Sunday, January 16, 2022
Joe Orton had been dead six years when Alan Bennett’s 1973 Habeas Corpus made its West End debut in a production starring Sir Alec Guinness.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, January 9, 2022
I’m not sure anything prepared me for quite how earth-shatteringly sensational Rebecca Frecknall’s take on Cabaret would turn out to be.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, December 29, 2021
I’m not sure even the greatest admirers of this 2006 Broadway smash will be prepared for the emotional and visceral impact of this jaw-droppingly fine new production by the Almeida’s art…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, December 7, 2021
Big burly men who sing like angels while dispensing free beer….what’s not to love, right?! It isn’t hard to fathom the appeal of The Choir Of Man.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, December 1, 2021
It might seem a bit odd to come out of a Shakespeare play raving about the singing and music. Yet these elements are part of what lifts Phillip Breen’s captivating new RSC production.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, November 23, 2021
A long-standing darling of the avant-garde downtown Off-Broadway theatre scene where she has her own company, Young Jean Lee is known for creating plays that are punchy, free-form and advent…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, November 19, 2021
Every so often a little show comes along pretty much unheralded and without star casting that strikes a chord with audiences and critics alike, and ends up sticking around in the West End fo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, November 14, 2021
Nobody who sees this award-nominated Australian drama is likely to accuse playwright Alana Valentine of lacking ambition.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, November 9, 2021
The birth of a new star is always a source of theatrical excitement, and it’s been a while since we’ve seen a professional debut as impressive as that of Abigail Weinstock.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, November 6, 2021
Unlike the critically mauled Broadway tuner Pretty Woman, Michael Conley and Dylan Schlosberg’s tangy and surprising chamber musical is only “inspired” by, as opposed to slavishly foll…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, October 21, 2021
Jordan Hall’s multi-award-winning Canadian comedy, in a smart staging by Proud Haddock artistic director Jimmy Walters, is so engaging you don’t really need a glass of overpriced wine to…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, October 13, 2021
Disparaging somebody else’s passion project is a bit like telling a doting parent that their baby is ugly. This stage tribute to Art Nouveau darling Ida Rubinstein is one such endeavour.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, October 6, 2021
A musical that riffs on Shakespeare while plundering the back catalogue of one of the most successful and prolific songwriters in pop history (Max Martin, who is only not a household name be…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:31PMTuesday, September 28, 2021
One of the Urban Dictionary definitions of “nasty” is a word to describe something that is ridiculously good. Between that and the more traditional meaning of the word, I have no hesitat…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, September 27, 2021
Written and premiered in the early 1940s while WW2 raged on and the prospect of losing a precious loved one at short notice felt like a very real possibility, Noël Coward’s ghostly comedy…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, September 24, 2021
Jonathan O’Boyle’s inspired actor-musician take on Jason Robert Brown’s song cycle-cum-musical felt like an eye-opening reinvention of a fascinating but conflicted piece (one half of t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:20AMTuesday, September 21, 2021
First presented at the Royal Court in 1976 and last seen in London in a starry 2008 revival directed by the author, Peter Gill’s knotty, elegiac text is a dense, tense jumble of memory pla…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, September 20, 2021
Highly recommended, but I wouldn’t bank on getting a good nights sleep afterwards. Evil in plain sight is a real chiller, and that’s exactly what Wohl is serving up here. Disconcerting, …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, September 19, 2021
Educational and richly entertaining, NW Trilogy emerges, in Taio Lawson and Susie McKenna’s vibrant production as a sparky, moving valentine to what is traditionally one of the capital’s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, September 15, 2021
This may be a sweeping statement, but if you’re not profoundly affected by Indecent, Paula Vogel’s provocatively titled powder keg of a play, as staged here in Rebecca Taichman’s Tony …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, September 7, 2021
Andrew Lloyd Webber may have composed better scores than his new Cinderella, but he has certainly never created anything camper, and no, I haven’t forgotten Sunset Boulevard. This collabor…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSunday, September 5, 2021
British Theatre Academy’s 13 proves to be an upbeat piece of musical theatre that could well prove a calling card into the industry for enthusiastic young people on both sides of the footl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM 
