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Monday, November 8, 2021

THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE    Duke of York’s Theatre by Libby Purves and Friends

  THE MYTH AND  TERROR THAT CHILDREN KNOW          Sometimes a violent rip occurs in the thin veil of materialism ,commonsense, morality and law.    Children know this: a bereaveme…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:28AM
Friday, November 5, 2021

Rankin reveals theatre’s backstage magicians: ‘Audiences would be shocked!’ by Harriet Sherwood Arts and Culture Correspondent

The photographer has brought directors, door keepers and technicians out of the shadows for a special exhibition celebrating the survival of the West End The backstage heroes of the West End…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM
Thursday, November 4, 2021

INDECENT PROPOSAL Southwark Playhouse, SE1 by Libby Purves and Friends

COULD YOU? WOULD YOU? FOR A MILLION BUCKS? Here’s a struggling young couple (well, not that young,  both on second marriages and he has a daughter going to college). Along comes a billion…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:18AM
Wednesday, November 3, 2021

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (SORT OF) Criterion, WC1 by Libby Purves and Friends

UNIVERSALLY ACKNOWLEDGED TO BE A HOOT          It had to happen: someone had to notice that in the comfortable upper-middle and aristocratic worlds of Jane Austen’s novel,  nothing c…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:43PM

Barbican to introduce diversity targets after racism claims by Harriet Sherwood Arts and Culture Correspondent

London arts centre vows to foster inclusive culture after allegations by staff of discrimination The Barbican arts centre in London has pledged to introduce diversity targets for its workfor…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AM

White handkerchief and a Derry play tell Bloody Sunday story by Harriet Sherwood Arts and Culture Correspondent

Drama about those who died when soldiers opened fire on protesters will premiere on 50th anniversary For almost 50 years, the bloodstained white handkerchief held aloft by Father Edward Daly…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AM
Tuesday, November 2, 2021

Nearly a dozen Denver museums will let in visitors for free on Saturday night by Laura Daily and Bryan K. Chavez

Denver Arts Week's Night at the Museums, Tattered Cover's 50th birthday, the Affordable Arts Fest and more free and cheap things to do around Denver in November.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:48AM

S2 E2: Russell Tovey, actor by Grace Dent, Leah Green, Emma Roberts, Cathy Drysdale and Sami El-Enany

Next round to Grace’s dining room is the actor Russell Tovey. Over a bowl of his favourite childhood treat, he tells Grace about his upbringing in Essex, embarrassing acting scenes, reconn…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AM
Thursday, October 28, 2021

Kandis Williams Envisions Dancing Bodies Without Borders by Siddhartha Mitter and Siobhan Burke

The artist’s “A Line,” her first New York solo show, sets the tone for the ambitious new 52 Walker, run by the gallerist Ebony L. Haynes.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:54AM
Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Tour the Old Steel Town at the Center of ‘Lackawanna Blues’ by Laura Zornosa and Malik Rainey

In his Broadway play, Ruben Santiago-Hudson revisits the Lackawanna, N.Y., of his youth. A lot has changed since the late 1950s and ’60s, reflected here in recent photographs of the area.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:33AM
Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Hilary Mantel play to close amid Covid uncertainty by Harriet Sherwood Arts and Culture Correspondent

Royal Shakespeare Company cancels planned extension of The Mirror and the Light in West End Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The Royal Shakespeare Company ha…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AM

Behind the 'Boo!': How Haunted House Actors Scare Guests by Alexis Soloski and Erik Tanner

What does it take to scare the candy corn out of someone? Performers at two of New York’s hallowed haunted attractions explain the secrets behind the shocks.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:24AM
Saturday, October 23, 2021

TONY! A rock opera newborn at the Park Theatre N4 by Libby Purves and Friends

NOT  A REVIEW BUT SOME JOLLY NEWS Not a review,  because this was the first performance of a modest weekend testing the water:  a script-in-hand, moustaches-falling-off,  fresh-outta-wor…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:49AM
Tuesday, October 19, 2021

GET UP, STAND UP! Lyric Theatre, WC1 by Libby Purves and Friends

  THE  HEART STILL FEELS THE BEAT         Everything Bob Marley sings lifts the heart,  instructing it to rise and triumph and unite in joy:  lively-up yourself!   Let’s get toget…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:08PM

GRENFELL – VALUE ENGINEERING Tabernacle Theatre, W11 by Libby Purves and Friends

THE DEVIL IN THE DETAIL: scenes from the Grenfell Inquiry    There was a spate of criticism when Richard Norton Taylor’s dramatisation of the Grenfell Inquiry was announced, despite it b…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:42AM
Saturday, October 16, 2021

WHITE NOISE Bridge Theatre, SE1 by Libby Purves and Friends

 THE RACE WHERE NOBODY WINS       This feels like a howl of baffled frustration, from a millennial generation ( writer and director, and all four characters) unable to deal with the emo…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:59AM
Thursday, October 14, 2021

THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH Almeida, N1 by Libby Purves and Friends

THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH.        Almeida, N1 THE SCOTTISH PLAY WE NEEDED   Say what you like about star-casting and auteur-ish directors messing with Shakespeare, but sometimes a multiple…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:59PM

INTO BATTLE Greenwich Theatre by Libby Purves and Friends

AN OLD STORY OF YOUNG MEN     Balliol College Oxford, 1910. Confident young Etonians are hurling crockery downstairs, yelling “I’m a bastard, I’m a bastard, rather be a bastard than …

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:30AM
Monday, October 11, 2021

Beanie Feldstein Will Live Her Barbra Streisand Dreams in Funny Girl on Broadway by LIVE with Kelly and Ryan

Beanie Feldstein talks about her childhood girl crush on Barbra Streisand and getting to play Fanny Brice in "Funny Girl" on Broadway. Subscribe: https://bit.ly/2HFUeAK Website: https://ke…

SOURCE: YouTube at 11:53AM
Sunday, October 10, 2021

Kennedy Center stagehands reach agreement with the performing arts venue, sparing ‘Hadestown’ from cancellation by Peggy McGlone and Kelsey Ables

Two days after authorizing a strike, the stagehands union reached a deal Saturday with the Kennedy Center, ensuring the run of “Hadestown” and a slate of other dance, theater and music p…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:28PM

OUR WHITE SKODA OCTAVIA Sir John Mills Ipswich & touring by Libby Purves and Friends

EAST IS EAST, IN EAST ANGLIA       Shamser Sinha – who is on the National Theatre Connections project – relished the idea of writing a play about a South-Asian working-class family i…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:32PM
Saturday, October 9, 2021

Theatre in UK faces exodus of women after pandemic, study finds by Nadia Khomami Arts and Culture Correspondent

More than 60% consider leaving jobs amid concerns that ‘safe’ work by men could be prioritised Leading women in British theatre have expressed concern that cash-strapped theatres could …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36AM
Friday, October 8, 2021

THOUGHTS ON CUSH JUMBO’S HAMLET Young Vic SE1 by Libby Purves and Friends

AN EVER-MORPHING PROTEAN TEXT…RENEWS AGAIN BEFORE OUR EYES      Every Hamlet should give us something new.  The play is a philosophical and psychological labyrinth,  its jewels and se…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:12AM

Eight candidates for the next UK city of culture announced by Nadia Khomami Arts and Culture Correspondent

Areas will receive £40,000 grants to support the next step of their applications to succeed Coventry Armagh City, Bradford, County Durham and Stirling are among the eight places in the UK l…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48AM
Thursday, October 7, 2021

The Road Back: ‘How Am I Ever Going to Dance Again?’ by Gia Kourlas and Sabrina Santiago

We talked to three New York City Ballet dancers — Megan Fairchild, Jovani Furlan and India Bradley — in the months leading up to their return to the stage.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AM
Wednesday, October 6, 2021

THE MIRROR AND THE LIGHT Gielgud, WC2 by Libby Purves and Friends

 FOUR WIVES LATER,  MANTEL AND MILES COMPLETE THE JOURNEY It was rising eight years ago  that the first two parts of Hilary Mantel’s majestic Wolf Hall  trilogy came to the stage, adap…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:20PM

THE WOMAN IN BLACK (yes, honestly) by Libby Purves and Friends

NOT QUITE A REVIEW, MORE A TRIP DOWN A SIDE ALLEY I was on the early train up when news came that poor old Southwark had ,for the second time, been forced by illness to cancel two performanc…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:13AM
Sunday, October 3, 2021

BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS touring UK by Libby Purves and Friends

WHO NEEDS PANTO? A CLASSY FLIGHT OF FANCY ON THE ROAD      This show, which I had the joy of seeing in a packed Theatre Royal Norwich alongside many small  thrilled children,  knows exa…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:59AM
Thursday, September 30, 2021

THE NORMAL HEART Olivier, SE1 by Libby Purves and Friends

THE LAST GREAT PLAGUE        If you lived as an adult alongside the onset of AIDS forty years ago you don’t forget it: the lost friends and workmates , the rumours of ignorance which h…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:13PM
Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Jake Gyllenhaal Hopes to Return to Broadway by LIVE with Kelly and Ryan

Jake Gyllenhaal talks about Broadway reopening and his desire to return to the stage. #JakeGyllenhaal #Broadway #LWKR #KellyandRyan Subscribe: https://bit.ly/2HFUeAK Website: https://kel…

SOURCE: YouTube at 11:45AM

‘You’re in a new world’: refugee actors share their journey on stage by Nadia Khomami Arts and Culture Correspondent

A new play touring England uses beds to reflect on experiences of former unaccompanied minors For most people, bed is a place of comfort, somewhere to recline and switch off. For others, it …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AM