Friday, 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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:00AMThursday, February 8, 2018
Hearts, flowers, chocolates…love is in the air here in the DC area! While this part of the country may be more known for partisanship than romance, we’ve got plenty of awesome events to …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:53PMA WATCHFUL SORROW There are some evenings when, as the cast take their bow with that half-relaxed half-smile, you are shocked: you feel you have not been watching a performance…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:08AMWednesday, February 7, 2018
CELEBRATION FOR A CITY Right place, right time, a last flurry of fireworks by the Humber. The hottest of young playwrights, James Graham, lovingly teases the city where he was a stude…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:47AMMonday, February 5, 2018
Once named the Little Theater, the playhouse now known as the Helen Hayes is about to be reincarnated again.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:15AMYOU GUYS!!!! Sitting down with Lea Salonga for this interview was literally a dream come true. Lea, of course, needs no introduction, but since I have to put something here, here goes: In 19…
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00AMSaturday, February 3, 2018
BANKERS AS LIBERATORS The first recitative line in this one-act musical, as the little band sounds curfew, is chilling: a Town Crier from the 1760’s : “Jews and aliens of…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:36PMThursday, February 1, 2018
YOU HAVE TO LAUGH OR YOU WOULD WEEP.. The most arresting new character I’ve met this year is the magnificent Hayley Atwell as Jenny; star of a New York private equity investm…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:39PMFrom Canada to Broadway to pop-music’s biggest night, the composers of “Come From Away” keep finding themselves in the unlikeliest of places.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:50PMIf you’re in New York City for Valentine’s Day and planning to celebrate your love of the stage, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher Nicole Hertvik and Senior Reviewer Deb Miller have some sug…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:40AMWednesday, January 31, 2018
Culturebot contributors Amelia Parenteau and Audrey Moyce in dialogue on SHEILA at A.R.T./New York
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 09:55AMAVE HYTNER IMPERATOR! THE BRIDGE AS ARENA Before the start, singing along with Eye of the Tiger in the melée and enjoying the red flags, baseball hats and beercans, we …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:47AMTuesday, January 30, 2018
AVE HYTNER IMPERATOR! THE BRIDGE AS ARENA Before the start, singing along with Eye of the Tiger in the melée and enjoying the red flags, baseball hats and beercans, we …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:50PMMonday, January 29, 2018
TWO QUEENS, TWO FATES Who shall be whom? In Robert Icke’s arresting adaptation of Schiller’s play, the scene opens with a sober-suited group of men watching two women in identical…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:06PMGarrison Keillor is convinced America still wants to hear his voice.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:07PMFriday, January 26, 2018
A WILDE RIDE WITH A BOLTER Beneath the artful fan-shapes of the set, gloriously coloured bustles and ruffles flit between black tailcoats and epigrams ping around the room like…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:06AMWednesday, January 24, 2018
ArtsATL theater critics Andrew Alexander and Jim Farmer got together recently to discuss thoughts on Part Two of the new Actor’s Express production of Angels in America. Here are their tak…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 10:01AMTuesday, January 23, 2018
CLAMBERING TOWARDS LOVE You don’t often, in romances, get lines like “Tomato ketchup’s always been my Achilles heel”. Or indeed proper consideration being given to the …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:29PMMonday, January 22, 2018
PEGGY GUGGENHEIM WALKS AGAIN You cross the stage floor to the toilets and a warning sign on the little set alerts you to the danger of tripping over a “solid stone” bench. …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:30AMYou Guys!! We are the biggest Ryann Redmond fans ever! We first fell in love with her in 2012 when she made her Broadway debut as Bridget, the lovably awkward sidekick in "Bring It On: The M…
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00AMSaturday, January 20, 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 10:14AMWednesday, January 17, 2018
Was the Royal Court right to put on Rita, Sue and Bob Too? We asked three playwrights to look afresh at Andrea Dunbar’s story of two girls preyed on by an older man Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:23AMKicking off the 2018 theater year with a bang is the Actor’s Express’ production of Tony Kushner’s much lauded Angels in America, which took home virtually every award (a Tony and a Pu…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 11:01AMSULTRY HEAT AND SEXUAL DREAD… Our age is beginning, once more, to appreciate E.M.Forster properly: the recent TV Howards’s End caught his wit as well as the social indignat…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:52AMMy principal review from the Old Vic is here (http://tinyurl.com/y8u2na24) . But now it transfers (with glorious irony to the Noel Coward Theatre..it’s the least Cowardy of all plays e…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:30AMTuesday, January 16, 2018
Monday, January 15, 2018
VILLAIN VAUDEVILLE Everyone loves the film. Something in the nostalgic British psyche likes to think of a gang of ruthless desperadoes lodging with a dear old lady, pretendin…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:51AMFriday, January 12, 2018
TOP FOLK ON THE ROAD There are boxes , planks, a rope; around and upon them, singly and severally, still or moving, the aristocracy of modern folk music. Strings, accordion, guitars…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:54AMSAN FRANCISCO — Six more women have stepped forward to accuse prominent conductor Charles Dutoit of sexually assaulting them in the United States, France and Canada, including a musician w…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 02:19AMThursday, January 11, 2018
GIRLS ON THE EDGE Honour to the Royal Court for two things. First for the initial wobble, then for executing a rapid u-turn over Andrea Dunbar’ s rather wonderful play . So after …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:24PMLyn Gardner’s press ticket for the circus superstars was withdrawn after her verdict on their earlier show. So we bought her one and sent Sanjoy Roy along to get a second opinion on Cirque…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:21AM 
