Sunday, 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…
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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…
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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.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, December 21, 2018
The chaise longue has been dug out of storage for this re-imagining of William Congreve’s 1693 marriage farce The Double Dealer at the Orange Tree Theatre.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, December 18, 2018
Neural Enhancement With Dr Leon is an immersive experience which began life as a Secret Cinema activity and continues to return and entertain audiences.
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It is appropriate that Park Theatre is staging Jacky Ivimy’s Dialektikon at this time of year. Theatres are full of pantomimes, humorous re-workings of classic fairy tales, so why not a le…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, December 12, 2018
Arriving at the Trafalgar Studios after a wave of critical acclaim at its National Theatre run earlier this year, Nine Night already bears the acclaim and intense scrutiny that comes with be…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, December 7, 2018
Director and performer Sofi Lee-Henson on what keeps audiences coming back to Neural Enhancement with Dr Leon, running at a secret location in SE1.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWednesday, December 5, 2018
Little Women is a flawed but ultimately charming production. An edit in the first half and a better familiarity with the performance space and it would be even better. But as it is, I would …
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, December 3, 2018
A Christmas Carol with a supporting cast of 200? A Christmas Carol with four alternating casts of 200, involving as many in making Christmas as possible, with the maximum social benefit? I c…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, November 30, 2018
It’s such a wonderful idea to re-create a Dickens reading. With John O’Connor’s skill, this proves to be a magical evening of storytelling. A thoroughly fun Victorian Christmas experie…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, November 29, 2018
Seussical the Musical is so utterly and completely charming I’m not ashamed to say it brought me to happy tears of joy at the end. Fast-paced – frenetic even – the action never stops, …
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, November 26, 2018
In short, Philip Pullman’s Grimm Tales is a fine Christmas show for all the family – but don’t be surprised if you have some questions to answer afterwards!
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, November 23, 2018
Described as a ‘treasure hunt’ through a library, Marie Klimis’ The Paper Traveller is an individual, immersive experience which combines storytelling with handcrafted pop-up books, in…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, November 21, 2018
Untrustworthy sailors, stolen treasure, plentiful rum and boat with a captain named Jack – find these and you will be at the ‘x’ that marks the spot for your standard pirate tale. Inve…
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