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 03:16PMThe one-ton, 20-foot marionette is impressive, but the $35 million musical he stars in doesn’t even succeed as camp.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PMTHE SAVAGE BEAUTY OF THE FIRST AIR WAR Britain did not stand alone in WW1. As our hero sings in John MacLachlan Gray’s 1982 play: “South Africa and Canada and Australia to …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:51AMGUEST CRITIC MICHAEL ADAIR LISTENS, AS WE SHOULD A glass box filled with smoke encapsulates the Royal Court stage. Shadowy figures patrol its perimeter, sometimes staring out at th…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:04AMLOVE’S PRECEDENCE AND CRUELTY George is a journalist-intellectual, award-winner, amiably vain and sixtyish.. He twinkles for England, with much black-rimmed-specs…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:51AMNOT SO VERY A wooden box swings, pendulum-regular, in a peerlessly spooky attic of Halloween horror, designed with glee by Anna Fleischle . It is inhabited. Difficult, says its c…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:52PMLOVE, LIES AND THE PAIN OF TRUTH Is it better to live in a lie, a happy story, or to admit the messy sinful truth? Should you assume that every person you meet is the w…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:45AMALONE ON A WIDE, WIDE SEA The Rime of the Ancient Mariner may be studded with overfamiliar quotations, but taken in its entirely, has power to disturb . It is about gui…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:12PMLECHERY AND TREACHERY, MACHISMO AND METAL… ‘I had forgotten” said a companion as we staggered out, deafened by the final outbreak of crazed metallic drumming, “how syph…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:25AMROMPING FABLE OF A GREASEPAINT CENTURY Twins, three sets of them, in a dynasty of performers from the 1880s onward: a theatrical boarding-house with a heart-of-gold har…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:59PMTis the Season Two be jolly! “Ruben and Clay’s First Annual Christmas Carol Family Fun Pageant Spectacular Reunion Show” is at the Imperial Theatre on Broadway! December 7-30.
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:24PMTis the Season Two be jolly! “Ruben and Clay’s First Annual Christmas Carol Family Fun Pageant Spectacular Reunion Show” is at the Imperial Theatre on Broadway! December 7-30.
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:19PMFOR BETTER FOR WORSE? FOR FIVE MICE ANYWAY If you’re going to mess about with a classic but slightly dated Sondheim musical, be sure to do it brilliantly. Do it like Mar…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:24PMCONCEPTION AND THE CREATIVES It’s a sign of the sparky credibility of Nina Raine’s play about a woman desperate for a sperm donor – having broken with her younger, un…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:48PMTHE HEIGHTS OF LIFE Theatre sometimes gives films – and books – a remarkable translation, making stories deeper ,stranger , more tense. Maybe it i…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:05AMDamien Chazelle’s first movie since “La La Land” was mostly loved by critics. Audiences were less impressed.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:28PMA new book helps BAME actors shrug off stereotypes and show their real talentsNeed a convincing member of a street gang for a TV show? Or a suspected terrorist for a police interrogation sce…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06PMTHE YOUNG DARWIN RISES AGAIN The Jerwood Gallery is for the first time a theatre: in the small excitement of a new space dark shapes loom ahead of us, angular, wooden. …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:06AMLUKE JONES TAKES THE MEASURE.. This is a made for measure Measure-For-Measure. Its greatest achievement is hacking the flabby old Jacobian down to the right side of 90 minutes. It rol…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:44AMA MASTERPIECE OF LOVE AND LOSS I saw this on tour in Cambridge, and heroically held of telling you until the West End embargo lifted. It’s wonderful: puzzling, moving, cleve…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:15AMA DOSE HARD TO SWALLOW David Hare has chronicled Labour politics – and the state of the nation -for nearly half a century, brilliantly catching truths and tensions. This t…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:01PMA stripped-down, communal version of the 1943 musical reveals a great complex work of theater, with chili and cornbread included.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:54PMTHE EXTINCTION OF ENGLAND’S EASTERNMOST VILLAGE There is no Grit fishing-village now on the Lowestoft shore, but in 1900 there were homes, shops, bakeries, laundr…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:01AMFrom A Star Is Born to Reckonings, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04AMDIVORCED BEHEADED DIED – REVIVED! Took me a shameful while to catch up on this clever little riot of a feminist musical, down from an Edinburgh triumph and packing the Ar…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:54PMThere are grown-up diversions to be found around Pittsburgh this October
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMTALES OF A CITY “I see a beautiful city” says a spotlit actor, and the rest take it up in styles from Radio 4 to rap, then group and regroup, changing with the shrug of a ja…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:48AMWARM HEARTS, COLD WAR After the Salisbury-Novichok affair there is a sour laugh when Stewart, the MI5 official, reassures the nervous Jackson family that the coming arrest of t…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:22AMGUEST CRITIC BEN BLACKMORE MUSES ON CHEESE-KNIVES AND TELETUBBY HOUSES PINTER 2 announces itself in bold, Sex And The City-type projections, in the Sex And The City font as though it …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:58PMA romantic garden. A Chinese opera. And a select audience, wandering under Californian stars.
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