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Monday, May 9, 2022

Tony Nomination Snubs and Surprises: Daniel Craig, ‘Funny Girl’ and ‘Paradise Square’ by Michael Paulson and Scott Heller

Several stars, including Daniel Craig and Sarah Jessica Parker, were not nominated for their performances, while “Paradise Square” became one of the season’s most-nominated shows.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:06PM

THE CORN IS GREEN Lyttelton, SE1 by Libby Purves and Friends

VOICES FROM THE VALLEYS       It is a curious feeling to be half charmed and half irritated by a production: one moment absorbed in a confrontation and engaged with a character, the next…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:21AM
Saturday, May 7, 2022

Most of Broadway Ends Vaccine Checks as Cases Rise in New York by Matt Stevens and Rachel Sherman

While for-profit theater owners and operators agreed to stop checking proof of vaccination this week, several nonprofit Broadway theaters continue to require it.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:12AM
Friday, May 6, 2022

Most of Broadway ends vaccine checks as cases rise in New York by Matt Stevens and Rachel Sherman

The industry hopes that ending vaccine checks will make theatergoing more attractive, and that the remaining mask mandate will help keep audiences safe as cases have risen.

SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 08:57PM

MARYS SEACOLE. Donmar, WC2 by Libby Purves and Friends

NURSING ACROSS CONTINENTS      Kayla Meikle, stalwart in Victorian dignity and Caribbean matriarchy, addresses us firmly at the start of Jackie Sibblies Drury’s manic, sometimes  chao…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:01AM
Wednesday, May 4, 2022

MIDDLE Dorfman, SE1 by Libby Purves and Friends

IN THE MIDDLE OF LIFE’S JOURNEY..THROW A PLATE OR TWO      Ah, middle age! Waists spreading outwards, options  contracting, marriage all too familiar, parents getting older fast and ch…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:21PM

Dave Chappelle attacked by man with replica gun at LA comedy festival by Nadia Khomami Arts and Culture Correspondent

Incident raises further questions over comedian safety after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at Oscars The comedian Dave Chappelle was attacked during a performance in Los Angeles, according t…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PM
Tuesday, May 3, 2022

Union demands compensation for Cinderella cast after sudden closure by Nadia Khomami Arts and Culture Correspondent

Equity says ‘sacking by press release’ from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s West End show caused pain and distress Current and future cast members of Cinderella must be compensated for their los…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PM

A Dancer’s Farewell, Not as Choreographed by Julia Jacobs and Zachary Small

Abi Stafford Lillo left City Ballet amid a family feud and a dispute over whether a choreographer had body-shamed her or she lacked the strength to dance her final role.

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Footage of racist violence traumatises black children, says author by Lanre Bakare Arts and Culture Correspondent

Claudia Rankine, whose latest play, The White Card, is to tour the UK, warns of negative effect on mental health Footage of violent racist incidents such as the murder of George Floyd is tr…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AM
Monday, May 2, 2022

Russia’s Bolshoi theatre cancels shows by directors who spoke out over Ukraine by Staff and Agencies

Moscow venue drops Timofey Kulyabin’s opera Don Pasquale and Kirill Serebrennikov’s ballet Nureyev Russia-Ukraine war: latest updates Russia’s Bolshoi theatre has upset opera and balle…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PM
Saturday, April 30, 2022

Theatres need more plus-sized black actors, says Broadway and West End star by Nadia Khomami Arts and Culture Correspondent

Marisha Wallace wants to inspire young girls and call out lack of diversity as she takes on role in Oklahoma! A professional career in theatre was not always on the cards for Marisha Wallace…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AM
Thursday, April 28, 2022

PRIMA FACIE Harold Pinter Theatre, WC1 by Libby Purves and Friends

SEXUAL ASSAULT , HARD LAW, AND AN ASTONING WEST END DEBUT    Forget the cold sadistic clotheshorse Vilanelle from Killing Eve.  Actually, forget all Jodie Comer’s screen awards.  This …

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:09AM
Wednesday, April 27, 2022

RSC to stage adaptation of animated fantasy film My Neighbour Totoro by Harriet Sherwood Arts and Culture Correspondent

Royal Shakespeare Company’s version of celebrated Studio Ghibli movie will be first opening ‘of this scale’ in nearly 40 years The Royal Shakespeare Company is to stage an adaptation o…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03AM
Tuesday, April 26, 2022

BARRY HUMPHRIES ; THE MAN BEHIND THE MASK Touring towards London by Libby Purves and Friends

HALF A CENTURY OF HAPPY MISCHIEF Full disclosure: I have been following this man around for the best part of 50 years. Went with my brother Mike to his first show, Housewife Superstar, at th…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:48AM
Friday, April 22, 2022

