Friday, 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Campaigners call for ‘outdated structures’ that undermine progress and encourage inequality to be dismantled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 01:32PMKIDS WITH A KICK IN THEM There’s been an interlockof themes in theatre lately: DEAR ENGLAND at the NT displaying Gareth Southgate’s work in fostering the openness and emotiona…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:31AMThursday, March 21, 2024
HOPE, HEART, HARDSHIP Brian Friel’s 1979 remarkable play stands on its own, offering a kind of depressive beauty: beneath the story of one ramshackle troubled couple it is a meditatio…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:44AMRO$$INI BONANZA! Guest reviewer Dean Thompson finds much in a small space… Opera lovers or new to opera will love this! So, get on your horse and gallop over to see Charles Court Opera…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:23AMMonday, March 18, 2024
A CELLULOID INVASION This was at first a startling choice: Eastern Angles’ tradition is generally, as it heroically tours night-by-night across the eastern counties, to programme…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:52PMFriday, March 15, 2024
Gayli, a dance night at a Brooklyn bar, provides a welcoming atmosphere for Irish social dancing, an exacting art form known for high-pressure competition.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:02AMWednesday, March 13, 2024
BOARDROOM BEASTS This may break all records for the smartest costumes ever at the Southwark’s smallest space: six irreproachable business suits, including two sets of tweed-chic fema…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:26AMTuesday, March 12, 2024
Football drama Dear England receives nine nominations in a year that featured a string of celebrity castings• Complete list of nominations
James Norton, Andrew Scott, Sarah Jessica Parker,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32AMA FRESH CAST, ONE YEAR ON Can it really be a whole year since, with theatre still gallantly recovering from Covid, Nicholas Hytner rolled the dice and opted to offer us some razzle dazzle?…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:40AMSunday, March 10, 2024
The coal miner’s daughter who set up the Open University and the Arts Council and was Britain’s youngest MP is the subject of two new shows
‘Behind every great man stands a great woman…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMSaturday, March 9, 2024
Whoever wins next month’s Olivier awards, global stars will continue to flock to the West End of London to give the stage their all. We take a peek behind the curtain …
At what point doe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24AMFriday, March 8, 2024
PLANT FOOD PEOPLE FROM THE PAST I missed this first time round, due to the babysitting years, so it was grand to catch up. It’s a 1980’s revival, a spoof on 1960’s sci…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:15AMThursday, March 7, 2024
A MAVERICK MINISTER There’s another play to be written about Aneurin Bevan, stubborn founder of the National Health Service: perhaps a more contentious one, or a fantasy in w…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:44AMWednesday, March 6, 2024
ONCE BRITTEN TWICE SHY? The late David Hemmings, one of Britten’s mentored, worshipped boy sopranos, was unforgettable aged 12 as the original MIles in the composer’s terrifying…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:45PMTHE WINDRUSH WARRIORS Moses’ crowded bedsit is where the new ones turn up off the boat train, wanting to know how to do London; he can tell them names like Clapham -“not C…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:49AMMonday, March 4, 2024
GUEST REVIEWER AND OPERABUFF DEAN THOMPSON LOVES ENO’S LATEST Ingenious – Dazzling – Hilarious! If you haven’t seen The Magic Flute before, then this is the one to see; if you have…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:46AMFriday, March 1, 2024
CORONATION, COMMISSION, COLLABORATION You need not be a selfish pig to be an artist of genius, but there’s no question that it often helps. Occurs, anyway. In Mark R…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:10AMThursday, February 29, 2024
AN ATTIC WARNING Fasten your seat belts for a bracingly odd German play by Marius von Mayenburg; hold on tight as it veers in a switchback weirdness, which I for one ended up tho…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:47PMWednesday, February 28, 2024
THEY SHALL NOT PASS Given the current swell of antisemitism there was a heartstopping moment from Jez Unwin as Yitzhak Scheinberg, patriarch of a hardworking East End Jewish family wh…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:26PMACE had been under pressure to revise guidance in January which focused on ‘reputational risk’
Arts Council England (ACE) has released new guidance confirming it will not penalise organi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42PM1948 AND ALL THAT Right now, the birth of the NHS in 1948 is more than appropriate to write about (there’s another play about Nye Bevan next week). For as the most jaded doctor pred…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:16AMTuesday, February 27, 2024
Exclusive: Jeremy O Harris says Game of Thrones star will not ‘make it the Jon Snow Experience’
The writer of Slave Play, the controversial Broadway production about race and sexuality t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24AMSunday, February 25, 2024
Based on the 2006 novel by Sara Gruen, the musical follows a young man who hops a train and falls in with a ragtag, traveling group of entertainers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMSaturday, February 24, 2024
Napalm Death, visual artist Pogus Caesar and Peaky Blinders’ Steven Knight also among city’s cultural figures warning over ‘horrifying’ move
Birmingham’s cultural figures from Carl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12PMThursday, February 22, 2024
Team behind Little Amal puppet hope to create ‘visceral engagement’ with issues caused by climate emergency
The production team behind the Little Amal puppet, which raised awareness abou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36PMIt’s one of the best-selling Y.A. novels of all time and a star-studded Coppola movie from the ’80s. On its way to Broadway, the show’s cast and creators paid S.E. Hinton a visit.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:24AMTuesday, February 20, 2024
Entertainment company pays tribute to performer’s ‘impeccable dancing’ and ‘vibrant spirit’
The former Strictly Come Dancing professional Robin Windsor has died at the age of 44.
H…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMWANNA BE IN MOVIES? REALLY? BRRRR! We open in a chilly Suffolk cottage in the rain (I am tonight probably the only person here to have come direct from a chilly Suffolk cottage, in rain. C…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:31AMFriday, February 16, 2024
A stage adaptation of the film featured an all-Western cast, was performed in Chinese and raised questions about translation, both linguistic and cultural.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:06PMTENTACLES STRETCHING INTO PAST AND FUTURE Electricity is coming to the village but the elderly Randolphs wont bother, preferring the paraffin lamplight of their forebears. Their ho…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:46PM 
