Tuesday, January 31, 2023
This is the sort of fare that might have run for years on Shaftesbury Avenue in the mid- 20th century and, despite references to Brexit and the internet, and the use of mobile phones, We’l…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, January 24, 2023
As it turns out, Jemma Kahn’s We Didn’t Come To Hell For The Croissants, the South African, multi-authored one woman riff on the Seven Deadly Sins, offers rather more than just a whimsic…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, January 21, 2023
Existentialism, absurdism, clowning, vaudeville, country music and a gentle queer romance all collide in this strange but rather lovely show. And Then The Rodeo Burned Down is sometimes remi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, January 15, 2023
However, Rebecca Frecknall’s production of A Streetcar Named Desire at the Almeida Theatre is an unusually youthful reading of a play usually marinated in the disappointments of middle age…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, January 9, 2023
“It could be worse” observes Baby, one of the pair of Irish sisters who open and close Margaret Perry’s richly enjoyable new play Paradise Now! at the Bush Theatre, as she contemplates…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, December 30, 2022
As somebody who loves a listicle plus a bandwagon to jump on, how could I NOT compile my list of my top 20 new (to me) shows of 2022? It’s been 12 months in which live entertainment has co…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, December 15, 2022
This London premiere of Newsies at Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre has already extended bookings until next spring and, if the ecstatic – verging on hysterical – first night reaction was…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, December 3, 2022
AIN’T NO MO’ by Jordan E Cooper Directed by Stevie Walker-Webb Belasco Theatre, New York City – until 26 February 2023 https://aintnomobway.com All aboard the final flight of African A…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, November 3, 2022
David Farr’s new play A Dead Body In Taos, briefly in London following performances in Bristol and Plymouth and before moving on to Warwick Arts Centre, is an earnest addition to an underp…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSunday, October 30, 2022
In Michael Longhurst’s dreamy new London production of The Band’s Visit at the Donmar Warehouse, where everyone is close to the stage, it’s enchanting and quietly riveting. It also fea…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMMonday, October 17, 2022
They’re back, those big burly men who sing like angels while dispensing free beer… yes, The Choir of Man has returned to town and it’s just the tonic that we need in these grim times. …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, October 2, 2022
Pitched somewhere between cabaret and recital, but most definitely a piece of true theatre, Only An Octave Apart (the title refers to the fact that Anthony Roth Costanzo is a classical count…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, September 24, 2022
As it is, Bright Half Life has much to recommend it, especially the nimble, inventive direction of Steven Kunis which plays out under a rather beautiful kite shaped neon lighting grid (kite …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, September 21, 2022
The Finborough has a rich and noble history of rediscovering lost dramatic gems, alongside their programme of new work (this year’s Bacon and Pennyroyal are two of my favourite new plays s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, September 16, 2022
Here’s something you don’t get to experience too often: a gritty piece of contemporary writing that gives theatrical voice to people largely unrepresented on stage, and does so with comp…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, August 30, 2022
The fact that Terry Gilliam and Leah Hausman’s production of Into The Woods at Theatre Royal Bath is one of two high profile productions currently running on either side of the Atlantic is…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, August 21, 2022
I wasn’t perhaps as bowled over by Cruise on a second viewing, but it unquestionably delivers on its triple promise of fusing theatre with club culture, a history lesson, and a rambunctiou…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, August 18, 2022
Another night at the King’s Head, another feat of astonishing transformation by the chameleonic actor-writer Mark Farrelly. Because delivering one bravura turn as a gay icon isn’t enough…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, August 14, 2022
It would be unsurprising, indeed completely understandable, for a new state-of-the-nation play focusing on the treatment of, and opportunities for, disabled people in present-day UK, to fetc…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, August 7, 2022
Pitched somewhere between a celebration, a séance and an unusually engaging piece of performance art, Jarman at the King’s Head Theatre eschews linear storytelling in favour of a sensory …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, July 25, 2022
Simon Godwin’s new production of Much Ado About Nothing for the National initially seems to be going for the full-on romantic escapism, from the bougainvillea and sun-kissed (Amalfi?) coas…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, July 20, 2022
Lucy Roslyn’s Pennyroyal takes Edith Wharton’s 1922 novella The Old Maid as its initial inspiration but feels immensely immediate and relevant. It centres on a very specific theme – Pr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, July 1, 2022
Theresa Rebeck’s Mad House at the Ambassadors Theatre is a tremendously engrossing and satisfying tragicomedy, given a flawless, blazingly well acted production by Moritz von Stuelpnagel.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, June 12, 2022
Mark Ravenhill’s The Haunting Of Susan A is a creditable and often gripping attempt to marry contemporary issues with Islington’s somewhat grim past, and an interesting, evocative way to…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, May 28, 2022
Make no mistake, this is a world class Passion, and one which any Sondheim nut, or indeed anybody who wants to see a collection of remarkable talents at the top of their game, would be mad n…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, May 15, 2022
Daniel Fish’s sexed-up, pared-down version of Oklahoma! at the Young Vic Theatre (co-directed for London by Jordan Fein) is less a revival and more a full blown deconstruction of the origi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, May 7, 2022
With The Burnt City, Punchdrunk’s biggest show to date, they take on Greek myth, although the aesthetic is anachronistic: boho chic meets old school Hollywood glamour meets monochrome star…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, April 29, 2022
We knew Mike Bartlett was brilliant, but with this third piece to come to a major London venue in 2022, he displays yet another facet to his virtuosity while staking a claim to be as prolifi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, April 24, 2022
Premiered in New York in 2006, David Lindsay-Abaire’s robust yet delicate piece, which considers the fallout from a child’s death, is a compelling tragicomedy.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, April 10, 2022
There have been numerous screen and stage versions of the Dracula legend over the decades, including a couple of musicals ranging from the misconceived to the riotously camp.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, April 4, 2022
Any study of the history of popular music would be a very slim tome indeed without the contribution of Jewish songwriters, and that’s doubly true when it comes to considering the greatest …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM 
