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Thursday, January 23, 2025

2025 Oscar Nominations: ‘Emilia Pérez’ and ‘The Brutalist’ Get Multiple Nods by Brooks Barnes and Nicole Sperling

The two films secured nominations in most of the major categories, including best picture, a wide-open race. Acting nominees include Demi Moore, Cynthia Erivo, Adrien Brody and Timothée Cha…

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A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS Theatre Royal Bath & touring by Libby Purves and Friends

A DARKER THOMAS CROMWELL          Edward Bennett as Thomas Cromwell is a proper thug:  everyone’s memory of the  HR-outplacement weasel who starts the sacking meeting with soft-soap…

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Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Against All Odds, a Vegas Theater Scene With a ‘Sense of the Wild West’ by Elisabeth Vincentelli and Mikayla Whitmore

Local artists straddle aesthetic and artistic worlds in the land of mega-spectacles and oversize flash.

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Saturday, January 18, 2025

A GOOD HOUSE Royal Court, SW1 by Libby Purves and Friends

 SUBURBAN ANGST IN THE NEW SA There’s nothing like a tight, awkward comedy of neighbourhood strife, where neighbourly differences reveal unexpected fissures within the couples, and tiny p…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:46AM
Friday, January 17, 2025

KYOTO Sohoplace W1 by Libby Purves and Friends

AT THE  SUMMIT OF RAGE AND HOPE         Fear not, this isn’t a Greta-gloom lecture but  a lively, imaginative, borderline wild reconstruction of  the years culminating in COP3 clim…

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Tuesday, January 14, 2025

For These Teenagers in Ukraine, Hope Arrived at the Stage Door by Kim Barker and Dzvinka Pinchuk

The students in a summer acting course performed a play set in America, called, “It’s okay!” And it gave them hope that their lives would be OK, too.

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Friday, January 10, 2025

TITANIQUE.   Criterion theatre. W1 by Libby Purves and Friends

NO SINKING FEELINGS HERE, GIRLFRIEND Call it a jukebox musical if you like, but only if the jukebox came alive, went rogue and started tottering around the stage on rubber feet hurling insul…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:15AM
Saturday, January 4, 2025

15 cultural highlights to beat the January blues by Culture Staff,roisin O'Connor,ellie Harrison,katie Rosseinsky,louis Chilton and Helen Coffey

From brand new TV series to art exhibitions, theatre performances and Oscar-worthy films, our culture team have you covered for entertainment this month

SOURCE: The Independent at 02:02AM
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Chills, chuckles and Cate Blanchett in Chekhov: the best theatre, dance and comedy coming in 2025 by Arifa Akbar, Brian Logan and Lyndsey Winship

Gary Oldman’s tackling Beckett, Strictly winner Chris McCausland is on a huge standup tour – and mods can rev their scooters to a dance Quadrophenia Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PM
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Alaska Knows Why ‘Drag: The Musical’ Resonates: ‘It’s About Family’ by Erik Piepenburg and Lanna Apisukh

The performer discusses her Off Broadway musical about warring queens. “Everyone can connect to being a young person not feeling understood,” she said.

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Friday, December 27, 2024

NPR and PBS Stations Brace for Funding Battle Under Trump by Benjamin Mullin and Kate Conger

Republicans in Congress have tried to defund public media for decades. With the help of Elon Musk, could they finally make good on their threat?

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Sunday, December 22, 2024

‘Nutcracker’ Is a Casualty of a ‘Quarantine’ of Russian Culture in Lithuania by Andrew Higgins and Jenny Gross

Lithuania’s national opera house had stopped showing Tchaikovsky’s 1892 masterpiece in solidarity with Ukraine over the war with Russia. Then a new minister expressed fondness for the Ru…

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Friday, December 20, 2024

21 Movies, Books and Albums With a Theater Focus to Consume During the Holidays by Nicole Herrington and Rachel Sherman

Make it through the holidays with these movies, books and music from the past year that are adapted from stage productions or evoke a theatrical spirit.

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RISE Series E11: Martha Steketee (Women Count) by Women and Theatre

The Women & Theatre RISE Series presents mini-interviews conducted at the Inaugural RISE Summit with network partners of RISE Theatre, all of which are organizations working to incre…

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RISE Series E12: Susan Danish (National Women’s History Museum) by Women and Theatre

The Women & Theatre RISE Series presents mini-interviews conducted at the Inaugural RISE Summit with network partners of RISE Theatre, all of which are organizations working to incre…

SOURCE: www.womenandtheatre.com at 11:00AM
Thursday, December 19, 2024

How to Dance Through the Holidays by Melena Ryzik and Arjun Srivatsa

The New York dance instructor Angela Trimbur, known for her high-fun vibes, shares easy choreography for the season’s festive — and socially challenging — occasions.

