Saturday, April 5, 2025
THE DEPTHS BELOW THE WIT The plays, ever revived, we know well; the wit is often cited, the old injustice of his downfall recreated in plays and films: most recently we’ve seen…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:30AMThursday, April 3, 2025
VENEZIANA ! Buongiorno to Venice 1730, a city stage topped with the golden winged lion of St Mark, arched and curtained and lit with candelabras . Overhead a twelve-piece orchest…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:43AMWednesday, April 2, 2025
Officers attended theatre in Southend after reports of altercation at end of Paul Chowdhry’s show
Police were called to a comedy show in Essex after a fight broke out in the audience, whic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMTuesday, April 1, 2025
DARK FANGTASY IN A SCAFFOLDING CITY For this compact and creepy little atmospheric treat, John Donnelly turns to vampires. That’s not a spoiler: the programme is full of learned stuf…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:59AMMonday, March 31, 2025
As part of its 50th anniversary, the East Village institution presents reimagined dances by Ishmael Houston-Jones and Fred Holland, Donna Uchizono and Bebe Miller.
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Dmitry Krymov, who fled Moscow after the Ukraine invasion, plans Dickens hybrid with UK and Russian actors
The acclaimed Russian stage director Dmitry Krymov the winner of many of Moscow’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMSaturday, March 29, 2025
Members of the dance company Ballet Hispánico weren’t the only ones who swirled amid the art in the museum’s rotunda during a recent presentation and tango class.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:02AMThursday, March 27, 2025
BEYOND QATAR… Two years ago this show was a pleasure – (https://theatrecat.com/2023/06/21/dear-england-olivier-se1/) , and now, on the far side of more efforts and…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:14PMWednesday, March 26, 2025
POWER, MAJESTY AND JUSTICE Very good to see this intense three-hander by Ryan Calais Cameron (who gave us “For Black Boys..” ) migrating to Shaftesbury Avenue with increa…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:46PMTuesday, March 25, 2025
In this episode, Hayley and Amy talk with producer and RISE Program Manager
Victoria Detres about embracing humanity through storytelling, creating a
culture of care in the theatre indus…
SOURCE: www.womenandtheatre.com at 06:00PMMonday, March 24, 2025
Jenifer Ringer, the celebrated New York City Ballet principal, is back at the School of American Ballet in a new role: teacher and guiding light.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:02AMFriday, March 21, 2025
THE 1660’s AND ALL THAT: THEATRE REBORN Oddly, for theatrecat it’s the second day running of enliveningly energetic female history. After six women told the story of Mary…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:03PMA ROUSING RACKET TO HONOUR A LIFE Mary Wollstonecraft was a pearl of the 18c Age of Reason, even more treasurable for having – as a woman – a harder time of it than all the Locke…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:19AMThursday, March 20, 2025
Lynette Linton, outgoing creative director of Bush Theatre, hopes production will lead to people getting more support
Part of the creative team behind a new play about the impact of dementia…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMTuesday, March 18, 2025
In this episode, Hayley and Amy talk with composer and orchestrator Julie
Richardson about balancing multiple personal and professional roles,
redefining the boundaries of womanhood, fin…
SOURCE: www.womenandtheatre.com at 06:00PMTHE UNSERIOUS UNDEAD “You will be horrified!” The five players announce, “- one way or another”. And with a flourish they hurl Bram Stoker’s book behind them into Tijana Bjela…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:27AMFriday, March 14, 2025
Hamid Rahmanian has made it his life’s work to share the richness of Iranian culture. “Song of the North,” at the New Victory Theater, is just the latest installment.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06AMThursday, March 13, 2025
A STRANGE WARTIME FABLE OF LIFE, BIRTH AND JEWELLERY In a little Jeweller’s shop in 1942 Paris Joseph Haffmann is making a deal with his young assistant Pierre. He is Jewish, and h…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:41PMTuesday, March 11, 2025
A modern retelling of A Midsummer Night’s Dream was pulled last September in a dispute over one of the play’s songs
A review into the cancellation of a production of A Midsummer Night’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42PMIn this episode, Hayley and Amy dive into the juicy topic of Taking Control
of Your Career. We discuss finding the “why” behind your goal, breaking it
down into manageable steps, ide…
SOURCE: www.womenandtheatre.com at 06:00PMBecause Fugard’s best-known plays center on the suffering caused by the apartheid policies of South Africa’s white-minority government, some among Fugard’s audience abroad were surpris…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 02:05PMSaturday, March 8, 2025
The play’s cast members wrestle, slap and toss one another in ambitiously choreographed fight sequences that took months of training to learn.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06AMAN ANCIENT BRUTALITY, RIGHT HERE Five women from the past mount the stage, candlelit, to enact theterrible story of the 17c Suffolk witch-trials. First there’s young Mar…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:25AMThursday, March 6, 2025
Anne Imhof’s three-hour spectacle of moody youth at the Armory is sweet sorrow, full of moping and muttering. Still, almost despite itself, it points to true art.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:01AMWednesday, March 5, 2025
BRUTAL, VIOLENT AND TENDER Around a King’s coffin surge personalities and politics , power plays and lineage . A royal bier is loaded with crown and jewelled cross, around it cou…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:30PM HEROIC STORY, NEAR MISS It could hardly be a better theme and story for this terrific little theatre, which since its opening has explored the darkness of Nazism and the heroism of th…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:44AMTuesday, March 4, 2025
In this episode, Hayley and Amy talk with actor and writer Maria Wirries
about creating equitable spaces, telling diverse stories rooted in truth,
embracing the fluidity of identity, bui…
SOURCE: www.womenandtheatre.com at 06:00PMMonday, March 3, 2025
Theater about current events — both literally and abstractly — is changing the conversation between playwrights, directors and their audiences.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48AMSaturday, March 1, 2025
A TROUSER-LEG TSUNAMI AND A COATHANGER DREAM They came off the boats: a Windrush generation, wanting to work and live in cold strange Britain. In an upper room Walker doe…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:47AMThursday, February 27, 2025
HEART AND HUMOUR, REALPOLITIK AND GOD This is a wonderful play, all you could want: philosophy, history prefiguring the present moment, humour and character , stunning cent…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:04PMA RAVE IN MESSINA Get da kids into Shakespeare! The world worries about it. So Jamie Lloyd hits a formula hard to beat with one of the sunniest comedies (only one pretend death). So 1)…
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