Saturday, September 24, 2016
GUEST CRITIC LUKE JONES DOWN WID DA SHAKESPEARE Â KIDZ Someone find Mark Rylance and distract him. Take him far from Bankside so he can't see what they've done. Not only are …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:27AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 21, 2016
AGE, MEMORY, WHISKYÂ AND DEATH… DRINK TO THAT “But you see, its ABOUT being rather bored and baffled. Thats the POINT” said a pleading voice in the interval scuffle. S…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:42PM[SHARE]Â LIBERATION AND COURTSHIP IN A HEAD-ON CLASH Not long left for Samantha Ellis' knowing, teasing little comedy of modern manners and delusions, and it's well worth a look. It was a …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:51AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 18, 2016
CHILD PRISONERS OFÂ TERROR The faces of Nigerian Chibok schoolgirls – kidnapped en masse from school or in smaller village raids – haunt the world. Bright teenage…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:56AM[SHARE]Monday, September 12, 2016
TWO UP A MOUNTAIN, ONE LOOKING UP IN ANGER From Wales to this easternmost festival Tamara Harvey – newish artistic director of Theatr Clwyd – brings a new play by Elinor Cook. It…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 1, 2016
A SERIOUS, DARK-TONED MORALITY The court is ancient, formal, superstitious. Hunched and huddled figures, anonymously poor, scuttle aside for the courtiers to assemble. When the…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 31, 2016
A RARITY, AND A TOPICAL TREAT It's an American story and a universal one: choose money and status, or idealistic service? Big business or big heart, slick city or smalltown val…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 30, 2016
KENNETH BRANAGH IS NO KEN DODD… If you find yourself in an audience of maturer years , flee quickly at the final curtain, or someone will creakingly inform you that they …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:45PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 16, 2016
MINCHIN MAGIC. Â ONE TO SEE AGAIN. AND AGAIN. The film by Danny Rubin gave us the expression for eternal déja-vu: Bill Murray played Phil the arrogant celebrity weatherman, …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:49PM[SHARE]Friday, August 5, 2016
A TREMENDOUS TRINITY Â Â This trilogy, transferred from Chichester is an epic: a thrilling voyage through time to the earliest days of Anton Chekhov. And, if it is not too philis…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:49PM[SHARE]A CAUTIONARY TALE FOR ALL TIMES AND NATIONS… "Allow for a three-gin recovery period" advised a tweeter, during the previews of Simon Stone's take on this perennial theme of baby…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:13PM[SHARE]Friday, July 29, 2016
GUEST CRITIC LUKE JONES LIKES LOTT A LOT… It's easy to get worked up by celebrities and big names crowding out the talented-but-unknown usuals. 'They're just there to get…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 26, 2016
FLASH BANG WALLOP.. This 1963 show – based loosely on H.G.Wells' semiautobiographical KIPPS – was originally a vehicle for Tommy Steele. And there were moments, as …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:51PM[SHARE]Monday, July 25, 2016
 JUST WHAT WE WAND-ED? It's not only Henry IV who gets two plays. Cry God for Harry, Hogwarts and St Joanne: the woman who (whether you love the tales or not) admirably got a tell…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:50PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 16, 2016
THE NEW F-WORD (AND A FAIR FEW OF THE OLD ONE) You can trust Alistair Beaton to keep a cast learning last-minute lines. Here, just as grace-notes alongside the main theme, are jokes a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:58AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 13, 2016
ONCE UPON A TIME, WHICH COULD BE NOW… What a marvel is this Sondheim / Lapine classic musical: playful and deep, absurd and earthy, mocking and wise. And what a piece of luck…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:51PM[SHARE]AYCKBOURN AT IT AGAIN..OR IS IT There's tennis without a ball (audience requested to do plock-plock sound effects on drums), a mini-farce, thriller and horror story also supported by …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:59AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 7, 2016
EIGHTY YEARS ON: Â MEN BEWARE WOMEN At a moment when both female leaders and would-be leaders are rampaging across the news – May, Merkel, Leadsom, Eagle – it is pleasan…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:37PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 28, 2016
FAITH . FAILURE AND THE GENIUS OF FRIEL A veil of rain surrounds the stage where three narrators will appear, each with their own version of a shared life "shabby, bleak, de…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:56PM[SHARE]Monday, June 27, 2016
ZELLER ZOOMS UP WEST, SHARP AS EVER The Menier, back in spring, brought grave delight and snorts of laughter with this zinger of a play by Florian Zeller; its rapid transfer up…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:41PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 26, 2016
IN RANSOME’S WAKE, A NORTH SEA TALE OF TOUGHER DAYS Eastern Angles having a cleaner mind than BBC Films, Titty gets to keeps her name in this faithful, ingenious, charmin…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:53AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 22, 2016
 VACATION,  EXPLOITATION,  ACCUSATION… I caught up a few days late with this (cheap seats aloft, excitingly closer to the rock-face in Hildegard Bechtler's Mediterranea…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:10AM[SHARE]Monday, June 20, 2016
REBELLION AND REALITY IN A SKEWEDÂ WORLD God bless a playwright you can't predict. Mike Bartlett's Charles III was founded on a pretty simple idea, and a frankly rather jejun…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:25PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 18, 2016
GUEST REVIEWER LUKE JONES IS CHILLED, THRILLED, DAZZLED Ralph Fiennes is a menace. An utter menace. Other actors beware. He will cheat, stab and simply out-act you right off th…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:38AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 16, 2016
A hairdo can be eloquent. When Bryan Dick as Willie Mossop first emerges quaking with humility from a trapdoor under old Hobson's shop, above a flapping leather apron and ragged shirt his di…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:29AM[SHARE]Friday, June 10, 2016
STRINGS, SWINGS, A SOPRANOÂ SOARING In E.M.Forster's HOWARD'S END, the dreamy Helen Schlegel can't listen to Beethoven without imagining heroes, goblins, dancing elephants an…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:59PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 9, 2016
A CLASSIC OF THE DESPERATE HEART "We're death to one another, you and I". The great cry from trapped, degraded macho Freddie, struggling to leave the desperate demanding Hester Collye…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 8, 2016
A DREAM AND A DISASTER: Â TRIBUTE WORTH PAYING Full disclosure: I really care about the Titanic story, love maritime history, have met one of the last living survivors of the…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:11PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 7, 2016
INNOCENCE, EXPERIENCE, MEMORY, TRAUMA Around a derelict room and abandoned trunk, Michael Crawford prowls, a tweedy, damaged old man at the heart of this low-key but unforgetta…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:30PM[SHARE]Friday, June 3, 2016
THE RSC IN ROMPING MOODÂ Credulity and the con-artist, blinding-with-science and the selling of snake-oil, belong to all human eras. Ben Jonson's play is set in 1610, when a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:58AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 2, 2016
ADRIFT ON ANOTHER DEEP, BLUE, LONELY SEA… The Deep Blue Sea is Terence Rattigan's masterpiece (and about to play at the National Theatre). A young woman who has left her eminent…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:08AM[SHARE] 
