Monday, October 2, 2023
While many criticise content guidance in art and literature, others argue they help people make informed choices
When a London theatre decided to warn potential audiences about strong langua…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:37AMSunday, October 1, 2023
IT’S BACK, THROUGH THE NURSERY WINDOW, STILL FLYING Just to reassure you: this offshoot from Mischief, the team who brought you the perennial Play-goes-wrong, is still a lot o…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:50AMThursday, September 28, 2023
THE TWIG WHO BRANCHED OUT We get up to speed on the period, with irresistible tracks from the golden age of pop: Beatles, Stones, Animals. Onstage is a photographer’s white…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:33PMTuesday, September 26, 2023
A TANKFUL OF EMOTIONAL TENTACLES Where better than Hampstead to watch the interplay of cutting-edge science with emotional intensity and philosophical unanswerables? Upstairs we h…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:38AMFriday, September 22, 2023
Many women working in industry say allegations only scratch the surface of its culture of misogyny
“When I was 18 I had an incident with a powerful male comedian in his 30s,” says Lucy (…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:37AMPHONETICALLY PHABULOUS Last time Bertie Carvel was on this stage it was as Donald Trump. Now our best shapeshifter is Henry Higgins: capering, swearing, somewhere on the far side of …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:17AMImposter 22 will run for three weeks at renowned Sloane Square theatre and comes after series of workshops
A play performed by a professional cast of learning disabled and autistic actors is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:07AMThursday, September 21, 2023
THE INFECTION OF WICKEDNESS The history of the Lodz ghetto in Poland is a part of the Holocaust story worth foxusing on, ot least because the Jewish population there were made …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:04PMLAST NIGHT I DREAMT I WENT TO MANDERLEY YET AGAIN… Daphne Du Maurier’s story is almost a national myth, what with the grand house on the towering cliffs, the terrifying housek…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:18AMTuesday, September 19, 2023
LOSS AND GRIEF IN A SILICON WORLD In a bleak grey minimalist space Merril (a restlessly gamine Myanna Buring) is grieving her much younger sister Angie, who has vanished, pre…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:55AMFriday, September 15, 2023
Next year’s opening of Plaza Suite in West End, with Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, reignites affordability debate
When Plaza Suite, Neil Simon’s witty commentary on love a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03PMINDIA 1948 , LESSONS FOR ALL TIME This show is a happy return, especially if like me you missed it last summer: the National at its best, a modern epic and warning directed with fl…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:56AMThe styles in “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding,” in previews on Broadway, require a wig designer, several braiders, some synthetic hair and lots of patience.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:07AMThursday, September 14, 2023
SHOOT, SCORE, SPARK! This is the year of football plays. First Dear England at the Olivier, now the women’s turn on another stage, out East a bit. Here’s another neon strip lig…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:58AMWednesday, September 13, 2023
A SCANDALOUS WOMAN IN A STORMY WORLD A distant thunder of naval artillery: against elegant panelled walls in Naples a bundled matron in a bonnet watches her flighty daughter toss…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:22AMSunday, September 10, 2023
The 1970s star blazed the way for mass-audience satire in Britain. But is there an appetite for it now?
As the entertainment world mourns the death at 82 of Britain’s most popular televis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:43AMFOUR MORE AWFUL PEOPLE, HURRAH Two four-handers about awful middle class behaviour in a week: just what the irritable heatwave needed. This, which I caught in a late previ…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:50AMThursday, September 7, 2023
WHEN THE VIRTUE-SIGNALS DRIVE YOU OFF THE RAILS In a boutique restaurant going bankrupt, Jacq and Kas nervously prepare to admit it to their main investor Tobin and his wife Adaego.�…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:05AMWednesday, September 6, 2023
The 68th Sterijino pozorje took place earlier this summer in Novi Sad. Critics Borisav Matić and Andrej Čanji discuss this year’s selection. Borisav: May was a month of upheaval and exis…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:07AMWednesday, August 23, 2023
Actor accuses Royal Central School of Speech and Drama of paying lip service to anti-discrimination pledges after 2015 incident
The actor Shaniqua Okwok has criticised the Royal Central Scho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:37PMThis year, Beach Sessions pairs an adaptation of Merce Cunningham’s “Beach Birds” with a response by the choreographer Sarah Michelson.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:05AMPatsy Ferran takes on Eliza in Pygmalion, Andrew Scott plays multiple characters from Uncle Vanya and Mlima’s Tale tells a powerful tale of the ivory trade. Here’s what’s in store on s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:55AMSunday, August 20, 2023
Younger audiences may not recognise people comedians are impersonating but some performers say there’s still plenty to work with
“If I see somebody become famous, and they’ve got trem…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:43PMWearable backpacks designed by Music: Not Impossible, which allow people to experience music as vibrations on their bodies, are becoming more accessible to the public.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AMFriday, August 18, 2023
HAVING THE BEST OF TIMES IN THE PARK Even in familiar classics you can never predict which anthem will set you dabbing your eye. You might expect it at Albin’s anguished ‘I …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:11PMThursday, August 17, 2023
DOPAMINE , DRUGS, DANGER, DOCTORS This intriguing play by Lucy Prebble aired in 2012 in the intimate Cottesloe space , with Billie Piper and Jonjo o’Neill as paid subjects in an antid…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:55AMWednesday, August 16, 2023
FORTY YEARS ON, FROM TWO PERSPECTIVES This is a properly interesting RSC commission: a history play about the Falklands invasion by Argentina in 1982 and the British task force which e…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:35AMSunday, August 13, 2023
String of vacancies at regional arts venues grows as funding and staffing crisis worsens
Running a theatre has become a seriously unappealing job, according to many of those working at Brita…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:55AMThursday, August 10, 2023
Actor says high prices are strangling next generation of theatregoers, as cheapest seats rise 13% in a year
The price of West End theatre tickets can be ludicrous and risks strangling the ne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:07AMWednesday, August 9, 2023
SORROW AND SUSPICION This one had me from the first few minutes: another Jermyn find. A new play, whose young actor- writer Abigail Hood and director Kevin Tomlinson both perform in…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:57AM 
