Friday, April 12, 2019
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 04:00AMThursday, April 11, 2019
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 03:43PMANOTHER KIND OF HOUR Staggering back from holiday, I sentimentally booked this at the New Wolsey in Ipswich because 2019 is the 50th anniversary of my unremarkable student performanc…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:46AMBEATRIX BEATS BREXIT WITH TOP BEAK-WORK The Haymarket these spring mornings is dense with toddlers and their attendants (I’d say by the look of it 20% parents, 50% grandparen…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:54AMWednesday, April 10, 2019
A FRESH WIND BLOWING THROUGH AN OLD TALE Down on the Riverbank Club, teen DJ Rattie is bangin’ it behind the deck, telling the shy diffident Mole “There is nothing–…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:29PMMonday, April 8, 2019
this is indeed a not to be missed star turn by Jackson, with enough positive assets to overcome the directorial missteps.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:16AMFriday, April 5, 2019
At the just-wrapped CinemaCon, celebrities talked about their upcoming movies but much much more
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:38PMTHE OLDEST HAVE BORNE MOST… Jack is an ageing, terminally ill, scruffy, alcoholic remnant of an actor, with a grubby cardigan and Falstaff gut. He is muttering lines from King Lear in h…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:23AMWednesday, April 3, 2019
SECRETS AND MEMORIES IN A WASTE OF WATERS You can’t fault the atmosphere: Jasmine Swan’s set takes you straight to the wide skies and muddy, reedy mystery of Breydon Wat…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:26AMSaturday, March 30, 2019
CRACKS IN THE LIBERAL VENEER I adored the energy, cleverness and cheek of BAD JEWS so much I went twice, as the pitiless author set his characters kicking, twisting, protesting an…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:53AMA COSY NIGHTMARE LEGACY OF THE 1930’S From the late 1930’s for nearly forty years, Mary Barton and her husband Berthold Wiesner ran a pioneering fertility clinic: they were among…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:50AMFriday, March 29, 2019
BRILLIANT, NECESSARY, QUESTIONING If we accept that people are widely diverse, we have to accept that paedophiles are too. Not all the same identi-monster. Moreover,�…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:05AMThursday, March 28, 2019
WHAT THE BUTLER CAME TO KNOW… From its premiere at the Royal & Derngate and on the first leg of its tour, here is the stage version of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Booker-winning novel. I…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:45PMTuesday, March 26, 2019
An altered version of the film, released in China last weekend, is only around three minutes shorter than the original. But it omits crucial scenes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42AMMonday, March 25, 2019
Digging deep into "the antithesis of absolute truth."
The post Surviving Post-Truth Politics: The Theater of Ivo van Hove appeared first on Clyde Fitch Report.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 08:00PMWRITTEN IN THE BLOOD What great timing! Just as the worried-well Health Secretary gets rubbished for taking a commercial DNA test, announcing that it has “saved his life” because …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:50PMSunday, March 24, 2019
I’M GONNA SIT RIGHT DOWN AND WRITE MYSELF A REVIEW… So dress up sassy, shake your chassis, get some mesh on your flesh like the ladies who sing with the band. Sell your vocals to the …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:01PMJamael Westman explains how his role in the West End show has affected his politics as well as his careerThe swift rise to fame of Jamael Westman, leading man in the London cast of the hit m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00AMFriday, March 22, 2019
NOT AT ALL FLAT, SUFFOLK… Exuberantly funny, elegant as a Deauville hotel balcony and sharp as the crack of a 78rpm record over a lover’s head, Joanna Carrick’s wit…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:39AMThursday, March 21, 2019
POISONED LOVE I sometimes wish Harold Pinter had written more plays like this: decadent, agonized, helplessly sensitive to the nuances of friendship and treachery. More praise has a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:00AMWednesday, March 20, 2019
MARTYRS OF THE MCCARTHY YEARS Ideological hostilities across the world, fake news and paranoia, a resurgent deep left, uneasy relations with Russia, antisemites question…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:58AMTuesday, March 12, 2019
Writers-composers-lyricists David Hein and Irene Sankoff reflect on the lessons they’ve learned with two years on Broadway under their belt—and more coming their way.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:29AMFriday, March 8, 2019
Tradition. Culture. Politics. Love. Tevye grapples with these four and more in National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s “Fiddler on the Roof” currently running at Stage 42.
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:58PMA filing seeking arbitration says the estate allowed eight theaters around the United States to stage “To Kill a Mockingbird,” then flip-flopped at the last minute.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:31AMFrom Captain Marvel to Henry Moore, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMFriday, March 1, 2019
Scott Rudin's offer was extended to any theater whose rights to stage the old version had been challenged by his legal team.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 08:24PMFacing criticism for making regional theaters cancel productions of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Scott Rudin said he would let them go on, using the new Aaron Sorkin script.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:22PMThursday, February 28, 2019
Dozens of community and nonprofit theaters across the U.S. have been forced to abandon productions of “To Kill a Mockingbird” under legal threat by Broadway and Hollywood producer Scott …
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 10:11PMSome community theaters have canceled productions of the play after receiving legal warnings that theirs cannot go on at the same time as the one in New York.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMMonday, February 18, 2019
It shook me, as the kids say. And I see a lot. And experience a lot. And I felt shook.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:04PMFriday, February 15, 2019
From Notting Hill to Fatboy Slim, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:04PM 