HENRY VI REBELLION: and THE WARS OF THE ROSES Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford by Libby Purves and Friends

NOW THE TWO PLAYS TOGETHER HENRY VI: REBELLION.        ENGLAND IN FERMENT, AND SOME DANGEROUS WOMEN       We are in the 1450s, in a dangerous doldrum: Henry V of Agincourt is long dea…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:52AM
Thursday, April 21, 2022

‘Forgotten how to behave’: comics say audiences more abusive post-lockdown by Lanre Bakare Arts and Culture Correspondent

Comedians such as Nish Kumar say they have noticed a change since crowds have returned to clubs It was halfway through a show in Shrewsbury when Nish Kumar noticed an audience member being d…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM
Wednesday, April 20, 2022

HENRY VI: REBELLION.        Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford u-Avon by Libby Purves and Friends

ENGLAND IN FERMENT, AND SOME DANGEROUS WOMEN       We are in the 1450s, in a dangerous doldrum: Henry V of Agincourt is long dead,  his stripling son married to  pretty French Margaret …

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:22PM

National Theatre to stage The Odyssey in ‘epic, episodic’ retelling around UK by Harriet Sherwood Arts and Culture Correspondent

Parts to be staged in Stoke, Doncaster, Trowbridge and Sunderland in 2023 using local writers and amateur casts before finale in London A retelling of The Odyssey, Homer’s epic story of en…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AM
Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Sex education theatre show for children cancelled after ‘violent threats’ by Lanre Bakare Arts and Culture Correspondent

The Family Sex Show organisers receive abuse over UK production aimed at children as young as five A theatre show that promised to reimagine sex education by discussing the issue in a frank …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:33PM

JERUSALEM REVIVED: REFLECTIONS by Libby Purves and Friends

DO WE STILL LOVE ROOSTER?    So it’s back, another St George’s day before a west country village fair.   Twelve years on from Jez Butterworth’s glorious shock-troop assault on me…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:11AM
Monday, April 18, 2022

Charity Commission investigates actors’ fund over governance by Harriet Sherwood Arts and Culture Correspondent

Dispute at Actors’ Benevolent Fund pitted Penelope Keith and other trustees against general secretary A charity that supports actors who are experiencing hardship due to old age, injury or…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48PM

Empty galleries and fleeing artists: Russia’s cultural uncoupling from the west by Pjotr Sauer and Andrew Roth

GES-2 was meant to be Moscow’s answer to Tate Modern, but the invasion of Ukraine has cast a pall over the project Russia-Ukraine war: latest updates On a recent Saturday in April, Muscovi…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48PM
Sunday, April 17, 2022

THE 47th Old Vic SE1 by Libby Purves and Friends

THE ORANGE MONSTER RIDES AGAIN   The first thing to say is what everyone has said:  that Bertie Carvel as Donald Trump is magnificent. Eerily so,  capturing not only the ex-President’s …

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:04PM
Thursday, April 14, 2022

Derry to mark 25 years of Good Friday agreement with John Hume musical by Harriet Sherwood Arts and Culture Correspondent

Playhouse to stage Beyond Belief in 2023 to ‘say a proper goodbye’ to late SDLP leader who helped persuade IRA to give up arms A musical drama about the life of John Hume, one of the mai…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24PM

Emma Wang on Producing Theatre by Annissa Gao and Rosanna Gao

Tapping into the power to create change The post Emma Wang on Producing Theatre appeared first on Dramatics Magazine Online.

SOURCE: Dramatics Magazine at 03:48PM

Premiere of Mandela musical to be flagship for Young Vic in 2022 by Lanre Bakare Arts and Culture Correspondent

Theatre’s chief hopes production gives younger people understanding of the price paid by radicals in the past The world premiere of a musical about the “young, sexy, radical” early lif…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54AM
Sunday, April 10, 2022

DIARY OF A SOMEBODY Seven Dials Playhouse W1 by Libby Purves and Friends

THE LOST BOYS OF THEATRE…    The  tiny Actors’ Centre is reborn under its new name, and since this play is set in what was a  traditionally febrile, theatrical, subversively arty qua…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:08AM
Thursday, April 7, 2022

“DADDY” by Libby Purves and Friends

 QUEER AS FOLK BY THE INFINITY POOL Jeremy O Harris is a much feted American playwright (a Tony for Slave Play) adept at drilling in to the moment:  BLM, fashionable white guilt, showy t…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:03AM
Wednesday, April 6, 2022

THE FEVER SYNDROME Hampstead Theatre NW3 by Libby Purves and Friends

SCIENCE, SIBLINGS, SOUND AND FURY     This is a satisfying play.  To take a painting analogy, it satisfies not in the way that a perfect still-life vase might, but more like a Kandinsky …

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:35AM

All that Chat

2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic
TBA: Ragtime