Saturday, June 3, 2017
Ordinary Days is a one-act musical in which four young New Yorkers who aren’t quite happy with their lives sing out their troubles in just 70 minutes. The plot could be right out of Sex &#…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, June 2, 2017
2017 seems to be the year for Pub Theatre with many productions transferring from small spaces above pubs to bigger spaces. Do you think audiences are seeing more pub theatre for a chance to…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, May 31, 2017
Is it a bad sign when an award-winning Canadian play doesn’t receive its European premiere for almost 30 years? You might guess so, especially when it’s playing in rep on the unfashionab…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, May 29, 2017
Before Jam begins, the audience sees history teacher Bella Soroush (Jasmine Hyde) still in her classroom in the early evening, trying to settle down to mark essays but distracted by her unco…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, May 26, 2017
Thanks in no small part to the seemingly never-ending glut of ‘reality’ talent shows that have pervaded our collective consciousness over the last decade or so, having suffered the loss …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMWednesday, May 24, 2017
Snuff Box Theatre’s Blush transfers to the Soho Theatre after a sell-out run in Edinburgh. This modern-day morality tale explores five interconnected stories of revenge porn, sex, cyberspa…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, May 19, 2017
As a long time enjoyer of the horror and comedy horror genres, I was disappointed by the thinness of Living a Little. Ironically for a play about Zombie flesh eaters, there just wasn’t eno…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThursday, May 18, 2017
The audience can’t ignore the fact this show is performed naked but the nudity becomes a blank canvass as Rowley can move between characters without props or other limitations. This is a h…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWednesday, May 17, 2017
When a musical makes its European debut nearly 40 years after its American debut you question the quality but in Ballroom, this tale of love after love, audiences are treated to a fun show w…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, May 16, 2017
After last year’s two sold-out shows, WEST END BARES, theatre’s hottest annual fundraiser, is returning on Sunday 29 October 2017 to The Novello Theatre at 7 pm and 9.30 pm in aid of the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMMonday, May 15, 2017
It is an unknown year, country etc. but the audience, as citizens of ProxC, is in a dystopia which deems you a criminal for murder, corruption, hacking, gambling and getting pregnant. The sh…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, May 11, 2017
The hour-long interactive show follows two women stranded in a city-destroying dust storm after missing an emergency evacuation. Together, Scarlet and Olive must survive until rescue comes, …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, May 9, 2017
There were a lot of things to enjoy about this new musical. The use of a small cast- most of which were also very talented band members- was impressive, with seamless role changes and transi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:01AMSunday, May 7, 2017
Romanian playwright Alexandra Badea’s The Pulverised (translated by Lucy Phelps from French to English) is an example of what can be done when monologue linked with monologue to create a …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMDennis Potter is one of Britain’s most beloved and controversial playwrights, with Brimstone and Treacle being famous for having its television debut postponed by the BBC for nearly a deca…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, May 6, 2017
This is a play that has really grown on me. So much so that I am adding an additional ½ star to my original review. The play hasn’t changed much – though there has been a change in cast…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMIt’s quite audacious to put on a play looking at the way a rapacious middle-class media takes the stories of the working class, chews them up and regurgitates them as entertainment in Isli…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, May 5, 2017
What makes Unwin’s piece so powerful is not only a story of humanising and dehumanising that will be familiar to anyone that has followed coverage of disability benefits and cuts to disabl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, May 3, 2017
When a playwright has seemingly overnight success with one of their more recent works it seems natural to go back to a previously acclaimed work but when that work feels underdeveloped and l…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMFor anyone unfamiliar with ASMR, it isn’t just about sound, it is about the feelings (“tingles”) you get from certain sounds and situations. It is far more sensory than your standard t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, April 30, 2017
It’s fair to say that I went along to Cat – (The Play!!!) expecting something light and fluffy. The press release promised “a playful and cheeky homage to the world of musical theatre�…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, April 29, 2017
I went through a period of being obsessed with Greece’s bailout referendum in 2015. It wasn’t because I was a politics geek but mainly to do with my crush of Vanis Varoufakis, the countr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, April 25, 2017
In his playtext introduction, Nuclear War writer Simon Stephens talks about the tyranny of authorial intent, sharing the responsibility of interpreting the text amongst the cast, and “kick…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, April 19, 2017
ictoria Sheldon stars and writes this 45-minute piece about Mischa (Kate Gwynn, who is also producer), a young refugee who has been promised citizenship (and an escape for her family in her …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThe action of the play concerns 2 lowly Imperial guards at the building site of the new Taj Mahal. They get to do the dawn shift, and chatter aimlessly about their duties and the Emperor’s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, April 15, 2017
Waters once again focuses on a real-life event, the emergence of the SDP after a disastrous Labour Party Special Conference in January 1981, where it was clear that those on the centre-left …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, April 14, 2017
Have you ever had a night in with the girls and found yourself singing along to Britney into your hairbrush and dancing on the sofa, pretending to be a girl group from the ’90s? Don’t li…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMBeginning with a single altercation between two members of the cast, the performance quickly develops beyond a brawl featuring nearly everyone in the troupe to a sequence of acrobatic set pi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, April 7, 2017
Matthew Bugg’s musical sees him play actor, musician, producer, director and composer/lyricist. Is it too many hats for one man to wear or does Mr Bugg manage to get the balance, just righ…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThis 150th-anniversary production of T.W. Robertson’s Caste is unsure whether it wants to be a Victorian farce or a more naturalistic drama. The story still feels relevant today, can two p…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, April 6, 2017
After being away for two years Sophie hasn’t come to make amends for abandoning Sam but needs a couple of heists to make up for the £800k she lost in a job gone wrong. To complicate matte…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM 
