When The Crows Visit is a powerful new play, and Indhu Rubasingham’s production is a notable success for the Kiln Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMBrian Friel’s Translations is a rich and complex play and, in Ian Rickson’s production which returns for a second run in the Olivier, its layers are drawn out through the performances of…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMBartholomew Fair is full of energy and highly entertaining throughout, while making no attempt to glamorise the city’s underbelly.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMRobert Icke’s final production for the Almeida, after spectacular successes including Mary Stuart, Andrew Scott’s Hamlet and The Wild Duck, is a complete reworking of a play by Arthur Sc…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMIn Sea Sick Alana Mitchell tells, in an engaging lecture, the story of how she, as a journalist, came to be investigating this little known, devastating climate change phenomenon.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMA fierce indictment of cuts and callous indifference, Who Cares? comes straight from the mouths of young carers in Salford.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMNed Bennett has created an entirely compelling evening, which reveals new layers to Peter Shaffer’s play Equus that we can now only see because we have changed as a society since it was fi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSamuel Adamson’s take on A Doll’s House is an ambitious play, sometimes overly so, which delivers fascinating moments but has a tendency to fall short.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFreeman is a startling and exceptional piece of theatre and its run in Streatham was a coup for the still relatively new Streatham Space Project theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMHuman Jam is precisely the type of show Camden People’s Theatre should be producing: fully engaged with its community, angry but imaginative, chaotic and messy, and shining a strong, searc…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMRebecca Frecknall’s rich production of Three Sisters takes place in a bubble of unreality, both alluring and doomed to burst.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMRidiculusmus is at the top of their game and Die! Die! Die! Old People Die!, complete with fart jokes, is an absolute must-see for anyone who wants to be awed by what two men on a small stag…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMCyprus Avenue uses shock tactics to show us the horror within, but it is a comedy with depth, perceptiveness and a touch of genius.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMIt is easy to see why a film set mainly in a recording studio is so suited to the stage and Tom Scutt has created a beautifully balanced and unusual piece of theatre in Berberian Sound Studi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMAnnie Washburn’s new play Shipwreck is intended as a reckoning with Trump. The show pitches itself as a invitation to dinner with the 45th President, but unfortunately would be better desc…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThe publicity for Martin Crimp’s new play, gleefully stoked by the National Theatre, has been all about Cate Blanchett and ‘bondage’ scenes
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMDavid Thame has created a neat drama in Kompromat, but its explicit relationship to such a complex story, with real consequences for people who are very much alive, leaves a lingering sense …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThe revival of David Grieg’s 2002 play, Outlying Islands, at the King’s Head Theatre reintroduces a play of wonderful, haunting poetry and complexity, a flawed but brilliant piece of wri…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMJoe Hill-Gibbins’ of The Tragedy of King Richard the Second is inherently divisive, and the critics have obliged but, only three days into the year, it is very hard to imagine a more excit…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMAnthony Neilson’s adaptation of The Tell-Tale Heart for the National Theatre updates the original, adding slasher film shocks while retaining the intense strangeness of the original.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThe Merry Wives of Windsor is often looked-down-upon as a casual piece of throwaway entertainment lacking substance or serious intent, with little for scholars to get their teeth into. Howev…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMDoctor Faustus at Shakespeare’s Globe certainly provides an entertaining evening and, if it raises questions as well as providing answers, its approach is fresh, important and fascinating.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSinger-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell’s ‘folk opera’, Hadestown, is based on the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, the ultimate ancient story about music.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThe fourth instalment in Jamie Lloyd’s consistently enjoyable season of Harold Pinter’s short plays contrasts plays from either end of the writer’s career.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMProject 2 – Katy Schutte and Chris Mead – are improvising 13 shows, a different one for every night of their run at the Rosemary Branch Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMRobert Icke’s new production of The Wild Duck is bold and controversial but delivers an interpretation that strikes home very hard indeed.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThe story of It’s True, It’s True, It’s True at the Diorama Theatre is in itself fascinating and highly relevant to current concerns, but director Billy Barrett and dramaturg Dorothy A…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMA Very Very Very Dark Matter is perhaps the least complete of his works for the stage, but its fierce anger and gleeful South Park-style offensiveness makes it unlike anything else on a stag…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTamburlaine at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon brings the wonder and the terror of Marlowe’s shepherd emperor to life in a production that gives an almost faultless account of a defe…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMIn contrast to Rufus Norris’ Macbeth at the National, with Rory Kinnear and Anne-Marie Duff, the RSC’s current production is focused and direct. This ensures that it is more of a success…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMDavid Suchet, image copyright Marc Brenner The Lover / The Collection by Harold Pinter – Pinter Theatre, London Both these plays, part of Jamie Lloyd’s ingenious idea for a compl…
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