Camden Fringe, is set in a world where assisted suicide has been legalised and anyone wanting it can find someone to kill the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:00PMSaturday, August 11, 2018
Iris Theatre returns to St Paul’s Church in a promenade performance of this 19th-century French classic.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMFriday, August 10, 2018
Grief works in mysterious ways. How do you cope with loss? With open-ended grief where there has been no closure? Arguably, a missing person has a greater capacity to destroy than the finali…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMThursday, August 9, 2018
I see a lot of theatre productions, obviously, and whilst I still enjoy seeing new shows, new ideas and a creative piece that is genuinely exciting, I am starting to feel apathetic to much o…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, August 8, 2018
Penelope Skinner’s 2010 play has been revived by New Light Productions, a company that focuses on female writers. We all know we need more focus on female writers, but I don’t think this…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMAdam Welsh has an identity problem, as an actor, he struggles to come up on Google, his wife misheard his name when they met and has the name Adam Walsh in her contacts ever since.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, August 3, 2018
Mr Stink is a great show for all the family at the theatre which is doing wonderful work around inclusivity to an incredible standard. The show is on until the 5 August, get down there, take…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, August 2, 2018
It was the real red carpet treatment at the press night for the wonderful new children’s show Madagascar The Musical. Wimbledon Theatre does this kind of thing so well and the whole event …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWednesday, August 1, 2018
Every performer displays bucket-loads of charisma, musical talent and quite sublime circus skills in The Little Mermiad. Even if you don’t have a child to entertain, you can’t fail to be…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMSunday, July 29, 2018
There’s a tantalising idea at the heart of this Love, Genius & A Walk. What did Sigmund Freud and Gustav Mahler discuss on their only meeting, a walk in Leiden in 1910, fairly shortly…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMHymn to Love plays homage to the life and work of Edith Piaf, drawing on Piaf’s extensive and well-loved repertoire, much of which was autobiographical and written by or for her.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, July 28, 2018
Reading Gaol is a fantastically evocative poem and this is a powerful piece of work built out of and around it. This is a play that will make you think, even as it entertains. That’s alway…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWednesday, July 25, 2018
End of the Pier is funny, poignant and thought-provoking. It leaves no stone unturned in its examination both of comedy and cruelty. It does well in showing how well the two become seamlessl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, July 24, 2018
The politics are an Old Labour and North London hybrid and, the hospital on stage is probably more fantasy than NHS reality. But when national treasures do something new, we should all rejoi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSunday, July 22, 2018
Arrow and Traps’ re-telling of the story of The White Rose is apt in times of increased authoritarianism around the world. In Sophie Scholl, the most famous and youngest member to executed…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThursday, July 19, 2018
If you’re a fan of musical theatre and can ignore the disconnect between subject matter and treatment, then with Titanic – The Musicalyou’re set for an enlivening evening.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, July 18, 2018
The Finborough specialises in producing neglected plays and they don’t get more neglected than Robert Graves’ But It Still Goes On: written in 1929 but never previously performed.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM 
