Friday, February 16, 2024
TENTACLES STRETCHING INTO PAST AND FUTURE Electricity is coming to the village but the elderly Randolphs wont bother, preferring the paraffin lamplight of their forebears. Their ho…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:46PMThursday, February 15, 2024
WHEN THE BOOMERS WERE ROCKIN’ ALL OVER THE WORLD... “We were there!” cry the cast of John O’Farrell’s jukebox tribute to the 1985 Live Aid concert. Memories undimmed nearly f…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:14PMWednesday, February 14, 2024
FAIRYTALE AS FESTIVAL “The lunatic, the lover and the poet” are all served in any Midsummer Night’s dream. Here the first two get most traction, the poetry least (until …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:24AMTuesday, February 13, 2024
For Valentine’s Day this year, why not give the gift of Broadway? To help you woo your plus one of choice—Valentine, galentine or whomever—Broadway.com offers up five poems tailor-made…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:54PMMonday, February 12, 2024
LYRICAL, FARCICAL, PERFECT Figaro, rascally wigmaker and foam-flinging wet-shaver, is basically the first rapper, isnt he? Staccato eloquence at speed, braggart confidence in breech…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:50PMSunday, February 11, 2024
The literary department at the London theatre is renowned for taking risks with untried playwrights, but is now under threat
The Royal Court is known for putting the names of emerging playwr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32PMSaturday, February 10, 2024
Highly anticipated new play is a post-#MeToo story about trials women endure to realise their dreams
He has built a reputation as one of Britain’s most revered modern playwrights, but Jez …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:02AMThursday, February 8, 2024
Kwame Kwei-Armah became first African-Caribbean director to lead a major British theatre when he took over from David Lan in 2018
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:36AMWednesday, February 7, 2024
AMERICAN DREAMS IN FADING BLACKPOOL Suddenly within a fortnight come two very classy new plays, funny and thoughtful and moving beyond the ordinary. Moreover, in a tiny revolution …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:11PMExclusive: Director says he is interested to see response of new audiences at a time of growing instability
The global theatrical phenomenon War Horse is returning to British stages for the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06AMSunday, February 4, 2024
Hit composer scored TV and radio as well as the stage shows X-Factor and TONY!
The British comedy composer Steve Brown, who collaborated with the likes of Harry Hill, Steve Coogan and Lenny …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PMFriday, February 2, 2024
THAT OL’TIME WESTERN DREAM OF 1979 I have a weakness for this little theatre under the arches and its Players’ Bar. Honouring a music-hall history, and with some of the cheapest stal…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:10AMThursday, February 1, 2024
The 6th Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival swept through Chicago as vigorously as the cold front that accompanied much of it, and puppets dominated venues all around Chicago for t…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 02:34PMSMALL PEOPLE, BIG PLAY A hot summer wedding-day. The bride Sylvia is a bag of nerves, big sister Hazel competently combing and marshalling her teenage and smaller daught…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:07AMWednesday, January 31, 2024
Council has found one-off funding pot after announcing 100% cut, but people in county say sector is being destroyed
As a chant of “Stop the cuts! Stop the cuts! Stop the cuts!” echoes of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12PMOnstage and off, she was celebrated as a pathbreaking triple-threat who left a huge legacy in musical theater and dance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:06PMMichelle Terry, who is also the Globe’s artistic director, says she will not alter her physicality for role
The artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe has pushed on with playing Richar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMSaturday, January 27, 2024
Written by Magda Romanska and Kasia Lech All theatre is local. All theatre is global. Both statements are true: theatre has always been and continues to be a vehicle for national identity f…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:44PMBeing on the edge is the place where I like to be no matter in what domain it is…and the edge is a place which overlaps with other edges…so you’re likely to meet other people round the…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:51AMFriday, January 26, 2024
Theatre dedicated to new writing says it is ‘reassessing staff teams’ after sharp rise in production costs
The Royal Court is considering making redundancies as part of a restructuring p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMThe American Museum of Natural History is closing two major halls as museums around the nation respond to updated policies from the Biden administration.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:00AMThursday, January 25, 2024
UNFROGGETTABLE MOMENTS IN THE UNDERWORLD Aitor Basauri does not need to be framed in a 20ft-high giant puppet frog in order to be funny, but blissful overkill is part of the pleasure …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:54AMWednesday, January 24, 2024
A DANCE AROUND AUSTEN’S LEGACY The book is known and loved enough: Jane Austen’s first full novel, written with satirical youthful wit but long laid aside unpublished. It gleefully sho…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:45PMTuesday, January 23, 2024
LEST ANYONE FORGET.. Storytime! Before a tangled treescape Samantha Spiro sits with a book on her lap. Across the simple stage a few notes from Gemma Rosefield’s ‘cello settl…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:31PMFriday, January 19, 2024
Sarah Grochala’s Intelligence follows Lovelace’s attempts to be taken seriously as a scientist in 1840s London
A play about the reincarnation of the Victorian computing pioneer Ada Lovel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PMWednesday, January 17, 2024
BORDERS AND BRUTALITIES, Maybe I shouldnt review what is essentially physical-theatre. I have no dance-cred, and I was pleased to be warned years ago by the great Benedict Nightingale, when …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:15PMTuesday, January 16, 2024
Royal Shakespeare Company’s new artistic directors team up with artists from around the world to appeal to wider audience
The Royal Shakespeare Company is attempting to attract new audienc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMWAR’S LONG SHADOW I have a taste for “Forgotten” plays of well-made realism, illustrating how it actually felt to live in Britain through now-distant decades. …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:24AMMonday, January 15, 2024
Before publishing his vampire classic in 1897, the author was employed as a personal secretary at the Actors’ Benevolent Fund
The imagination of Bram Stoker gave life to one of literature�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMThe Doctor Who and Thick of It actor laments the lack of support for emerging talent from working-class backgrounds
• Read the full interview with Peter Capaldi
Britain’s cast of leading…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM 
