Monday, December 3, 2018
It has been nearly 80 years since Aimée Stuart’s enchanting and whimsical comedy, Jeannie, has been performed in London so thank god for the Finborough Theatre in staging a revival.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, November 27, 2018
Michael McManus’ An Honourable Man which has arrived at London’s White Bear Theatre, after a successful tryout earlier this year.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, November 22, 2018
Hadestown’s journey onto the stage of the National Theatre – and, indeed, its upcoming transfer to Broadway – has been as tortuous and precarious as the story it tells.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, November 20, 2018
Parents, if the thought of sitting through yet another (yawn) pantomime this Yule fills you with dread, then I’d recommend the dazzling, cheery musical Nativity! The Musical as an outstand…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, November 17, 2018
As we mark #Armistice100 it seems right that Benjamin Till’s award-winning musical Brass should return to remind us, as if we need any reminding, of the terrible price paid by communities …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, November 13, 2018
The the funny, heartfelt stories of Sholom Aleichem were turned into what became Fiddler On The Roof. Now Saul Reichlin’s one-man show, Sholom Aleichem In The Old Country, imagines the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:30AMThe Pinter at the Pinter season continues with parts Three and Four which showcase both Pinter’s comic brilliance and his ability to move an audience.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMMonday, November 12, 2018
Actor and writer William Gaminara plumbs Ayckbourn territory for The Nightingales, an odd bird which has just opened at Theatre Royal Bath with TV actress Ruth Jones tempted back to the stage
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, November 10, 2018
Musicians have a reputation for being highly strung and that finely tuned temperament is tested to the extreme in Jesse Briton’s absorbing new play A Pupil at London’s Park Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThursday, November 8, 2018
The past catches up with the whisky-swilling ex-DI in Rebus: Long Shadows, a brooding, noirish, thriller especially written by Rankin for the stage and skilfully adapted by Rona Munro.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMWednesday, November 7, 2018
The Greater Game tells the remarkable true story of what happened when 41 members of Leyton Orient Football Club, including ten first team players, officials and backroom staff, enlisted at …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, November 6, 2018
Brexit is a farce. Of all the things Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky’s Brexit could have been, their critically-acclaimed satire about the current Euro-debacle is not the play this mired, pol…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, November 4, 2018
Joanna Murray-Smith’s 2003 play Honour is surprisingly relevant to the current #MeToo debate while highlighting a generational division over the question of love and fidelity.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, November 2, 2018
This transfer of Soldier On, which has toured the UK and won public and critical acclaim, is a powerful, explosive and compelling piece of storytelling from a former soldier-turned-actor, no…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, October 27, 2018
David Shire and Richard Maltby Jr’s 1983 Broadway hit Baby has finally made it over the pond for a UK premiere in London but you have to ask yourself, was it worth the wait?
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, October 26, 2018
Northern Stage is taking its inspiration from Peaky Blinders for a new production of Charles Dickens’ classic story of ghosts, greed and goodwill, A Christmas Carol.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThursday, October 18, 2018
Director Jude Christian’s othellomacbeth, two-for-one offer on Shakespearean tragedies at the Lyric Hammersmith, sounds like a bad idea. Crammed into two and half hours, there’s too much…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWednesday, October 17, 2018
Terence Rattigan was understandably consumed with thoughts of love and death – and the right way to die – when he wrote his last great play, In Praise Of Love. Dying himself from leukaem…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, October 16, 2018
Arrows and Traps Theatre Company has followed up last year’s autumnal treat of Frankenstein with a new adaptation of Dracula.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, October 15, 2018
The West End transfer of Matthew Lopez’s modern masterpiece The Inheritance, nearly seven hours of epic storytelling, is a phenomenal play which sold out when it first opened at London’s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSaturday, October 13, 2018
David Greig’s riveting adaptation of Simpson’s Touching The Void has made the transition for an innovative co-production, led by Bristol Old Vic, which is now touring.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, October 12, 2018
Florian Zeller’s new play The Height Of The Storm at Wyndham’s Theatre is as enigmatic as it is engaging. Even the title confounds.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, October 10, 2018
With a winning combination of heavyweight storytelling and punchy performances, The Sweet Science of Bruising gives a ringside seat not only to the true story of women boxers in the Victoria…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, October 9, 2018
Inspired by the events of the 1916 Easter Rising, Lizzie Nunnery’s To Have To Shoot Irishmen a damning look at militarism, violent revolution and a Dublin community torn apart by conflict.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, October 6, 2018
Cheeky little romp Moll Flanders, through the life of a fictitious and notorious London whore, has now been turned into a saucy theatre production, complete with the occasional ditty, premie…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, October 5, 2018
I was enthralled by this fiery revival of Cock which may have lost its initial shock value in the intervening, increasingly liberated, years, but is still capable of being moving, comical an…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, October 3, 2018
You can see immediately why Ian Hislop and his partner in satire, Nick Newman, came up with the idea of Trial By Laughter, as their next stage project.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, September 30, 2018
It seems anyone who is anyone has signed up for Jamie Lloyd’s ambitious season of Harold Pinter plays at the appropriately named Harold Pinter Theatre in the West End.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSaturday, September 29, 2018
Writer Michael Morpurgo calls his magnum opus, War Horse, an anthem for peace. Certainly, a play’s influence has never been so persuasive after sitting, enthralled at Milton Keynes Theatre…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThursday, September 27, 2018
Lifeboat is a play that has the potential to say a lot about the human capacity for survival in life or death situations, and the extremes we can endure when faced with losing the ones we lo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, September 26, 2018
Alan Bennett’s The Habit Of Art has returned to its meta-spiritual home this week, arriving at the Oxford Playhouse to amuse and entertain its erudite audience with in-jokes about the city…
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