Monday, January 21, 2019
Frantic Assembly’s latest, The Unreturning, is a moving meditation on war and masculinity, thanks to playwright Anna Jordan.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSaturday, January 19, 2019
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, January 18, 2019
Ishy Din’s new play about a cab office, Approaching Empty at the Kiln in Kilburn, is more of an old banger than a sleek Uber machine.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, January 15, 2019
Frank, funny and occasionally ferocious revival of the late Kevin Elyot’s 1982 Bush Theatre debut Coming Clean.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, January 14, 2019
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, January 9, 2019
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMMonday, January 7, 2019
Welcome back Ché Walker; your verbally dexterous LA story Time Is Love really sings with passion and tragedy.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, January 4, 2019
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, January 2, 2019
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, December 27, 2018
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, December 24, 2018
Little Bulb, an award-winning company of actor-musicians which is based in the South East and tours nationwide, has revived their version of Orpheus, and the result is breathtaking.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, December 21, 2018
The new play One Jewish Boy about anti-semitism is viscerally powerful and raises some troubling issues about insidious racism.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, December 20, 2018
Can you really turn a three-page short story into a full-length play? What would you add, and how would you avoid accusations of padding? Anthony Neilson’s new version of Edgar Allan Poe�…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, December 18, 2018
The Convert, at the Young Vic Theatre, a thrilling revival of Black Panther Danai Gurira's 2012 play about Christianity and imperialism is a heartfelt cry for justice.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMMonday, December 17, 2018
Mark Ravenhill’s comeback play The Cane at the Royal Court Theatre is a brilliant, complex and mature account of the abuse of power.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, December 10, 2018
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, December 7, 2018
Hole, a short new play from actor Ellie Kendrick is full of ferocity but is not strong on originality or nuance.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, December 4, 2018
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWednesday, November 28, 2018
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, November 27, 2018
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, November 23, 2018
Lisa Carroll’s Cuckoo, her new debut play about Irish teens, has some exciting dialogue but its production doesn’t quite deliver.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, November 21, 2018
Plays about old age are often also plays about death. This is certainly true of American novelist Don DeLillo’s evocatively titled 2005 play, Love-Lies-Bleeding.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, November 20, 2018
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, November 19, 2018
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, November 18, 2018
If there is a good argument for remembrance, and there is an equally good one for forgetting, what you can never forget is the War Horse experience.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, November 16, 2018
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, November 12, 2018
It seems to be a great time to be a female playwright, and Ifeyinwa Frederick’s irreverently noisy, and often hilarious, debut play The Hoes is proof that there is a lot of upcoming new ta…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, November 9, 2018
An imaginative adaptation of Zadie Smith’s 2000 contemporary classic White Teeth at the Kiln Theatre is let down by unnecessary music.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, November 8, 2018
New play about genius and the classical music world is engaging in its ideas and deep in its feelings
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SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, November 7, 2018
All We Ever Wanted Was Everything at the Bush Theatre, a new pop opera about a couple of young people across three decades is simply exhilarating.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, November 6, 2018
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM 
