A romantic garden. A Chinese opera. And a select audience, wandering under Californian stars.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AMFriday: Sarah Jones’s “Sell/Buy/Date” comes to L.A., the Kavanaugh hearing, Elon Musk is sued by the S.E.C., and cataloging Latina youth culture.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:42AMSTEEL CELLS AND SADISM Settling in, you’d think you were at the Cenotaph or the Tattoo. A military soundtrack booms out Imperial Echoes and Jupiter (I Vow To Thee My Coun…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:56AMA GLORIOUS SERPENT OF OLD NILE This can be a beast of a play: epic, three and a half hours, scenes spread across the Mediterranean from Rome to Cairo by land and sea. It is als…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:12PMMOLIERE IN THE MODERN MIDLANDS It says something good about our arts establishment that this sharp caper comes from the Royal Shakespeare Company, not some daring pub-r…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:00PMPARENTHOOD, PRAYER , PROSECCO The renamed Tricycle (no, I am not taking sides) Is open: its leader Indhu Rubasingham launches her sprauncy new theatre with Alexis Zegerman’s da…
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SOURCE: USA Today at 10:25AMDOING JUSTICE TO AGATHA (She’d have loved it!) The courtroom is the marbled council chamber of the old County Hall:the story by Agatha Christie even hoarier. I missed…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:55AMThe co-adaptors of the RSC's new 'Tartuffe' talk about translating a French classic to our times now Back in June 2017, in the days when English summertime was a lazy idyll ra…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 10:42PMLOOKING OUT TO SEA, AT PAST AND FUTURE With the feral teenage violence of HEATHERS (scroll to it below) all snarling and murdering in the West End, and the manic cheerleader ene…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:45PMThe actor Adam Pearson has a similar condition to Joseph Merrick, whose story was told in The Elephant Man. When the BBC was remaking the biopic, he did not even get an audition. This is why…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32AMPeter Farrelly, known for 'Dumb and Dumber,' just vaulted into the Oscar race with 'Green Book,' which won the audience award at Toronto Film Fest. …
SOURCE: USA Today at 07:16PMOUT OF AUSTERITY, A DREAM OF BEAUTY A gulf yawns between this musical’s two halves: a gulf of wealth, sophistication, hope and colour. Ida Harris, careworn heroi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:23PMDARK LARKS AND HIGH SCHOOL HOMICIDE You thought there were enough school-themed musicals? What with Bring it On, School of Rock and our own dear cross-dressing Jamie…? Make …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:56PMA German theater company’s staging of the Henrik Ibsen play “An Enemy of the People” invited audience members to voice their complaints about society.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48AMA RARE OLD TIME IN DUBLIN , IN IPSWICH The miniature of Libby Watson’s gorgeous Dublin pub set in the foyer raises your spirits straight away. Sometimes only an Irish pub w…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:52AMBristol’s Old Vic confronts its controversial 250-year-old past on its relaunch after a £25m faceliftOne of the oldest theatres in Europe, Bristol Old Vic, is finally to have a proper fro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMHUMANITY RISING FROM HORROR It is one of the oldest notions in the world: the unquiet grave. From Sophocles to modern campaigns we are haunted by the idea that the violentl…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:35AMGUEST CRITIC MICHAEL ADAIR IS TRANSPORTED TO NEW YORK, AND FAMILY TRUTH The joy of a play like The Humans is that it can take a subject that feels as if it might have been do…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:05PMONE OF BENNETT’S FINEST , ON THE ROAD AGAIN Onstage is a shabby rehearsal room, an Oxford study scruffily indicated with doorframes and signs; at the side a litter of coffee-cu…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:21AMGRAND PLIE, FIRST POSITION, TURN…TWERK… My friend and comrade-in-the stalls Mr Letts of the Mail has suggested ( by means of Twitter ,review on Friday, always worth …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:23PMRAN IN MAIL (STAND-IN TEMPORARY CRITIC COULDN’T RESIST THIS.. SO HERE FOR THEATRECATTERS WHO MIGHT MISS IT.. THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN LIVE SEC Glasgow and touri…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:08PMThey are often Broadway sensations, but jukebox musicals rarely get good reviews. We invited our critics to stop snarking and tell us what they want.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48AMRose Matafeo’s take on twentysomething life is toast of the FringeNew Zealander Rose Matafeo has won the coveted best comedy show award at the Edinburgh festival fringe. Steve Coogan, one …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMWAS STANDING IN AS DAILY MAIL CRITIC FOR A WEEK, SO DID NOT DO THESE ON THEATRECAT. HERE THEY ARE FOR T/CAT FOLLOWERS THOUGH, SLIGHTLY EXPANDED. COPENHAGEN Minerva, Chichester …
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SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:00AMMr. Simon was a prolific chronicler of New York City life. Here’s a look at reviews of “Barefoot in the Park,” “The Odd Couple,” “Brighton Beach Memoirs” and other plays and ad…
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