Sunday, April 28, 2024
THE COURT AND THE BEDCHAMBER    Theatre will never tire of the Tudors, nor should it. From every new angle they offer a dramatic gift which never stops giving. Here's 153…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:10AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 25, 2024
Women in Theatre Lab will act as incubator for playwriting and acting talent and address gender inequality
Gemma Arterton, Joanna Scanlan and Stella Kanu are some of the figures backing an i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AM[SHARE]Monday, April 22, 2024
A party for the buzzy revival of the Broadway musical was held at a theater that has been transformed to look like a 1930s-era nightclub.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:36PM[SHARE]Friday, April 19, 2024
MEN BEHAVING RIDICULOUSLY The lord of Navarre and three nobles have resolved to retreat and study for three years, eschewing female company: so even the princess suing for land has t…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:47AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 18, 2024
MUD, MARSH, MONEY Â Â Â Now here's a bracing new way to do Dickens:Â avoid sets full of Victoriana by keeping the stage pretty much empty beneath a set of uneasily moving lighting…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:20AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 17, 2024
"The youth are f**ked" is the catch phrase of Sam Gold's upcoming Broadway revival of Romeo + Juliet, led by young stars Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler. Shakespeare's classic tale of houses di…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:18PM[SHARE]As his coming-of-age rollercoaster hits the stage, the novelist talks about the boredom of hospitals, how Britain has changed since Buddha " and why shouting at his kids is a great way to wr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 16, 2024
REFLECTIONS ON A FAT KNIGHT Due to train disruption " speak not of overhead wires and wind " I had to bail out at the interval, from Robert Icke's epic three and a half hour modern-d…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:47AM[SHARE]Monday, April 15, 2024
Our theater critics and a reporter discuss the big winner " "Sunset Boulevard" " and the rest of the honorees at Britain's equivalent of the Tonys.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:32AM[SHARE]WHY HALESWORTH MATTERS TO THE NATIONAL DRAMATIC ECOSYSTEM Â Â The other day I did an overview-preview from some dress rehearsals at the INK short play festival in Suffolk (scroll below)…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:51AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 14, 2024
   CROOKBACK DICK REIMAGINED      Saving Richard III from Shakespeare's calumny seems to have a particular appeal to women: probably because around his accessi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:41AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 13, 2024
DIVING ABOUT IN A UNIQUE SHORT-PLAY FESTIVAL      Join me on a parked Hoppa minibus where Henry VIII is chatting up a new Jane. She is not impressed by the Tudor-Tinde…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:27AM[SHARE]Friday, April 12, 2024
HOLINESS IN THE WHALE     It pretty much had me harpooned at the words "Call me Ishmael".  As Mark Arends' earnestly naive schoolteacher speaks the opening lines and …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:26AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 4, 2024
WUTHERING SIBLINGS    Grace Smart the designer sets the scene as we settle in with a sweet miniature moor, all harebells and heather and cloddy bits of earth. But it rises in …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:55PM[SHARE]THE GAME'S AFOOT. EVENTUALLY. Nick Lane's adaptation of Conan Doyle's late, broodingly complicated novel has met many huzzahs from Sherlock Holmes fans, previously here, on tour and stre…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:56AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 3, 2024
DOSTOYEVSKY IN DALTON
   "These days" says the man on the empty stage, "people are precious to me, even when they insult me. I have woken up". His stark features d…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:17PM[SHARE]Gregory Doran asks how content warnings could be issued for Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus
It is a play renowned for its extreme physical violence, with scenes featuring execution, rape and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 30, 2024
CAMPUS RITES AND WRONGS Sometimes, I do like a stage set you could cosily move right into. Paul Farnsworth's is a nice evocation of a Harvard professor's study: shelves and panelling…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:22PM[SHARE]Friday, March 29, 2024
HOMAGE TO THE FIRST CELEBRITY DIVA     Last time theatre's pre-Victorian glory days " silk breeches, rowdy audiences and Garrickian hamming " were celebrated on this s…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:35AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 27, 2024
HOW TO WASTE A STELLAR CAST    Sheridan Smith is not only a box-office draw but a rare and genuine talent: two decades a star on screen and stage, musicals and drama:…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:27AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 24, 2024
MAGIC . ALWAYS BETTER WHEN DISASTROUS.      God bless Mischief Theatre. Eleven years ago this coming May I saw THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG in the tiny downstairs space at…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:01PM[SHARE]Friday, March 22, 2024
Campaigners call for 'outdated structures' that undermine progress and encourage inequality to be dismantled
Cultural organisations and equality campaigners have called on high-profile figur…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32PM[SHARE]KIDS WITH A KICK IN THEM Â Â Â Â There's been an interlockof themes in theatre lately: DEAR ENGLAND at the NT displaying Gareth Southgate's work in fostering the openness and emot…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 21, 2024
HOPE, HEART, HARDSHIP Â Â Brian Friel's 1979 remarkable play stands on its own, offering a kind of depressive beauty: beneath the story of one ramshackle troubled couple it is a meditat…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:44AM[SHARE]RO$$INI BONANZA! Guest reviewer Dean Thompson finds much in a small space… Opera lovers or new to opera will love this! So, get on your horse and gallop over to see Charles Court O…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:23AM[SHARE]Monday, March 18, 2024
A CELLULOID INVASION  This was at first a startling choice: Eastern Angles' tradition is generally, as it heroically tours night-by-night across the eastern counties,  to pro…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:52PM[SHARE]Friday, March 15, 2024
Gayli, a dance night at a Brooklyn bar, provides a welcoming atmosphere for Irish social dancing, an exacting art form known for high-pressure competition.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:02AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 13, 2024
BOARDROOM BEASTS Â Â This may break all records for the smartest costumes ever at the Southwark's smallest space: six irreproachable business suits, including two sets of tweed-chic fe…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:26AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Football drama Dear England receives nine nominations in a year that featured a string of celebrity castings' Complete list of nominations
James Norton, Andrew Scott, Sarah Jessica Parker, S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32AM[SHARE] 
