Tuesday, May 22, 2018
MULTINATIONAL MENACE It is always a dilemma, for those of us who despise star-ratings as a measuring device, when a 90 minute play seems set fair to earn three, or three-and-a-bit, tr…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:50PMSunday, May 20, 2018
Patricia Morison, who starred on Broadway in 'Kiss Me Kate' and opposite Yul Brynner in "The King and I,' and appeared in films alongside Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepb…
SOURCE: USA Today at 07:23PMFriday, May 18, 2018
THE NEW ERA BEGINS… Here’s a vulnerable Hamlet: a lonely lad in proper tearful grief and disappointment at his mother’s remarriage. A Hamlet who, in feigning madnes…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:01AMThursday, May 17, 2018
BOW, BOW! THEY’RE ON THE ROAD AGAIN.. It must be nearly five years since Sasha Regan’s all-male Iolanthe at Wiltons’ caused me to break a lifelong resistance and enjo…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:28AMSCHLOCK-HORRORWITZ AND HURRAH FOR THE SKELETON Gotta love the buccaneering quality of west end theatres: the Small Faces musical at the little Ambassadors off Cambridge Cir…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:42AMTuesday, May 15, 2018
THE SHINE AND THE TERROR It is no bad thing to have your stage hero effectively co-designing the set. Christopher Oram’s recreation of Mark Rothko’s 1950’s studio is a bl…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:18PMMonday, May 14, 2018
The new production of Leonard Bernstein’s Candide at Symphony Hall represents a historic collaboration between the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Alliance Theatre. Humbly treading a pa…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 10:00AMFriday, May 11, 2018
CLEAR YOUNG VOICES FROM A DISTANT PAST Three children in the 1540’s play in a hay-barn, built fragrant and real in the tiny theatre. One has found a pilgrim medal…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:55AMThursday, May 10, 2018
A legal battle had been waged over whether a stage adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird” strayed too far from Harper Lee’s novel. On Thursday, the suits were settled.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PMWe invited Broadway’s best to pose for us just 24 hours after they were nominated for theater’s most prestigious award. Needless to say, they were a happy bunch.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18AMWednesday, May 9, 2018
Disagreeing on classic musicals, agreeing on “The Band’s Visit,” and worried about a season when revivals outshone new plays.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18AMTuesday, May 8, 2018
Written in the 1890s, censored in the 1960s, tale of young desire Spring Awakening is back on stage as a musicalA story once banned from the British stage due to its celebration of adolescen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42PMROUGH, RURAL, A NEGLECTED ALBION An immense intrusive pipe bisects the stage, a rusty oil tank below it with part of a tractor one side and a cheerless Victorian brick farmhous…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:39PMIndustry insiders vote Guardian writers Michael Billington and Lyn Gardner top theatre critics in the UKA survey by British entertainment industry bible the Stage has voted the Guardian's tw…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMCannes and Netflix clashed over this question, so we asked our critics to debate the pros and cons. Where do you stand?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AMFriday, May 4, 2018
Hey Theater People! Yes, it’s been a minute since our last episode. We will have much more on that in our next episode—an interview with newly minted Tony nominee Lindsay Mendez. You guy…
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00AMThursday, May 3, 2018
OSCAR AT HIS MOST EARNEST Worth going to Jonathan Church’s latest Wilde “Classic Spring”revival if only for a feast of Foxes: patriarch Edward as old Lord Caversham and his …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:58PMCREATIVES, C***TS AND CONTRACTS The theatrical repertoire has a new monster: Bernard, created by Joe Penhall and brought to scorchingly memorable, sociopathically irresi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:09AMWednesday, May 2, 2018
FAST, FINE STREETWISE SHAKESPEARE Running and scuffling, a crowd of kids in black scatter across the stark stage under an open-sided, distressedly concrete-looking bo…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:55AMTuesday, May 1, 2018
Our chief critics offer reaction to the nominations, which were hard on jukebox musicals and “Frozen” but good to “My Fair Lady” and “Carousel.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:36PMGUEST CRITIC MICHAEL ADAIR FINDS KINSHIP IN A FAMILY SORROW Well, this is timely. In the shadow of Windrush, a play immerses us in the colourful traditions of Caribbe…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:12AMFriday, April 27, 2018
COWARD GOES FARCEO-FORTISSIMO In the final outburst from our hero Gary Essendine – silk-dressing-gowned philanderer, arrogantly insecure darling of the …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:08AMThursday, April 26, 2018
In the fall of 2002, a young director with big, deep brown eyes came to Pittsburgh. He was here for four weeks to work with Kuntu Repertory, the venerable community theater group that p…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 01:39PMA WAR OVER, A WORLD ADRIFT It’s a great tapestry of a play: Rodney Ackland’s portrait of a Soho nightclub as WW2 ended. Socialites and slobs, black-marketeers and failing artists,…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:06AMTuesday, April 24, 2018
REBEL WITHOUT AN ARGUMENT It is a curiosity of the age that young British women seem to be far angrier about The Patriarchy than their mothers , even though law, language, women’s a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:04PMGOLDEN SANDS AND GRIEVANCES Nicola Werenowska has certainly found fertile ground for the setting of her play: the decline of English seaside towns (in this case Clacton) from t…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:50PM 
