Monday, September 30, 2024
STONED STONES IN WEST WITTERING, 1967 At the end the 1200-strong crowd explodes to join a final roar of “Satisfaction” with the cast – lawyers, police, fans, three generatons …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:33PMSaturday, September 28, 2024
Growing up in a Black township, Vusi Mdoyi found a sprinkle of joy under apartheid in a street-dancing style known as pantsula. As a choreographer, he has elevated it into high art, injected…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:01AMVICTORIAN MISCHIEF WELL IN TUNE FOR TODAY . Do you want to see a senior Government minister entangled with a socially climbing financier and a fashion-greedy wife, playing the flute t…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:51AMFriday, September 27, 2024
She earned an extraordinary array of awards, from Oscars to Emmys to Tonys, but could still go almost everywhere unrecognized. Then came “Downton Abbey.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:42AMLAURIE LEE, REMEMBERED AND REMEMBERING A nine-part orchestra, gilded harp and flute at its apex; behind, monochrome photos of a century past show rural Gloucestershire, then the…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:21AMWednesday, September 25, 2024
POLITICAL ECHOES, CLASS ARROGANCE, THRILLS The award for ExIt of the Year goes to the magnificent David Oyelowo, tearing up the central aisle of the Olivier in a fury as the f…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:57AMTuesday, September 24, 2024
FIRST CLASS FROM CHRISTIE, LUDWIG AND BAILEY This could have been a bit of a groan, like the overcomplex Rebus Game Called Malice , also on tour . But actually it’s a class act in ever…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:30AMMonday, September 23, 2024
Shakespeare’s Othello is a play overflowing with passion, rage and intrigue. In the upcoming Broadway revival, it will also have two of the most magnetic leading men around pitted against …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:32PMWednesday, September 18, 2024
Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, who played Juliet alongside Tom Holland’s Romeo, says racist abuse went on for months
The actor Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, who received a barrage of online racia…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32PMThe launch of Broadway’s fall season gets all the buzz but, as ever, some of the city’s must-see shows are taking place a bit farther afield. From the sublime to the sexy to the willfull…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:32PMTuesday, September 17, 2024
FRIENDSHIP HITS THE ROCKS OF TASTE : MISCHIEVOUS, SAD AND FUNNY Not everything that tours the country is Agatha Christie or star-fed froth: sometimes a serious emotional and in…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:59AMMonday, September 16, 2024
REACH FOR THE STARS: IT TAKES HARD GRAFT AND VODKA Any week now at the Gielgud we shall hear the famous drunken cry in Juno and the Paycock “what is the stars?”. At the heart of …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:49PMFriday, September 13, 2024
DATING FOR A CONFUSED AGE I have written before of the particular glee I feel when a brand-new and original show emerges , not from anxious corporate calculations but from young a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:57AMWednesday, September 11, 2024
On Broadway, back-to-school season means an influx of must-see shows destined to fill out your fall calendar. The next few months promise a mixture of original plays and musicals, beloved re…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:24PMInaugural season to include adaptation of James Baldwin novel and an immersive rave
An immersive rave, voguing and an adaptation of James Baldwin’s novel Giovanni’s Room are all part of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMThe actors explain how Jones influenced their careers and exactly what made him such a towering presence – as well as such a magnetic afternoon tea companion
James Earl Jones dies aged 93…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMTuesday, September 10, 2024
Fifty drawings of displaced people will be exhibited in a London church, in collaboration with UN refugee agency
Providing safe routes for asylum seekers should be the focus of the UK govern…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMWORTH ANOTHER VISIT? O YES It’s a gig, it’s a party, it’s as glorious as ever. Down on the floor the promenaders surge between changing stages as they rise and fall to create old Man…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:18AMMonday, September 9, 2024
UPMARKET EDINBURGH ROCK, SORT OF Sir Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus accounts for a tenth of all crime bestsellers in the UK: the ancient mazes around Edinburgh Castle, set against…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:46AMSaturday, September 7, 2024
In Poland, the war is no longer just the national memory and has been present in our everyday life for more than two years now. Its impact on everyday life and the shape of many seemingly st…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 06:07AMFriday, September 6, 2024
A MOMENT FOR REMEMBERING A desk, leather chairs, a heap of file boxes, a single sunflower in a pot. The century has turned, and it’s the last day in the office for Simon Wiesenthal…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:53AMIntroduction Gdzie Jest Tata? (Where is Daddy?) as seen at the Review of New Theatre for Children in Wrocław is a show produced by Everest Foundation, written by Jan Naturski, directed by J…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:07AMWednesday, September 4, 2024
On this day of the report, a reminder of those two excellent verbatim plays from two stages of the inquiry. How theatre, with Nicholas Kent, reacted . There have been other plays about the e…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:25AMTuesday, September 3, 2024
Tinuke Craig says current black British theatre talent was developed when schemes to improve access were common
The lack of investment in arts schemes aimed at working-class children will cr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36PMMonday, September 2, 2024
The play Drapando, czyli Atak Zamszałego Starucha (Drapando, or the attack of the mossy old man) was presented at the 7th Review of New Theatre for Children. It was directed by Zofia Pinkie…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:07PMTuesday, August 27, 2024
Why Am I So Single sets dating angst to music; more Hollywood stars hit the West End; and a Brummie dance trilogy reaches its finale Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AMMonday, August 26, 2024
From the first solo to the euphoric final bows, dance is essential to the world-building of “Cats: The Jellicle Ball.” Watch four standout dancers from the reinvented classic.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:01AMSaturday, August 24, 2024
It’s a prime opportunity for performers looking to make a splash. Nadia Quinn, a comic actress and singer from New York, decided to give it a shot.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMMonday, August 19, 2024
I IMPERSONATION, ILLUSION AND INTRIGUE Cottonwool clouds, a scatter of furniture and instruments, an ancient cine camera, a noble arch and some pillars and fake trees. On a 19…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:54PMLasting Covid impact and need to attract audiences behind move to performances running straight through
For some it’s an indispensable part of their night at the theatre, a chance to top u…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMThursday, August 15, 2024
Faye Driscoll uses the ocean as her collaborator in a sunset dance celebrating the 10th anniversary of Beach Sessions.
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