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]A FRESH CAST, ONE YEAR ONÂ Can it really be a whole year since, with theatre still gallantly recovering from Covid, Nicholas Hytner rolled the dice and opted to offer us some razzle dazzl…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:40AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 10, 2024
The coal miner's daughter who set up the Open University and the Arts Council and was Britain's youngest MP is the subject of two new shows
'Behind every great man stands a great woman," the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 9, 2024
Whoever wins next month's Olivier awards, global stars will continue to flock to the West End of London to give the stage their all. We take a peek behind the curtain …
At what point does …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24AM[SHARE]Friday, March 8, 2024
PLANT FOOD PEOPLE FROM THE PAST     I missed this first time round, due to the babysitting years, so it was grand to catch up. It's a 1980's revival, a spoof on 19…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:15AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 7, 2024
A MAVERICK MINISTER     There's another play to be written about Aneurin Bevan, stubborn founder of the National Health Service: perhaps a more contentious one, or a fant…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:44AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 6, 2024
ONCE BRITTEN TWICE SHY?   The late David Hemmings, one of Britten's mentored, worshipped boy sopranos, was unforgettable aged 12 as the original MIles in the composer's terrif…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:45PM[SHARE]THE WINDRUSH WARRIORS    Moses' crowded bedsit is where the new ones turn up off the boat train, wanting to know how to do London; he can tell them names like Clapham…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:49AM[SHARE]Monday, March 4, 2024
GUEST REVIEWER AND OPERABUFF DEAN THOMPSON LOVES ENO'S LATEST Ingenious " Dazzling " Hilarious! If you haven't seen The Magic Flute before, then this is the one to see; if you have see…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:46AM[SHARE]Friday, March 1, 2024
CORONATION, COMMISSION, COLLABORATION       You need not be a selfish pig to be an artist of genius, but there's no question that it often helps. Occurs, anywa…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:10AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 29, 2024
AN ATTIC WARNING    Fasten your seat belts for a bracingly odd German play by Marius von Mayenburg; hold on tight as it veers in a switchback weirdness, which I for one en…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:47PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 28, 2024
THEY SHALL NOT PASS   Given the current swell of antisemitism there was a heartstopping moment from Jez Unwin as Yitzhak Scheinberg, patriarch of a hardworking East End Jewish fam…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:26PM[SHARE]ACE had been under pressure to revise guidance in January which focused on 'reputational risk'
Arts Council England (ACE) has released new guidance confirming it will not penalise organisati…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42PM[SHARE]1948 AND ALL THAT   Right now, the birth of the NHS in 1948 is more than appropriate to write about (there's another play about Nye Bevan next week). For as the most jaded doctor …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:16AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Exclusive: Jeremy O Harris says Game of Thrones star will not 'make it the Jon Snow Experience'
The writer of Slave Play, the controversial Broadway production about race and sexuality that …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 25, 2024
Based on the 2006 novel by Sara Gruen, the musical follows a young man who hops a train and falls in with a ragtag, traveling group of entertainers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 24, 2024
Napalm Death, visual artist Pogus Caesar and Peaky Blinders' Steven Knight also among city's cultural figures warning over 'horrifying' move
Birmingham's cultural figures from Carlos Acosta …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 22, 2024
Team behind Little Amal puppet hope to create 'visceral engagement' with issues caused by climate emergency
The production team behind the Little Amal puppet, which raised awareness about th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36PM[SHARE]It's one of the best-selling Y.A. novels of all time and a star-studded Coppola movie from the '80s. On its way to Broadway, the show's cast and creators paid S.E. Hinton a visit.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Entertainment company pays tribute to performer's 'impeccable dancing' and 'vibrant spirit'
The former Strictly Come Dancing professional Robin Windsor has died at the age of 44.
He most rec…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AM[SHARE]WANNA BE IN MOVIES? REALLY? BRRRR! We open in a chilly Suffolk cottage in the rain (IÂ am tonight probably the only person here to have come direct from a chilly Suffolk cottage, in rain.…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:31AM[SHARE]Friday, February 16, 2024
A stage adaptation of the film featured an all-Western cast, was performed in Chinese and raised questions about translation, both linguistic and cultural.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:06PM[SHARE]TENTACLES STRETCHING INTO PAST AND FUTURE   Electricity is coming to the village but the elderly Randolphs wont bother, preferring the paraffin lamplight of their forebears. …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:46PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 15, 2024
WHEN THE BOOMERS WERE ROCKIN' ALL OVER THE WORLD... Â Â "We were there!" cry the cast of John O'Farrell's jukebox tribute to the 1985 Live Aid concert. Memories undimmed nearly forty y…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:14PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 14, 2024
FAIRYTALE AS FESTIVAL    "The lunatic, the lover and the poet" are all served in any Midsummer Night's dream.  Here the first two get most traction, the poetry least (…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 13, 2024
For Valentine's Day this year, why not give the gift of Broadway? To help you woo your plus one of choice"Valentine, galentine or whomever"Broadway.com offers up five poems tailor-made to th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:54PM[SHARE]Monday, February 12, 2024
   LYRICAL, FARCICAL, PERFECT Figaro, rascally wigmaker and foam-flinging wet-shaver, is basically the first rapper, isnt he? Staccato eloquence at speed, braggart confidence i…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:50PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 11, 2024
The literary department at the London theatre is renowned for taking risks with untried playwrights, but is now under threat
The Royal Court is known for putting the names of emerging playwr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 10, 2024
Highly anticipated new play is a post-#MeToo story about trials women endure to realise their dreams
He has built a reputation as one of Britain's most revered modern playwrights, but Jez Bu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:02AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 8, 2024
Kwame Kwei-Armah became first African-Caribbean director to lead a major British theatre when he took over from David Lan in 2018
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:36AM[SHARE] 
