Friday, 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 08:29AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 01:20AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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[SHARE]Saturday, December 6, 2025
JUST FOR KIDS? CONTRARIWISE! WE ARE ALL ALICE    In a fleeting moment of meta-theatre when the monstrous crow (well, umbrella) had the house shouting "Behind you!", Tweedl…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:22PM[SHARE] HELLO AGAIN SAILORS   This is one of ENO's beloved triumphs, the one which got some of us through the latter Covid years in frivolous merriment. For back in gloryIn 2021…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 3, 2025
A GHOSTLESS DICKENS TREAT FOR CHRISTMAS This is wonderful: a three-hander adaptation by Abigail Pickard Price, with the Guildford Shakespeare Company. They're well up to the new-…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:37AM[SHARE]LADIES WHO LURCH The Lord Chamberlain took a bit of handling to let this play's louche presumptions of extramarital liaisons be flaunted onstage: and one public morality campaigner shout…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 2, 2025
 A BEAR WHO DESERVES HIS STATION   This could have been awful , a desecration of the children's favourite which became a national icon of reassurance when he sat down to tea …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:13AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 22, 2025
GRIEF, GUILT, CONSCIENCE Â Â Â A great bright disc of moon overhangs the old tree in the storm, as it falls in the tumult of sound that could be war. Â It's 1948:Â Arthur Mille…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 20, 2025
ABSURD, TRANSCENDENT, JOYFUL Â Â Â Â Forget Ancient Greece and the films inspired by the suitors of royal Parthenope, this is Handel in comic-opera mood (one can't always be writi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:26PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 15, 2025
  A VERY CIVIL CRIME Meet Robert, a retired barrister, working in a charity shop as we meet him, cautiously sniffing trousers and appreciating candelabras. Nothing unusual there i…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:13AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 12, 2025
AN INNOCENCE OF WITCHES     A brand-new musical always stirs hope, especially when we're promised voices like Gabrielle Brooks (magnetically magnificent as Rita in Ge…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:04AM[SHARE]Friday, November 7, 2025
NOT AT ALL A DRAG… Candy-coloured prettiness frames a 1890s world, of bored girls in flounces longing for escape from guardians, lovesick young men not averse to heiresses, a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:46AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 5, 2025
INNOCENCE, WICKEDNESS , RAGE Â Â Ti Green's set is ,at first, a gilded wonder of dignified curves and arches, palatially spectacular when filled with the red robes of the Duke and sena…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:56AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 29, 2025
EVERYONE'S CALIFORNIAN NOW.. Â Â Â When the Old Vic had Jonathan Spector's play in 2022 it was the first time after lockdowns that I had the joy of beng in a space with a thousand ot…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:02PM[SHARE]EDWARDIANA FOR A FEMINIST AGEÂ Â Â It looks wonderful. Designer Colin Richmond has been set loose, with Oliver Fenwick's lighting, to create both the the raftered, big-windowed Edwar…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:18AM[SHARE]Friday, October 24, 2025
A FAMILY SAGA , A MEMORABLE AUNT    Bit early for an onstage Christmas-tree, but this comedy-drama by Richard Greenberg ran months on Broadway twelve years ago, and it suits …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 23, 2025
OLD FAITH IN A MODERN CITY    Anna Ziegler's play was an off-Broadway sellout, glimmering with insights into Jewish-American family conflicts, traditions and rebellions.�…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 22, 2025
CHAOS IN FRAYING CHINTZ Catching up after a break away I nipped in to check whether after 60 years Joe Orton can still get people gasping with shock.  Peter McIntosh's set alone is a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:52PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 15, 2025
A BRILLIANT ECHO    Shouldn't be surprised that this is a cracking play:  Katherine Moar's 90-minute debut FARM HALL , about 1940s nuclear scientists, sparked cheers and a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:02AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 14, 2025
A DARK SERENISSIMA Â Â No pretty biscuit-tin Venice here, but rather its ancient darkness:Â Jess Curtis' artful set offers stark steps, corners, slotted openings into which half-gli…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 24, 2025
TANGLED JUSTICE, MORAL SWAMPS  There is no sure hero in Shakespeare's 'mystery play" , which can be exhilarating. Emily BUrns' remarkably sure-footed, clear and well-trimmed p…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:09AM[SHARE]Monday, September 22, 2025
ANYTHING CAN WASH UP ON THE NORTH SEA COAST …    Robin Brooks and director Fiona McAlpine mischievously bill this eccentric, enlivening short play as "a shocking so…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:22PM[SHARE]Friday, September 19, 2025
RAIN, RAGE , REGRETS   If you're expecting the original Ibsen tale of a bored wife wondering whether to leave a dull husband and deciding not to, pause.  This is "aft…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:29AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 18, 2025
HOLLYWOOD AND HYPOCRISY Â Â Â Â It's a brilliant moment for this sharp bit of work from the American Michael McKeever to land at the Elephant with a bracing thump. Â We've got …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:53AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 16, 2025
THE BEST OF TASTELESSNESS  It's always special when the small Menier's latest musical proves so perfect, so original in interpretation but faithful to its classic core that it can…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:38AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 14, 2025
FAME, FRAUD AND FAMILY     Long after it opened, a massive hit both sides of the Atlantic, and finally closed , the enterprising Finborough hauls out a 1921 A.A.Mi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:16PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 13, 2025
NORDIC , NOIR, NEUROTIC    In a hotel room, sea uneasy beyond and faint wind howling, dishevelled Adolf with his crutch listens to his smooth, confident new friend Gustaf. He…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:23AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 10, 2025
AWKWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIER Â Â Â The curtain is a marvel to start with: its plasticky-floral cosiness taking you straight to a 1970s kitchenette and the heyday of Mrs W's mission to g…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:04PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 9, 2025
EMPYREAN ENTERTAINMENT; CLUTCH IT TO YOUR FAINTING BOSOM NOW!   It should be on prescription,  so healing of life's frustrations is this Charles Court Opera revival of Gilbert…
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