Thursday, April 30, 2026
AFTER THE SHOOTING Despite the title, Anna Yates’ setting in an episcopalian church room full of calm skylight, and one effective moment near the end, Fran Kranz’ tense 105-minute p…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:04AMSaturday, April 25, 2026
A MUSICAL IS BORN…OUT OF POP”S PAST I liked this rackety, brassy, exhilarating banger of a show: a cartoonish bit of history, a jukebox musical with a heart of gold .…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:43AMFriday, April 24, 2026
ETHICS AND EVASIONS It’s a cluttered upper room, overcrowded with grand old furniture, a gramophone, harp, oddities like fencing foils and a home-built valve radio. The sense is o…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:48AMThursday, April 23, 2026
UNIVERSAL , INTIMATE, TRUE Sometimes it’s more than worth it to flog irritably through a London strike day, make it without even time for a drink but find someth…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:18AMFriday, April 10, 2026
IMPRESSIONS AND OBSESSIONSÂ Â Â The old `Players' Theatre has a good eye of oddball new musicals, cheap enough to sample before anyone's train home. And here off-Broadway's Carmel Owe…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:56AMThursday, April 9, 2026
A SHUDDER FROM THE PAST I came to this fresh from admiring two 76-year-olds , Anna Wintour and Meryl Streep, being painfully cool and haughty in a trailer plugging Devil Wears Prada 2. Â …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:38AMWednesday, April 8, 2026
FRIENDSHIP, BRILLIANCE, DOUBT Â Â Â Â The universe as a bundle of unknowable of approximates:Â Relativity and Complementarity, Uncertainty theory, quantum mechanics, particles …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:49AMFriday, April 3, 2026
A HOUSE OF ANCIENT SHAME     What terrible secrets lie in an impressive yet spooky mansion, with artful descending ceilings and a trapdoor designed by Jon Bausor ? We…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:25AMThursday, April 2, 2026
RUPERT AND BRENDA Â Â Couldn't miss this piece of 40th anniversary history by Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky because I had a very small "Â infinitestimal "Â dog in this fight. I wa…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:05AMTuesday, March 24, 2026
  CRY HAVOC!  Director Tamara Harvey, who gave us that beautiful, thoughtful PERICLES last year (also starring Alfred Enoch),  is not one to interpret Henry V in the stormingl…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:41PMSaturday, March 21, 2026
TOO DEEP FOR TEARS Perhaps this imagining of the young Vincent gains extra power after the emotional hit of the recent Van Gogh at Arles exhibition; starry nights and wonder lie fresh in…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:14AMFriday, March 20, 2026
REACH FOR THE LIMITLESS STARS    This 70-minute squib was a big Fringe hit, though one clenched reviewer suggested that it could only appeal to those who love physics. This f…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:14AMWednesday, March 18, 2026
SECOND HOME HOLIDAY HELL IN OLD RUSSIA    Watch a Chekhov play, and however deep the characters' despair and disappointment you feel the author's love, just as you do f…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:44AMThursday, March 12, 2026
MYSTICISM AND MISCHIEF     This extraordinary show from Kadimah Yiddish Theatre, based on Isaac Bashevis Singer's story (and absolutely not with the Streisand movie…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:04AMTuesday, March 10, 2026
BROKEN HEARTS AND MACAROONS: A DISTANT WAR CLOSE TO HOME Â Â Â Â Â How is it for a family to be a symbol, focus and vortex of murderous global disharmony? Â The Rosenbergs k…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:56AMFriday, March 6, 2026
A DARKNESS FROM THE PAST, WITH MODERN ECHOESÂ Â Â Â Â Â Fittingly in ou age of outing, condemnation and cancellation there have within a twelvemonth been three plays about t…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:58AMWednesday, March 4, 2026
1939: GLOBAL MOMENT , INTIMATE PAIN    There are some tremendous moments in the last ten minutes of this late-period Arthur Miller play: some from Pearl Chanda as Sylvia,�…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:40AMTuesday, March 3, 2026
A THOUGHTFUL ANGER Â Â Â Â We need to know and feel something beyond the daily global news; sometimes theatre can place us carefully and mercilessly in the room and try to make us…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:38AMTuesday, February 24, 2026
A 1920's BIRD OF PARADISE IN THE HENCOOP Â Â Trust Trevor Nunn to make this a bit of an event: a rarely-seen Noel Coward play set with ferocious accuracy and style in its birth-year 192…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:40PMTHE MARY ANN WHO BECAME GEORGE ELIOT Â Â Â It's 1842; Bird Grove is the handsome house near Coventry which Robert Evans bought in his retirement from managing a grand estate. With he…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:48AMFriday, February 20, 2026
PEERLESS, COMPLETE WITH PEERESSES   Melodious romantic yearning and extreme nonsense, Victoriana sending itself up in rap-speed pattering rhyme and lovesick fairies invading the …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:15AMFriday, February 13, 2026
GAGS BEFORE GRAVITAS  They're a national treasure:Jim Hacker and Sir Humphrey, inventions of Jonathan Lynn and Anthony Jay long before the age of Spads and WhatsApps. The TV shows…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:36AMTuesday, February 10, 2026
WICKED ECHOES FROM ANOTHER DEPRESSION      Well, here's something oddly familiar! A legendary international financier with charm, vast wealth, grubby fingers in many p…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:42PMSunday, February 8, 2026
This is an adapted version of a piece I wrote for The Times on 19 January. Following Joanna Carrick's funeral on Friday, it seems right to put it up here, because theatre pioneers and projec…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:42PMTuesday, February 3, 2026
SLY USEFUL OBSERVATION…MARRIAGE OF EQUALS Noel Coward was a lad of 18 when he finished this very adult portrait of a marriage in trouble, invalided out of the army, nervous and tuber…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:53AMSaturday, December 20, 2025
A VERY GREAT TALENT TO AMUSE     Rival psychopathies emerge from the first moments of "Cornley Drama Society" as Chris (Daniel Fraser) and Robert (Henry Lewis) face off a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:55AMFriday, December 19, 2025
OH DEAR…   Event theatre! New from NY!   It got Tony and Pulitzer nominations, and smart Broadway people called it "heartwarming: and "best crafted and exacting…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:46AMThursday, December 18, 2025
UNDER AN ALIEN TREE   The suffering and the pity of Gaza affects us all: bitter division on the streets, hysterical demonstrations feeding a violently rising antisemitism. And…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:35AMFriday, December 12, 2025
   "The woods are lovely, dark and deep…" " They certainly are when designed by Tom Scutt . And Jordan Fein's glorious new production will, I think, conver…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:29AMWednesday, December 10, 2025
DRINK DEEP OF GLORIUMPTIOUS FROBSCOTTLE      The RSC holiday season show offers a rising generation some proper theatrical wonder, away from banal screen CGI and a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:20AMTuesday, December 9, 2025
CINDERELLA AND THE MATZO BALL.     JW3. , Finchley Rd L'CHAIM ! TO LIFE, AND PANTOMIME JOKES   It's not often that you get to hiss and boo Prince Ch…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:48PM 
