Friday, November 22, 2024
Down the stairs, out the doors and onto the sidewalk, a Broadway show hits the street. Here’s how they pull it off.
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...this radical idea that we take care of our own species, you know? Our own species! When I say it doesn’t have to be this way, it really doesn’t. It’s our choice.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:31AMFriday, November 15, 2024
GALSWORTHY ? WELL WORTH SEEING With late Victorians, there’s plenty to bite on: a rising bourgeoisie aflame with parvenu ambition, piety , pannier skirts ,patriarchs, an empi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:05PMThis November and early December, as leather-jacket weather turns into puffer-jacket weather, New York’s most appealing non-Broadway offerings include a first-date comedy, a performance-ar…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:18AMThursday, November 14, 2024
WISDOM IN A LIFE BACKWARDS Forget the awful fim made from Scott Fitzgerald’s story about a life lived backwards – a man born in old age, working towards youth and infancy in reve…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:44AMTuesday, November 12, 2024
A JOURNEY OF JOURNEYS A map is a lovely thing, but sometimes practically speaking a diagram is better. And can also be lovely: especially when its useful elegance has become a fam…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:04PMMonday, November 11, 2024
Jamison joined Alvin Ailey’s dance company in 1965 and performed there for 15 years, premiering solo Cry in 1971
Judith Jamison, an acclaimed dancer and choreographer who for two decades w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMSaturday, November 9, 2024
THE BIG RATHER UNFRIENDLY GIANT Tom Maschler, legendary publisher and once a Kindertransport child, summed up the appeal of Roald Dahl: his stories offer “A glorious p…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:55AMFriday, November 8, 2024
Pulling back the curtain on the peculiar customs and enduring superstitions that help define life backstage.
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What would happen if our arts critics and sports writers swapped roles for a day? How does the English National Opera compare to the Premier League … or the NFL to a West End musical? Our …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMOutgoing artistic director of Young Vic calls for urgent government action to redress arts funding in schools
Kwame Kwei-Armah, the outgoing artistic director of the Young Vic, has warned th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:02AMFriday, November 1, 2024
1648, Agra: marble and murder, a terrible beauty One of the worst photo-ops of Princess Diana’s collapsing marriage was that shot at the Taj Mahal, billed by romantics as “eternal …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:24AMThursday, October 31, 2024
LOOK BACK IN COMPASSION The Rattigan renaissance of the last few years is more than welcome: ever since Flare Path hit the West End fourteen years ago there seems to have bee…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:45PMTHE GRANDEST OF GRIEFS Not Renaissance Mantua but New York a century past: smart bars and low dives, gangsters in fedoras. Why not ? In any world might be a lonely jokester, missing his …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:11AMWednesday, October 30, 2024
A short catch-up on one of the season’s greats (was away..) Mark Strong is made to play great tragedy: a long powerful body, controlled bleak intelligent features.A figure from any age…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:37PM“Hothouse,” at Irish Arts Center, fends off despair with loopiness; “In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot,” at Playwrights Horizons, is a fuzzy world lacking depth.
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“…HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB” That was the subtitle, when exactly sixty years ago a shower of Oscars fell on Stanley Kubrick’s brilliantly tasteless,…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:26PMFriday, October 25, 2024
A HARD AND ICY WORLD A 1970’s Hull folksong chorus: “Next time you see a trawlerman on Hessle Road half tight – remember, o remember, the perils of that night”. It was a trib…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:27AMThursday, October 24, 2024
BROTHER, CHRISTIAN, WITCHFINDER I reviewed this play about the Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins last year, in Ipswich: I write only to add thoughts, now that it has deservedly…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:54PMMonday, October 21, 2024
A stripped-back revival of the classic musical, starring the singer Nicole Scherzinger, opened at the St. James Theater on Sunday night.
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Broadway isn't the only place boasting big names. Off-Broadway stages are also getting their fair share of star power this month, with favorites from the silver screen telling fresh stories …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06PMWednesday, October 16, 2024
LEHMANS REVISITED The first time I saw Sam Mendes’ production at the NT, I exclaimed that the evening had no right to be so much fun: three hours, three chaps in black frock coats, no so…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:10AMTuesday, October 15, 2024
CHOSEN PEOPLE, CHOSEN LIVES The saying goes “two Jews, three opinions”, though some say that’s an underestimate. Here are five people and innumerable opinions: two couples, …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:58PMTwo dancers from the Ailey company perform part of “Night Creature” on the roof of the Whitney Museum, where the choreographer is the subject of a major exhibition.
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Performed simultaneously in sign language and sung English, a Los Angeles revival of the Green Day musical finds new ways to communicate rage and angst.
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As hundreds of personal effects belonging to playwright John Osborne go up for sale, Hare laments that the V&A is not bidding
The vital memorabilia and personal effects of our greatest p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMWednesday, October 9, 2024
Mathieu Kassovitz has turned his cult 1995 movie into a stage musical. The France it represents is different — though much hasn’t changed.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMSent from my iPad ZELDIN AGAIN I sometimes feel real sympathy (possibly unwanted) for actors who, trained and motivated to channel and express extreme and painful emotions, do their absolute…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:00AMFriday, October 4, 2024
POETRY AND PITY Tremendous swagged, fringed, and roped retro curtains , the Gielgud looking much as it would 100 years ago when Sean O’Casey’s most famous play reached Londo…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:46AMWednesday, October 2, 2024
SHARP SCRATCH? Crossing the Edgware Rd yesterday a shouting vaccine denier with a loudspeaker informed us all, stomping past in some sort of hurry, that vaccines were lies, inoculat…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:02AMMonday, September 30, 2024
STONED STONES IN WEST WITTERING, 1967 At the end the 1200-strong crowd explodes to join a final roar of “Satisfaction” with the cast – lawyers, police, fans, three generatons …
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