Thursday, February 28, 2019
With technically excellent 360 degree projection and sound, and some smart and crisp choreography from the passionate cast, Gingerline’s The Great Expedition is a truly enjoyable, immersiv…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, February 19, 2019
Trouble is, engagement needs a theme, and while A Midnight Visit is entirely Poe-faced with references to Edgar Allan’s works, you’d need more than a passing familiarity with both Fall o…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThursday, November 22, 2018
Old Spice: If you couldn’t obtain/afford/be bothered to get tickets for the Spice Girls’ re-re-reunion, Denim The Reunion Tour may just be the very thing you’ve been waiting for.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, November 13, 2018
I’d been looking forward to The Simon & Garfunkel Story thinking how much this was the music of my coming of age years – but it’s funny what tricks your memory plays.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSaturday, November 10, 2018
I wonder if in years to come we’ll look back on the ‘Theatre of Brexit’ in the same way we analyse Shakespeare’s treatment of Agincourt, or the Trojan Wars in Sophocles?
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, November 8, 2018
It’s always a pleasure to hear an untold story. In Billy Bishop Goes to War we learn about a baby-faced Canadian teenager who by a string of lucky chances became the world’s most decorat…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, November 3, 2018
The best interaction in Honour at the Park Theatre is between Imogen Stubbs and Katie Brayben, largely very convincing as the sharp journalist and they trade some good points about agency an…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMWednesday, October 31, 2018
Soldier On is a brave enterprise of the Soldiers’ Arts Academy charity which helps rehabilitate ex-service people through involvement with theatre, and this excellent company is part-milit…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMTuesday, October 30, 2018
I love a bit of immersive interactive theatre shiz: The Grift at Bethnal Green’s Town Hall Hotel was last year’s big winner imported from San Diego. Now from Canada comes Talk is Free Th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, October 29, 2018
I’m fairly sure the land on which the Bridge Theatre was built was once a plague pit, but I’m beginning to wonder if the place isn’t itself cursed. How else can it commission a play by…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, October 26, 2018
The madwoman playing the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor is Sarah Tynan – ENO’s most popular soprano, in her debut in this bel canto role. Tynan is undoubtedly the best actress on the …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMThursday, October 25, 2018
Robert Icke’s conversational, documentary production of The Wild Duck at the Almeida Theatre makes this complex morality play immediately accessible.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, October 24, 2018
Now listen carefully’ says the wonderful Gareth Snook, hosting the proceedings as 75-year-old chorus girl Dora Chance in Emma Rice’s Wise Children, ‘or it’s going to be a long evenin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, October 17, 2018
It would be hard to imagine a play about young gay lives that speaks more eloquently to older gay men than the moving, informative and often hilarious The Inheritance now transferred to the …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSaturday, October 13, 2018
English National Opera celebrates 50 years at the Coliseum with a grandstanding production of Porgy & Bess, the first in its history.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, October 11, 2018
Plays for poor theatre: in Brexit Britain, once we’re reduced to eating rats whilst clutching our blue passports, a Shakespeare mashup may seem like a doubly good idea – patriotic and ec…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, October 10, 2018
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York City is an extremely good piece, but its failure to be even edgier an…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSaturday, October 6, 2018
Mike Leigh’s genius was to offer Abigail’s Party to audiences who roared with laughter without recognising themselves on the stage. Julie Burchill and Jane Robins may have pulled off the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWednesday, September 12, 2018
Still in development by the enterprising curious directive company – Gastronomic, at Theatre Royal Norwich’s black box Stage Two is already on its way to a firm handshake from Paul Holly…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, September 7, 2018
I wonder if a new genre is forming in musical theatre? Let’s call it ‘cartoon rock’ – because products like Eugenius!, Six and Knights of the Rose have little in common with the cano…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMTuesday, September 4, 2018
At Hornchurch, artistic director Douglas Rintoul seems to have gone for the faithful-to-the-first-production approach: for example, Melanie Gutteridge’s Beverly is a neatly dutiful homage …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, September 3, 2018
Meanness and greenness have often gone hand in hand at Regent’s Park – £3.50 for a tiny ice cream cone, really? – but never more so than in Maria Aberg’s confident production of Lit…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, August 27, 2018
There is undoubtedly a thrill in seeing a huge and highly professional ballet company perform one of the classic masterworks in one of the city’s most beautiful settings.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSaturday, August 25, 2018
Does Beatrice love Benedick? Does Macron love May? The entente cordiale is alive and well in award-winning Antic Disposition’s lively production of Much Ado About Nothing.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThursday, August 23, 2018
In Tom Latter’s stolid revival of The Rise and Fall of Little Voice at the Park Theatre, relocation to Hull does a lot for the pitiable poverty, nothing for the snappy Lancashire dialo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, August 14, 2018
I am fully content to hail Alan Bennett as a National Treasure, and while I enjoyed many aspects of Allelujah!, I still hoped for even better and a return to his form in, say, The Madness of…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, August 10, 2018
‘She’s a little bit Hairspray, he’s a little bit Glee …’ is not actually a lyric from Bring It On, a high school musical being given a sparky showcase by the British Theatre Academ…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, July 30, 2018
Combining a realistic portrayal of Glenn Miller with Steele’s genial narration could be the saving of this piece.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSaturday, July 7, 2018
All the advance publicity for Knights of the Rose gave me a sense of foreboding. I thought the Arts Theatre had hit rock bottom with Ruthless but it seems there is further to go.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, July 5, 2018
Kelli O’Hara trails a cloud of Broadway success and redefines the role of Anna in The King & I in a way that lays the ghost of previous incumbents and outshines all our homegrown tale…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, June 30, 2018
For all my scepticism about the views expressed by some characters, I decidedly think this is impressive work from a playwright to be taken seriously and it’s only very slightly too long a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PM 
