Tuesday, May 8, 2018
It’s momentous indeed to see a debut work at the National and this excellent production of Nine Night, in all the clamour for a National Theatre that actually reflects the demographics of …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMMonday, May 7, 2018
While utterly bewildering, the performances are so spectacular and the play is such fun you can’t help but be a little bewitched by One Green Bottle.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSunday, May 6, 2018
What effect is pornography having on young people’s sexual and mental development? This is just one of the questions raised in Abbey Wright’s brand new piece Why is the Sky Blue?
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, May 4, 2018
Colab Factory excels at providing unconventional and immersive theatre experiences and For King and Country is no different.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, May 3, 2018
Patch of Blue, the company responsible for We Live By the Sea, specialises in devised theatre that expands the conventional scope of audiences and here they share the life of a 15-year-old w…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, May 1, 2018
Ramps On the Moon’s Our Country’s Good delivers a production that seamlessly integrates actors with and without disabilities to produce excellent all-round performances.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, April 28, 2018
New York’s Lincoln Center invited UK-based Oily Cart to be one of three theatres from outside the US to perform at the Big Umbrella Festival, the first of its kind dedicated to such audien…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, April 27, 2018
The Bekkrell Effect frames robust femininity within a reversal of circus trick formation that normally builds to a series of climaxes.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, April 24, 2018
If you don’t know the city and you’ve not heard any stand-up comedy for the last ten years, spending an hour at How to Be a Londoner is a moderately entertaining way to spend your evenin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMMonday, April 23, 2018
The lack of social commentary serves mainly to enhance the play’s simultaneously entirely universal but completely personal quality, which ultimately makes The Gulf a touching and enjoyabl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, April 22, 2018
There are some sharp writing and unexpected laughs from Thomas Eccleshare’s script in Instructions For Correct Assembly, and its marriage with design elements makes this a smart production.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSaturday, April 21, 2018
As the play celebrates its second anniversary, The Comedy About a Bank Robbery’s continued popularity simply proves that everyone loves a good dose of comedy.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, April 20, 2018
Guleraana Mir’s writing is the real star of Coconut. There’s room for development but the ideas are there and it’s refreshing to go to the theatre to see something that feels entirely …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, April 18, 2018
It’s easy to think you’re not educated enough about the situation in the Middle East to be able to join in conversations like these, but there is very little about Mark Thomas’ show Sh…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, April 17, 2018
Quiz transfers to the Noel Coward from Chichester Festival Theatre’s increasingly successful and relatively small Minerva Theatre. Sadly, there is a sense that something is lost in the ups…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, April 16, 2018
Songs for a New World, Parade, The Bridges of Madison County and The Last 5 Years – these are a just a handful of the musicals penned by composer Jason Robert Brown, and just few of the tr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSunday, April 15, 2018
In his audacious new play Devil With The Blue Dress, Kevin Armento examines five women’s accounts leading up to – and resulting in – President Clinton’s impeachment in 1998.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSaturday, April 14, 2018
“You look like a fucking idiot.” There was so much love in this insult, that with all the crap this family have to deal with you knew they’d muddle through it together.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, April 13, 2018
For what Donnellan accomplishes with classical text, here so often revered and dogmatically adhered to, still makes Pericles worthy of praise.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, April 10, 2018
When putting on a piece about violence against women, theatres must find one that is written by a woman. It’ll say something much more powerful, rather than simply telling people that it d…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, April 7, 2018
Love Me Now nails the experiences of modern dating and casual sex from a female perspective, but in this case it makes a statement rather than initiates a dialogue. This certainly isn’t a …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, April 4, 2018
In the writing of Songs for Nobodies, Murray has invented singular anecdotes that grasp an entire life in a moment, without a heavy-handedness that condescends. Rather it elevates the serend…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:00PMSaturday, March 31, 2018
There are numerous nice ideas in the script for Will at the Rose Playhouse, but the resulting effect is just that – nice. Nothing here is groundbreaking or fully developed and the anomalou…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMBeginning with a rave and barrelling through to the last blackout, Trainspotting Live is an important contribution to theatre’s ecology and balls-out fights with its reputation for being s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, March 30, 2018
Whimsical design, innovative dramaturgical devices and an unwilling to patronise young people with obvious storytelling combine to create Beginners, a marvellous and thoughtful piece of thea…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, March 28, 2018
Dollywould is a blast of campy queer fun. If you’re knackered with a life of 9 to 5 normality, put some pink on and buy a ticket.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, March 27, 2018
Beowulf has two monsters – a bog standard monster and a dragon – and many choices that first lead to his victory, then a tragic end. Since Seth Kriebel tells this story on his own, he en…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMMonday, March 26, 2018
Performer Ultimate Dancer gives a fairly emotionless performance, but in the hyper-worldly circumstances this distinctive atmosphere evokes, it oddly fits.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMThursday, March 22, 2018
Although it is a bit rocky in places, there is an interesting twist at the end of Lock and Key that makes it easier to digest.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:00PMWednesday, March 21, 2018
Dirty Little Machine is this close to smashing through theatrical boundaries, what with its dalliances into non-linear storytelling, but it could certainly go further.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMTuesday, March 20, 2018
Tristan Bernays’ final scene is simple and heartbreaking – the whole room burst into tears at the exact same moment. Suddenly all of the bits that don’t work tremendously well don’t …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM 