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Tuesday, December 17, 2024

S4E10: Schele Williams by Women and Theatre

In this episode, Hayley and Amy talk with Broadway director Schele Williams about authentic representation onstage and off, storytellers’ responsibility to choose values over biases, t…

SOURCE: www.womenandtheatre.com at 06:00PM

Margaret Hodge to lead review of regional inequality in the arts by Lanre Bakare Arts and Culture Correspondent

Anti-corruption champion to examine Arts Council England projects and lack of facilities in some areas of country Margaret Hodge will oversee a review into regional inequality in the arts af…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AM

THE INVENTION OF LOVE Hampstead Theatre NW3 by Libby Purves and Friends

SACRED MONSTERS IN THE UNDERWORLD Deep darkness within the U-shaped seating,:   into it on wheels glides the dark gondola:  Charon the ferryman, after millennia punting to and fro across t…

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The best theatre, comedy and dance of 2024 by Arifa Akbar, Brian Logan and Lyndsey Winship

Sarah Snook put Succession behind her, Hofesh Shechter found horror in Albion and Rhod Gilbert was ecstatic to be alive, in our critics’ picks of the best stage shows of the year • More …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:02AM
Monday, December 16, 2024

The Trocks, an All-Male Comic Ballet Troupe in Drag, Turn 50 by Roslyn Sulcas and Tom Johnson

The Trocks were never interested in making a political statement, their artistic director said. “We are men doing performances of ballet in drag for comedic purposes.”

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Saturday, December 14, 2024

PINOCCHIO redrosechain, Avenue Theatre Ipswich by Libby Purves and Friends

A HIGH-KICKING WOODEN WONDER        Serious fun, this.  Never  liked the Disney Pinocchio, or even in childhood the over-preachy Carlo Collodi book about the defiant wooden puppet who …

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Friday, December 13, 2024

Beyond Broadway: It's Christmastime in the City (and the Theater) by Darryn King and Hayley Levitt

New York City is a veritable immersive production this time of year: dazzling lights, singing in the squares and a supporting cast of too many tourists. There’s plenty of Christmas spirit …

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RISE Series E10: Sandy Sahar Gooen (TEMPO) by Women and Theatre

The Women & Theatre RISE Series presents mini-interviews conducted at the Inaugural RISE Summit with network partners of RISE Theatre, all of which are organizations working to incre…

SOURCE: www.womenandtheatre.com at 11:00AM
Thursday, December 12, 2024

TWELFTH NIGHT.      Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford upon Avon by Libby Purves and Friends

PRESENT MIRTH HATH PRESENT LAUGHTER. AND MELANCHOLY. AND FALSE NOSES     In a play as familiar as this it is small touches that spring fresh life.  Like the moment when the fool Feste def…

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The Highs and Lows on London Stages in 2024 by Matt Wolf and Houman Barekat

Our critics discuss which A-lister performances on the West End were worth the ticket price, and why so many new musicals struggled this year.

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Wednesday, December 11, 2024

THE PRODUCERS Menier, SE1 by Libby Purves and Friends

SPRINGTIME FOR…EVERYONE        Joyful, headlong and full-hearted, here comes sacred outrage.  If director Patrick Marber and the Menier had been minded to issue wet ‘trigger warning…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:23AM

Best Dance Performances of 2024 by Gia Kourlas, Brian Seibert and Roslyn Sulcas

Once-in-a-generation ballerinas, topical works that transcended politics and a voguing “Cats” were highlights of the year.

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GOLDIE FROCKS AND THE BEAR MITZVAH         JW3 CENTRE, Finchley Rd by Libby Purves and Friends

MAZELTOV!  JEWISH PANTO STRIKES AGAIN       Goldie Frocks, rightful heiress to an East End schmutter workshop, has been enslaved by the evil Calvin Brine, whose  behemoth of too-small c…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:45AM
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

S4E9: Danielle DeMatteo by Women and Theatre

In this episode, Hayley and Amy talk with SheNYC Arts artistic director Danielle DeMatteo about building new approaches to break down barriers and increase gender equity in theatrical sp…

SOURCE: www.womenandtheatre.com at 06:00PM

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