Thursday, September 21, 2023
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]Tuesday, September 19, 2023
LOSS AND GRIEF IN A SILICON WORLD     In a bleak grey minimalist space Merril (a restlessly gamine Myanna Buring) is grieving her much younger sister Angie, who has v…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:55AM[SHARE]Friday, September 15, 2023
Next year's opening of Plaza Suite in West End, with Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, reignites affordability debate
When Plaza Suite, Neil Simon's witty commentary on love and m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03PM[SHARE]INDIA 1948 , LESSONS FOR ALL TIME   This show is a happy return, especially if like me you missed it last summer: the National at its best, a modern epic and warning directed…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:56AM[SHARE]The styles in "Jaja's African Hair Braiding," in previews on Broadway, require a wig designer, several braiders, some synthetic hair and lots of patience.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:07AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 14, 2023
SHOOT, SCORE, SPARK!  This is the year of football plays. First Dear England at the Olivier, now the women's turn on another stage, out East a bit. Here's another neon str…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:58AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 13, 2023
A SCANDALOUS WOMAN IN A STORMY WORLD    A distant thunder of naval artillery: against elegant panelled walls in Naples a bundled matron  in a bonnet watches her flighty daugh…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:22AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 10, 2023
The 1970s star blazed the way for mass-audience satire in Britain. But is there an appetite for it now?
As the entertainment world mourns the death at 82 of Britain's most popular televisio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:43AM[SHARE]FOUR MORE AWFUL PEOPLE, HURRAH Â Â Â Â Â Two four-handers about awful middle class behaviour in a week:Â just what the irritable heatwave needed. Â This, which I caught i…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 7, 2023
WHEN THE VIRTUE-SIGNALS DRIVE YOU OFF THE RAILS Â Â Â In a boutique restaurant going bankrupt, Jacq and Kas nervously prepare to admit it to their main investor Tobin and his wife Ad…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:05AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 6, 2023
The 68th Sterijino pozorje took place earlier this summer in Novi Sad. Critics Borisav Matić and Andrej ÄŒanji discuss this year's selection. Borisav: May was a month of upheaval and e…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:07AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 23, 2023
Actor accuses Royal Central School of Speech and Drama of paying lip service to anti-discrimination pledges after 2015 incident
The actor Shaniqua Okwok has criticised the Royal Central Scho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:37PM[SHARE]This year, Beach Sessions pairs an adaptation of Merce Cunningham's "Beach Birds" with a response by the choreographer Sarah Michelson.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:05AM[SHARE]Patsy Ferran takes on Eliza in Pygmalion, Andrew Scott plays multiple characters from Uncle Vanya and Mlima's Tale tells a powerful tale of the ivory trade. Here's what's in store on stage C…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:55AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 20, 2023
Younger audiences may not recognise people comedians are impersonating but some performers say there's still plenty to work with
"If I see somebody become famous, and they've got tremendous…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:43PM[SHARE]Wearable backpacks designed by Music: Not Impossible, which allow people to experience music as vibrations on their bodies, are becoming more accessible to the public.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 18, 2023
 HAVING THE BEST OF TIMES IN THE PARK   Even in familiar classics you can never predict which anthem will set you dabbing your eye.  You might expect it at Albin's anguish…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:11PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 17, 2023
DOPAMINE , DRUGS, DANGER, DOCTORS  This intriguing play by Lucy Prebble aired in 2012 in the intimate Cottesloe space , with Billie Piper and Jonjo o'Neill as paid subjects in an ant…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:55AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 16, 2023
FORTY YEARS ON, FROM TWO PERSPECTIVES Â Â This is a properly interesting RSC commission: a history play about the Falklands invasion by Argentina in 1982 and the British task force whi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:35AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 13, 2023
String of vacancies at regional arts venues grows as funding and staffing crisis worsens
Running a theatre has become a seriously unappealing job, according to many of those working at Brita…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:55AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 10, 2023
Actor says high prices are strangling next generation of theatregoers, as cheapest seats rise 13% in a year
The price of West End theatre tickets can be ludicrous and risks strangling the ne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:07AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 9, 2023
SORROW AND SUSPICION Â Â This one had me from the first few minutes: another Jermyn find. Â A new play, whose young actor- writer Abigail Hood and director Kevin Tomlinson both perf…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:57AM[SHARE]Friday, August 4, 2023
A CORONATION YEAR ROMP ANYWAY      A neighbour in the stalls confided that she sees a lot of West End theatre but avoids "the more highbrow sort". She was in the right…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:41PM[SHARE]THREE GENERATIONS UNDER SMARTPHONE RULEÂ Bit late to this one, and it had mixed reviews " largely I suspect because Michael Wynne's play, a two hour four-hander all-woman slice of life in…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:38PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 3, 2023
Yiddish actors will perform a documentary in a Manhattan theater, commemorating Stalin's execution of 13 innocent Jewish intellectuals.
SOURCE: forward.com at 03:59PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 1, 2023
NEVER MIND THE MOUNTAIN, OVER THE ROAD CHICHESTER ROCKS   Now here's a perfect gig for us 1970's leftovers, though I suspect today's young rockers will also love the shiny le…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:45PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 30, 2023
OLD SOHO SPEAKS AGAIN, AND WISELY  Of all the places you'd expect to see Quentin Crisp " even as a ghost or tribute " one of the least likely is a wooded amphitheatre in Suffolk at d…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:26PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 29, 2023
TRAGEDY,  JOKES, ORACLES, SINGING SHEEP AND A BEAR    After last year's storming Macbeth, Red Rose Chain returns to the wooded site at Sutton Hoo for its secon…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:54AM[SHARE]Friday, July 28, 2023
The actor, who was cleared of sexual assault charges in Britain this week, has parts in two small upcoming films. Yet his tarnished public perception makes starry roles unlikely.
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