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Friday, May 10, 2019

What to see this week in the UK by Andrew Pulver, Michael Cragg, John Fordham, Andrew Clements, Jonathan Jones, Miriam Gillinson and Lyndsey Winship

From High Life to Joy for Ever, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM
Wednesday, May 8, 2019

28 Portraits of This Year’s Tony Nominees by Celeste Sloman, Michael Paulson, Jolie Ruben and Joshua Barone

Why they act. What they’ve learned. And what they’ll remember.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PM
Tuesday, May 7, 2019

FEAST FROM THE EAST              Tristan Bates Theatre WC2 by Libby Purves and Friends

SMALL IS  BEAUTIFUL, SHORT CAN BE SHARP        There is something stimulating about ultra-short plays:  five to twenty minutes  but directed and performed with all the care and concen…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:07AM
Monday, May 6, 2019

SHADOWLANDS               Chichester Festival Theatre by Libby Purves and Friends

LOVE  AND LOSS AND ‘THAT’S THE DEAL’        Jack is a middle-aged Oxford English don of the ’50’s , a bachelor and apologist for Christianity.  Graceful, witty books and lect…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:15PM
Sunday, May 5, 2019

Is It Camp? by Bonnie Wertheim and The Styles Desk

This year’s Met Gala theme has us wondering about things we treasure.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:48AM
Friday, May 3, 2019

What to see this week in the UK by Andrew Pulver, Phil Harrison, John Fordham, Andrew Clements, Jonathan Jones, Miriam Gillinson and Lyndsey Winship

From Vox Lux to Stanley Kubrick, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AM

JUDE Hampstead, NW1 by Libby Purves and Friends

ECHOES OF ANTIQUITY ,  FRESHNESS OF YOUTH          It’s a storming performance. Young  Isabella Nefar  as Judith erupts upon us:   adolescent, exuberant,  afire with defiance and…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:10AM
Thursday, May 2, 2019

ROSMERSHOLM                     Duke of York’s, WC2 by Libby Purves and Friends

GUILT, GRIEF,   POLITICAL ANGUISH            Handy timing ,  to open on what is  local Election Day for us ruralists and at a time when everything has a Brexity echo too.     Ibse…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:51PM
Tuesday, April 30, 2019

How Broadway producers and agencies prepared for Tony nominations day by Caitlin Huston and Morgan Steward

Members of the Broadway industry had been preparing for April 30 for months. That meant that when Tony nominations were announced at 8:30 a.m., advertising agencies had already prepared digi…

SOURCE: Broadway.News Subscription at 06:30PM

CREDITORS              Jermyn Street Theatre by Libby Purves and Friends

DEADLY DEBTS       The artistic  love affair between  August Strindberg’s ghost,  playwright Howard Brenton and  director Tom Littler continues to bear strange fruit,  surprisingl…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:00PM

Broadway Stars React to Their Tony Nominations by Joshua Barone and Elizabeth A. Harris

We spoke with five actors to see how they were feeling after hearing about their Tony Award nods.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:33PM

For the Tony nominees, a moment of celebration and then back to work by Caitlin Huston and Morgan Steward

As the Tony Award nominations were announced early Tuesday, many nominees took only a brief pause to receive the news before resuming a hectic schedule. There were cast recordings to finish,…

SOURCE: Broadway.News Subscription at 03:36PM

Critics’ Notebook: When It Came to the Tony Nominations, the News Is the New by Jesse Green and Ben Brantley

New York Times theater critics on a Tonys roster that highlighted originality, if not diversity, and made room for some welcome surprises.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:06PM

'Mean Girls' turns 15: The definitive ranking of the movie's best quotes by Usa Today, David Oliver and Anika Reed, Usa Today

In honor of the 15th anniversary of "Mean Girls" on April 30, we rounded up the best quotes from the Tina Fey comedy.        

SOURCE: USA Today at 12:55PM

THIS IS MY FAMILY Minerva, Chichester by Libby Purves and Friends

ANOTHER KIND OF LOVE SONG              This is gorgeous.  Funny,  truthful, wise,  and bravely original in form.   Anyone with a a family – past, present, remembered, or merely …

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:32AM
Friday, April 26, 2019

Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for May 2019 by Brendan Kiley, Moira Macdonald and Michael Rietmulder

From the Seattle International Film Festival to Fisherman's Village Music Festival, our Seattle Times arts writers dish on next month’s most buzzworthy arts and entertainment events.

SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AM

What to see this week in the UK by Andrew Pulver,phil Harrison, John Fordham, Andrew Clements, Jonathan Jones,miriam Gillinson and Lyndsey Winship

From Avengers: Endgame to Mary Quant, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AM
Thursday, April 25, 2019

OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY              Southwark Playhouse, SE1 by Libby Purves and Friends

THE WORLD DONALD GREW UP IN…           It’s a long transverse stage:  at one end  at a scruffy crowded steel desk sits Jorgy, Michael Brandon exuding down-home amiability as the l…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:44AM

How These Black Playwrights Are Challenging American Theater by Michael Paulson and Nicole Herrington

Jackie Sibblies Drury, Jeremy O. Harris, Antoinette Nwandu and Jordan E. Cooper, on influences, gatekeepers and helping “the young black theater nerd find work that looks like them.”

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:46AM
Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Charlie’s Creation | Charlie on Broadway by Charlie and The Chocolate Factory

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 05:47PM
Tuesday, April 23, 2019

ALL MY SONS                   Old Vic, SE1 by Libby Purves and Friends

GUILT, GRIEF  AND PITY     It is almost uncanny how an Arthur Miller play, treated respectfully, can in the most wrenchingly extreme story still catch the common rhythms and tides of fami…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:28PM
Monday, April 22, 2019

SWEET CHARITY Donmar WC1 by Libby Purves and Friends

(Published in Daily Mail on Friday, one must moonlight to support this website’s unfunded free existence –   but here it is  for theatrecat regulars..)          The minute you wal…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:35AM
Saturday, April 20, 2019

The Band’s Visit’s Rachel Prather, Falsetto’s Jeremy Lowe, and Piper by Told By Rachel Prather and Jeremy Lowe

Rachel: "We got piper from a breeder on Long Island. We were thinking about getting a dog but we just didn’t feel it would work out with our schedules. So we got creative. I grew up with r…

SOURCE: www.petsofbroadway.org at 11:06PM
Friday, April 19, 2019

What to see this week in the UK by Andrew Pulver, Phil Harrison, John Fordham, Andrew Clements, Jonathan Jones, Miriam Gillinson and Lyndsey Winship

From Loro to Stealing Sheep, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AM
Thursday, April 18, 2019

'Hamilton: The Exhibition': How to get to the 35,000-square-foot room where it happens by Kori Rumore and Chris Jones

The temporary exhibition opens April 27 on Northerly Island and will travel to other cities after the Chicago engagement, which is expected to last several months.

SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:56PM
Wednesday, April 17, 2019

THREE SISTERS Almeida, N1 by Libby Purves and Friends

DOWNBEAT, DOWNCAST         Some years ago, leaving a particularly slow and uninspiring Chekhov performance in Yorkshire (never mind which play, spare the blushes)   I heard a weary man …

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:56AM
Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Notre Dame and the culture it inspired – from Matisse to the Muppets by Oliver Wainwright, Stuart Jeffries, Peter Bradshaw, Jonathan Jones, Fiona Maddocks, Michael Coveney and Keza Macdonald

It mesmerised Proust, terrified Homer Simpson and gave us the Hunchback – Guardian critics celebrate Paris’s gothic masterpiece at the heart of the modern imagination As Notre Dame Cathe…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:13AM
Sunday, April 14, 2019

INK FESTIVAL – Halesworth Cut – envoi 2019 by Libby Purves and Friends

REFLECTIONS ON A RICH SEA OF INK…        I saw 22 plays in two days,  but it was hardly half a bite of what was on offer.   In three days there were  40 , each performed several ……

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:19PM
Friday, April 12, 2019

What to see this week in the UK by Damon Wise, Phil Harrison, John Fordham, Andrew Clements, Jonathan Jones, Miriam Gillinson and Lyndsey Winship

From Mid90s to Dave, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AM
Thursday, April 11, 2019

Disney Prepares to Unveil Its Streaming Service by Brooks Barnes and John Koblin

In a lavish presentation, the company is expected to offer long-awaited details about its counter to the tech giants that have moved into entertainment.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:43PM