Thursday, May 2, 2024
As Black roller skaters from around the country bring their styles to the city, some locals look for space to preserve the moves Atlanta is known for.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AMDavid Byrne calls for urgent state support for young playwrights, particularly those from minority or working-class backgrounds
David Byrne, the artistic director of the Royal Court theatre …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AMWednesday, May 1, 2024
Writer of Make Good: the Post Office Scandal says postal workers’ interviews helped describe ‘the power of the state coming down on you’
The creators of a new musical about the Post Of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12AMA BOY BETRAYED Connor was 18 when he drowned in the bath with an epileptic seizure. It needn’t have happened. He was under slipshod care, away from the family who loved him, in an NHS �…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:47AMTuesday, April 30, 2024
It’s a challenging time for the theater industry, but each new opening is another reason to pause for a moment and celebrate.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMA FEARFUL FUTURE I am wary of futurist dystopias, but this is a real treat: intelligent sci-fi with serious thrills. As it opens, we are the 2050 audience at the celebration of ten…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:35AMSunday, April 28, 2024
THE COURT AND THE BEDCHAMBER Theatre will never tire of the Tudors, nor should it. From every new angle they offer a dramatic gift which never stops giving. Here’s 1534, and…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:10AMThursday, April 25, 2024
Women in Theatre Lab will act as incubator for playwriting and acting talent and address gender inequality
Gemma Arterton, Joanna Scanlan and Stella Kanu are some of the figures backing an i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMMonday, April 22, 2024
A party for the buzzy revival of the Broadway musical was held at a theater that has been transformed to look like a 1930s-era nightclub.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:36PMFriday, April 19, 2024
Dozens of theater, film and media stars turned out for the opening of the new musical “Suffs” on Thursday night.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18PMMEN BEHAVING RIDICULOUSLY The lord of Navarre and three nobles have resolved to retreat and study for three years, eschewing female company: so even the princess suing for land has to be…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:47AMThursday, April 18, 2024
MUD, MARSH, MONEY Now here’s a bracing new way to do Dickens: avoid sets full of Victoriana by keeping the stage pretty much empty beneath a set of uneasily moving lighting-bars …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:20AMWednesday, April 17, 2024
“The youth are f**ked” is the catch phrase of Sam Gold’s upcoming Broadway revival of Romeo + Juliet, led by young stars Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler. Shakespeare’s classic tale of h…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:18PMAs his coming-of-age rollercoaster hits the stage, the novelist talks about the boredom of hospitals, how Britain has changed since Buddha – and why shouting at his kids is a great way to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMTuesday, April 16, 2024
REFLECTIONS ON A FAT KNIGHT Due to train disruption – speak not of overhead wires and wind – I had to bail out at the interval, from Robert Icke’s epic three and a half hour modern…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:47AMMonday, April 15, 2024
Our theater critics and a reporter discuss the big winner — “Sunset Boulevard” — and the rest of the honorees at Britain’s equivalent of the Tonys.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:32AMWHY HALESWORTH MATTERS TO THE NATIONAL DRAMATIC ECOSYSTEM The other day I did an overview-preview from some dress rehearsals at the INK short play festival in Suffolk (scroll below), …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:51AMSunday, April 14, 2024
CROOKBACK DICK REIMAGINED Saving Richard III from Shakespeare’s calumny seems to have a particular appeal to women: probably because around his accession in the 1480…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:41AMSaturday, April 13, 2024
DIVING ABOUT IN A UNIQUE SHORT-PLAY FESTIVAL Join me on a parked Hoppa minibus where Henry VIII is chatting up a new Jane. She is not impressed by the Tudor-Tinder qualificat…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:27AMFriday, April 12, 2024
HOLINESS IN THE WHALE It pretty much had me harpooned at the words “Call me Ishmael”. As Mark Arends’ earnestly naive schoolteacher speaks the opening lines and begins…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:26AMThursday, April 4, 2024
WUTHERING SIBLINGS Grace Smart the designer sets the scene as we settle in with a sweet miniature moor, all harebells and heather and cloddy bits of earth. But it rises in the air …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:55PMTHE GAME’S AFOOT. EVENTUALLY. Nick Lane’s adaptation of Conan Doyle’s late, broodingly complicated novel has met many huzzahs from Sherlock Holmes fans, previously here, on tour and …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:56AMWednesday, April 3, 2024
DOSTOYEVSKY IN DALTON
“These days” says the man on the empty stage, “people are precious to me, even when they insult me. I have woken up”. His stark features do no…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:17PMGregory Doran asks how content warnings could be issued for Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus
It is a play renowned for its extreme physical violence, with scenes featuring execution, rape an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMSaturday, March 30, 2024
CAMPUS RITES AND WRONGS Sometimes, I do like a stage set you could cosily move right into. Paul Farnsworth’s is a nice evocation of a Harvard professor’s study: shelves and panelling…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:22PMFriday, March 29, 2024
HOMAGE TO THE FIRST CELEBRITY DIVA Last time theatre’s pre-Victorian glory days – silk breeches, rowdy audiences and Garrickian hamming – were celebrated on this stage w…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:35AMWednesday, March 27, 2024
HOW TO WASTE A STELLAR CAST Sheridan Smith is not only a box-office draw but a rare and genuine talent: two decades a star on screen and stage, musicals and drama: phenomena…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:27AMSunday, March 24, 2024
MAGIC . ALWAYS BETTER WHEN DISASTROUS. God bless Mischief Theatre. Eleven years ago this coming May I saw THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG in the tiny downstairs space at Trafalgar S…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:01PMFriday, March 22, 2024
Campaigners call for ‘outdated structures’ that undermine progress and encourage inequality to be dismantled
Cultural organisations and equality campaigners have called on high-profile f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32PM 
