Wednesday, 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 05:57AMFriday, August 4, 2023
A CORONATION YEAR ROMP ANYWAY A neighbour in the stalls confided that she sees a lot of West End theatre but avoids “the more highbrow sort”. She was in the right place, …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:41PMTHREE GENERATIONS UNDER SMARTPHONE RULE Bit late to this one, and it had mixed reviews – largely I suspect because Michael Wynne’s play, a two hour four-hander all-woman slice of life …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:38PMThursday, August 3, 2023
Yiddish actors will perform a documentary in a Manhattan theater, commemorating Stalin’s execution of 13 innocent Jewish intellectuals.
SOURCE: forward.com at 03:59PMTuesday, August 1, 2023
NEVER MIND THE MOUNTAIN, OVER THE ROAD CHICHESTER ROCKS Now here’s a perfect gig for us 1970’s leftovers, though I suspect today’s young rockers will also love the shiny leat…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:45PMSunday, July 30, 2023
OLD SOHO SPEAKS AGAIN, AND WISELY Of all the places you’d expect to see Quentin Crisp – even as a ghost or tribute – one of the least likely is a wooded amphitheatre in Suffolk at…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:26PMSaturday, July 29, 2023
TRAGEDY, JOKES, ORACLES, SINGING SHEEP AND A BEAR After last year’s storming Macbeth, Red Rose Chain returns to the wooded site at Sutton Hoo for its second big outdoor …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:54AMFriday, July 28, 2023
The actor, who was cleared of sexual assault charges in Britain this week, has parts in two small upcoming films. Yet his tarnished public perception makes starry roles unlikely.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:19AMFriday, July 21, 2023
Sucession star Brian Cox tells gathered members of Equity union ‘we are at thin end of horrible wedge’
Brian Cox, Imelda Staunton, Naomie Harris and Simon Pegg were among the British A-l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:37AMThursday, July 20, 2023
Byrne, who is also an award-winning playwright, said he would ‘shape a rejuvenating culture’ at one of London’s most prestigious theatres
David Byrne, an award-winning playwright and d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:25AMWednesday, July 19, 2023
THE WHITE MAN’S BURDEN? Tanika Gupta’s play is a sprawling, angrily intimate epic about Indians in Britain during the height of empire, thirteen years running up to old Queen V…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:49AMMonday, July 17, 2023
A FEW OF OUR FAVOURITE THINGS… Let it be said first of all that Gina Beck is a glorious gamine Maria: sings like a bird and is satisfyingly able to convey in her voice her gr…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:43PMSunday, July 16, 2023
THE WAY IT WAS Ah, the forgotten plays of the 30s and 40s, how they lure me to basements and pub rooms and tunnels: Jermyn and Finborough and Southwark in particular! Like co…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:15PMWednesday, July 12, 2023
Edwin Flay brings his one-man drama, in which he plays the GP and serial killer, to the Edinburgh fringe
He was a big man with a bushy beard and a bowl of sweets on his desk for good boys an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:25AMThe Czech novelist found himself silenced by the communist regime at home, but achieved international fame with playfully philosophical fiction
Czech writer Milan Kundera, who explored being…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:25AMBIRTH, DEATH, SCIENCE , ANGER “The smell – the smell – the sheets…” Curtain up, he is gripped by urgency, past or present. . Now a successful doctor home in Hungary…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:24AMWednesday, July 5, 2023
Cracking comedy, an eclectic mix of theatre – and aerial dance in an ice rink. Our critics share their picks for the August arts extravaganza
Rhod Gilbert: Work in Progress Gilded Balloon …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AMFriday, June 30, 2023
He got laughs (and won awards) on Broadway in “Enter Laughing” and in movies like “Little Miss Sunshine.” But he also had a flair for drama.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:43AMFriday, June 23, 2023
Remote work, for those fortunate enough to enjoy it, has killed off many aspects of professional life that were long overdue to be put down: Agonizing commutes. $18 cafeteria salads. Ramblin…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:37AMRed Riding Hood and the Big Bad Pig will open during Hanukah in December at culture centre JW3
The corny gags, slapstick, cartoon baddies and singalongs beloved of traditional pantomime will…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:49AMTuesday, June 20, 2023
COME ON MY SONS… At the end of the first half of this exhilarating play, England is through to the World Cup quarter-finals in Russia after several bracing straight wins and an ago…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:56PM“Leopoldstadt,” which was named best play, and “Kimberly Akimbo,” which won best musical, saw considerable increases in ticket sales.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:33PMSunday, June 18, 2023
Two people who watched the actor and Labour politician closely remember her desire to get to the truth that made her so powerful on stage, screen and in parliament
I thought I had seen Glen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:25AMThursday, June 15, 2023
Actor who was a fearless, ferocious presence in theatre, cinema and television, then turned to politics as a Labour MPMany leading British actors have mixed art and politics, but no great ac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:49PM‘Epic and deeply personal’ Nye by Tim Price will star Michael Sheen and be directed by Rufus Norris
A play charting the life of Nye Bevan and his battle to create the NHS is among 12 ne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:43AMDirector says past eight years ‘most challenging time in history’ for sector, but audience figures finally back at pre-pandemic levels
Rufus Norris is to step down as director of the Nat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AMBritish director joked that he wanted to be remembered as ‘someone whose dress sense got better as time went on’
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:43AMTuesday, June 13, 2023
1926 AND ALL THAT, ON THE AIR Fresh from doing cartwheels in the Bake Off musical up the road, Haydn Gwynne is now a strangely convincing Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin , in pinstripe. Oh,…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:58PMQUIET DESPERATION, NOISY GUNSHOTS “Everybody tell the story Everybody sing the song, Every now and then a country Goes a little wrong…” Hard for it not to feel topical, S…
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