Wednesday, December 22, 2021
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 09:00AMMonday, December 20, 2021
The 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 11:00AMSaturday, December 18, 2021
The 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 07:00AMWednesday, November 17, 2021
In the tiny, pub theatre-esque Jermyn Street Theatre Samuel Beckett’s two monologues, Footfalls and Rockaby, exert a powerful hold.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, November 6, 2021
Cush 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 12:00PMThursday, October 28, 2021
Although 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 11:00AMTuesday, October 26, 2021
First 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 11:00AMSunday, October 17, 2021
As 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 10:00AMSunday, August 1, 2021
The 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 06:00AMFriday, July 30, 2021
The 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 06:00AMWednesday, July 7, 2021
The 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 06:00AMFriday, June 18, 2021
Samuel 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 09:00AMMonday, February 22, 2021
In 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 11:00AMSunday, November 22, 2020
NAKED 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 07:00AMWednesday, October 28, 2020
Cut 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 11:00AMThursday, July 9, 2020
The 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 06:00AMTuesday, June 23, 2020
The online release of productions from Druid Theatre’s 2005 season of JM Synge’s complete works is a lockdown boon.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, June 16, 2020
The 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 06:00AMTuesday, June 2, 2020
The 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 10:00AMTuesday, May 19, 2020
Tim 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 09:00AMTuesday, May 5, 2020
I 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 09:00AMMonday, April 20, 2020
The 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 09:00AMFriday, April 3, 2020
After 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 09:00AMWednesday, March 11, 2020
Despite 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 08:00AMFriday, February 21, 2020
The 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 09:00AMMonday, February 17, 2020
I, 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 11:00AMSunday, February 16, 2020
Caryl Churchill wrote Far Away in 2000 and, 20 years on, it feels more current by the moment.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, February 12, 2020
The 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 07:00AMMonday, January 13, 2020
Holy 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 09:00AMMonday, December 9, 2019
Gregory 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 09:00AMWednesday, November 13, 2019
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 05:00AM 
