For her last production at Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Blanche McIntyre expertly conjured the life of a city onto a tiny stage. Her Measure for Measure is another city play, but of a very diffe…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThe Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare – Barbican Theatre, London Like all theatre companies, the Royal Shakespeare Company has experienced a tough 18 months, so it is fortunate that…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThe Jermyn Street Theatre is a tiny place to stage a play that is more usually seen filling all the space on offer at the RSC or the National Theatre, but the scale gives Tom Littler’s pro…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMIn the tiny, pub theatre-esque Jermyn Street Theatre Samuel Beckett’s two monologues, Footfalls and Rockaby, exert a powerful hold.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMCush Jumbo’s Hamlet has been a long time in the making. In fact, what with the pandemic and the Young Vic’s long lead times for shows (which allow for some serious forward planning), I b…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMAlthough David Storey is a somewhat forgotten writer, wildly successful from the late 1960s to the late ’70s as both a playwright and novelist, but then just as suddenly out of fashion, Ho…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFirst staged in 1985, just before the AIDS epidemic had fully entered public consciousness, Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart rails against the refusal of US authorities to acknowledge anythin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMAs soon as the title number’s patter chorus kicks in, there’s a smile on every face at the Barbican Centre, where Cole Porter's Broadway classic Anything Goes runs until 6 November 2021.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThe Young Vic is configured in the round for Changing Destiny, Ben Okri’s adaptation of a 4,000 year old Egyptian myth.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThe lava in the title of Benedict Lombe’s new, fierce, autobiographical play is anger. It flows over the stage, filling the crevasses of the set, and through Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo’s smou…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThe National Theatre’s staging of Under Milk Wood is far from the first time Dylan Thomas’ poem has been adapted for the stage. It’s easy to see the temptation to perform a work so pac…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSamuel Beckett’s Happy Days is, as Lisa Dwan observes, often described as ‘the female Hamlet’. Dwan has played every other female Beckett lead but even she was intimidated by a role pr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMIn an empty Almeida Theatre, two heavyweight actors – Adrian Lester and Danny Sapani – bring serious male energy to Lolita Chakrabati’s new play Hymn.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMNAKED is a powerful, funny and thoroughly engaging piece of physical theatre. It is the first show from performers Luke Vincent and Paige-Marie Baker-Carroll of the NAKEDpresents queer colle…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMCut off in its prime in March, Ian Rickson’s Uncle Vanya returns to us from an empty theatre, filmed for cinema release.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThe National Theatre’s 2016 production of Les Blancs was directed by Yaël Farber and used the full resources of the Olivier stage to transmit its full force.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThe online release of productions from Druid Theatre’s 2005 season of JM Synge’s complete works is a lockdown boon.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThe Battle of the Beanfield is the first show by Breach Theatre, now known for the excellent It’s True, It’s True, It’s True about Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThe chaos of national politics in the mid-1970s seemed light years away in 2014, but how arrogant that assumption seems now.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTim Crouch’s series of performances as overlooked characters in Shakespeare is a fascinating body of work. He has been developing these one-man shows (with assistance) for more than 15 yea…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMI have been collecting these for at least 35 years and now have a nearly complete set of post-war programmes from the Stratford theatres (if anyone has a hoard of uber-rare, early programmes…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThe excitement still builds on a Thursday night, when many of us sit down to watch theatre as though it was analogue television in the four-channel era.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMAfter the theatres closed, the National Theatre was quick to announce a free mini-season of online shows from their NT Live broadcasts, which immediately became the only evening bookings in …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMDespite the combined skills of its performers, The Cutting Edge lacks pace and drive and the key moment of crisis, which always seems around the corner, never arrives.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThe Incident Room is a multi-layered and satisfying drama, a proper assessment of a story that gripped, terrified and obsessed the nation. This excellent production confronts our dark past h…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMI, Cinna is a small masterpiece of unshowy writing and performance that is some of the best small-scale theatre of its time, equally satisfying to audiences of young people and adults.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMCaryl Churchill wrote Far Away in 2000 and, 20 years on, it feels more current by the moment.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThe company in People Show 137 has an admirable ability to conjure moments that capture the audience’s attention and to deliver about turns that keep the audience intrigued.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMHoly What’s version of Antigone is about the two teenage girls at the heart of the play, Antigone herself (Annabel Baldwin) and her sister Ismene (Rachel Hosker).
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMGregory Doran’s RSC production of Measure for Measure is a subtle and absorbing account of a play that gets weirder with every viewing.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWhen The Crows Visit is a powerful new play, and Indhu Rubasingham’s production is a notable success for the Kiln Theatre.
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