Thursday, December 20, 2018
Our three European theater critics pick their favorite productions of the year — plus a turkey for the festive season.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:04AMMonday, December 17, 2018
Romeo and Juliet muddled into middle age, Akram Khan suffered shell-shock, Rambert2 lost control – and William Forsythe gave ballet a stratospheric street shakeupMore best culture 2018 Ove…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PMFriday, December 14, 2018
PSYCHOPATHIC LIBERAL MEETS DINOSAUR PARENTS Can we, I wonder, ever learn to deplore past attitudes without being vengeful about it? Hot on the heels of Mike Bartlett’s heartfe…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:22AMThursday, December 13, 2018
ONE MORE TIME, WITH FEELING . After two other full cast renderings in a fortnight -David Edgar’s socially angry take at the RSC and Jack Thorne’s warm spectacular at the…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:46PMThe Pittsburgh actor this year became the only person in the world known to have performed in all 11 of August Wilson’s plays.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 07:00AMWednesday, December 12, 2018
A GOTHIC EYEFUL In this troublous nation, 2018 seems to be the Christmas of Aaargh! and Eughhh! and hahahahaaa! , as a gross-out gigglefest sweeps London theatre. There’s the …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:40PMENERGY, ANGER, HOPE It is 1842: young Charles Dickens, thirty years old and with five novels under his belt, is ranting. The Industrial Revolution is revving up nicely,…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:37AMMonday, December 10, 2018
CHRISTMAS, BREXIT, GRIEF, HOPE A few hours after Theresa May postponed the parliamentary vote and spun us down into another layer of Brexi-hell , the little OFS –…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:52PM I WENT TO THE PANTO. O YES I DID. The great thing about the proud tradition of Oxford Playhouse panto is that while cannily aware of the audience’s likely cultural uplift, …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:42PMSunday, December 9, 2018
A WONDERLAND WINNER “Posh panto”, for wincing parents fleeing the rackety showbiz ’n smut of the season, can be a bit chilly – neither one thing nor the other…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:18AMFriday, December 7, 2018
Harper Lee’s estate objected to elements of Aaron Sorkin’s early stage adaptation. Now it arrives on Broadway with concessions from both sides.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PM, GEESE CACKLE, LIFE GOES ON I have a friend of Russian heritage who boycotts any Chekhov production which lacks scabby birch-trees, a samovar and some parasols. She’ll do …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:17AMThursday, December 6, 2018
The Westfield News Group / ArtsBeat Radio special on TheaterWorks' "Christmas on The Rocks" for 89.5fm/WSKB, with hosts Patrick Berry and Mark G. Auerbach, producer Peter Cowles, and from Th…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:44AML’CHAIM – TO LIFE! A SPECIAL NIGHT We are there, over a century ago, beyond the Caucasus. Designer Robert Jones has wrapped us around in rustic planks and …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:33AMGUEST CRITIC MICHAEL ADAIR EMPATHISES WITH DEADLINE FEVER.. Here is a tale of two brothers. First, Kit Harrington’s serious, intelligent and moustachioed Austin, Ivy League educated and wi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:42AMWednesday, December 5, 2018
DARK MAGIC, REAL THEATRE Long, long before Harry Potter there was a gallant orphan, a boy dreamer sucked into a world of murderous magic, facing grief and responsibility alike. Tw…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:32PMDICKENS UNCHAINED: A SCROOGE FOR OUR TIMES It is , if possible, even finer and more heartfelt and gripping, tuneable and serious and moving than last year. My former r…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:31PMTuesday, December 4, 2018
Dayna and Brian Lee run a media company called AF Creative Media, that produces and creates work across all media, focusing on content digital and Broadway shows. On the Broadway side, they …
SOURCE: www.petsofbroadway.org at 09:03PMIt was a year when classics were reincarnated in deceptively modest interpretations, conventional story forms were tossed aside and strong voices roared.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:48AMFriday, November 30, 2018
DARK DOINGS AND DISSECTION Oyez, Oyez. Let it be known that this suspenseful yet dreary political season has become officially the Year Of Dark Panto. Down at The Bridge we had Ma…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:25PMFriday, November 23, 2018
BREAKING THE MOULD…. Our politics is partisan, quarrelsome, dated in its pattern of two-parties-plus-minnows. A nest of weary careerists, pointless betrayals and illogical loya…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:28PMThursday, November 22, 2018
The 28-year-old lead principal of the English National Ballet talks to the Guardian's Iman Amrani about his plans to make dance a human right in his home country of Mexico and elevate it as …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32AMMonday, November 19, 2018
DEATH AND THE DIFFICULT WOMAN Those who call Theresa May a ‘bloody difficult woman’ should pop in to the Ambassadors and realise that in the ranks of of BDWs she is the merest d…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:22PMCaroline: "At the beginning of September we decided that we would start looking for a dog on September 16th. On that date we would try to start planning for a dog and see if it was something…
SOURCE: www.petsofbroadway.org at 10:00AMFriday, November 16, 2018
From The Ballad of Buster Scruggs to Unknown Mortal Orchestra, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AMThursday, November 15, 2018
Jamael Westman, the lead actor in the West End production of Hamilton, talks to the Guardian's Iman Amrani backstage at the Victoria Palace Theatre, discussing the power of youth to make cha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AMTHE EMPTY DARKNESS OF THE HEART Third time lucky: after two glumly disappointing 2018 productions steeped in directorial gimmicks – RSC and NT – the candlelit cram…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:53AMWednesday, November 14, 2018
THE KNIGHT WINS HIS SPURS AGAIN: A NOBLE DELUSION Need a Christmas outing? Quailing at panto, feel you and the kids need some Euro-culture to counteract Brexidepression? Trust the …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:37PMA SWING AND SWIRL THROUGH HELL It’s certainly not family-panto time along the glittering Thames riverbank: what with Martin McDonagh’ grossout-silly Dark Matter downstream at the…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:16AMTuesday, November 13, 2018
LIKE A BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED DECADES…. If you’re my age, it’s a time machine. Songs like The Sound Of Silence and Bridge Over Troubled Water (bestselling album 1970,71 and 72…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:11AMMonday, November 12, 2018
Bligh: “Karen was found on Facebook. A friend, Jen Cody, said ‘There’s this dog in our building from the same rescue that we got our dogs from. I don’t know why no one has picked thi…
SOURCE: www.petsofbroadway.org at 03:16PM 
