Friday, June 9, 2023
WELCOME BACK TO PUNXATAWNEY     Seven years after its premiere at the Old Vic earned a flurry of Oliviers, by way of a pandemic and a disappointingly short Broadway run , …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 7, 2023
A TIME CAPSULE OF OPEN MARRIAGE  I am pleased to find out about Miles Malleson: an Edwardian student joker, WW1 conscientious objector, Bolshevist, founder of Left drama groups a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:53PM[SHARE]MOTHER RUSSIA's WARRING SONS Â Â Â Â Â At the Almeida this shook and delighted us last year:Â a fresh history play: confrontational , shocking, classic in its focus on vast …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:38AM[SHARE]Friday, June 2, 2023
BIG SHOW, BIG HEART, SMALL SPACE     This, I urgently must tell you, is rather wonderful:  an example of the way that sometimes a big show in a small theatre can b…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:39AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 17, 2023
By Libby Purves
Our very own theatreCat Libby Purves reviews How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying now playing at Southwark Playhouse.
This post REVIEW: How To Succeed In Business…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:47AM[SHARE]Â Â BACK TO THE OFFICE, EVERYONE! Â Â Â There is, by chance a bit of a Thing going on in theatre right now:Â women playing a particularly alpha type of men, with glee and an…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:04AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 11, 2023
WHEN DIVORCE WAS DISASTER   It's 1921.   Thirty years ago Lady Kitty ran out on her MP husband Clive and small son with his friend and colleague Hughie, exploding a public…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:08AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 10, 2023
BORN TO LEAD..    This is a joy, quirky and full-hearted, musically adroit and fast-moving and witty.  Moreover, I suspect its self-mocking variety-show humour would …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:43AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 7, 2023
By Libby Purves
Our very own theatreCat Libby Purves reviews Cymbeline at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford Upon Avon. Until 27 May 2023
This post REVIEW: Cymbeline, Royal Shakespeare…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:51PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 6, 2023
By Libby Purves
Our very own theatreCat Libby Purves reviews Noel Coward's The Vortex now playing at Chichester Festival Theatre. Until 20 May
This post REVIEW: The Vortex, Chichester Festiv…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 10:13PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 4, 2023
THE ROARING TWENTIES, ROLLING OVER THE EDGE When Noel Coward shocked and enthralled the 1920s with this most bitter and intense of his plays, he was meanwhile hastily finishing the farcical …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:15PM[SHARE]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]Tuesday, May 2, 2023
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]Sunday, April 30, 2023
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]Thursday, April 27, 2023
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]Wednesday, April 26, 2023
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]Thursday, April 20, 2023
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]Wednesday, April 19, 2023
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]Tuesday, April 18, 2023
​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]Friday, April 14, 2023
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]Thursday, April 13, 2023
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]Wednesday, April 5, 2023
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]Tuesday, April 4, 2023
  BEAUTIFUL SCIENCE. UGLY WORLD    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]Sunday, March 26, 2023
By Libby Purves
Our very own TheatreCat Libby Purves reviews Noel Coward's Hay Fever currently playing at The Mill at Sonning. Playing until 13 May.
This post REVIEW: Hay Fever, The Mill at …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 12:31PM[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]Sunday, March 19, 2023
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]Wednesday, March 15, 2023
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]Tuesday, March 14, 2023
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]Sunday, March 12, 2023
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]Tuesday, March 7, 2023
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] 
