Friday, June 4, 2021
PINK SATIN AND A FAIRY PINATA FOR A PIMMS-Y NIGHT OUT Face it, this play’s a rom-com, a lark, a happy pretty way to blame the fickleness of young love on petulant fairies…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:04AMSunday, May 30, 2021
SPACE IS THE LIMIT AS THE WEST END RETURNS There was real excitement in a first west end moment since the November lockdown crushed the few brave shoots of returning theatre. The Sonia Fri…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:16PMWednesday, May 26, 2021
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds INSTEAD OF TRAVEL… So what do we need, to reopen a tiny Georgian playhouse in a time of continuing uncertainty, mas…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:22AMSaturday, December 12, 2020
O YES IT IS I had booked us in the very day Lloyd Webber and QDOS announced that with antiviral door handles, fogging, separating of bubbles and teeth-gritted determination,…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:31PMFriday, December 11, 2020
ANOTHER ….GOD BLESS US EVERY ONE Scrooge is testy, cold and solitary as an oyster, shocking as ever in his indifference to the poor who ought to die off and “decrease the surplu…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:13PMThursday, December 10, 2020
A SCROOGE TO REMEMBER Beneath festoons of horrid chains, nimble amid strongboxes and trunks and safes, three actors bring the old text to violently emotional life. Assisted only b…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:26PMGreat journeys told in tiny windows The daily epics of the refugee crisis haunt us on every bulletin:: small boat crossings, lethal lorry journeys, arrests and detentions. It. Is r…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:09PMSunday, December 6, 2020
MINIATURE REVELS They’re at it again. And in this dour year, crowned with the financially reckless renaissance of West End theatre, Dan and Jeff – Daniel Clarkson and Jeff Turner – are…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:01AMFriday, October 30, 2020
TITTER YE NOT: IT WAS TOUGH An element of pilgrimage here: new-fledged theatre, new play, worth the long masked train to London and then a bus’s wild wanderings south of the ri…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:29AMTuesday, October 6, 2020
And so to a real press night, an event now as rare as a mystical apparition , a shining sword rising from a dark lake. . The gallant Southwark Playhouse offers a miniature musical, Jason Rob…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:19AMTWO MORE FROM ALAN BENNETT One of the darkest and one of the merriest. PlAYING SANDWICHES is an even more than usually sombre one of Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads.�…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:30AMThursday, September 3, 2020
BACK IN THE STALLS! AND A VERY FIENNES START After nine months’ exile – my chemotherapy ended slap bang at the start of lockdown – I felt like the Ancient Mariner, goo…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:15AMSaturday, August 1, 2020
A SINGING, SEASIDE, STRIKING DEFIANCE OF THE NEW SEPARATION Theatrecat remains dark, as it has been since December when chemotherapy began and then ran seamlessly, in March, into loc…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:38AMThursday, March 19, 2020
…FROM ME AND FROM THEATRECAT.COM (&HOUSE ARTIST ROGER HARDY) HERE’S THE CAT AND THE MICE . THEY COLLABORATE FOR ONCE TO WISH EVERY THEATRE, ARTIST AND SUPPORT WORKER LUCK, SO…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:39PMFriday, December 6, 2019
A MESSAGE FOR THOSE KIND ENOUGH TO DROP INTO THIS SITE… Theatrecat followers: a bit of news below, in detail for your information or in case any of you are undergoing the parallel thing. …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:56AMTuesday, November 26, 2019
MONSTROUS AND MAJESTIC , A NARNIA FOR NOW How to interpret an old favourite? A Christian fantasy allegory, the world of Narnia, the first of C.S.Lewis’ immortal children’…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:26AMThursday, November 21, 2019
BEN DOWELL REVIEWS: A bright, socially withdrawn teenager called Evan is desperately lonely, taking comfort in the internet and not much else. He has a crush on a girl from his school, but c…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:39AMFriday, November 15, 2019
BEN DOWELL AND DAUGHTER POP WITH PLEASURE AT ITS PEP.. It has floated in one the chilly autumn breeze like a much-needed blast of summer sunshine. Yes, this Mary Poppins is as supercalifragi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:08PMWednesday, November 13, 2019
A BIG APPLE ROMANCE WITH CRUNCH How romantic New York is to the British heart! From Superman to Friends we seem to know it, from Elf and 34th Street (not to mention the Pogues…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:52PMWednesday, October 30, 2019
NORTHERN GUEST REVIEWER HELEN GASKELL TIRES OF THE RELENTLESS GRIT… A family of five, scattered across the North of England, are brought together by tragedy. The play shows a picture …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:19PMARROGANCE, ANGER , INDIA’S SHAME Hema’s is a house of women now. The old grandmother is in bed below the tall screen doors , feeding crows who move shadow-shapes behind…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:16AMTuesday, October 29, 2019
GUEST CRITIC BEN DOWELL DOES NOT HAVE A GOOD NIGHT OUT What a strange evening this is. Young director Tinuke Craig has taken Maxim Gorky’s 1911 play (there was a revision in 1935 but s…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:21AMThursday, October 24, 2019
RENAISSANCE RUTTING, VENUS AND VANITIES Sandro Botticelli, he makes clear to us at the start, plans to tell his version. He’s Dickie Beau: skinny and swaggeringly queeny in blac…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:54PMIT TAKES TWO… Here’s a sharp eyed little gem about coupledom and the wary, fretful road towards parenthood in an age of easy contraception and illimitable expectation…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:47AMWednesday, October 23, 2019
TWO CURATORS, ACROSS EIGHTY YEARS The little Swan , a jewel-box of a theatre, often sees the new plays the RSC does best: immaculate technique and careful clarity elucidating complex…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:34AMSunday, October 20, 2019
INSPECTOR GOOLE, BACK BACK ON THE ROAD Below, edited, is my original London review of this remarkable production. This new tour deserves to be marked, though: regarding the t…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:46AMFriday, October 18, 2019
A COOL EYE ON SHATTERED LIVES Of all the well known flaws of our criminal justice system, one of the most glaring is how badly it fits women – though they are only around…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:44AMThursday, October 10, 2019
THE DARK AND THE CRAZY This is – for us anyway – the first production in the Trump era of this savage musical: a revue reimagining of all the attempts, successful or not,�…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:03AMWednesday, October 2, 2019
PEOPLE OF THE BLITZ Sarah Waters’ best novel, evoking lives during and after the London Blitz, was told backward in time. It is much the same way, indeed, as we meet real people�…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:41PMTHE LOW DISHONEST DECADE… It’s always intimate, the Jermyn,. We’re in an autumn garden, apples on the ground and fading roses on the wall; birdsong, and a tea table set defia…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:55AMTuesday, October 1, 2019
A COLLIDING WORLD Couldn’t miss this: for two years as a teenager (Dad in the Jo’burg Embassy) I lived alongside the frightened, arrogant paranoia of white South Africa un…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:18PM 
