Tuesday, May 24, 2016
Made popular by the MGM 1955 film starring Marlon Brandon, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine this show is undoubtedly in my top three all time favourite shows. Consequently I've …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:35AM[SHARE]Howard Goodall and Melvyn Bragg's rousing 1984 musical The Hired Man will receive its first major concert presentation in over twenty years at London's Cadogan Hall on 22 September 2016, nar…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 22, 2016
The Original Theatre Company and Salisbury Playhouse in association with Eastbourne Theatres will present the national tour of Emlyn Williams' psychological thriller, NIGHT MUST FALL, direct…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:44AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 21, 2016
Starting life as a Edinburgh Fringe seven minute piece of theatre, this marks Liam Borrett's first foray into a full length show. Lasting one hour and fifty minutes it is both intense and ha…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:05PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 18, 2016
New cast have joined the London production of Disney's THE LION KING this month. Alongside changes in the ensemble cast, Nicholas Afoa has taken on the role of Simba at the West End's Lyceum…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:31AM[SHARE]Monday, May 16, 2016
The Stephen Sondheim Society and Mercury Musical Developments have announced the winners of the Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year and Stiles + Drewe Prize. The winners w…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:20AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 8, 2016
The Theatre Room is probably one of the quaintest performance spaces I've ever had the opportunity to visit. It's recently become the new headquarters of The So & So Arts Club and is hi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:40AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 5, 2016
Are you interested in Edinburgh Fringe or starting to programme your events calendar? The lovely Chloe Nelkin has sent a useful little summary of the twenty-two shows that they are represent…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:15AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Sunny Afternoon - West End
★★★★★ Outstanding Performances ensured "You Really Got Me" Returning for more!
Review of Performance Friday 29th April
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:47AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 28, 2016
Based on the cult movie of the 1980's The Toxic Avenger is a gloriously silly and immensely enjoyable spoof on comic book heroes. It doesn't take itself seriously, it's just one delightful e…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 26, 2016
The long title does the job of explaining what this show is about so I don't have to. However, what I will say is that it also includes hilarious cross identities, infidelity, an incredible …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:05AM[SHARE]We take to our seats, having been handed a blindfold and told where the concept came from. Written by Samuel Beckett for radio in 1956, it was first broadcast on 13th January 1957 by the BBC.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 25, 2016
CLAIRE SWEENEY TO PLAY BARONNESS BOMBURST
IN THE 2016-17 UK AND IRELAND TOUR OF
THE SHERMAN BROTHERS’ CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG
FROM 3 AUGUST 2016
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:09AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 23, 2016
With the popularity of TV shows like Making a Murderer, injustice seems to have become the stuff of entertainment, allowing us to feel righteous anger that such terrible things can happen, w…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 19, 2016
A story of four generations of strong women, an exploration into the meaning of family, being a mother, a child, sister and grandmother. Do we learn from the mistakes we or others make or is…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]In the intimate setting of the Hope Theatre, I feel this is a staging of a classic Shakespeare play that the bard would thoroughly have approved of. From interweaving through the audience, d…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:27AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 14, 2016
he evening started well with a small selection of the cast moving amongst us whilst we sat in the bar full of anticipation waiting for the house to be opened. The beautiful costumes and friv…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:05PM[SHARE]This is an interesting and intriguing piece. The set of a Tokyo hotel bar in 1969 gives an air of sophistication, steeply raked the audience clearly see the cast on stage.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:45AM[SHARE]Monday, April 11, 2016
Jersey Boys
For die-hard fans of a particular show, it is never easy when cast change happens. However, for the first time in the history of Jersey Boys eight-year run all four "boys" (fiv…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:13PM[SHARE]I remember watching a 15-minute excerpt from Joe Sellman-Leava's solo show Labels at a scratch night at Morley College about a year ago. In an evening full of talent, the piece stood out for…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:33AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 10, 2016
Written by Lee Tannen, this is his story of his friendship with Lucille Ball and principally the last ten years of her life. Lucille (Lucy) Ball is arguably the most famous female American c…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:32AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 9, 2016
There's no real storyline but then you don't need one for here we are listening to Jon Lee, Keith Jack, Matthew Quinn and Luke Striffler deliver consistently, vocally stunning performances t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:41AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 5, 2016
The evening has to be given to Close, who exceeded every expectation and was every ounce the Hollywood star she is. Charisma, dramatisation, characterisation, timing and delivery, all outsta…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:20AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 31, 2016
As someone who's never seen a live opera, in part because of the exorbitant prices and pretension associated with it, I guess I'm the ideal demographic for Pop-Up Opera.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:47PM[SHARE]You know you've seen something good at the theatre when you're still thinking about it 24 hours later. Catherine-Anne Toupin's darkly comic drama Right Now is as unsettling as it is often hi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:37PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 24, 2016
With exquisite costumes and graceful execution, there is an undeniable elegance to Scena Mundi's production of Twelfth Night. The striking French Protestant Church in Soho provides a fitting…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:16PM[SHARE]Highly successful at the Edinburgh Fringe last year If I Were Me is part of the Soho Rising Season at the Soho Theatre and I could definitely see why. This quirky, sometimes baffling, bemusi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:18PM[SHARE]Friday, March 18, 2016
In the middle of the stage is a bed. A dressing table to one side. Littered with makeup, bottles, used cotton wool pads, clothes all over the chair. A hectic, busy young woman is in the midd…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 17, 2016
It's a rare and wonderful thing these days to see a brand new musical " not a revival, not a musical based on a movie, but a shiny, original, fresh-out-the-box show. Not that Miss Atomic Bom…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:34AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 12, 2016
A play with aspirations of uncovering the hidden angst of the teenage experience that didn't quite hit the mark. It's a bold move, making a play about a group of drunk teenagers. They're not…
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