Saturday, 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)…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:28PMWednesday, February 26, 2025
Concerns also raised that practice prevents young working-class people from finding paid work in creative industries
Arts employers could be breaking the law by relying on unpaid interns to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32AMTuesday, February 25, 2025
In this episode, Hayley and Amy talk with theatre historian, author, and
producer Jennifer Ashley Tepper about authentic representation onstage and
off, storytellers’ responsibility to…
SOURCE: www.womenandtheatre.com at 06:00PMThe plan to weaken copyright law, allowing tech firms to profit for free from people’s talent, is an outrage, and the nation would suffer
We are father and son: one has written 16 musicals…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMFriday, February 21, 2025
MOTHERHOOD, FOR LIFE Had there been trigger warnings they might add “extreme nursing” alongside the usual alerts about sickness, death, abortion and conflict. Believe me, …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:30AMThursday, February 20, 2025
A THREAT CALLED AGGIE . Good when the news feeds theatre-moments. This week, AI solved in two days a medical conundrum which had baffled humans for a decade. On the other hand, a mis…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:20PMFor the arts institution, which receives only a small portion of its budget from federal funding, the perennial challenge is to raise additional revenue through ticket sales and private dona…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:42AMHe is making his Broadway debut with a stage version of his 2005 movie “Good Night, and Good Luck.” He’s ready, but also terrified.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36AMWednesday, February 19, 2025
VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED ON SS ELSINORE Last time the ever-inventive Rupert Goold directed here it was the Merchant of Venice, set in a casino so we could all write “merchant of Vegas” …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:33PMTuesday, February 18, 2025
RICHARD II Bridge Theatre, SE1 A THRILLING DANCE AROUND A CROWN This is one of the most lyrically lovely, metaphorically rich of Shakespeare’s history plays, op…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:05PMFriday, February 14, 2025
For Valentine’s Day this year, why not give the gift of Broadway? To help you woo your plus one of choice—Valentine, galentine or whomever—Broadway.com offers up six poems tailor-made …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:54AMIssa Rae, Ben Folds and Shonda Rhimes among those who chose not to associate with the institution and president
Donald Trump’s takeover of the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMA TRICYCLE MADE FOR THREE? After Mike Bartlett’s COCK – where one of a gay male couple falls for a girl – I wrote that the poor sap of a hero thinks he he choosing a sexuality …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:52AMThursday, February 13, 2025
A BRITISH BASTARD STALKS THROUGH HISTORY What’s to be done about truly awful people: amoral, selfishly irresponsible, arrogant and greedy? A time-honoured British approach is t…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:05AMTuesday, February 11, 2025
A GREAT TURNING POINT, CAUGHT IN ASPIC It is 1942. Prime minister Churchill has travelled to Moscow to meet Stalin. Each side has a problem at home with voices wanting to cut a d…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:38PMWILD SHORES IN WARTIME Risk taking a gap between seeing David Greig plays and you forget how downright louche things are likely to turn out. (I had lately revelled in Prudencia Hart …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:36PMAlterations, by Michael Abbensetts, follows a Guyanese tailor as he tries to establish himself on Carnaby Street
The National Theatre’s decision to stage a work by a “pioneering” and �…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMMonday, February 10, 2025
A FEMALE EVOLUTION, FRANK AND FINE First salute the cast: Deborah Findlay, Romola Garai, Gina McKee, Anjli Mohindraand Harmony Rose-Bremner, for an unpretentiously powerful tour de force. Ea…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:41AMThursday, February 6, 2025
ABSURDITY AND SUBLIMITY After the glorious Parisian detail of the revived Rigoletto here , Johannes Schutz’ spare bland box with only four flat doors is an opposite take on how …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:56AMTuesday, February 4, 2025
A FEMALE EVOLUTION, FRANK AND FINE First salute the cast: Deborah Findlay, Romola Garai, Gina McKee, Anjli Mohindra and Harmony Rose-Bremner, for an unpretentiously powerful tour de forc…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:42PMThursday, January 30, 2025
Ellen Elphick, 31, accused the elite institution in London of breaching its duty of care
The Royal Ballet school has reached a financial settlement with a former student who said the body sh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMOver 34 years, the show gave Fred Armisen a drumming gig, “Arrested Development” a hilarious story line and more. Now the cultural sensation comes to an end in New York.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:54AMWednesday, January 29, 2025
Producers say it is ‘impossible to continue’ with musical that was due to be staged at Leeds Playhouse from April
A stage version of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline has been cancelled after all…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36PMTuesday, January 28, 2025
FUNNY ABOUT THE UNFUNNY Billy Bash, rated the third most offensive comedian in Britain, was once the dominant partner in Biddle and Bash. He’s still on tour, God help us…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:36PMOscar-nominated actor says she has had to compromise because of dearth of complex roles in UK and Hollywood
Hard Truths star Marianne Jean-Baptiste has said there is still “a dearth of gr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMThursday, January 23, 2025
It’s been 150 years since the Palais Garnier opera house opened in Paris. Today, it is still a working theater — with 172 performances scheduled for this season.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:00PM“The Brutalist” and “Wicked” secured 10 nominations apiece in a year with a wide-open best picture race. Acting nominees include Demi Moore, Cynthia Erivo, Adrien Brody and Timothée…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:56AMThe two films secured nominations in most of the major categories, including best picture, a wide-open race. Acting nominees include Demi Moore, Cynthia Erivo, Adrien Brody and Timothée Cha…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:56AMA DARKER THOMAS CROMWELL Edward Bennett as Thomas Cromwell is a proper thug: everyone’s memory of the HR-outplacement weasel who starts the sacking meeting with soft-soap…
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