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…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:21AM[SHARE]DRUNKENNESS AND THE DARK   The studio at Hampstead has been on a roll recently, with intelligent and emotionally honest plays : FOLK, RAVENSCOURT, THE ANIMAL KINGDOM et al.…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:00AM[SHARE]THE IMPORTANCE OF NOT BEING TOO TRADITIONAL ABOUT IT This cheerfully exuberant rendering of Oscar Wilde's witty rom-com is also a sort of political act. In the foyer a gorgeous selection…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:34AM[SHARE]By Libby Purves Our very own theatreCat Libby Purves reviews Rona Munro's play Mary at Hampstead Theatre. This post REVIEW: Mary, Hampstead Theatre âœâœâœ first appeared on Briti…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:17AM[SHARE]ABDUCTION, ASSAULT, ABDICATION For four hundred years the reputation of Mary, Queen of Scots, has been battled over: she has been called victim and whore, murderess and heroine, …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:39PM[SHARE]WHEN THEY PUT THE FUN " AND THE FUNDSÂ " INTO FUNDAMENTALISM.. Â Â Â Â Rarely in the history of Islington playgoing have so many first-nighters whooped so enthusiastically atÂ…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:00PM[SHARE]DODD-LEVEL HAPPINESS IN SOHO    Hard, on its first night ever, not to review the theatre itself. Nica Burns and Nimax open the first new West End theatre in fifty years: agle…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:17AM[SHARE]OLD MEN DO NOT FORGET     Peter Gill's new play has a melancholy beauty about it; it's a sort of poem as the veteran playwright and director engages with age, …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:21PM[SHARE]THE PROFESSORIAL ROAD TO HELL   David Tennant is a fastidious actor. That sounds negative, prim perhaps, but in fact expresses why his performance in C.P.Taylor's extraordinary p…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:04PM[SHARE]A HARLEM TRAVIATA Three in the morning and Angel the showgirl is raring , glitterimg drunk "if you caint be drunk in Harlem.." she slurs furiously. Her friend Guy brought her home, an…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:31AM[SHARE]RETURN OF A WILD AND QUESTIONING PLAY Â Â Â This is the return of Robert Icke's modern version of Schnitzler's 1912 play " details below, as laid out in part of my original Almeida r…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:07AM[SHARE]A WARNING FOR ALL TIMES   This is the big one. It's the National Theatre at its strongest:  unapologetic, classic, unsparing, gripping, impassioned.  Here's t…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:17AM[SHARE]THERAPISTS AS HUMANS  Georgina Burns is a trained and experienced NHS therapist, now with Hampstead support a playwright. So, unlike most other writers tempted by the theatric…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:34PM[SHARE]A MODEST AND REMORSEFUL SELF-REBUKE     There's a curious outbreak of reparations going on. The Old Vic, which binned Into the Woods in outrage at Terry Gilliam's reported…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:48PM[SHARE]A GOTHIC SORROWÂ IN OLD BOSTON When you say you're off to a Suffolk village hall to see a tiny company "Â best known for its mini-pantos " doing a dramatised tribute to Edgar Allan Poe,…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:23AM[SHARE]AMBITION , DISGRACE, RUIN, WOMEN Heavy footfalls pace overhead, enervating, raising anxiety. Anna Fleischle's galleried grey set is half Scandi-minimo-chic, half penitentiary. Downstairs…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:44AM[SHARE]GLORIOUS AS EVER Â Â Â Â Millions know it by now, but in case like my enthralled companions last night you aren't among them, Â grant me a moment or skip the the penultimate p…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:08AM[SHARE]WISHFUL DELUSIONS IN A MIDDLE AGED DOLDRUM Susan finds herself in mid-life with a dull clerical husband (Nigel Lindsay really enjoying it) , obsessed with his dreary parish history pamph…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:23PM[SHARE]By Libby Purves Our very own theatreCat Libby Purves reviews Helen Hunt in Jonathan Spector's comedy Eureka day at London's old Vic Theatre. This post REVIEW: Eureka Day, Old Vic Theatre Lon…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:49AM[SHARE]LORD, WHAT FOOLS WE LIBERALS BE…    In a beanbagged, bright-coloured primary school in Berkeley, California, its executive committee of five seek consensus over reclassifyin…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:37PM[SHARE]REFINED AND FEATHER-DUSTED: CRUELTY IN THE SUBURBS We are in a suburban drawing-room in 1926, which some characters will still call the "parlour". Near the front, close enough to…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:03AM[SHARE]A CENTURY SURVIVED Â Â It is no bad week to be contemplating the Jewish custom of sitting shiva:Â spending seven days on a hard wooden bench when "you laugh, you cry, you argue" in t…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:22PM[SHARE]EVEN A SNAIL WILL REACH ITS HOME Â Â Â Â Â That's a Nigerian saying, apparently. Â But shiny though the shell is, Â Richard Eyre's play becomes a frustrating stew of idea…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:39PM[SHARE]SAYERS, SAYING IT FOR WORKING WOMEN Â Here's a treat:Â first half in Venice (with a glorious Canaletto backdrop) and the second, after some elegant Jermyn set-changing, in a London pla…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:50PM[SHARE]GUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI FINDS SOME INTERESTING THREADS SLIGHTLY UNRAVELLED AT GRIMEBORN Fringe opera festivals sometimes give us a chance to see new work in progress " i.e. unfinishe…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:15AM[SHARE]A SPIKY AND SPECTACULAR DELIGHT       Humanity in every century has needed to plunge into the dark forests, questing or fleeing, finding wonders or wolves:Â�…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:04PM[SHARE]IT'S BACK: A NEW DIRECTION HOME   This humbly immense, uniquely created show threw me for a loop five summers ago. It's back on tour, via Oliviers and Broadway awards,  wi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:47AM[SHARE]GUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI GETS SWEPT UP IN THE MAGIC, THE MUSIC AND THE META Opera Alegria's vivacious foray into Mozart's Magic Flute for Grimeborn takes its inspiration from the thea…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]VOICES FROM THE GRAVE AND THE CELLAR, UNIGNORABLE     Timely, enterprising, emotionally shattering, politically shaming.  These two plays were both  both first born at …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:20PM[SHARE]CARRY ON. OR, TO PUT IT ANOTHER WAY, KEEP MESSIN' ABOUT… Â Â My first concern was, will they dare give us the sadness? Kenneth Williams was a comic marvel self-created, a versatile a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:40PM[SHARE]GLITTER AND HARD GRAFT     A basement hung with glitter strings, a small moody band with earthy bass, a bar: few better places to revel in torch songs, deep-dug anthems an…
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