Wednesday, April 12, 2023
Production is at centre of collaboration with west London community affected by 2017 disaster
The National Theatre is to stage a verbatim play based on accounts by survivors and those bereav…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24AMTuesday, April 11, 2023
A reverend and a rabbi walk into a Broadway show. The cast and crew are offstage, grappling beautifully with questions of identity, exclusion and the ongoing struggle against white supremacy…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 11:57PMMonday, April 10, 2023
The Time Traveler’s Wife and Hamnet are among novels written, and largely read, by women coming to the British stage
Female readers are the acknowledged force behind the market in publishe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMFriday, April 7, 2023
Dmitry Krymov, one of Russia’s most eminent directors, is among the dozens of artists who have left their homeland since Russia invaded Ukraine.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32AMWednesday, April 5, 2023
SEA FRET I’ll give it one thing: over an hour into this infuriating two- hour play there’s a brief but wonderful part for the veteran June Watson. She stumps in with octogenar…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:57AMTuesday, April 4, 2023
BEAUTIFUL SCIENCE. UGLY WORLD Unexpectedly enthralled, I spent an hour and a half eavesdropping on six nuclear physicists, and couldn’t be more glad to have caught up on thi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:04AMWednesday, March 29, 2023
Partner announces ‘unexpected but peaceful’ death of personality who fronted Blind Date, Blankety Blank and was known for his drag persona Lily Savage
Paul O’Grady, the beloved TV pres…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06AMSunday, March 26, 2023
BLISS WITH THE BLISSES I don’t always make it through the Oxfordshire lanes to the gorgeous, eccentric, water-wheeled Mill, but the thought of Issy van Randwyck as Judith Bliss lured me . …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:30AMSunday, March 19, 2023
FUTURE IMPERFECT Artificial intelligence and robotics have long been a boon to us ethical-scifi buffs, films like AI and I, Robot mercifully saving us from rocket ships and aliens …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:58PMThursday, March 16, 2023
In taking on the male-dominated theatrical craft, contemporary women carvers are changing the face of a centuries-old tradition.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AMWednesday, March 15, 2023
HYTNER ROLLS ANOTHER WINNING DICE Daniel Mays has played a lot of tough-guy roles but has by nature a rather innocent and worried-looking face. It is this quality that Nick Hytner sp…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:23AMTuesday, March 14, 2023
RIDE A WILD APP In a week when tech firms shuddered at the shock demise of their favourite bank, how better to spend 90 minutes withJoseph Charlton’s exhilarating, fast moving 3…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:28PMSunday, March 12, 2023
A RADIATING RESPONSIBILITY Since I watched Sizewell A going up as a child, live close to Sizewell B and dwell amid a forest of local posters furiously condemning Sizewell C, …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:17PMEvents planned in UK and Ireland, including a British Library exhibition, to mark 400 years since complete works first published
Four hundred years ago, a small band of William Shakespeare�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:44AMThursday, March 9, 2023
Broadway’s longest running musical, set to close next month, has been a source of stability for orchestra members, many of whom have grown up with the show.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AMTuesday, March 7, 2023
SUGAR RUSH I can never resist scribbling down rhymes in new musicals, whether in a spirit appalled or admiring. Take a bow Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary – writers of this extreme ca…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:00AMOlga Voronkova is a London-based, Belarusian video editor, scriptwriter, copywriter, and producer working with Belarus Free Theatre and Young Vic. Her work focuses on the intersection of act…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:49AMSunday, March 5, 2023
AN UN-SOLEMN WARNING FROM THE FUTURE H.G.Wells is the inspiration, with a larkily extrovert Dave Hearn from Mischief Theatre pretending to be his great-grandson, heir, and owner of th…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:59PMThe measure is part of a wave of legislation by conservative lawmakers across the country against drag performances. Many are wondering how it will be applied.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:52AMFriday, March 3, 2023
MORE DETAILS, MORE DEVILRY An Afghan army officer flees the Taleban and finds safety on the 23rd floor of Grenfell Tower. His local nickhame is “Sabar”, meaning “pa…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:48AMTuesday, February 28, 2023
Stage version of 1988 Japanese animation leads the pack while Standing at the Sky’s Edge has eight nominations
My Neighbour Totoro, the new stage adaptation of Studio Ghibli’s beloved 19…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:16AMFriday, February 24, 2023
“Bob Fosse’s Dancin’,” revived by the director Wayne Cilento, is back on Broadway. Its stars? An eclectic cast of dancers who are anything but machines.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AMThursday, February 23, 2023
Actor best known for her stage work and acclaimed for her portrayal of Mary Barnes in the title role of David Edgar’s 1978 play
Patti Love, who has died aged 75, was an actor of supreme ta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:56AMThese actors turned playwrights all excavate memories and meaning from their lives in creating these four shows, which arrive in New York in the coming months.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AMWednesday, February 22, 2023
“Life of Pi” and Laura Linney on Broadway, Lise Davidsen at the Met Opera, SZA on tour: Here’s what we’re looking forward to this season.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AMOnce the butt of others’ standup routines, comics from the lowest social strata are turning the tables, with humour as their weapon
On a wooden chair on a makeshift stage at Cat Café Stud…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMTuesday, February 21, 2023
Levi Holloway’s new horror play Grey House has been announced to play the Lyceum Theatre. Two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello will direct the production, slated to begin previews on Ap…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00PMLevi Holloway’s new horror play “Grey House” has been announced to play the Lyceum Theatre. Two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello will direct the production, slated to begin previews…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 12:00PMThe Merchant of Venice 1936 among four plays to feature at RSC’s reopened Swan theatre this summer
A new take on Shakespeare’s controversial play The Merchant of Venice, set in London’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AM 
