Thursday, July 27, 2017
MICHAEL ADAIR, 25 ¾ , APPROPRIATELY TAKES OVER AND WRITES.. Before The Inbetweeners, the most accurate reflection of the total embarrassment of teenage life in Britain wa…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:56AMWednesday, July 26, 2017
BOB AND CONOR: A NEW DIRECTION HOME… Bob Dylan songs – from each of six decades – woven into a musical by Conor McPherson? At Dylan’s own suggestion? What? But …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:59PMA COSMIC CLASH OF PHYSICS AND FAMILY Ah, now this is what the National Theatre is for1 A great reckless sprawl of a brand-new play, with spectacular technology, extraordinary design (…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:14AMFriday, July 21, 2017
FINE DINING AND FINANCIAL FURY Piquant idea, to open Oliver Cotton’s play about financial inequality in BBC Salary Embarrassment Week. While the inequity between multi-million…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:51AMThursday, July 20, 2017
With the news of its West End transfer in autumn – well deserved – I finally caught up with INK (reviewed here on opening night by Luke. I agree with his rating of fiv…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:37AMWednesday, July 19, 2017
FROM HIS MOUTH TO GOD’S EAR… We know Omid Djalili best as a comedian: one of our few Iranian standups. Great timing and great heart, a good Fagin but comparatively …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:14PMWednesday, July 12, 2017
NEW GUEST CRITIC THOMAS HOLLOWAY FINDS A NEW MUSICAL Arriving at the Charing Cross Theatre this weekend, in the wake of London’s Pride weekend, is this transfer from the ente…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:43AMMonday, July 10, 2017
A MODERN WORLD GROWING, BENEATH THE PERIWIGS I saw Helen Edmundson’s marvellous RSC history-play about Anne’s short reign some eighteen months ago; the review is here ̵…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:37PMWednesday, July 5, 2017
A GREAT HEART AND TALENT, REMEMBERED WITH LOVE O my days! If you have any feeling for jazz and blues, for women, music or the historic trials and triumphs of black America, don’t …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:31PMMonday, July 3, 2017
THE MIRACLE THAT FAILED The subtitle is “The Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee Takes Oral Evidence on Whitehall’s Relationship with Kids’ Company…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:27PMThursday, June 29, 2017
WE DON’T OFTEN REVIEW TWICE, BUT THE SHORTAGE OF YOUNGER AND DIVERSE VOICES MATTERS…SO (ON HER OWN TICKET) JENNIFER-JANE BENJAMIN, A YOUNG LONDONER WHOSE OWN HERITAGE IS NIGE…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:11PMWednesday, June 28, 2017
GUEST REVIEWER LUKE JONES GLORIES IN JAMES GRAHAM’S SUN BACKSTORY It’s a solid stunner of a play which has you punching the air for Rupert Murdoch by the interval. Bertie Carvel’…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:51AMThursday, June 22, 2017
MILLENIAL LUKE JONES TIRES OF THIS GENDER AGENDA There aren’t many issues in life that haven’t been solved, rationalised or helpfully knocked about by plays. &#…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:33AMWednesday, June 21, 2017
WHEN SHOCK BECOMES A SALES PITCH There are three acts: the first long, expressing an enervatingly pointless world and ending in a sharp shock. The second is competitively cynic…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:59PMTuesday, June 20, 2017
WHERE ROCK ‘ N ROLL DREAMS COME TRUE “On a hot summer night, would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses?” Or in this case, a red carpet lined with …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:21PMFriday, June 16, 2017
FOLLICLES, FOLLY, FATHERHOOD It’s fun down in the Dorfman pit. Under exuberant African barbershop posters from Lagos, Harare, Accra – and London – a cast of barbers and …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:48AMThursday, June 15, 2017
WHAT BECOMES OF THE BROKEN-HEARTED? This is a famously significant piece of theatre: created in 2003 in a Cornish field , it was one of the first successes of Emma Rice’s Kne…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:17AMTuesday, June 13, 2017
ANOTHER KIND OF ETERNAL TRIANGLE I have a taste for plays about the years between the wars. The WW1 anniversary saw some fascinating contemporaneous ones, often at the J…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:20AMTuesday, June 6, 2017
GUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI FINDS HERSELF REACHING FOR HER PITCHFORK “You are blight and darkness and sin…” Lost village girl Mary comes home to her beloved Laura after a lifetime …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:49PMMonday, June 5, 2017
BET YOUR BOTTOM DOLLAR ON IT… If Nikolai Foster’s production of Annie came in a tin, it would prove to be exactly what the label promised. Feelgood, joyful, corny, gorgeous. Ruby …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:13PMMOLTO SPLENDIDO From caravans in little greens and fields, Velasquez figures emerge into the hastily erected big Top in silks and plackets, ruffs and feathers and frilled pantaloons a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:25AMSaturday, June 3, 2017
PITY, TERROR, TRIUMPH For the first fifteen of the hundred minutes no word is spoken by the two men in ragged prison cottons: Edward Dede as the younger Winston, Mark Springer …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:16AMThursday, June 1, 2017
THE PERILS OF PC, THE TERROR OF TWITTER This little theatre is on a roll, catching topicalities as they fly. After David Henry Hwang’s wonderful CHINGLISH. about trade with China,…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:03PMThursday, May 25, 2017
GUEST REVIEWER MICHAEL ADAIR ROCKS ALONG WITH RICE AT THE GLOBE… “In Love We Trust” – is the motto of the SS Unity, the ship that swiftly sinks moments into Emma Rice�…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:31AMTuesday, May 23, 2017
GUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI FINDS LOVE, PITY AND HORROR IN EQUAL MEASURE AT THE OLD VIC Jack Thorne’s explosive new Woyzeck brings Büchner’s unfinished working class tragedy …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:33PMMonday, May 22, 2017
LOOK INTO THE DARK AND SMILE ALL TOUR LONG This cheerfully macabre celebration of Charles Addams’ famous 1930’s cartoon is off on tour: link below. I saw one of the last shows in i…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:47PMFriday, May 19, 2017
TWISTEDLY IRRESISTIBLE I would not like you to think that I stalk Greg Hicks (though obviously I do: aaah, that odd strong Caesar, that agonized Leontes, that bonkers newspaper edit…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:10AMWednesday, May 17, 2017
ENLARGE, ENLIGHTEN , ENLIVEN…ENTERTAIN! Expatiating on the Grand Staircase of a dreary Tudor stately home (built with ironic love by designer Robert Jones) our tour guide Let…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:00PMTuesday, May 16, 2017
LET THERE BE LIGHT! The year 1632 : we are halfway through the epic conflict between Galileo Galilei and the Holy Roman Church, an authority in its day quite as ruthless as Stalin and…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:47PMIN WHICH MICHAEL ADAIR LOSES HIS THEATRE-CRITIC VIRGINITY TO A PACK OF SCOTTISH MINXES A few years ago, when High School Musical and Glee were in their pomp, we were forever se…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:11AMFriday, May 12, 2017
BLEACH, BLUES, AND BLACK AMERICA RISING Here’s a pocket musical with huge themes, a blues opera of historic seriousness but with a singing washing-machine in a bubbled minidress. A …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:39PM 
