Monday, September 18, 2017
PEACE IN THEIR TIME…HOW TO DO IT This is a three-hour historical political play about Middle East negotiations in the 1990s: and it is absolutely thrilling. Pins you to your seat wi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:45PMYOU GUYS!! We are SO excited to welcome director Jeff Caohoun to the podcast!
Jeff has been at the helm of some of our favorite shows like "Brooklyn: The Musical," "Bonnie & Clyde," and…
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00AMFriday, September 15, 2017
CHARLOTTE VALORI FINDS DREAMS COMING TRUE IN MEDIEVAL NORFOLK In Norfolk, we tend to be quietly, fondly proud of our surroundings – with an emphasis on ‘quietly.’ The tradition of Norf…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:50PMMeirion Bowen writes: Peter Hall played a key role in rescuing the reputation as an opera composer of Sir Michael Tippett, dismissed and mocked in the 1950s as bafflingly over-complex and bi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PMSally Cookson’s witty, inventive take on Charlotte Brontë’s novel comes to Hull, while the city’s New theatre reopens with a visit from the Royal’s dancers1 Living With the Lights O…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMBudget-minded theater lovers will applaud the Denver Center for Performing Arts' ongoing $10 ticket program, now that the 2017-18 theater season is underway.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:06AMWednesday, September 13, 2017
If male artists were to spend the rest of their lives critiquing--as directly as this play critiques--the patriarchal authority of the Western canon, they would never run out of material.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:18AMTuesday, September 12, 2017
A PSYCHOTIC SAMSON AND HIS WOMEN “There is no such thing as the imagination” says August Strindberg indignantly. “Things are real or they are not.”. Right now, holed up in a s…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:54PMHe gave Peter Brook his big break, helped Elaine Paige conquer her fear, showed Griff Rhys Jones the joy of farce and dazzled a teenage Samuel West. They celebrate the great director who has…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PMTHE CABMAN’S PROGRESS It couldn’t be better placed, here in the arches below Charing Cross station. Under the venerable rules of London licensed cabs – dating back to th…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:56AMHamilton hits London, Bryan Cranston’s news anchor goes berserk, Wayne McGregor turns his DNA into dance, Mae Martin revisits her teen addictions and Toyah Willcox is a time-travelling que…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMMonday, September 11, 2017
YOU GUYS! I've been obsessed with Morgan James for years and I was SO thrilled to get to learn more of her story for this episode. Morgan first moved to NYC to study voice at Julliard--and t…
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00AMFriday, September 8, 2017
HARRIDAN OR HEROINE..? The feminist “Bechdel Test” for fiction says that there must be conversations between two women which are not about men. John Patrick Shanley’s tig…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:22PMMarianne Elliott and Tom Morris’s staging of the children’s novel returns, while Hofesh Shechter’s new show imagines an anarchic apocalypse1 War HorseWith it becoming such a huge and d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMThursday, September 7, 2017
The Absolutely Fabulous star will play the Duchess of Berwick in a production of the Oscar Wilde comedy directed by Kathy BurkeJennifer Saunders is to return to the West End stage for the fi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMHollywood wants us to think that its films are for everyone, but our critics say that was never true. Still, they see a way forward.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMFriday, September 1, 2017
Playwright and director who scored an international hit with The Knack and pushed the boundaries of community theatreThere were two distinct, equally significant, phases to the career of the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMShôn Dale-Jones turns his attention to the increasing divide between rich and poor, while Requardt & Rosenberg deliver an intense performance about memory1 Me & Robin HoodIn his las…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMThursday, August 31, 2017
The fall is the most exciting time of year for Atlanta theater, and this fall has the added edge of the Alliance Theatre’s nomadic season while its main theater space undergoes a complete …
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 09:02AMWednesday, August 30, 2017
YOU GUYS!! We are so so excited to welcome today's guest, Tyler Hanes! I first met Tyler years and years ago when he was making his Broadway debut in "Oklahoma!" and I have been creepily sta…
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00AMSunday, August 27, 2017
Cars of cast, crew and audience members targeted during a performance Holding the Man on Sydney’s north shoreA theatre company says it “will not be silenced” after members of the cast,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PMSaturday, August 26, 2017
Judges could not choose between shows by Hannah Gadsby and John Robins – so have given both the £10,000 first prizeFor the first time in the history of Edinburgh’s festival fringe, the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:04AM THE BAD BOY WE NEEDED ONCE , AND STILL DO The corpse is the talking point and to some extent the star. Certainly Anah Ruddin, hopping out of the coffin spry as a fox for…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:48AMFriday, August 25, 2017
Zinnie Harris’s retelling of Aeschylus’s drama adds muscle to the tale, while As You Like It is the inspiration for James Cousins’ latest choreography1 Oresteia: This Restless HouseThe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMThursday, August 24, 2017
SUICIDE, SADNESS, SNIPING AND SUPPER It often puzzles me why sharp little stage gems like this don’t get pounced on by TV, – notably the BBC – instead of commissio…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:11PMWednesday, August 23, 2017
Kirill Serebrennikov is accused of embezzling £900,000, but supporters say he is victim of crackdown on dissentA court in Moscow has put a widely revered Russian theatre director under hous…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMTuesday, August 22, 2017
A PRIMITIVE AWAKENING It is dark. An earth floor, plank stable door , murky pond. Sometimes a candle is lit, but Soutra Gilmour’s set remains tenebrous , primitive. A wom…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:13PMMonday, August 21, 2017
Photographer Murdo MacLeod meets fire jugglers, clowns and mimes as they prepare to entertain the crowds during the Edinburgh festival fringeThe Edinburgh festival fringe is the largest even…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMSaturday, August 19, 2017
GUEST CRITIC LUKE JONES HUNGERS BUT DOESN’T GET A BYTE I’ll give them this; it’s timely. After the violence in Charlottesville, we’ve all been asking what on e…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:20AM 
