Thursday, November 24, 2022
In New York City Ballet’s production this year, the children, most of them new to the show, are back to normal. Pint-size, that is.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMWednesday, November 23, 2022
CLEVER, CLOWNING, CLASSIC What could be more seasonal than Flaubert’s tale of wifely frustration, romantic illusions, disastrous adulteries and ruinous shopaholic debt? This adapt…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:57AMTuesday, November 22, 2022
Actor joins demonstration over plans to slash £50m from arts bodies in London as part of levelling-up agenda
Recent cuts to arts funding are part of “an agenda of cultural vandalism” th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18PMMonday, November 21, 2022
New Earth Theatre said ‘damaging tropes, misogyny and racism’ in show contradict its values
A touring theatre company has pulled a play from the Sheffield Crucible because of the venue�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36PMThe choreographer Katja Heitmann collects people’s habits and mannerisms — how they walk, stand, kiss, sleep and fidget — for her ongoing dance project.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AMFriday, November 18, 2022
In our final set of case studies exploring the impact of Arts Council England’s new funding round, we speak to Ballet Black, Disability Arts Online and Camden Art Centre
Thrilled, relieved…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AMThursday, November 17, 2022
Leading names of British theatre and film criticise decision not to give Churchill award because of her support for Palestinian rights
Some of the leading names of British theatre and film h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMWednesday, November 16, 2022
A DAUGHTER OF DISREPUTE 1893, and here’s George Bernard Shaw passing the Bechdel Test with flying colours by centring the action on two women at odds , with surrounding men remarkably d…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:28PMIn our third set of case studies exploring the impact of Arts Council England’s new funding round, we hear from Eclipse in Leeds, Oldham Coliseum and Hexham’s Bloodaxe Books
Organisation…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMPURE PLEASURE AT HER MAJESTY’S It seemed worth the money – these were not press tickets – to check out how good old Fanty is getting on after 36 years at Her Majesty’s The…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:21AMTuesday, November 15, 2022
DRUNKENNESS AND THE DARK The studio at Hampstead has been on a roll recently, with intelligent and emotionally honest plays : FOLK, RAVENSCOURT, THE ANIMAL KINGDOM et al. It nurt…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:00AMMonday, November 14, 2022
In our second set of case studies exploring the impact of Arts Council England’s new funding decisions, we hear from Balbir Singh Dance Company, Britten Sinfonia and Little Bulb
Organisati…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMSaturday, November 12, 2022
On one downtown Berkeley block, phở is both dinner and theater for two Chronicle critics.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:07PMXander Parish, who fled St Petersburg in March, talks about his performance this weekend with Russian and Ukrainian artistes
When the dancer Xander Parish made his return to the London stage…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMThursday, November 10, 2022
In the first of a series of case studies exploring the impact of Arts Council England’s new funding decisions, we consider the view from the Watermill theatre, Welsh National Opera and Pai…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMTuesday, November 8, 2022
Adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel will premiere at Swan theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in April
A stage production of a poignant novel about the death of William Shakespeare’s son…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:03AMFriday, November 4, 2022
English National Opera to create new base, possibly in Manchester, but will still manage Coliseum
The English National Opera, one of the country’s cultural flagships, is to relocate outsid…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PMFor American Jews, this fall has become increasingly worrisome. On Thursday alone, the F.B.I. warned of threats to New Jersey synagogues and the Nets suspended Kyrie Irving.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMThursday, November 3, 2022
THE IMPORTANCE OF NOT BEING TOO TRADITIONAL ABOUT IT This cheerfully exuberant rendering of Oscar Wilde’s witty rom-com is also a sort of political act. In the foyer a gorgeous selection…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:34AMMonday, October 31, 2022
ABDUCTION, ASSAULT, ABDICATION For four hundred years the reputation of Mary, Queen of Scots, has been battled over: she has been called victim and whore, murderess and heroine, flight…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:39PMFriday, October 28, 2022
Martinez, once a member of the company’s troupe and a former leader of the National Dance Company of Spain, will take up the position in December.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24AMWednesday, October 26, 2022
WHEN THEY PUT THE FUN – AND THE FUNDS – INTO FUNDAMENTALISM.. Rarely in the history of Islington playgoing have so many first-nighters whooped so enthusiastically at Gospe…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:00PMSunday, October 23, 2022
Many in the UK’s creative sector are being hit hard by rising fuel costs and reluctant audiences
When Sarah Munro was first appointed director of one of Britain’s biggest art galleries, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:55PMDivina de Campo starred in revival of Hedwig and the Angry Inch at Leeds Playhouse
A star of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK has picked up a leading theatre award for her performance as an East Germ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:33PMSaturday, October 22, 2022
DODD-LEVEL HAPPINESS IN SOHO Hard, on its first night ever, not to review the theatre itself. Nica Burns and Nimax open the first new West End theatre in fifty years: agleam with …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:17AMFriday, October 21, 2022
She was an older sister of pop superstar Carly Simon, with whom she performed in the 1960s. Later, she and her husband won Grammy Awards for children's albums.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:13PMThursday, October 20, 2022
Producer says trial asked questions about boundaries between privacy and celebrity and what it is to be a Wag
A play about the “Wagatha Christie” trial is to be staged in the West End by…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:25AMWednesday, October 19, 2022
The battle to win a New York City casino license has heated up in Manhattan, with real estate and gambling giants offering competing proposals for Times Square and Hudson Yards.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:07PMThe current Broadway revival of “1776” was hoping to spark a conversation about power and representation. And it has, if not quite in the way it intended.
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 12:13AMTuesday, October 18, 2022
A cast member criticized the consciously progressive revival for its handling of race in rehearsals, saying there had been “harm done.” She later apologized for her comments.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:25PMOLD MEN DO NOT FORGET Peter Gill’s new play has a melancholy beauty about it; it’s a sort of poem as the veteran playwright and director engages with age, regret and m…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:21PM 
