Saturday, April 20, 2019
Amelie is a magical show; with puppets, flying lampshades, a singing gnome and terrifying figs. I couldn’t fault it, and judging from the audience reaction, they couldn’t either.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, April 19, 2019
The play Night of the Living Dead is not quite like the eponymous B movie cult classic on which it is based. It’s very much a comedy sprinkled with horror and splashes of gore and I love i…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, April 18, 2019
Charles Court Opera’s production of HMS Pinafore has all the joie de vivre you could ever want. The messages remain sadly culturally relevant. But ultimately this is the English having a b…
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I love Rocky Horror. Yes, it is a bit camp, yes it may not have aged that well, but it is a good night out with catchy songs, audience participation and one of the finest characters to grace…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, April 15, 2019
The Yard Theatre presents a modern production of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Directed by Jay Miller, this new interpretation of The Crucible begins as a storytelling.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSaturday, April 13, 2019
The Brockley Jack Studio is constantly offering interesting and challenging productions and Queen of the Mist is a must see for fans of musicals with a strong book as well as beautiful music…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, April 12, 2019
Little Miss Sunshine is impressively directed with a high energy level, the songs are so good that I hope a soundtrack CD is soon released, and overall it’s a very solid four-star musical …
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Toast is a deeply moving play that isn’t afraid to find the humour in Slater’s tragedy. Toast looks at Slater’s relationship not only with his family but with food.
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Killymuck, looking at life for a Northern Irish working-class woman living amongst the Troubles, isn’t just a moving portrayal of the past but a worrying reminder of how little has changed…
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Romance Romance, the all-male gay musical which opened at the Above the Stag Theatre in Vauxhall, is a beautiful and ornate chocolate box of a production.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, March 14, 2019
There’s something very timely in Angry Alan, Penelope Skinner’s portrait of a lost man finding refuge in the “men’s rights movement”.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSaturday, March 2, 2019
Oscar Wilde’s comedy of manners is rightly regarded as a classic, so we must give thanks for Ayesha Casley-Hayford and Kudzanayi Chiwawa coming along and giving The Importance of Being Ear…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSunday, February 17, 2019
Set in Belle Époque France, Can-Can! sells itself as a fun and frivolous new dance musical adapted from Offenbach’s original operetta Orpheus in the Underworld featuring a 17-strong all-s…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, February 12, 2019
Fight Night is an immersive, underground boxing match as the audience’s actions and reactions determines the winner.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, February 11, 2019
A first-rate piece of children’s theatre, this retelling of the familiar myth Icarus (by playwright Katrin Lange, directed by Cressida Brown) challenges a young audience to reflect on whet…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSaturday, February 9, 2019
Committing to review a show that you adore is a risk, especially a show you saw ten years ago, obsessed over, bought the soundtrack, played it a hundred times over and to which you know almo…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, February 8, 2019
Danielle Ward’s The Half, which transfers to London after a sold-out Edinburgh 2018 run, is a brutal look at friendship, comedy and being a woman.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSunday, February 3, 2019
Seance is a sensory rather than a theatrical performance. In a small audience, you find yourselves being asked to contact the dead, in 20 minutes and in the blackest darkness with headphones…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, January 30, 2019
Victor Sanchez Rodriguez’s Cuzco makes its English debut with translation by William Gregory. It is a passionate play about a couple She (Dilek Rose) and He (Gareth Kieran Jones) who find …
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, January 26, 2019
At the end of Motown The Musical you will leave the theatre feeling a love of Motown music that you have never experienced before.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMKompromat at the Vaults Festival is a thoughtful production with warm performances that distracts its audience with missed marks.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, January 25, 2019
At first glance Notre Dame de Paris appears as a mashup of an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical and a Cirque du Soleil show in French. But it goes deeper, as it should, being based on Victor Hugo…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, January 24, 2019
Experience the fun of this spectacular live concert, celebrating Michael Jackson’s legacy as an artist; a singer, songwriter, composer, arranger, dancer and all-round entertainer who creat…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, January 22, 2019
Violet is a warm, considerate musical with a lot to say about the past and some real faces of the future to look out for.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMMonday, January 21, 2019
A Modest Little Man is a pacey and engaging one-act play. The characters are – for the most part – well fleshed out and well realised.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, January 18, 2019
In the light of #metoo, post-Weinstein, post-Spacey and post all the other creeps that have been exposed Liv Warden’s debut play Anomaly (produced by Wildchild Productions) looks at what h…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, January 17, 2019
The themes and ideas Rosenbaum’s Rescue centres around are explored in a fascinating manner, and it’s one of the best pieces of theatre I’ve seen in years, I’d urge all to see it, wh…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMWednesday, January 16, 2019
David Grieg’s play about an uninhabited outer Hebrides island doesn’t know whether it wants to be a political thriller, based on the true story of Gruinard Island which was conta…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, January 12, 2019
Arthur Miller’s adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People could have easily been adapted in the last couple of years as a, not at all subtle rebuke to the election of Donald Tr…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSunday, January 6, 2019
Playground Theatre will host the premiere of Dream of a King, a one-man play written and performed by Christopher Tajah (directed by Bernie C. Byrnes), depicting Martin Luther King Jr on the…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSunday, December 23, 2018
While you may be tempted to see a classic like The Nutcracker, you’ll quickly learn that it sold out last August, so you could do worse than comfort yourself with Peppa Pig’s Adventure.
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