Tuesday, February 21, 2023
The 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 02:00AMMonday, February 20, 2023
A new exhibition lets us see the Yorkshire artist’s greatest hits – and overlooked rarities – through new eyes. Photographer Justin Sutcliffe went behind the scenes
“I’ve always be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMTuesday, February 14, 2023
Theatre operators and producers changing marketing strategy as rowdy behaviour escalates
Popular musicals will be told to avoid phrases such as “best party in town” and “dancing in the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PM HIGH ABOVE THE BRUTAL AND BELOVED CITY It’s an architectural moment. Within the stark brutalist NT is a set in homage to a brutalist landmark: the early 1960’s Park Hill Fl…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:15AMSunday, February 12, 2023
The Brits faced criticism for not nominating women in gender-neutral category but women reign in theatre awards chosen by public
Women have dominated the gender-neutral performing categories…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:45PMFriday, February 10, 2023
COUGAR CHAOS The Greeks just go on giving. Writer-director Simon Stone’s play, set today amid the upper-middle classes of Holland Park and second-home Suffolk, credits itself m…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:53AMThursday, February 9, 2023
A MONETARY MORALITY PLAY Three hour-long plays, two intervals, three men in black frock-coats explain some financial history in a revolving glass box in front of a projected , m…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:05AMIntroduction São Paulo Theatre School was founded in 2009 with the aim to establish a democratic space and implement an innovative pedagogical system in agreement with the specific nature o…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:59AMWednesday, February 8, 2023
Wilson to enact single, seven-minute scene on loop with 100 men to explore gender roles
Ruth Wilson has called a new stage role in which she will perform the same scene repeatedly for 24 hou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00AMTuesday, February 7, 2023
ENTRE, is a Portuguese verb in the imperative tense that invites us to enter. That says to us: Enter! Entre.Between.Pomiędzy, a festival that took place in Midwest Brazil in 2022, extended …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:23AMAdapted from Larry Sultan’s photo memoir, Sharr White’s play “Pictures From Home” explores the lies people — and their photographs — tell.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AMMonday, February 6, 2023
A TALE FOR TODAY FROM A PRUSSIAN PAST Here’s a love story, an idyll of 18c Prussia: Corporal Anastasius Linck, a Hanoverian musketeer in dashing white breeches and shiny buttons …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:25PMSunday, February 5, 2023
Friday, February 3, 2023
Featherstone is latest high-profile figure to leave a major theatre in recent months
The artistic director of the Royal Court, one of London’s most prestigious theatres, is stepping down a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMWednesday, February 1, 2023
SITCOMS MADE US, BUT CAN WE MAKE THEM? It’s a very good idea, bang on the money: David Cantor and Michael Kingsbury (TV sitcom writers with a pedigree) set their play in a bland pr…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:51AMMonday, January 30, 2023
A BLAST OF DAFT JOY Zip-a-dee-doo-dah! Here’s a treat. Disney music, blasting out before this vigorous 65-minute one-man spree, sets the mood. It is carnivalesque, fantastical,…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:52PMSunday, January 29, 2023
A PATIENT TO TRY PATIENCE It must be challenging to play a psychiatrist at work , maybe especially in Finsbury Park where there are bound to be a few in the audience. Yo…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:11PMWednesday, January 25, 2023
Just a few new notes on this , as its completes its triumphant national tour with (amazingly) no stopping-injuries despite the heroically vigorous slapstick direction by Lindsay Posner (move…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:15PM‘It’s my favourite play and it’s wonderful to be able to share it with a wider audience,’ Mescal said
SOURCE: The Independent at 03:41AMTuesday, January 24, 2023
At New York City Ballet, Peck’s “Copland Dance Episodes” brings the composer’s three classic ballet scores under one roof, at last.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:30PMMonday, January 23, 2023
Elon Musk's Twitter feed is absurdist theater, so we hired a local actor to perform it as a monologue.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSunday, January 22, 2023
Sonne, los jetzt!, Elfriede Jelinek’s new theater piece, is imperative with an unknown addressee. Is it the Sun or humanity that needs to make a change? Obviously, this is a first of many …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:40AMThursday, January 19, 2023
Report criticises indifference to sector’s potential and calls for new approach to address skills shortages
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The UK risks losing its leading positio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:13AMHELLMAN’S LESSON IN HUMANITY Theatre can offer few more topical messages for a nation which might hesitate over Ukraine’s needs than this neglected one-set domestic play by Lilia…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:28AMPULLING THE WOOL Most dystopian visions set themselves quite far in the future. Misha Levkov, however, keeps us in 2025, specifying that productions should always be set a cou…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:22AMWednesday, January 18, 2023
The Public Theater’s experimental theater festival is back in person for the first time since 2020. Here, our critics review a second selection of the works on display.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:20PMAN OLD INJUSTICE REMEMBERED An old man steps onstage alone: upright, soldierly in khaki as a former US war hero who is, he says resignedly, “brought out every year on the …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:37AMTuesday, January 17, 2023
The only Bafta award voted for by the British public, the five nominees are all actors from the UK and Ireland
Naomi Ackie, who plays Whitney Houston in a new feature film about the late sin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:17AMFriday, January 13, 2023
The Public Theater’s experimental theater festival is back in person for the first time since 2020. Here, our critics review a handful of the works on display.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:02PMSunday, January 8, 2023
The 1982 play stills pulls in crowds from Broadway to Helsinki, and is now returning to the West End for a fifth time. ‘I just can’t understand it,’ says its creator
The arrival of a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00AM 
