Wednesday, February 7, 2024
 AMERICAN DREAMS IN FADING BLACKPOOL   Suddenly within a fortnight come two very classy new plays, funny and thoughtful and moving beyond the ordinary. Moreover, in a tiny rev…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:11PM[SHARE]Exclusive: Director says he is interested to see response of new audiences at a time of growing instability
The global theatrical phenomenon War Horse is returning to British stages for the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 4, 2024
Hit composer scored TV and radio as well as the stage shows X-Factor and TONY!
The British comedy composer Steve Brown, who collaborated with the likes of Harry Hill, Steve Coogan and Lenny …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PM[SHARE]Friday, February 2, 2024
THAT OL'TIME WESTERN DREAM OF 1979 I have a weakness for this little theatre under the arches and its Players' Bar. Honouring a music-hall history, and with some of the cheapest stal…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:10AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 1, 2024
The 6th Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival swept through Chicago as vigorously as the cold front that accompanied much of it, and puppets dominated venues all around Chicago for t…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 02:34PM[SHARE]SMALL PEOPLE,  BIG PLAY      A hot summer wedding-day. The bride Sylvia is a bag of nerves, big sister Hazel competently combing and marshalling her teenage…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:07AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Council has found one-off funding pot after announcing 100% cut, but people in county say sector is being destroyed
As a chant of "Stop the cuts! Stop the cuts! Stop the cuts!" echoes off th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12PM[SHARE]Michelle Terry, who is also the Globe's artistic director, says she will not alter her physicality for role
The artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe has pushed on with playing Richard II…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 27, 2024
Written by Magda Romanska and Kasia Lech All theatre is local. All theatre is global. Both statements are true: theatre has always been and continues to be a vehicle for national identity…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:44PM[SHARE]Being on the edge is the place where I like to be no matter in what domain it is…and the edge is a place which overlaps with other edges…so you're likely to meet other people round the e…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:51AM[SHARE]Friday, January 26, 2024
Theatre dedicated to new writing says it is 'reassessing staff teams' after sharp rise in production costs
The Royal Court is considering making redundancies as part of a restructuring proce…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PM[SHARE]The American Museum of Natural History is closing two major halls as museums around the nation respond to updated policies from the Biden administration.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 25, 2024
UNFROGGETTABLE MOMENTS IN THE UNDERWORLD   Aitor Basauri does not need to be framed in a 20ft-high giant puppet frog in order to be funny, but blissful overkill is part of the ple…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 24, 2024
A DANCE AROUND AUSTEN'S LEGACY The book is known and loved enough: Jane Austen's first full novel, written with satirical youthful wit but long laid aside unpublished. It gleefully shows…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:45PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 23, 2024
LEST ANYONE FORGET..   Storytime! Before a tangled treescape Samantha Spiro sits with a book on her lap.  Across the simple stage a few notes from Gemma Rosefield's 'cello…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:31PM[SHARE]Friday, January 19, 2024
Sarah Grochala's Intelligence follows Lovelace's attempts to be taken seriously as a scientist in 1840s London
A play about the reincarnation of the Victorian computing pioneer Ada Lovelace …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 17, 2024
BORDERS AND BRUTALITIES, Maybe I shouldnt review what is essentially physical-theatre. I have no dance-cred, and I was pleased to be warned years ago by the great Benedict Nightingale, when …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Royal Shakespeare Company's new artistic directors team up with artists from around the world to appeal to wider audience
The Royal Shakespeare Company is attempting to attract new audiences…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AM[SHARE]WAR'S LONG SHADOW       I have a taste for "Forgotten" plays of well-made realism, illustrating how it actually felt to live in Britain through now-distant…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:24AM[SHARE]Monday, January 15, 2024
Before publishing his vampire classic in 1897, the author was employed as a personal secretary at the Actors' Benevolent Fund
The imagination of Bram Stoker gave life to one of literature's …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM[SHARE]The Doctor Who and Thick of It actor laments the lack of support for emerging talent from working-class backgrounds
' Read the full interview with Peter Capaldi
Britain's cast of leading act…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 14, 2024
Theatreland is taking a gamble on a wave of quirky little shows to challenge the big but tired box office beasts
A fresh kind of musical theatre show, set apart by having started life on th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:32PM[SHARE]Friday, January 12, 2024
"Queens of Sheba" and "Volcano" at Under the Radar, and "Bacon," at International Fringe Encore Series, expound on identity, captivity and violence.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:12PM[SHARE]BEFORE THE SALEM TERROR    This week, to little acclaim, the Ambassadors opened Tbe Enfield Haunting, a play centred on the spooky hysteria of troubled teenage girls..…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 11, 2024
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
GRIEF, CLASS, AND THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT Â Â Â Â Â Press night having moved about and gone incommunicado, this is from when I bought a preview ticket at Richmond..sa…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:03PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 7, 2024
Windsor and Maidenhead scraps cultural budget in wake of similar moves in Suffolk, Bristol, Nottingham and Birmingham
The chill blast of damaging cuts to provincial arts venues has returned …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18PM[SHARE]Jessica Daley rushed to the rescue after Curve theatre in Leicester put out a call for someone who knew the role
An actor travelled more than 150 miles to ensure a performance of the musical…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18PM[SHARE]Friday, January 5, 2024
Who else could wring humour out of getting a smear test? Plus: wild childhood pets and more on Would I Lie to You? Here's what to watch this evening Continue reading...
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