GATHER ROUND AND HEAR AN OLD, OLD STORY… Â Deep breath, concentrate at the back:Â there's this Ancient Briton King, who once banished a chap who vengefully stole his baby sons, leavi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:22AM[SHARE]A THEATRICAL ECHO, SEVENTY YEARS AGO Â Â 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 o…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:34PM[SHARE]HARRY 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…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:15PM[SHARE]THE 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 M…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:09AM[SHARE]BLACK, 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 f…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:30AM[SHARE]  REDEFINING 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 eith…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:58AM[SHARE]BLAZING 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…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:26AM[SHARE]A SAD LOST WORLD . A HUMAN BEAUTY There is particular genius in creating a play which doesn't build to a showy debacle but grips you with the possibility of an unnamed crisis, and so…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:11AM[SHARE]​ABBASOLUTELY A DELIGHT  ​​  ​​   If there is a formula for a cheerful touring play in our frazzled and disputatious times, it woul…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:09AM[SHARE]NEVER FLAT, COWARD There 's always a slight frisson when Noel Coward's rueful, dark-streaked romantic comedy is revived in our censorious age. We are nine decades on from the night i…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:06AM[SHARE]LOVE, DEATH, GRIEF    It's a joy to have the intimate Swan auditorium open again, refurbished after going dark in the first sudden Covid closure, and to see once again a stro…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:32AM[SHARE]SEA FRETÂ Â Â Â I'll give it one thing: over an hour into this infuriating two- hour play there's a brief but wonderful part for the veteran June Watson. She stumps in with octog…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:57AM[SHARE]Â Â BEAUTIFUL SCIENCE. UGLY WORLDÂ Â Â Â Unexpectedly enthralled, I spent an hour and a half eavesdropping on six nuclear physicists, and couldn't be more glad to have caught…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:04AM[SHARE]BLISS WITH THE BLISSES I don't always make it through the Oxfordshire lanes to the gorgeous, eccentric, water-wheeled Mill, but the thought of Issy van Randwyck as Judith Bliss lured me . Ca…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:30AM[SHARE]FUTURE IMPERFECT    Artificial intelligence and robotics have long been a boon to us ethical-scifi buffs, films like AI and I, Robot mercifully saving us from rocket ships and…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:58PM[SHARE]HYTNER ROLLS ANOTHER WINNING DICE   Daniel Mays has played a lot of tough-guy roles but has by nature a rather innocent and worried-looking face. It is this quality that Nick Hyt…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:23AM[SHARE]RIDE A WILD APP   In a week when tech firms shuddered at the shock demise of their favourite bank, how better to spend 90 minutes withJoseph Charlton's exhilarating, fast …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:28PM[SHARE]A RADIATING RESPONSIBILITY      Since I watched Sizewell A going up as a child, live close to Sizewell B and dwell amid a forest of local posters furiously condemning …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:17PM[SHARE]SUGAR RUSH  I can never resist scribbling down rhymes in new musicals, whether in a spirit appalled or admiring.  Take a bow Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary " writers of this extrem…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]AN UN-SOLEMN WARNING FROM THE FUTURE   H.G.Wells is the inspiration, with a larkily extrovert Dave Hearn from Mischief Theatre pretending to be his great-grandson, heir, and owner…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:59PM[SHARE]MORE DETAILS, MORE DEVILRY      An Afghan army officer flees the Taleban and finds safety on the 23rd floor of Grenfell Tower. His local nickhame is "Sabar", m…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:48AM[SHARE]Â HIGH ABOVE THE BRUTAL AND BELOVED CITYÂ Â Â Â It's an architectural moment. Within the stark brutalist NT is a set in homage to a brutalist landmark:Â the early 1960's Park…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:15AM[SHARE]COUGAR CHAOS   The Greeks just go on giving. Writer-director Simon Stone's play, set today amid the upper-middle classes of Holland Park and second-home Suffolk, credits …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:53AM[SHARE]A MONETARY MORALITY PLAYÂ Â Â Â Â Three hour-long plays, two intervals, three men in black frock-coats explain some financial history in a revolving glass box in front of a pro…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:05AM[SHARE]A TALE FOR TODAY FROM A PRUSSIAN PASTÂ Â Â Here's a love story, an idyll of 18c Prussia:Â Corporal Anastasius Linck, a Hanoverian musketeer in dashing white breeches and shiny bu…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:25PM[SHARE]SITCOMS MADE US, BUT CAN WE MAKE THEM? Â Â It's a very good idea, bang on the money:Â David Cantor and Michael Kingsbury (TV sitcom writers with a pedigree) set their play in a blan…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:51AM[SHARE]A BLAST OF DAFT JOY   Zip-a-dee-doo-dah! Here's a treat.  Disney music, blasting out before this vigorous 65-minute one-man spree, sets the mood. It is carnivalesque, fant…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:52PM[SHARE] A PATIENT TO TRY PATIENCE      It must be challenging to play a psychiatrist at work , maybe especially in Finsbury Park  where there are bound to be a few in the …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:11PM[SHARE]Just a few new notes on this , as its completes its triumphant national tour with (amazingly) no stopping-injuries despite the heroically vigorous slapstick direction by Lindsay Posner (move…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:15PM[SHARE]HELLMAN'S LESSON IN HUMANITY Â Â Â Theatre can offer few more topical messages for a nation which might hesitate over Ukraine's needs than this neglected one-set domestic play by Lil…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:28AM[SHARE]PULLING THE WOOL     Most dystopian visions set themselves quite far in the future. Misha Levkov, however, keeps us in 2025, specifying that productions should always …
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