Wednesday, March 15, 2023
In a week when the UK government doubled down on its harmful and divisive rhetoric with regard to refugees and immigrants, Chickenshed’s new spring show Rush feels depressingly timely. At …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSaturday, March 11, 2023
Back in 2009, when The Great British Bake Off first appeared on our TV screens, nobody could have predicted that a show about people making cakes in a tent would even get a second series, le…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, February 26, 2023
“Complicated, isn’t it?” says one of the characters early on in James Woolf’s The Play With Speeches – and they’re not wrong. As writer Anthony (Matthew Parker) sits down with di…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, February 13, 2023
As adaptations go, they don’t come a lot more ambitious than Simon Reade’s reimagining of David Copperfield at Riverside Studios. The semi-autobiographical novel by Charles Dickens is kn…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, February 4, 2023
The subject of Aoife Kennan’s Scratches is a tough one for many reasons – one of which is that, for very good reasons, she can’t actually talk openly about it. And so a sort of code de…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, January 14, 2023
Though it’s considered to be a Canadian classic, it’s somehow taken nearly 40 years for David French’s Salt-Water Moon to reach the UK, directed by Peter Kavanagh at the Finborough. Pa…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, December 18, 2022
This is far from the only option for anyone wanting to see A Christmas Carol in London this year – but if you’re looking for a performance that’s intimate, funny, inventive and a littl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, December 6, 2022
It’s the festive season, and of all the Christmas shows on offer this year, I’m not sure they could possibly come much bigger than Chickenshed’s Jack! Playing is believing… As ever, …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, November 30, 2022
La Maupin is a folk punk musical celebrating this queer icon, written by Olivia Thompson and performed by a small cast of actor-musicians from female-led theatre company Fantastic Garlands. …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSaturday, November 5, 2022
Based on the novel by Christopher Isherwood and adapted by Simon Reade, A Single Man follows a day in the life of George (Theo Fraser Steele), a middle-aged British professor living in Los A…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSaturday, October 15, 2022
All I can really say about Apples in Winter at the Playground Theatre is that it’s really, really good, with an immensely powerful one-woman performance from Edie Campbell that will leave …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, October 8, 2022
There’s a lot to appreciate in Guinea Pigs at The Space. The central inspiration is a topic that’s been deliberately covered up and will therefore be news to many audience members, and E…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, October 2, 2022
Theatre doesn’t get much more personal than this. The Quality of Mercy is the story of serial killer Harold Shipman, written and performed by Edwin Flay – a patient of Shipman’s as a c…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, September 18, 2022
Landscape with Weapon asks some interesting and uncomfortable questions, and ultimately proves that when it comes to morality, right and wrong are not always as clear-cut as we might like th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, July 20, 2022
You’ll like Blue at the White Bear Theatre if… The play is a dark comedy. You will laugh. You will think about the ‘human condition’. You will find some of it absurd because life is …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, July 4, 2022
Inspired by the moment in April 1987 when the princess opened Britain’s first HIV/AIDS unit at London’s Middlesex Hospital and challenged public perceptions of the disease by shaking han…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, June 20, 2022
Going in, it’s hard to know if the technical aspects of Douglas Baker’s production of Ten Days In A Madhouse at Jack Studio Theatre will feel gimmicky, but it quickly becomes evident tha…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, April 15, 2022
Bill Rosenfield’s Another America is not quite what I expected – which, it turns out, is the whole point. Inspired by the 1999 documentary film True Fans by Dan Austin, it’s not explic…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, February 16, 2022
Returning to live performance for the first time in two years, Arrows & Traps prove they’ve lost none of their ambition as they bring to the stage not one but two inspiring real-life s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, February 1, 2022
Female-led theatre company Plain Heroines “make funny plays about difficult subjects”. That’s an apt description of Kate Reid’s The 4th Country.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, December 24, 2021
What if you fancy a festive show but you’re not in the mood for Dickensian drama? Shitfaced Showtime is the answer.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, December 6, 2021
How many of us theatre lovers, hand on heart, could name the wig designer working on our favourite productions?
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, December 1, 2021
Rose is a career woman who wants a baby but not a relationship. Adam’s a deadbeat musician who had a bad childhood and has zero interest in procreating.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, November 21, 2021
Like the 1989 movie on which it’s based, Heathers the Musical has gained an enthusiastic cult following since the UK production first opened at The Other Palace in 2018.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, November 13, 2021
Northern Comedy Theatre return to the stage with Doing Shakespeare, a clever and joyously silly play celebrating Shakespeare in all his occasionally incomprehensible glory.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, October 14, 2021
Based on the true story of one of America’s most controversial trials, Tokyo Rose is a new musical written by Maryhee Yoon and Cara Baldwin, directed by Hannah Benson, and performed by an …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, October 1, 2021
In Other Words was inspired by writer and performer Matthew Seager’s experiences volunteering in a care home before the pandemic. First performed in 2017 (when Theatre Things reviewed it d…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, September 29, 2021
Beautifully written and emotionally devastating, Cordelia O’Neill’s two-hander Anything Is Possible If You Think About It Hard Enough sensitively explores the impact of losing a child to…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, September 13, 2021
Proforça Theatre’s Lately doesn’t directly address the pandemic, but the emotions it portrays – loneliness, loss and a longing for escape – are feelings audiences will relate to per…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, September 4, 2021
Don’t Send Flowers at the White Bear Theatre is a really thoughtful and enjoyable piece of new writing from My Theatre Mates’ Emily Garside, sensitively presented by a talented team.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, July 23, 2021
The impossible “five years” question is posed to each of the characters in Ben Barrow and Lucy Ireland’s excellent new musical From Here – and each has a different answer.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM 
