Friday, November 10, 2023
FLAT WHITE AND WOEFUL Â Â Â Â If you're going to splash out on a visually arresting finale of assassination, a vivId fire destroying a Norman tower and a lyrical monologue about L…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:10AM[SHARE]ECHOES OF DARKNESS Â Â Jews gather, laughing and chattering, offering a toast as they run down the aisles to settle downstage for a Passover meal with candles, prayers and the ancient …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:55AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 9, 2023
FAR MORE THAN A SNACK   Caught this late, and it's much reviewed and almost sold out. But it's worth saying in a brief word here that if you buy a return as I did, you are in luc…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:58PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 7, 2023
A QUEEN WHO NEEDED QUEENS   The curtain rises on the Clarence House garden room in 1979, where the Queen Mother held her eccentric little court. Much gilding, unreasonably…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:58PM[SHARE]   WHEN WE THAT ARE LEFT GROW OLD….    Sometimes you have to rely on a team with multiple comedy awards to hold a mirror to society and move your heart. Thi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:13AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 2, 2023
DIANA AND THE DECEIVER Jonathan Maitland did a superb play for this theatre about Thatcher and Howe, "Dead Sheep", and one on Jimmy Savile which was far more telling and cathartic than the T…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 1, 2023
SCIENCE FANTASY AND HONEST EMOTION     I don't normally indulge in first-night anecdotes, but feel I should mention that in the big wedding scene Joanna Woodward tossed he…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:23PM[SHARE]AGATHA STRIKES AGAIN Â Â Â This is Extreme Agatha Christie, her most preposterous (and bestselling) plot and one of the most murderously morbid (NB the final moments of the staging …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:59PM[SHARE]In the early 1960s Bill Kenwright and I were both in the National Youth Theatre. His broad Merseyside accent provided a high point during our production of Richard III. It's hard to do phone…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 31, 2023
MEMORIES OF A MAVERICK Â It's an immersive show, in that you buy a drink in the cramped saloon of the old pub on Greek Street, find a corner, and ideally fall into conversation with anoth…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:20PM[SHARE]WHILE THE REAL ONE RUNS…. With the Covid Inquiry surging along in a froth of accusations and curses and scandalous Whatsappery, it was hard to resist a hasty day-return to Harry Davies' de…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:12PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 29, 2023
Venues across the UK closed over building safety fears sprinkle a little magic to keep their shows on the road
Every good pantomime needs a menacing villain to threaten all the fun, and this…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:13AM[SHARE]Friday, October 27, 2023
The US author of Sex and the City will appear on stage in London in early 2024 before going on a UK-wide tour
Candace Bushnell, the real-life Carrie Bradshaw, is bringing her one-woman show …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:55PM[SHARE]THE FIRST WITCHFINDER, NOT WITHOUT LESSONS FOR TODAY     This is remarkable, Joanna Carrick's best and deepest play yet,  following her acclaimed Reformation trilogy.…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:44AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 25, 2023
A MOTHER'S LIFE, A SON'S PERSPECTIVE Sometimes it is almost useful to be a day late (sorry, tied up yesterday) because it gives a chance to read other people's take on the play you saw.�…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:25AM[SHARE]Friday, October 20, 2023
GENIUS, REALPOLITIK, RELIGION    In days of horrifying conflict there was quite a jolt in a confrontation between Stephen Hagan's resplendently silver-suited Frederick the…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:16AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 17, 2023
PROPERTY RAGE FROM ANOTHER AGE Here's a curiosity from 1972; an early , rarely-seen Caryl Churchill play revived with dashing elegance under the Jermyn's Artistic director Stella Pow…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:18PM[SHARE]GRIM AND PURE BY THE DOCKS, PITY AND POETRY   The lawyer Alfieri, prowling in memory round Arthur Miller's stark tale of immigrant longshoremen on the 1940's Brooklyn docks, s…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:12PM[SHARE]Monday, October 16, 2023
A LEARNED FRIEND REMEMBERED   Rumpole of the Bailey is occasional comfort-viewing in our house, thanks to Talkingpicturestv repeats. John Mortimer's portrait of the old barri…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:12AM[SHARE]Friday, October 13, 2023
Agatha Christie takes center stage in a can't-miss Theatreworks SIlicon Valley production written by Heidi Armbruster and directed by Giovanna Sardelli, "Mrs. Christie" deftly weaves togethe…
SOURCE: splashmags.com at 11:02AM[SHARE]ITS THE PICTURES THAT GOT SMALL? Not if Lloyd can help it. It felt strange to see this in the bowels of a gala-night Savoy, only a week or two after our local arts centre showed the …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:16AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 5, 2023
Oak floorboards discovered at St George's Guildhall, King's Lynn, believed to be only surviving stage from Shakespeare's time
Boards trodden by the Bard have been discovered under layers of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:25AM[SHARE]Monday, October 2, 2023
While many criticise content guidance in art and literature, others argue they help people make informed choices
When a London theatre decided to warn potential audiences about strong langua…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:37AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 1, 2023
IT'S BACK, THROUGH THE NURSERY WINDOW, STILL FLYING    Just to reassure you: this offshoot from Mischief, the team who brought you the perennial Play-goes-wrong, is still…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 28, 2023
 THE TWIG WHO BRANCHED OUT    We get up to speed on the period, with irresistible tracks from the golden age of pop: Beatles, Stones, Animals.  Onstage is a photograph…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 26, 2023
A TANKFUL OF EMOTIONAL TENTACLES    Where better than Hampstead to watch the interplay of cutting-edge science with emotional intensity and philosophical unanswerables? Upsta…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:38AM[SHARE]Friday, September 22, 2023
Many women working in industry say allegations only scratch the surface of its culture of misogyny
"When I was 18 I had an incident with a powerful male comedian in his 30s," says Lucy (name…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:37AM[SHARE]PHONETICALLY PHABULOUS Â Â Â Last time Bertie Carvel was on this stage it was as Donald Trump. Now our best shapeshifter is Henry Higgins: capering, swearing, somewhere on the far si…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:17AM[SHARE]Imposter 22 will run for three weeks at renowned Sloane Square theatre and comes after series of workshops
A play performed by a professional cast of learning disabled and autistic actors is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:07AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 21, 2023
THE INFECTION OF WICKEDNESS Â Â Â Â Â The history of the Lodz ghetto in Poland is a part of the Holocaust story worth foxusing on, ot least because the Jewish population there …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:04PM[SHARE]LAST NIGHT I DREAMT I WENT TO MANDERLEYÂ YET AGAIN… Â Â Â Daphne Du Maurier's story is almost a national myth, what with the grand house on the towering cliffs, the terrifying …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:18AM[SHARE] 
