Wednesday, December 13, 2023
A BLAST FROM THE PAST TO INSPIRE OR IRRITATE Â Â Â By the interval I was mournfully unconvinced that there was any point at all in reviving Tom Stoppard's 17-year-old play , about C…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:35AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 12, 2023
 CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SPIRIT   Can this really be the first Jewish pantomime? Oy vay, surely this culture with its musical genius, ironic jokes , family warmth,  …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:29PM[SHARE]ANOTHER KIND OF INQUIRYÂ Â I suppose we will have to wait a few years for the dust to settle and James Graham to write a nuanced play about the Boris-Covid-Tory-pocalypse. Meanwhile th…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:08AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 10, 2023
DICKENS IN RIOTOUS RHYME AND BAGPIPES " ON TOUR Â Â Â Wouldn't be right to get through December without Dickens, would it? Â But I have seen the magnificent Old Vic adaptation by …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:43AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 29, 2023
  I don't usually record anything that's two-nights-only, but this one I think will flower and fly, so watch out for it. It's already looking like turning up in March at TR Haymar…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 28, 2023
BEWARE OF GREEKS BRINGING GAGS   Where does Kylie get her kebabs? From Jason's doner van!  If that makes you scuttle away in fright, you have not yet achieved the correct seas…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:02PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 25, 2023
DARK BEFORE THE DAWN     To emerge with any redemptive sense from Joe Hill-Gibbins' spare, scorching rather brilliant production, it helps to remember that Henrik …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:21AM[SHARE]Friday, November 24, 2023
ANY TOIL AND TROUBLE WAS WELL WORTH IT Everything a child could want is here:  the dark thrill of imagined orphanhood, a quest, baddies , jeopardy and jokes, bouncy musical spectacle…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 22, 2023
GOLDSMITH BEATEN LIGHT AS AIR Â Â Â Nice symmetry in Tom Littler's decision to set Oliver Goldsmith's 1773 comedy in the Wodehousian Jazz Age:Â the Georgians, with their boozy mon…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:43PM[SHARE]Friday, November 10, 2023
FLAT WHITE AND WOEFUL Â Â Â Â If you're going to splash out on a visually arresting finale of assassination, a vivId fire destroying a Norman tower and a lyrical monologue about L…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:10AM[SHARE]ECHOES OF DARKNESS Â Â Jews gather, laughing and chattering, offering a toast as they run down the aisles to settle downstage for a Passover meal with candles, prayers and the ancient …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:55AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 9, 2023
FAR MORE THAN A SNACK   Caught this late, and it's much reviewed and almost sold out. But it's worth saying in a brief word here that if you buy a return as I did, you are in luc…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:58PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 7, 2023
A QUEEN WHO NEEDED QUEENS   The curtain rises on the Clarence House garden room in 1979, where the Queen Mother held her eccentric little court. Much gilding, unreasonably…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:58PM[SHARE]   WHEN WE THAT ARE LEFT GROW OLD….    Sometimes you have to rely on a team with multiple comedy awards to hold a mirror to society and move your heart. Thi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:13AM[SHARE]Monday, November 6, 2023
By Libby Purves
Our very own theatreCat Libby Purves reviews new musical The Time Traveller's Wife at the Apollo Theatre, London.
This post REVIEW: The Time Traveller's Wife, Apollo Theatre …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 2, 2023
DIANA AND THE DECEIVER Jonathan Maitland did a superb play for this theatre about Thatcher and Howe, "Dead Sheep", and one on Jimmy Savile which was far more telling and cathartic than the T…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 1, 2023
SCIENCE FANTASY AND HONEST EMOTION     I don't normally indulge in first-night anecdotes, but feel I should mention that in the big wedding scene Joanna Woodward tossed he…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:23PM[SHARE]AGATHA STRIKES AGAIN Â Â Â This is Extreme Agatha Christie, her most preposterous (and bestselling) plot and one of the most murderously morbid (NB the final moments of the staging …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:59PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 31, 2023
MEMORIES OF A MAVERICK Â It's an immersive show, in that you buy a drink in the cramped saloon of the old pub on Greek Street, find a corner, and ideally fall into conversation with anoth…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:20PM[SHARE]WHILE THE REAL ONE RUNS…. With the Covid Inquiry surging along in a froth of accusations and curses and scandalous Whatsappery, it was hard to resist a hasty day-return to Harry Davies' de…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:12PM[SHARE]Friday, October 27, 2023
THE FIRST WITCHFINDER, NOT WITHOUT LESSONS FOR TODAY     This is remarkable, Joanna Carrick's best and deepest play yet,  following her acclaimed Reformation trilogy.…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:44AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 25, 2023
A MOTHER'S LIFE, A SON'S PERSPECTIVE Sometimes it is almost useful to be a day late (sorry, tied up yesterday) because it gives a chance to read other people's take on the play you saw.�…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:25AM[SHARE]Friday, October 20, 2023
GENIUS, REALPOLITIK, RELIGION    In days of horrifying conflict there was quite a jolt in a confrontation between Stephen Hagan's resplendently silver-suited Frederick the…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:16AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 18, 2023
By Libby Purves
Our very own theatreCat Libby Purves reviews Arthur Miller's A View From The Bridge playing at the Chichester Festival Theatre.
This post REVIEW: A View From The Bridge, Chic…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 02:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 17, 2023
PROPERTY RAGE FROM ANOTHER AGE Here's a curiosity from 1972; an early , rarely-seen Caryl Churchill play revived with dashing elegance under the Jermyn's Artistic director Stella Pow…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:18PM[SHARE]GRIM AND PURE BY THE DOCKS, PITY AND POETRY   The lawyer Alfieri, prowling in memory round Arthur Miller's stark tale of immigrant longshoremen on the 1940's Brooklyn docks, s…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:12PM[SHARE]Monday, October 16, 2023
A LEARNED FRIEND REMEMBERED   Rumpole of the Bailey is occasional comfort-viewing in our house, thanks to Talkingpicturestv repeats. John Mortimer's portrait of the old barri…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:12AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 14, 2023
By Libby Purves
Our very own theatreCat Libby Purves reviews Jamie Lloyd's new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard at the Savoy Theatre.
This post REVIEW: Sunset Boulevard, …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:03AM[SHARE]Friday, October 13, 2023
ITS THE PICTURES THAT GOT SMALL? Not if Lloyd can help it. It felt strange to see this in the bowels of a gala-night Savoy, only a week or two after our local arts centre showed the …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:16AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 1, 2023
IT'S BACK, THROUGH THE NURSERY WINDOW, STILL FLYING    Just to reassure you: this offshoot from Mischief, the team who brought you the perennial Play-goes-wrong, is still…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 28, 2023
 THE TWIG WHO BRANCHED OUT    We get up to speed on the period, with irresistible tracks from the golden age of pop: Beatles, Stones, Animals.  Onstage is a photograph…
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