Tuesday, December 7, 2021
PULLING OUT THE STOPS FOR PULLMAN First things first: this is the most wonderfully evocative, romantic and dramatic bit of set-projection you will see all year. Bob Crowley, video maes…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:07PMMonday, December 6, 2021
A REVIVING REVIVAL Do you need to be of a generation to remember Morecambe and Wise, to which this play is a loving tribute-cum-amiable-ripoff? Probably not. They are stamped on th…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:36PMJordan Fisher talks about what it's like returning to "Dear Evan Hansen" after the Broadway shutdown.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 01:58PMMembers of Belarus Free Theatre say authorities ‘are more scared of artists than of political statements’
For 16 years, the Belarus Free Theatre has advocated for freedom of expression, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMFriday, December 3, 2021
Digital innovation continued this year, but experiencing plays in isolation grew tiring. Then came an in-person season as exciting as a child’s first fireworks.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48AMISLAND OF WONDER AND UNEASE One of the interesting, rewarding quirks in Tom Littler’s small-but-perfectly-formed Tempest is that Tam Williams doubles as Ferdinand, the ultra-vi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:31AMThursday, December 2, 2021
Betty! starring Maxine Peake views parliamentarian’s life through lens of drama group in Dewsbury village hall
She was a working-class Yorkshire girl who first took to the stage in a high-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMWednesday, December 1, 2021
A year of uncertainty was capped by a happy ending: a rush of performances this fall, including standouts by masters (Twyla Tharp) and breakout stars (LaTasha Barnes).
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:02AMGLIMPSES OF ETERNITY (Review first published on D.Mail, in shorter form) This is wonderful. Sometimes a simple short performance can shake, rouse, even change you. So step a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:19AMTuesday, November 30, 2021
Ariana DeBose talks about how she found out she got the part of Anita in "West Side Story."
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SOURCE: YouTube at 01:20PMAriana DeBose talks about "West Side Story" and how she efelt watching herself in it for the first time.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 01:14PMAriana DeBose talks about being the first out on her season of “So You Think You Can Dance” and how it affected her career trajectory.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 01:08PMAriana DeBose talks about what age she started performing and what she liked to dress up as when she was a kid.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 01:04PMVanessa Williams talks about what she's been seeing on Broadway and her work with Black Theater United.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 12:44PMMonday, November 29, 2021
Natalia Osipova hopes to ‘broaden appeal’ of ballet by selling unique digital copies of performances
She is one of the world’s most acclaimed dancers, dazzling audiences with performan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48PMSunday, November 28, 2021
Tracy-Ann Oberman, Donna Air and Annie Lennox will perform in the one-off fundraising West End drama
Women’s experiences of domestic and sexual violence will be dramatised in a West End th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24PMworth going again I say.. Just thought I should mention to theatrecat readers how wonderful this show it. Saw it twice before the pandemic, nipped back to a matinee a week or so back. …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:34AMSaturday, November 27, 2021
“I would ask you to sit back and luxuriate in his extraordinary words and music,” the director John Doyle said before Friday’s performance of the “Assassins” revival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:32AMFriday, November 26, 2021
Audra McDonald, Bernadette Peters, Andrew Lloyd Webber and others mourned and celebrated the essential composer and lyricist, who died at 91.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PMIn a never before seen interview, Stephen Sondheim sat down with The New York Times in June 2008 to talk about his life, career and accomplishments.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:42PMWednesday, November 24, 2021
2021 BRITAIN IN A STATELY STORMY NUTSHELL Just what we needed, I thought! A good old state-of-the-nation black comedy with a semi-derelict Manor in a howling storm, the sea wall abo…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:16AMMonday, November 22, 2021
Yomi Ṣode’s one-hander and Regent’s Park production of Romeo and Juliet win four awards each
A one-man play about grief and a contemporary version of a Shakespearean classic have domin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMThursday, November 18, 2021
SIX CENTURIES ON, IT’S GEOFFREY CHAUCER’S ROUND Zadie Smith humbly refers to her first play as more like “homework” than the novelist’s usual dread of a blank page. Ch…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:19AMA CHEKHQUERED RESPONSE Vanya and Sonia are siblings – though she is adopted – and have led dull dutiful lives in a remote country house surrounded by cherry trees and an or…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:23AMWednesday, November 17, 2021
ROLL UP! IT’S BACK! Ah, Christmastime! There’s nothing like a buff chap in spike-heeled patent thigh-boots somersaulting in the air to make you feel festive. Unless it�…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:56PMA HUMAN ZOO OF ALPHA MEN There are good plays to be written about white male privilege, and about modern capitalism and its relentless expectation of self-promotion and constant advancement …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:37AMFestival to celebrate black culture and creativity, with Lemn Sissay and Shingai as headline acts
The Lyric Hammersmith theatre is launching its first festival celebrating black talent, cul…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AMSunday, November 14, 2021
THEY DO NOT GROW OLD AS WE IN THE STALLS GROW OLD May as well tell you, last week I had the ultimate pensioner experience, and it was a blast. A midweek, senior-price matinee i…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:07PMSaturday, November 13, 2021
Beneath the slapstick humour, venues remain anxious over fresh restrictions and lower ticket sales
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PMFriday, November 12, 2021
TWENTY YEARS AGO, ANOTHER HEALTH CRISIS CHANGED LIVES Just before the pandemic closed everything down, Emily Jenkins’ deft two-hander won a top Edinburgh Fringe award and many plaud…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:55AMThursday, November 11, 2021
Liam Scarlett, 35, was suspended from Royal Ballet in 2019 over allegations and died in April 2021
A former Royal Ballet choreographer killed himself after feeling “humiliation” over all…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18PM 
