Today is Sunday, December 22, 2024 Broadway Baby Birthdays: Ralph Fiennes Andrew Lippa
DOPAMINE , DRUGS, DANGER, DOCTORS This intriguing play by Lucy Prebble aired in 2012 in the intimate Cottesloe space , with Billie Piper and Jonjo o’Neill as paid subjects in an antid…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:55AMFORTY YEARS ON, FROM TWO PERSPECTIVES This is a properly interesting RSC commission: a history play about the Falklands invasion by Argentina in 1982 and the British task force which e…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:35AMSORROW AND SUSPICION This one had me from the first few minutes: another Jermyn find. A new play, whose young actor- writer Abigail Hood and director Kevin Tomlinson both perform in…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:57AMA CORONATION YEAR ROMP ANYWAY A neighbour in the stalls confided that she sees a lot of West End theatre but avoids “the more highbrow sort”. She was in the right place, …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:41PMTHREE GENERATIONS UNDER SMARTPHONE RULE Bit late to this one, and it had mixed reviews – largely I suspect because Michael Wynne’s play, a two hour four-hander all-woman slice of life …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:38PMNEVER MIND THE MOUNTAIN, OVER THE ROAD CHICHESTER ROCKS Now here’s a perfect gig for us 1970’s leftovers, though I suspect today’s young rockers will also love the shiny leat…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:45PMOLD SOHO SPEAKS AGAIN, AND WISELY Of all the places you’d expect to see Quentin Crisp – even as a ghost or tribute – one of the least likely is a wooded amphitheatre in Suffolk at…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:26PMTRAGEDY, JOKES, ORACLES, SINGING SHEEP AND A BEAR After last year’s storming Macbeth, Red Rose Chain returns to the wooded site at Sutton Hoo for its second big outdoor …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:54AMTHE WHITE MAN’S BURDEN? Tanika Gupta’s play is a sprawling, angrily intimate epic about Indians in Britain during the height of empire, thirteen years running up to old Queen V…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:49AMA FEW OF OUR FAVOURITE THINGS… Let it be said first of all that Gina Beck is a glorious gamine Maria: sings like a bird and is satisfyingly able to convey in her voice her gr…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:43PMTHE WAY IT WAS Ah, the forgotten plays of the 30s and 40s, how they lure me to basements and pub rooms and tunnels: Jermyn and Finborough and Southwark in particular! Like co…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:15PMBIRTH, DEATH, SCIENCE , ANGER “The smell – the smell – the sheets…” Curtain up, he is gripped by urgency, past or present. . Now a successful doctor home in Hungary…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:24AMCOME ON MY SONS… At the end of the first half of this exhilarating play, England is through to the World Cup quarter-finals in Russia after several bracing straight wins and an ago…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:56PM1926 AND ALL THAT, ON THE AIR Fresh from doing cartwheels in the Bake Off musical up the road, Haydn Gwynne is now a strangely convincing Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin , in pinstripe. Oh,…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:58PMQUIET DESPERATION, NOISY GUNSHOTS “Everybody tell the story Everybody sing the song, Every now and then a country Goes a little wrong…” Hard for it not to feel topical, S…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:47AMHIGH NOTES AND KNOBBLY KNEES I am a relative newcomer to Gilbert & Sullivan, having long thought I hated them (heard too many gammony fans in my childhood wrecking the songs…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:43PMWELCOME BACK TO PUNXATAWNEY Seven years after its premiere at the Old Vic earned a flurry of Oliviers, by way of a pandemic and a disappointingly short Broadway run , here it…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:42AMA TIME CAPSULE OF OPEN MARRIAGE I am pleased to find out about Miles Malleson: an Edwardian student joker, WW1 conscientious objector, Bolshevist, founder of Left drama groups and the…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:53PMMOTHER RUSSIA’s WARRING SONS At the Almeida this shook and delighted us last year: a fresh history play: confrontational , shocking, classic in its focus on vast flawed cha…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:38AMBIG SHOW, BIG HEART, SMALL SPACE This, I urgently must tell you, is rather wonderful: an example of the way that sometimes a big show in a small theatre can be a revelation…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:39AMBACK TO THE OFFICE, EVERYONE! There is, by chance a bit of a Thing going on in theatre right now: women playing a particularly alpha type of men, with glee and an unnerving s…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:04AMWHEN DIVORCE WAS DISASTER It’s 1921. Thirty years ago Lady Kitty ran out on her MP husband Clive and small son with his friend and colleague Hughie, exploding a public scandal…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:08AMBORN TO LEAD.. This is a joy, quirky and full-hearted, musically adroit and fast-moving and witty. Moreover, I suspect its self-mocking variety-show humour would be more to t…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:43AMTHE ROARING TWENTIES, ROLLING OVER THE EDGE When Noel Coward shocked and enthralled the 1920s with this most bitter and intense of his plays, he was meanwhile hastily finishing the farcical …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:15PMGATHER ROUND AND HEAR AN OLD, OLD STORY… Deep breath, concentrate at the back: there’s this Ancient Briton King, who once banished a chap who vengefully stole his baby sons, leaving…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:22AMA THEATRICAL ECHO, SEVENTY YEARS AGO A theatrical tease opens both halves: the voice of Noel Coward singing “There’s a right way and a wrong way, an old way and a new way” for the…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:34PMHARRY HILL TAKES ON TONY BLAIR. FIIIIIIIGHHHT!!!! I couldn’t be more delighted that it’s touring, this splendidly rude show. We need this kind of merrily offensive burlesque, in t…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:15PMTHE POWER OF NO, IN 1950S AMERICA If we think we suffer from a paranoid cancel-culture , we should note this reminder of mid-1950s America – notably Hollywood – in the McCarth…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:09AMBLACK, BOYISH, BEAUTIFUL It’s not all musicals and movie-spinoffs that put bill-paying bums on seats. The best producers trust their nerve and instinct ,rake through the fringe …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:30AMREDEFINING FEELINGS IN AN AGE OF ANGRY ANGST “We are three people trying to redefine feeling” they say. They do this between Paris, Munich, Salzburg and Greek islands, and either…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:58AMBLAZING MUSIC HOLDS THE HOUSE TOGETHER After 1930’s Donegal at the NT the day before, Dancing at Lughnasa portraying a group of women meeting stress and poverty with danci…
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