Wednesday, July 6, 2022
The second pair of plays from #FinboroughFrontier’s quartet of pieces #VoicesFromUkraine reflecting on the situation in the war torn nation is now available. They join the first couple to …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, June 24, 2022
In The Machine Stops E. M. Forster unusually abandons his general milieu of the genteel classes and takes a look at a supposed future – the theme of connection, however, is still very much…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, June 18, 2022
Broadcast on the fifth anniversary, one cannot but conclude that Grenfell, Scenes From The Enquiry is a devastating critique of a system which put money before people and allowed a tragedy w…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, June 15, 2022
Voted back into power three times, Tony Blair left office with the accusations of being a manipulative liar ringing in his ears – not that that has ever slowed down the current incumbent. …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, June 6, 2022
Based on a true story Kabul Goes Pop: Music Television Afghanistan concentrates on the period in the early 2000s when the Taliban in Afghanistan had been pushed back following Western libera…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, June 1, 2022
Certainly a powerfully realised piece of drama, Mission at The Big House is all defiantly obscure, though it clicks into place eventually, and you cannot help but admire the skill that goes …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, May 29, 2022
What do you do when the artistic muse has deserted you? Or when it has never really arrived?
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, May 17, 2022
Harold Pinter’s The Dwarfs is a fascinating glimpse into the development of one of the major playwrights of the 20th century and this production does it full credit.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, May 6, 2022
All three of the short plays that feature in Fizzy Sherbet’s audio series centre on writer/performers who, not unnaturally, bring a depth of emotion to their own work.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, April 23, 2022
I’m not sure whether I’ve actually been to Woking. It’s that sort of place – although how I’d know that if I’ve never actually been there, I really couldn’t say. I suppose it�…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, April 19, 2022
One of Sondheim's earliest works Anyone Can Whistle has just opened at Southwark Playhouse. Notoriously a flop back in 1964, many have tried but few have succeeded in reviving its fortunes.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, April 8, 2022
Diary Of A Somebody is credited to John Lahr, though technically he might be said to be the arranger/editor. For the actual words are those of Joe Orton as recorded in a journal that he deci…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, April 7, 2022
After a trying day (don’t ask), it was particularly pleasing therefore to unwind with Sasha Regan’s All-Male HMS Pinafore at Wilton’s Music Hall in the East End.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, April 2, 2022
Having seen Marcus Brigstocke’s name attached to it, I instantly assumed this would be a broadly comic play that was strong on laughs and reasonably light on subject matter.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, March 18, 2022
Animal behaviour but within a human framework. This is a powerful new play from Ruby Thomas at Hampstead Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSaturday, February 12, 2022
Kipps – The New Half A Sixpence Musical is “new” in the sense that it’s an updated version of a musical first performed in the early 1960s to showcase the singing, dancing and banjo …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, January 20, 2022
East Is East is a recent addition to National Theatre's At Home catalogue and only appeared as a live production back in October.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, January 13, 2022
Ruth Wilson is strong casting in the central role with a, for once, restrained Ivo van Hove directing.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, January 10, 2022
Light as a souffle but such a delight. It’s doubtful whether there has ever been a classier bit of froth than this Cole Porter show.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, January 5, 2022
The Shrek franchise opts for a modern-day spin on the traditional form, undermining expectations and undercutting some of the more winsome aspects with one-liners and witty put-downs.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, December 30, 2021
The holidays have always been a time of rich pickings for dramatists, bringing together people (pre-Covid at least) who probably avoid each other for the rest of the year.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, December 20, 2021
A full-on immersive event - part play, part museum exhibit, part theme park ride and part party.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, December 15, 2021
The Death Of England sequence by Clint Dyer and Roy Williams has had an interesting history. Starting life as a ten-minute microplay film courtesy of the Royal Court.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, December 12, 2021
Anna Christie, which predates The Hairy Ape, won the 1922 Pulitzer prize for drama and therefore had to have something going for it.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, December 3, 2021
It’s only happened a handful of times in my theatregoing life, but at Wyndham's Theatre, I had the urge to leap to my feet and instigate a standing ovation. In fact, I felt that way as the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, December 1, 2021
There's a world (indeed, a universe) of possibilities in this intriguing play about decisions and repercussions.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, November 14, 2021
Remembrance Day seemed a perfect moment to review a production set just before and during the First World War, Hugh Salmon's finely rendered Into Battle.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, November 6, 2021
The live version of Northern Comedy Theatre's lockdown Zoom hit sees Shakespeare diced, sliced and put through the mincer at the Bridewell Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, November 3, 2021
After becoming a fan of their online comedies during lockdown, I chat with Northern Comedy Theatre artistic director Shaun Chambers and writer David Spicer as they transfer their Zoom hit Do…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, October 29, 2021
Stephen Smith of Threedumb Theatre is something of a Gothic horror aficionado, especially when it comes to the works of Edgar Allan Poe.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, October 27, 2021
Following a brief run at London's The Space and ahead of a tour, Brian Coyle’s 2018 one-man play Timeless was made available as an on-demand stream.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM 
