Thursday, September 5, 2019
Twelve cultural institutions vie for grants from RAD’s new $2.5 million impact fund.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:02PMTuesday, September 3, 2019
OLD TIMES, OLD SORROWS: BEFORE THE RAINBOW With Parliament in uproar upriver , the NT hit a luckily apt moment to stage Simon Woods’ first play and promote it as a “witty and…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:32PMSaturday, August 31, 2019
GUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI SWOONS OVER SWASHBUCKLING AT GRIMEBORN Director Emma Jude Harris “couldn’t believe her luck” when she discovered Cabildo, the only opera by pioneering…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:10AMFriday, August 30, 2019
BITTERLY BRITISH It was a good mix of ages in the Curve audience, so perhaps a public service to remind the rising generation, awash in Brexindignation, that Utterly-Despairi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:05PMGUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI FINDS JOPLIN TROUBLINGLY FUN Scott Joplin was rightly proud of Treemonisha, an opera for which he wrote both libretto and score; it was never fully staged in …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:14AMThursday, August 29, 2019
GUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI MARVELS AT THE OPERATIC POTENTIAL OF SIGNDANCE The double bill of Gillian Whitehead’s Hotspur with Schoenberg’s great Modernist Pierrot Lunaire is the fir…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:23PMSix years after its debut, Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s monologue is back in the theatre after its tearaway success on TV. We sent three millennial critics to watch it
Related: Sexy, subversive…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMTuesday, August 27, 2019
A STRANGE RESURRECTION, BETWEEN WARS A red sun was setting beyond the trees as we gathered around a square, isolated house in the golden-hour splendour. Here the land rises abo…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:42AMThe festival is over for another year but plenty of its theatre, comedy and dance hits have announced dates around the UK
CollapsibleBreffni Holahan gives a searing performance as Essie in M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AMSunday, August 25, 2019
GUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI FINDS DIMNESS RATHER THAN DAWN AT GRIMEBORN If Aylin Bozok is directing anything at Grimeborn, I always try to go. I’ve been absolutely blown away by her pa…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:05AMFrom Oktoberfests to Harvest Festivals, you can find a way to celebrate the end of a St. Louis summer.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 02:36AMSaturday, August 24, 2019
From Elton John's farewell tour to the "Downton Abbey" movie, our Seattle Times arts writers dish on next month’s most buzzworthy arts and entertainment events.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMGUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI FINDS NOT MUCH UNFOLDING AT GRIMEBORN I have to admit – I’m a sucker for a bit of rarefied Japanese elegance on stage in almost any context: the very ment…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:10AMThursday, August 22, 2019
GUEST REVIEWER BEN DOWELL SEES A GOOD SUBJECT NOT QUITE GETTING THERE… The trafficking of human beings – 7,000 identified in the UK in 2018 – is a disgusting blight on our country…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:05PMWednesday, August 21, 2019
A GRIPPING PIECE OF HISTORY In 1944 the adventurous British director Peggy Webster cast the first black Othello in the USA, where for a white woman even to walk with …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:34AMThursday, August 15, 2019
ROALD DAHL’s most treasured tale is opening its factory doors in cities all across the Imagi-NATION!
Willy Wonka, world famous inventor of the Everlasting Gobstopper, has just made an as…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:17PMGUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI GETS INTO THE BLITZ SPIRIT WITH OPERA ALEGRIA AT GRIMEBORN Rossini’s Le Comte Ory is a flirtatious farce in which a naughty young Count drives everyone de…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:37AMMonday, August 12, 2019
Plan your schedule with our roundup of top shows, ordered by start time. This page will be updated daily throughout the festival
BoutSummerhall, 10.20am, until 25 AugustAn exploration of bro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PMFriday, August 9, 2019
We asked BAME comedians, performers and Guardian readers about their experiences at the Edinburgh fringe
For Scotland’s capital August means the rushed arrival of throngs of people in sear…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42PMA YOUTHFUL HALLELUJAH ANother fascinating London premiere for Two’s Company and the Finborough, buried for nearly half a century after one brief 1970 tour . As Philip …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:52AMThursday, August 8, 2019
GUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI GOES BATS FOR BASELESS FABRIC’S SOCIAL MEDIA TAKE ON STRAUSS “I’m not saying I’m Batman. I’m just saying nobody has ever seen me and Batman in a roo…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:36AMWednesday, August 7, 2019
How does who you are affect how you see this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama? Two critics finally have the talk.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AMMonday, August 5, 2019
We want to hear from BAME people who are attending - or have attended - the festival. What has your experience been like?
In the run-up to this year’s Edinburgh fringe, the biggest festiva…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03PMSaturday, August 3, 2019
GUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI CAN’T GET ENOUGH OF GRIMEBORN’S GLITTERING TREASURE The Ring Cycle is opera’s biggest box set: a sixteen-hour binge of dwarves, nymphs, dragons, gods, h…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:18PM ROCK ’N ROLL N’ ROMEO Deep under the trees, beyond Jimmy’s meerkat and camel enclosures lies a 1960’s beach: shelter, deckchairs and lounging teens, Mods and Rocker…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:00AMFriday, August 2, 2019
GUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI GOES MAD FOR AMERICAN MONODRAMA A pairing of two American music dramas promised plenty of angsty feminist fun for a Friday night at Grimeborn; and I admit, in…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:39PMThursday, August 1, 2019
ROALD DAHL’s most treasured tale is opening its factory doors in cities all across the Imagi-NATION!
Willy Wonka, world famous inventor of the Everlasting Gobstopper, has just made an as…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:09PMHEROIC ENDURANCE In the background a lecture in the old Home Service style, decorous and passionless, finishes relating the story of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s expedition: …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:03AMFriday, July 26, 2019
From The Rolling Stones and THING music festival to Seattle Art Fair, our Seattle Times arts writers dish on next month’s most buzzworthy arts and entertainment events.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMTuesday, July 23, 2019
COWBOYS WITHOUT INDIANS I suppose it’s perverse to start at the end, but of all the aspects of Jeremy Sams’ handsome production of the Rodgers & Hammerstein crowd-pleaser…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:34AM 
