Sunday, 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…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, July 27, 2021
This rare revival of The Two Character Play at Hampstead Theatre proves an interesting addition to works that reassess Tennessee Williams’ impact as a dramatist – an intellectual exercis…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, July 20, 2021
Who are we and who are the people we meet? These rather profound questions have, in one way or another, been at the heart of Sonia Friedman’s brief Re:Emerge season at the Harold Pinter Th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, July 13, 2021
We may not have been able to see our fellow digital audience members but we knew they were there, making The Dumb Waiter feel like a communal event.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, June 30, 2021
Fourteen months and four attempts later, Hairspray is finally back in the West End – the energy, sentiment and exhilaration of the show is completely irresistible.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, June 23, 2021
Making Under Milk Wood a story within a story is a risk but one that pays off, adding a tender father-son connection that ties that multifaceted sprawl of Dylan Thomas’ story together.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, June 15, 2021
As a modern movie musical, In the Heights employs many of its shot, direction and choreographic techniques to create a swirling visual experience that immerses the audience in the story.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, June 4, 2021
Alfred Fagon’s fascinating two act drama opened at the venue in 1975 and while some of its gender attitudes may have dated, so much of Death of a Black Man feels as fresh and challenging n…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, May 26, 2021
Duchess Theatre, London – 13 June 2021 As theatres reopen, the long influence of digital forms is already making itself felt. Jack Holden’s new play Cruise premiered online last month vi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, May 11, 2021
The Barn is a gripping two act piece whose perfect storm of story, tone and character will be a must-see on stage before too long.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, May 4, 2021
Tarantula isn’t perfect and is certainly too long but Ridley’s latest twin works have been ideally suited to the nature of hybrid theatre, utilising the intimate and seemingly one-to-one…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, April 27, 2021
The Royal Shakespeare Company joins forces with BBC4 for the world premiere of A Winter’s Tale, a production intended for the 2020 stage and all but lost to theatre history.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, April 21, 2021
A Splinter of Ice moves away from a basic biography by mirroring its spy subjects and never allowing the audience to be quite sure which of its many faces is the real one.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, April 6, 2021
National Theatre and Sky Arts’ hybrid theatre and film production of Romeo & Juliet has been a fascinating experiment resulting in a smart, interesting and entirely collaborative piece…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, March 30, 2021
The Meaning of Zong and Afterplay showcase the power of audio drama to transport an audience’s imagination and to see the familiar a little differently.
With light at the end of the t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, March 28, 2021
Assembly, the first production from the Donmar Local company, shows a lot of promise, combining an enthusiastic group of performers with a creative team eager to explore technical boundaries…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, March 10, 2021
When we left 1 and A in Episode 14 of Athena Stevens’ Late Night Staring at High Res Pixels they were both in some kind of moral and emotional jeopardy, and it seemed appropriate on Intern…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, February 16, 2021
Late Night Staring at High Res Pixels has already become a gripping anatomy of relationships and the attempts to manipulate two quite different women.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, February 10, 2021
With a charitable donation for every digital ticket sold going to Women for Refugee Women, Little Wars is still an all too rare experience – a play that puts women at its centre without fo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, January 19, 2021
Festivals are a vital part of the theatre ecosystem, a place to try out new material, explore form and style while giving a valuable platform to all kinds of performance. These activities ha…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, January 12, 2021
The RSC, Young Vic and Theatre for a New Audience have a difficult but fascinating task ahead in re-creating lost work Swingin’ the Dream that honours the original while offering something…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, January 5, 2021
With director Stanley Kramer’s making of the groundbreaking film Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner as its subject matter, Tracy-Ann Oberman and David Spicer’s new radio drama has a compelli…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, December 29, 2020
Curve Leicester’s Sunset Boulevard certainly offers ‘new ways to dream,’ proving a beautiful and fitting finale to a year of considerable change for theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, December 22, 2020
Integral to the festive Birmingham experience, the chance to watch this delightful production of The Nutcracker from home is a rare silver lining in an otherwise troubled month for the perfo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, December 16, 2020
Andrew Lincoln brings a real gravitas to proceedings in A Christmas Carol, anchoring the production and delivering a performance of variety and skill that will leave you hoping he returns to…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, December 8, 2020
Filled with a real love of Dickens’ words as well as his characters the Bridge Theatre has found a fresh and exciting way to tell the familiar tale of A Christmas Carol and give Scrooge’…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, November 24, 2020
Philip Ridley’s play The Poltergeist made an intimate transition to the screen and will be unmissable as soon as live performances can be scheduled.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM 
