Tuesday, February 22, 2022
One thing that I have really, really missed over the last two years is just good plain fun. This is what Viper Squad has in spades.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, February 21, 2022
The iconic 1980s romance is re-worked for the stage in this straightforward but energetic production. Full confession: I grew up obsessed with Dirty Dancing, and I kind of still am.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, January 11, 2022
Designing an immersive experience for an audience as obsessive as Doctor Who fans would seem almost completely impossible.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, January 4, 2022
F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby was first published nearly 100 years ago yet it still continues to inspire modern adaptations and interpretations.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, January 3, 2022
Theatrical spinoffs from popular movies are usually ill-conceived and redundant; a double whammy from which you’re less likely to come back than Chrissie Watkins after a swim off the beach…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, December 28, 2021
I’m a huge fan of Back to the Future. I saw it for the first time in January 1986 and maybe a hundred times since.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, December 19, 2021
James Graham finds an analogue for today's culture war in 1968 USA care of Gore Vidal and William F Buckley.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, December 13, 2021
Theatre, still recovering from economic and talent loss, following Covid-19 is understandably taking a safe approach to productions.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, December 2, 2021
Business and boxing collide in this revival of Yasir Senna’s play by Razor Sharp Productions. Alisha Harper-Gill is on the ropes, fighting for her career.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMMonday, November 29, 2021
The first thing you’ll notice when you enter the auditorium is the incredible set design which brings you right into Beverley and Laurence Moss’s decadent lounge.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, November 25, 2021
You gather in an unassuming office reception to start – looking much like any of the thousands of office receptions in the surrounding part of the city.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, November 12, 2021
A young woman listens to pop music on headphones. The people around her can’t hear it. We, the audience, can – a bit. But it’s a solitary experience; unshared. Something universal is a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, November 11, 2021
I like Six because it is short, the costumes look amazing, it focuses on female talent from the six leading queens to the backing band and it has a range of songs and talent rarely seen in m…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, October 27, 2021
Fans will no doubt revel in recognition of their favourite songs during this rock opera based upon the epic power ballads of Meatloaf and Jim Steinman.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, October 24, 2021
Lucy Bailey’s site-specific production of Agatha Christie’s courtroom drama has returned to London County Hall, after a lengthy, if unplanned adjournment, and remains one of the most eff…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, October 15, 2021
In this one-woman show, writer and performer Beth Burrows fascinates her audience even as she exposes some of the flaws of her famous male subjects: Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, October 14, 2021
God, teenagers. Don’t you just want to shake them sometimes? Scream at them that their lives are a marathon, not a sprint.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, June 15, 2021
The intimate and interactive nature of the setting meant that we, the audience, were completely immersed in the performance of The Scottish Play.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, June 10, 2021
In Alyssa: Memoirs of a Queen, primped, preened and double vaxxed, Alyssa not so much dominates the stage as blows it up entirely.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMMonday, May 24, 2021
Jack Holden’s Cruise is a timely look at LGBT history, for fans of Russell T Davies’ It’s a Sin it touches on similar themes of 80s London in the shadow of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. It is…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSaturday, May 8, 2021
With no audience to see for themselves, how do you believe in the magic? I was intrigued then to find out more about The Secret Connection who recently started doing online magic shows.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, March 29, 2021
Testament places some of the Bible’s most interesting bit part players in a modern setting and gives them centre stage.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, October 28, 2020
It’s fitting that Next Thing You Know revolves around four young people searching for moments that are rare and precious in a life that is achingly normal.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, September 22, 2020
The big question is whether the big sound of Pippin translates to an outdoor space on the edge of the Vauxhall one way system. The answer is a resounding yes.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, September 19, 2020
It is in the second half of Squad Goals where the play comes to life and comes into its own. The football tournament is depicted through two long, dance sequences that burst with a ferocious…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, August 12, 2020
One amazing thing that has come out of Covid-19 theatre is more filmed theatre. My latest theatre experience from the comfort of my own couch was Moment of Grace by Bren Gosling, presented b…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, August 6, 2020
Now if you think that The House That Slipped is simply a well-meaning, worthy play, you would be wrong. The script, direction and the way Zoom is an essential part of the story, make it witt…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThursday, July 2, 2020
Shakespeare. Theatre. Press Nights. These are all concepts we are familiar with, but in this unprecedented time of COVID-19 lockdown, for a moment we were unsure how theatre would survive.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, June 11, 2020
In this world turned upside down, emergency legislation has been rushed through to do away with barristers. Now the accused in court have only you.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThursday, May 28, 2020
We need to use this time wisely. As audience members, what do we want to see; as creatives, what can be made. If the expectations don’t match, then audiences won’t be back.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, May 22, 2020
This play, written especially for Zoom by John Knowles, looks at a group of people trying to make a seance work when they can't hold hands.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM 
