Friday, October 25, 2019
From concerts by Olympia-born Sleater-Kinney to a celebration of a new book by local author Lindy West, our Seattle Times arts writers dish on next month’s most buzzworthy arts and enterta…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMThursday, October 24, 2019
RENAISSANCE RUTTING, VENUS AND VANITIES Sandro Botticelli, he makes clear to us at the start, plans to tell his version. He’s Dickie Beau: skinny and swaggeringly queeny in blac…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:54PMIT TAKES TWO… Here’s a sharp eyed little gem about coupledom and the wary, fretful road towards parenthood in an age of easy contraception and illimitable expectation…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:47AMWednesday, October 23, 2019
TWO CURATORS, ACROSS EIGHTY YEARS The little Swan , a jewel-box of a theatre, often sees the new plays the RSC does best: immaculate technique and careful clarity elucidating complex…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:34AMMonday, October 21, 2019
Gerard Alessandrini’s franchise was looking as long in the tooth as the shows it aimed to skewer. A new edition brings it back to hilarious life.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PMSunday, October 20, 2019
INSPECTOR GOOLE, BACK BACK ON THE ROAD Below, edited, is my original London review of this remarkable production. This new tour deserves to be marked, though: regarding the t…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:46AMFriday, October 18, 2019
A COOL EYE ON SHATTERED LIVES Of all the well known flaws of our criminal justice system, one of the most glaring is how badly it fits women – though they are only around…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:44AMFriday, October 11, 2019
Thirty Colorado inmates staged “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” for nearby prisons. For some, it was the first time in years they were outside 20-foot walls and razor fences.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMThursday, October 10, 2019
THE DARK AND THE CRAZY This is – for us anyway – the first production in the Trump era of this savage musical: a revue reimagining of all the attempts, successful or not,�…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:03AMSunday, October 6, 2019
A seized phone. A stopped concert. A text from Rihanna. All new fuel for a heated debate about theater etiquette in the digital age.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18PMFriday, October 4, 2019
Producers extend preview run indefinitely due to building setbacks and a script ‘in flux’
An immersive theatre adaptation of The Wolf of Wall Street has postponed its opening night and e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03PMWednesday, October 2, 2019
PEOPLE OF THE BLITZ Sarah Waters’ best novel, evoking lives during and after the London Blitz, was told backward in time. It is much the same way, indeed, as we meet real people�…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:41PMTHE LOW DISHONEST DECADE… It’s always intimate, the Jermyn,. We’re in an autumn garden, apples on the ground and fading roses on the wall; birdsong, and a tea table set defia…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:55AMTuesday, October 1, 2019
A COLLIDING WORLD Couldn’t miss this: for two years as a teenager (Dad in the Jo’burg Embassy) I lived alongside the frightened, arrogant paranoia of white South Africa un…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:18PMBen Brantley and Jesse Green respond to readers curious about the Tony race, hungry for happy fare, and heading to London.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42AMMonday, September 30, 2019
15 CHARACTERS OBJECTING TO AN AUTHOR.. The Jane Austen industry never flags, in tribute or in parody. You can barely throw a bonnet without hitting an Austentatious improv, popcor…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:45PMWith the Jurassic World Live Tour, Feld Entertainment, known for arena tours like Disney on Ice and Sesame Street Live, is mounting a show with more teeth.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:33AMSunday, September 29, 2019
I think there’s less a question of “what’s to be done” and more is a question of “how do we know what’s really going on.” It’s less about privacy in some ways and more about …
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 03:12PMFriday, September 27, 2019
KING JOHN WAS NOT A GOOD MAN… Maybe we should stick to AA Milne’s version? “King John was not a good man He had his little ways And sometimes no one spoke to him For days an…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:18AMWednesday, September 25, 2019
GLOBAL AND GENDER POLITICS IN PERFECT MINIATURE A glass conference-centre in the host nation France; a visiting US President avid for airstrikes after a terrorist outrage , deman…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:34PMTuesday, September 24, 2019
Following our selection of this century’s best new plays and dance shows, readers give their reactions and suggestions – from Book of Mormon to The Red Shoes
The top 50 theatre shows of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33PMFriday, September 20, 2019
From apocalyptic standup Frankie Boyle to the many hilarious faces of Tina Fey, Steve Coogan, Sharon Horgan and Kristen Wiig, we present the funniest comics of the era
Our No 1 comedian’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMThursday, September 19, 2019
A scholar in England suspected annotations in a First Folio at the Free Library of Philadelphia were John Milton’s, so he connected the dots with someone who had studied the work for a dec…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:12PMWednesday, September 18, 2019
GUEST REVIEWER BEN DOWELL SAYS HANKS FOR THE MEMORY , AND BRAVELY FACES THE WEIRDNESS This is a lavish revival of the 1996 musical version of the 1988 Tom Hanks fantasy comedy, complete w…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:02AMTuesday, September 17, 2019
A hip-hop history lesson, a dizzy Dahl musical and a continent-hopping barbershop … we pick the finest new works of theatre since 2000
Jez Butterworth: the sage behind our No1 Continue rea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18PMMonday, September 16, 2019
From Downton Abbey to Khalid, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMFriday, September 13, 2019
Composers Michael Kooman and Christopher Dimond share the thoughts behind the score for the new show about a musical-hating man who wakes up... in a musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:00AMComposers Michael Kooman and Christopher Dimond share the thoughts behind the songs for the new show about a musical-hating man who wakes up... in a musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:00AMTuesday, September 10, 2019
THIRTY YEARS LATER AND STILL FURIOUS: HEDDA’S BACK Last night, while Parliament spiralled into disorderly, resentful confusion and Mr Bercow dramatically put an end to himself a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:41PMFriday, September 6, 2019
Impressionist Jon Culshaw, playwright James Graham, comedian Bridget Christie and critic Mark Lawson on the prime minister’s opening week in Westminster
I’ve been doing Boris impressions…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24PMThursday, September 5, 2019
