We’re partial to a dark and twisty grown-up show so our interest was immediately piqued by the press release for Snowflakes, a black comedy promising a cross between Black Mirror and Insid…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMOliver Sykes’ debut children’s novel is inspired by growing up as a keen amateur boxer in a single parent family on the breadline. Having long been a passionate advocate for underreprese…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFollowing a run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2019, and a Covid-induced hiatus, Katie Guicciardi’s FOX is finally out on tour. Inspired by real-life events, this witty one-hander off…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMOverall, The Flying Bath at Little Angel Studios is a fantastically fun production which has pretty much everything you could ask of an early years show. It’s a brilliant celebration of th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMOverall, Cirque Berserk! at Riverside Studios does exactly what is says on the tin, offering up a real circus experience in a theatre setting. While it doesn’t quite have the same atmosphe…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMIn a week where a petition to remove LGBTQ+ education from the primary school curriculum has reached the threshold for a parliamentary debate, you will struggle to find a more relevant piece…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMPeter Pan flies into Fairfield Halls this Christmas with a brand new adventure for all the family. The Further Adventures of Peter Pan: The Return of Captain Hook features a star-studded cas…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMAdapted by Geoff Aymer (the writer of last year’s excellent production The Wonderful), with Theatre Peckham’s artistic director Suzann McLean once more at the helm as director, Scroogeli…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWhen you book tickets to a musical you would ordinarily expect to see a highly polished, carefully choreographed production where every line, step and song has been rehearsed a hundred times…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMApples in Winter is an enthralling, emotional and impactful play which will no doubt appeal to anyone with an interest in the criminal justice system but will resonate for so many more. A re…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThis year sees the 50th anniversary of Michael Foreman’s classic story Dinosaurs and all that Rubbish, a cautionary tale about environmental destruction which remains as relevant as ever. …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWe are wading through the ‘What’s On’ directory on the Edinburgh Fringe website to help you get to grips with it all. In the first of our Edinburgh Fringe previews, we’re focusing on…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMKate Pankhurst’s best-selling picture book Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World is filled with fascinating facts about some of the amazing women who have changed the course of h…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWhen we received the press release for Iman Qureshi’s latest play, The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs, our interest was immediately piqued just by the name. And when we read on and discovered…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThe Gramophones are a female-led company making contemporary theatre that puts women and girls centre stage. They are currently on tour with Aidy the Awesome, an aerial theatre show for ages…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMAimed at ages three to eight, The Emperor’s New Clothes at the Polka Theatre is a fun show with a moral message that remains as relevant today as it ever was.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMohand and Peter are good friends with a lot in common. For one thing, they’re both actors pursuing their profession far from home.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThe teenage years are the hardest to navigate. Everything’s changing. You don’t know what you’re doing and everyone around you is a walking cocktail of hormones.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMDavid Walliams’ style of humour also tends towards the gross side. But in between all the fart jokes is a story with real heart that will resonate with adults and children alike.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMIn Theatre Peckham's rewriting of Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz, the action takes place much closer to home than Kansas, and there’s no Dorothy or Auntie Em in sight.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMEveryone has a list of favourite childhood films and, as you might expect from a family of musical theatre lovers, Disney films feature heavily on ours.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThe game is afoot. Or, perhaps more accurately, apaw. The Hound of the Baskervilles is bounding across the country, pursued by Sherlock Holmes and chums.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMPolka Theatre has finally reopened its doors after two and a half years, following major refurbishment works which coincided with the Covid-19 pandemic.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMScoot Theatre is out touring cricket grounds (plus a few other places) again this summer with two condensed, family-friendly Shakespeare shows. Alongside the return of A Midsummer Night’s …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThis was our second trip to Greenwich Theatre in a week as we returned to watch The Wolves of Willoughby Chase. The production was originally scheduled to run last Christmas but was unfortun…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThere are some very nice ideas in Polka Theatre’s Maanika and the Wolf which make it far from an ordinary telling of Little Red Riding Hood.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMIris Theatre’s Arthur/Merlin is an interesting take on the tale, which fuses together the classic and contemporary and includes plenty of comedy to offset some of the darker moments.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWith the summer holidays just around the corner, the stage adaptation of the Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks’ picture book What the Ladybird Heard has just flown into the West End for a su…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMAfter five long months, theatre buildings are finally back in business for in-person performances, meaning our calendar and credit card statement(!) are starting to look […]
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMJust like Michael Foreman’s classic book Dinosaurs and All That Rubbish, this makes for a piece of work with enduring appeal, rather than a stop-gap solution to not being able to go to the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMAn Elephant in the Garden is a poignant production that will unite and delight generations of families as they are drawn into Lizzie’s tale of triumph over adversity.
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