Friday, 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 11:34AMWednesday, July 17, 2019
FALLEN ANGELS ENDURING THE STORM You can feel the heat in Rae Smith’s design, Mexican sun on the rock overhead, and the corrugated iron roofs of the rundown hotel. Somewher…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:30AMSunday, July 14, 2019
THE PLAY ABOUT THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG GOES WRONG The title of this play is brutally honest — and you can’t say you weren’t warned. In the style of Monty Python and Michael Frayn’s …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:17PMFriday, July 12, 2019
IT’S BACK, YOUNGER THAN EVER… We love a starry debut, especially on opening night in a huge theatre: a 21-year-old not yet through drama school making a stonking, belting …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:31AMWednesday, July 10, 2019
Two writers for The Seattle Times attend “Bon Appétit!: The Julia Child Operetta," in which family stories about Julia Child combine with opera, and the result is a (literal) chocolate ca…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMMonday, July 8, 2019
Martin Charnin, who won a Tony Award for the score of the Broadway hit “Annie,” and who lived in Issaquah during the 2000s when he became active in the Seattle theater scene, died Saturd…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 03:47PMStandups Alexandra Haddow and Jamie Allerton offer their tips and tricks for speaking in public
Almost every time we tell someone we perform standup comedy, we get the same response: “Oh …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMSaturday, July 6, 2019
Broad stage theatre comedy full of plot twists, puns and frantic action is finding a new audienceThe stage is set like a hotel bedroom where a scantily clad woman is hiding inside a wardrobe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54PMWomen claim staff did not ‘like the T-shirts we are wearing’ but NT says the action was ‘a result of a series of disturbances’
The National Theatre has become embroiled in a bitter w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54PMFriday, July 5, 2019
DEVOTION , DISGUISE, DECADENCE What a strange and stirring play this is! Set in convent, court and condemned-cell, it is spiked with moral ambiguities and fuelled equally by s…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:03PMFrom Midsommar to Olafur Eliasson, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMThursday, July 4, 2019
BLAIR TO BREXIT – A FAMILY TALE Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany, are the Harry Potter team. They know how not to bore. But they’ve been here before too in a R…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:29AMWednesday, July 3, 2019
FARCE AS LIFE, LIFE AS FARCE, FRAYN AGAIN TRIUMPHANS It felt like a pilgrimage, homage to pay. 37 years ago Michael Frayn’s greatest of comedies, a wicked love-song to the …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:01AMSunday, June 30, 2019
COMEDY SHADING TO MELANCHOLY: WHAT’S TO COME IS STILL UNSURE… First of all let’s say that Andrew Scott is a marvel, a 21st century Ur-Coward hero, who manages to do it with…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:06PMSaturday, June 29, 2019
A SHILLING SHOCKER IS A JOY FOREVER To come clean: one reason I dashed to catch this fresh back from holiday is not only that the Finborough is always interesting, but that fa…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:40AMFriday, June 28, 2019
From the Capitol Hill Block Party to "Spider-Man: Far From Home," our Seattle Times arts writers dish on next month’s most buzzworthy arts and entertainment events.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMFrom Yesterday to Ed Ruscha, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:03AMThursday, June 27, 2019
GUEST CRITIC BEN DOWELL SHIVERS – ADMIRINGLY – AT A TROUBLED TALE In this hypersensitive age of MeToo accusations, anxieties about online pornography and even deeper-seated disquiet a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:58AMTuesday, June 25, 2019
Each show arrived on Broadway with a big name in its title and major creative talents behind the scenes. But audiences kept their distance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:06PMMonday, June 24, 2019
Jessie Cave’s intimate standup, a beatbox Frankenstein and a twist on the star-crossed lovers are among the Edinburgh shows we’ve previously reviewed. Here’s what we said …
Pleasance…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48AMSunday, June 23, 2019
Our critic reflects on the exciting developments sweeping our stages and below, some of the top new recruits share their stories and ways of working
British theatre is in the process of a ma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMFriday, June 21, 2019
Oscar-winning actor calls on RSC to set a positive example for the future of arts sponsorship
SOURCE: The Independent at 10:18PMWednesday, June 19, 2019
“Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise,” the unlikely offspring of a Chinese-American opera impresario and the writers of “Kung Fu Panda” — with songs by Sia — aims to show just how high th…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:24AMFriday, June 14, 2019
There’s a Belle and Sebastian play, a show in a hair salon, Frances Barber performing Pet Shop Boys songs and top comics including Josie Long and Stephen Fry. Here’s our guide to the wor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AMThursday, June 13, 2019
Season includes Kate Tempest reimagining of Greek classic and version of Guardian microplay Death of England
Kate Tempest’s reimagining of a Greek classic and an adaptation of a short film…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMRANCID LILIES, GORGEOUS WORDS All the little Jermyn needs to complete this reimagination of Wildean epigrammatic decadence is to scent the auditorium overwhelmingly with lilies and …
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