Thursday, October 31, 2024
LOOK BACK IN COMPASSION Â Â Â Â Â The Rattigan renaissance of the last few years is more than welcome:Â ever since Flare Path hit the West End fourteen years ago there seems…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:45PM[SHARE]THE GRANDEST OF GRIEFS Not Renaissance Mantua but New York a century past: smart bars and low dives, gangsters in fedoras. Why not ? In any world might be a lonely jokester, missing …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:11AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 30, 2024
A short catch-up on one of the season's greats (was away..) Mark Strong is made to play great tragedy: a long powerful body,  controlled bleak intelligent  features.A figure from any a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:37PM[SHARE]"Hothouse," at Irish Arts Center, fends off despair with loopiness; "In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot," at Playwrights Horizons, is a fuzzy world lacking depth.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:31PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 29, 2024
"…HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB" Â Â Â Â That was the subtitle, when exactly sixty years ago a shower of Oscars fell on Stanley Kubrick's brilliantly tasteles…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:26PM[SHARE]In this episode, Hayley and Amy chat about the hot topic of self-care! What
does self-care look like for us? What gets in the way of our self-care, and
what can we do to prioritize takin…
SOURCE: www.womenandtheatre.com at 06:00PM[SHARE]Friday, October 25, 2024
The Women & Theatre RISE Series presents mini-interviews conducted at the
Inaugural RISE Summit with network partners of RISE Theatre, all of which
are organizations working to incre…
SOURCE: www.womenandtheatre.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]A HARD AND ICY WORLD   A 1970's Hull folksong chorus: "Next time you see a trawlerman on Hessle Road half tight " remember, o remember, the perils of that night". It was a tribut…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:27AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 24, 2024
BROTHER, CHRISTIAN, WITCHFINDER  I reviewed this play about the Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins last year, in Ipswich: I write only to add thoughts, now that it ha…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:54PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 22, 2024
In this episode, Hayley and Amy talk with Broadway performer Happy
McPartlin about always being prepared to go on as a standby/cover, the
importance of storytelling for human connection,…
SOURCE: www.womenandtheatre.com at 06:00PM[SHARE]Monday, October 21, 2024
A stripped-back revival of the classic musical, starring the singer Nicole Scherzinger, opened at the St. James Theater on Sunday night.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:54PM[SHARE]Friday, October 18, 2024
Broadway isn't the only place boasting big names. Off-Broadway stages are also getting their fair share of star power this month, with favorites from the silver screen telling fresh stories …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06PM[SHARE]The Women & Theatre RISE Series presents mini-interviews conducted at the
Inaugural RISE Summit with network partners of RISE Theatre, all of which
are organizations working to incre…
SOURCE: www.womenandtheatre.com at 11:10AM[SHARE]The Women & Theatre RISE Series presents mini-interviews conducted at the
Inaugural RISE Summit with network partners of RISE Theatre, all of which
are organizations working to incre…
SOURCE: www.womenandtheatre.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 16, 2024
LEHMANS REVISITED The first time I saw Sam Mendes' production at the NT, I exclaimed that the evening had no right to be so much fun: three hours, three chaps in black frock coats, no so…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:10AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 15, 2024
In this episode, Hayley and Amy talk with arts administrator and producer
Skye Cone Ivey about values-first producing, making space for people who
have been excluded, advocating for ment…
SOURCE: www.womenandtheatre.com at 06:00PM[SHARE]CHOSEN PEOPLE, CHOSEN LIVES   The saying goes "two Jews, three opinions", though some say that's an underestimate. Here are five people and innumerable opinions: two couples,�…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:58PM[SHARE]Two dancers from the Ailey company perform part of "Night Creature" on the roof of the Whitney Museum, where the choreographer is the subject of a major exhibition.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 14, 2024
Performed simultaneously in sign language and sung English, a Los Angeles revival of the Green Day musical finds new ways to communicate rage and angst.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 10, 2024
As hundreds of personal effects belonging to playwright John Osborne go up for sale, Hare laments that the V&A is not bidding
The vital memorabilia and personal effects of our greatest p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Mathieu Kassovitz has turned his cult 1995 movie into a stage musical. The France it represents is different " though much hasn't changed.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AM[SHARE]Sent from my iPad ZELDIN AGAIN I sometimes feel real sympathy (possibly unwanted) for actors who, trained and motivated to channel and express extreme and painful emotions, do their absolute…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 4, 2024
POETRY AND PITY   Tremendous swagged, fringed, and roped retro curtains , the Gielgud looking much as it would 100 years ago when Sean O'Casey's most famous play reach…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:46AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 2, 2024
SHARP SCRATCH? Â Â Crossing the Edgware Rd yesterday a shouting vaccine denier with a loudspeaker informed us all, stomping past in some sort of hurry, Â that vaccines were lies, in…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:02AM[SHARE]Monday, September 30, 2024
STONED STONES IN WEST WITTERING, 1967 Â Â Â 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 06:33PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 05:01AM[SHARE]VICTORIAN 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 …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:51AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 09:42AM[SHARE]LAURIE 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,Â�…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:21AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 f…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:57AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 ev…
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