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]By Libby Purves Our very own theatre Cat Libby Purves reviews Allegiance the musical now playing at the Charing Cross Theatre. This post REVIEW: Allegiance, Charing Cross Theatre âœâœ�…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 04:37PM[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 …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:22AM[SHARE]AN OLD INJUSTICE REMEMBERED    An old man steps onstage alone: upright, soldierly in khaki as a former US war hero who is, he says resignedly, "brought out every …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:37AM[SHARE]A TALE FOR ALL TIMES  The story of Nelson Mandela has become almost a folktale: imprisoned for 27 years for campaigning against the hideous "apartheid" regime which kept the black ma…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:42AM[SHARE]By Libby Purves Our very own theatreCat Libby Purves ventured out to see Sir Ian McKellen and John Bishop in Mother Goose at the Duke of York's Theatre. This post REVIEW: Mother Goose, Duke …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:31AM[SHARE]THIS DAME HAS A WHOLE LOT BEHIND HIM    I last saw Sir Ian McKellen onstage as Lear,  missed him as the oldest Hamlet ever,  but far longer ago saw him in a frock at …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:15AM[SHARE]BREEZILY BLOWING IN FROM 1908, FRESH AS EVER    In Mole End on Christmas Eve,in a burrow cosy with domestic detail they're breaking out the beer and sardines and reminiscing a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:34PM[SHARE]A TRAGICOMIC BEAUTYÂ Â Â Hard to express how much I loved Stephen Karam's play. Maybe it just hit the right moment:Â yomped through freezing night, strikes and 'severe delays" rea…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:31AM[SHARE]THE MOST ENJOYABLE STRIKE YOU'LL SEE THIS CHRISTMAS   I love it when the theatre perfectly fits the show. Artists can overcome a wrong space, but there's gleeful concord when it …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:16AM[SHARE]FREUDIAN ISUES IN FAIRYLAND    Everyone's got mental health issues in HEX: which is the Sleeping Beauty story extended to the troublesome folk-tale aftermath.  The tou…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:04AM[SHARE]By Libby Purves Our very own theatreCat Libby Purves reviews the Michael Grandage Company's production of Orlando starring Emma Corrin at the Garrick Theatre. This post REVIEW: Orlando, Garr…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 08:48AM[SHARE]A PACK OF WOOLFS PROWL ROUND THE GENDER-BEND  One bespectacled, anxious-looking Virginia Woolf in a sensible brown skirt and dreary cardigan is never enough, so Michael Grandage's pr…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:49PM[SHARE]A COLD ANGRY CRUSHING SYSTEM Â Â Â Â It's a cold unadorned monochrome scene: courts, brawls and bedchamber all framed on three sides by vast looming tiered steps and a high flat p…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:59PM[SHARE]UP WEST, IT LOSES NOTHING…STILL A FIERCE TREAT Leaving the former Young Vic production a lad far too young to remember 1968 said sadly to me "It was the beginning of Now, wasn't it?"Â H…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:58PM[SHARE]A GLORIOUS DOWNSTREAM WILLOWS FOR OUR AGE You won't see a prettier, more refreshing or sustainable stage this Christmas: natural colours, riverbank rushes, a bare tree (which will ha…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:02PM[SHARE]CELEBRATORY, MY DEAR WATSON I had come from the magnificent Old Vic Christmas Carol, where once again with mince pies, bells and lanterns and Dickensian cheer and a message about how…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:47AM[SHARE]CLEVER, CLOWNING, CLASSIC   What could be more seasonal than Flaubert's tale of wifely frustration, romantic illusions, disastrous adulteries and ruinous shopaholic debt? This…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:57AM[SHARE]A DAUGHTER OF DISREPUTE Â 1893, and here's George Bernard Shaw passing the Bechdel Test with flying colours by centring the action on two women at odds , with surrounding men remarkably d…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:28PM[SHARE]PURE PLEASURE AT HER MAJESTY'SÂ Â Â Â It seemed worth the money " these were not press tickets " to check out how good old Fanty is getting on after 36 years at Her Majesty's The…
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