Tuesday, 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.
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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.
Linked From 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.
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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.
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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.
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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’…
Linked From 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.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, November 17, 2020
15 Heroines is an impressive and energised reworking of Greek myth that leaves the audience keen to find out more about each of these women and their remarkable lives.
Being a woman in …
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMMonday, November 2, 2020
A Sarah Kane play is by no means a safe option for any theatre looking to attract audiences back to its auditorium, but this bold and intriguing production of Crave at Chichester Festival Th…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, October 27, 2020
One of the highest profile events in Nottingham Playhouse’s Unlocked Festival was Bubble, a hybrid production, performed in-house and live streamed over the weekend to a potential internat…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, October 12, 2020
This incredible concert version of Songs for a New World serves as an all-to-brief reminder of how it feels to listen to live music in an enclosed, traditional theatre space, responding to e…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, October 5, 2020
After You is a brief but well constructed story about musical theatre’s favourite theme – love – but is less the straightforward tale of boy meets girl who live happily ever after. It …
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, September 29, 2020
Romantics Anonymous is a story predicated on equality, mutual support and finding your own path as individuals (and as a couple) rather than waiting for someone else to come and save you fro…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, September 15, 2020
The Bridge Theatre’s most savvy decision is in teaming The Shrine with Bed Among the Lentils, placing together two of our finest actors who effortless and regularly transition between stag…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, September 8, 2020
Good things come to those who wait, an axiom that applies in duplicate to Stephen Beresford’s latest play Three Kings screened via the Old Vic’s innovative In Camera series for just five…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, September 1, 2020
The first short play is Beat the Devil in which David Hare stakes first claim to what will surely be a new genre or at least a familiar theme in the coming months – the Covid monologue.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, August 17, 2020
Jesus Christ Superstar at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre may say concert on the poster but there is singing, dancing, performing and storytelling nine shows a week.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, August 13, 2020
Ben and Max Ringham’s work for Blindness is a masterpiece, a 70-minute performance that layers story, sound effects, music and lighting design to immerse the audience in a pandemic experie…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, August 4, 2020
The Greenwich Theatre production of The Secret Love Life of Ophelia showcases a selection of excellent young performers that inadvertently asks some big questions about how we cast Hamlet in…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, July 29, 2020
The National Theatre really did save lockdown and made us appreciate our phenomenal creative industries, but they may also have inadvertently pointed the way for the future as surely as Nati…
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