Friday, March 23, 2018
Here is how our panel of lawyers looked at key issues in a lawsuit over Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of Harper Lee’s novel.
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HARD HOMECOMINGS FOR THE DOGS OF WAR Boots, boots, boots, boots: stamping out the immemorial rhythm of army discipline, nineteen men and women move as one, expressionless, freed for a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:21PMA SOLO REFLECTION ON PUBERTY AND AFTER. Naomi Sheldon’s solo, semi-autobiographical hour comes from Edinburgh crowned with plaudits, though cunningly in the programme she doe…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:32AMFOR ONCE IN A LIFETIME THE DEAR MENIER DOES NOT MAKE GUEST REVIEWER LUKE JONES HAPPY. NOT HAPPY AT ALL. EXCEPT AT THE PROJECTIONS. Two prisoners are locked in an Argentinia…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:35AMTuesday, March 20, 2018
IT’S THAT MAN AGAIN… It is awkward that two major new productions of the Scottish Play, by two determinedly auteurish directors, open in the same month. Rufus Norris’ bleak …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:16PMGUEST CRITIC JENNIFER-JANE BENJAMIN FINDS WHAT MATTERS Lights up. A confederate statue. A blackout. And it disappears. It’s November 1963 and we’re in Lake Charles, Louisiana. JFK…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:43PMMonday, March 19, 2018
The 'Sex and the City' actress said she will challenge Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a Democratic primary.
SOURCE: USA Today at 06:35PMSunday, March 18, 2018
SILENT, SIGNIFICANT CREATURES The candlelit Wanamaker has proved its worth as a music-room, notably with All The Angels and the divine Farinelli. This takes it further with the first …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:13PMFriday, March 16, 2018
DANGEROUS DAYS AND COURAGEOUS SCIENCE This terrific meteorological thriller, set in the crucial days before D-Day, is written by – and stars – David Haig. In 2014…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:52AMWednesday, March 14, 2018
The federal suit says that the Aaron Sorkin’s script for the play, set this fall for Broadway, deviates too much from “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:54PMThe federal suit says that the Aaron Sorkin’s script for the play, set this fall for Broadway, deviates too much from “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:54PMFREE HANKY WITH EVERY PROGRAMME (honest..!) Ten years ago Emma Rice and her Kneehigh group brought this adaptation of Noel Coward’s heartrending film to the stage – to a c…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:15AMTuesday, March 13, 2018
A DARK SEASIDE PARABLE If there is one stumbling block for lovers of Graham Greene’s darkly thrilling gangster novel, it is the elegance of Gloria Onitiri. She is Ida; and Gr…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:40AMSunday, March 11, 2018
Post-Play Palaver is an occasional series of conversations between DC Metro Theater Arts writers who saw the same performance, got really into talking about it, and decided to continue their…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:15AMSaturday, March 10, 2018
DICKENS EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS Putting great literary masterpieces onstage is an erratic business. Within the same week we see the Artistic Director of the National Theatre b…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:41AMSpring is when more than just flowers emerge and bloom: You and the family are probably ready to emerge from the house and have some fun.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 08:00AMThursday, March 8, 2018
SACRED AND PROFANE LOVE Is love a Gothic Cathedral, a yearning for a permanent, holy, respectful connection to the best in our nature? Or is it lust and fun, animal attraction,…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:19PMWednesday, March 7, 2018
THE SCOTTISH PLAY, DARK AND DANK You don’t expect robes and battlements these days. This is a shaven-head-and-machete Macbeth, its theme an indeterminate, timeless squalor: p…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:32PMTuesday, March 6, 2018
LOVE AND THE NOT-FOR-MARRYING MAN Love stories take many forms. Here – electric, understated, unmistakeable and timeless – the erotic connection is between Ben Batt’s Ge…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:06PMMonday, March 5, 2018
Ms. McDormand, who mentioned the contract provision as she accepted the best actress Oscar, said she just learned about it two weeks ago.
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MA’AM , THE MINION AND THE MACHO MAN “I never boasted an education. I learned tricks” says Princess Margaret, bitterly, at a late point in Richard Stirling’s interestin…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:03AMFriday, March 2, 2018
SIN OR SYMPTOM? A HUMAN TURNED TO A HORROR Last time I encountered a monologue written for a paedophile abuser, it was by Alan Bennett in a remarkable – and I think unrep…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:48AMThursday, March 1, 2018
FAIRY DUST AND PHYSICAL COMEDY I am happy to say that in the second act there is some inappropriate sexual harassment. By garishly clad fairies, deploying weaponized soprano trills an…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:08AMThursday, February 22, 2018
The playwright and screenwriter reveals how a fascination with tyrants and their wives compelled her to write SplendourSubscribe and review on Apple Podcasts or Acast, and join the discussio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMTuesday, February 20, 2018
Get to know the playwright Hammaad Chaudry, the 13-year-old actress Rileigh McDonald and the actor Andrew Burnap.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:22PMHow do comics survive life on the road? They rob their minibars, turn roadies into bird-watchers – and read The Da Vinci CodeI once played in a tiny little school hall in a tiny little vil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:19PMMonday, February 19, 2018
We're SO thrilled to welcome Adam Kantor back to the podcast! When we last chatted with Adam, he was mid-run as Motel in the 2015 Broadway revival of "Fiddler on the Roof." Adam is now back …
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00AMThursday, February 15, 2018
The Internet is debating whether the two 'Black Panther' stars are romantically linked.
SOURCE: USA Today at 11:56AMA CITY’S MEMORY Two girls on the Downs in 1940 giggle over a spot of rabbit-poaching on Lady Cooper’s land. A roar, Junkers overhead. Figures emerge from smoke and darkness as a c…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:25AMMonday, February 12, 2018
They’ve stormed the Reichstag, turned terrorism into absurd comedy and asked their audiences for answers. Meet five theatre-makers grappling with crises across the continent.By Daniel Boff…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMFriday, February 9, 2018
Written by Jez Butterworth and directed by Sam Mendes, the work centers on a family unraveling and evokes state-of-a-nation themes.
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