Thursday, May 19, 2022
If you want to see a My Fair Lady that feels like a scene for scene remake of the film, then this production at the London Coliseum will not disappoint, but equally for anyone looking for a …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, May 12, 2022
As Jez Butterworth’s production returns to the West End, with original cast members Mark Rylance and Mackenzie Crook, it is interesting to reflect on how well-anointed modern classics fare…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, May 6, 2022
The Young Vic presents a rather sexy version of Oklahoma! that replaces twee interpretations of cowboy country with a throbbing desire that inflicts the inhabitants of this rural town, and b…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, May 2, 2022
Jackie Sibblies Drury’s new play is an entirely female affair, no male characters are present, implied or even speak, only the time-travelling idea of Mary, her ghostly mother, Mary’s da…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, April 30, 2022
Mike Bartlett has made a bit of an art out of notions of the counter-factual future. In The 47th, he grounds his flights of fancy in the knowledge of institutions, people and political tides.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, April 13, 2022
This wacky tale of faked miracles, town economics, mental health and social segregation is a puzzling one, combining some really great Stephen Sondheim songs and some strong female character…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, April 7, 2022
Aaron Sorkin’s much-anticipated production of To Kill a Mockingbird may have had to exchange original British lead Rhys Ifans for the equally impressive Rafe Spall, but otherwise emerges r…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, March 28, 2022
Ivo van Hove puts aside his filmic style for an intimate monologue about the end of love. Starring Ruth Wilson, Jean Cocteau’s play The Human Voice, is a sympathetic study of a woman drive…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, March 24, 2022
Theatre has always been a place to explore identity by using different character perspectives to consider points of view, social structures or inherited notions of what an individual can and…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThursday, March 10, 2022
The Woods feels decidedly old-fashioned in style and structure, using its characters as ciphers for David Mamet’s abstract conclusions about relationships between men and women.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, February 28, 2022
Henry V is the greatest war play ever written and is the template for all literary responses to conflict since produced.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, February 26, 2022
In Nadim Naaman and Dana Al Fardan’s new musical Broken Wings, there are plenty of soaring melodies for lovers and just as many haunted and broken-hearted ballads for the less romantic.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, February 17, 2022
It has been an extraordinarily fruitful partnership between writer Florian Zeller and translator-playwright Christopher Hampton over the past few years with adaptations of Zeller’s disconn…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, February 12, 2022
It may be the second time in as many years that Caryl Churchill’s A Number has been performed in London, but it is a play that bears restaging, yielding greater insights every time you see…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, January 31, 2022
Beautiful, sexy and luminous are words most associated with Hollywood starlets of the 1940s, 50s and 60s, and indeed they were, but they were also talented and savvy movie actors who command…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, January 26, 2022
Stephen Dolginoff’s 2003 musical Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story was the latest in a long line of cultural products inspired by this infamous murder case in 1920s America.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, January 22, 2022
Force Majeure is a random act of God that cannot be predicted or measured that entirely disrupts planned activity, something we can all appreciate a little better in the past two years.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, January 14, 2022
What is a play? A message to the future, a fart in your face or a pain in the arse?
What is a play? A message to the future, a fart in your face or a pain in the arse? Just a few of th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, January 9, 2022
With its interest in identity, ownership, tradition and the ‘rules’ applied to written rather than oral forms, Nell Leyshon’s play, which aired on Radio 3 in 2021, now earns a fully-st…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, December 31, 2021
It has been another complicated year for theatres with venues unable to welcome in-person audiences for more than five months of 2021 and the tail end of the year returning to enforced closu…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, December 21, 2021
Directed by Rupert Goold with a cast of highly talented young performers, this energetic production about teenage desire and the failure of parental direction is a rare musical choice for th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, December 11, 2021
We’ve all spent far too long sitting alone in our rooms so the cabaret is exactly where we need to be. What emerged as a delicious theatre rumour a few months ago has not only become a rea…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, December 10, 2021
James Graham’s new play Best of Enemies takes us back to the 1960s, demonstrating that the roots of our division partially lay in the creation of televised intellectual debating.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, November 26, 2021
The nostalgia musical is back in full force with crowd-pleasing easy listening stories that looks back to the 1950s and 60s for their inspiration.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, November 25, 2021
Translating poetry to the stage can be challenging for both performer and audience, the importance of the language while alive and vivid on the page can feel verbose or intangible, even stat…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, October 29, 2021
It’s fascinating to see a play that, 35 years after its UK premiere, has the courage of its convictions, a drama that stays true to its characters with no soapy or simplistic conclusion th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, October 10, 2021
Hilary Mantel and Ben Miles have combined a sizeable semi-fictional tome and the familiar historical story of Henry VIII, distilling them into a properly theatrical show with something new t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, October 1, 2021
Creating socio-political change and even recognition doesn’t just happen, somewhere, sometime, someone has to fight for it, and history is full of organisations who since the end of absolu…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSaturday, September 18, 2021
Brought to life by two theatre actors on their way to a big career and finally united at the Old Vic, Ferran and Thallon are great now and are only going to get better – make sure you’re…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, September 3, 2021
Once Britain’s premier political playwright, David Hare’s more recent plays have received considerably mixed reviews, largely for issues around characterisation which particularly affect…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, August 10, 2021
Taking a hard line on a troublesome musical is smart work and Sheader has given considerable thought to reconfiguring Carousel for twenty-first century audiences.
In a mini-season of no…
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