Thursday, May 11, 2023
WHEN DIVORCE WAS DISASTER   It's 1921.   Thirty years ago Lady Kitty ran out on her MP husband Clive and small son with his friend and colleague Hughie, exploding a public…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:08AMWednesday, May 10, 2023
BORN TO LEAD..    This is a joy, quirky and full-hearted, musically adroit and fast-moving and witty.  Moreover, I suspect its self-mocking variety-show humour would …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:43AMJesse Green, the chief theater critic, and Maya Phillips, a critic-at-large, name the shows and artists who they think will win, should win and should have been nominated for this year's Ton…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32AMIs theatrical choreography at a turning point? Or just leaping, lurching and shimmying as usual? Our critics weigh in.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:01AMMonday, May 8, 2023
The annual spectacle, featuring fanciful caravans and riders on horseback, and is arguably the most potent visual representation of Andalusian culture.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AMThursday, May 4, 2023
THE ROARING TWENTIES, ROLLING OVER THE EDGE When Noel Coward shocked and enthralled the 1920s with this most bitter and intense of his plays, he was meanwhile hastily finishing the farcical …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:15PMFrom Kingshighway to King Louis to the King Burger to the King of Beers to a visit in 1977 from the future king himself, we bow down to our own royalty.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 12:00PMGATHER ROUND AND HEAR AN OLD, OLD STORY… Â Deep breath, concentrate at the back:Â there's this Ancient Briton King, who once banished a chap who vengefully stole his baby sons, leavi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:22AMTuesday, May 2, 2023
A THEATRICAL ECHO, SEVENTY YEARS AGO Â Â A theatrical tease opens both halves: the voice of Noel Coward singing "There's a right way and a wrong way, an old way and a new way" for the o…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:34PMTony nominators singled out new faces and set up fascinating face-offs, but missed the chance to recognize a Native American breakthrough.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:03PMNominations for the 76th Tony Awards will be announced Tuesday morning. Follow below for a live list of nominees.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06AMSunday, April 30, 2023
HARRY HILL TAKES ON TONY BLAIR. FIIIIIIIGHHHT!!!!  I couldn't be more delighted that it's touring, this splendidly rude show. We need this kind of merrily offensive burlesque, in…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:15PMFriday, April 28, 2023
Does it seem far-fetched to imagine a future where the government subsidizes theatres and theatre artists at a living wage, and land-based art hubs rely heavily on new technologies while nur…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:12PMThursday, April 27, 2023
THE POWER OF NO, IN 1950S AMERICA  If we think we suffer from a paranoid cancel-culture , we should note this reminder of mid-1950s America " notably Hollywood " in the M…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:09AMWednesday, April 26, 2023
BLACK, BOYISH, BEAUTIFUL    It's not all musicals and movie-spinoffs that put bill-paying bums on seats. The best producers trust their nerve and instinct ,rake through the f…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:30AMNew artistic director Nancy Medina picks works about the power of belonging such as a queer coming-of-age story from Tarell Alvin McCraney and a musical version of David Nicholls' Starter fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AM  REDEFINING FEELINGS IN AN AGE OF ANGRY ANGST "We are three people trying to redefine feeling" they say. They do this between Paris, Munich, Salzburg and Greek islands, and eith…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:58AMMonday, April 24, 2023
Alvin Ailey's American Dance Theater and Budapest Festival Orchestra among performers named in lineup
This year's Edinburgh international festival will focus on themes of hope, community and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMSunday, April 23, 2023
Friday, April 21, 2023
Paulien Geerlings is the head dramaturg at Amsterdam's The Toneelmakerij, a theatre company devoted to children and teens. Currently, she serves as the artistic lead of Young Europe IV. …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 06:19AMA new generation of choreographers, obsessed with composition and costumes, experiments at Pageant in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AMWriter and director Ben Elton tells story of woman who was 'most famous teenager in the world' in the 1960s
She was a teenager from Neasden when a photograph of her newly cropped hair catapu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AMThursday, April 20, 2023
Museum of Shakespeare in Shoreditch to open in 2024 on site of playhouse that staged earliest performances
A London museum installation that uses the latest AI technology will allow theatre …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMBLAZING MUSIC HOLDS THE HOUSE TOGETHER     After 1930's Donegal at the NT the day before,  Dancing at Lughnasa portraying a group of women meeting  stress and poverty…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:26AMWednesday, April 19, 2023
A SAD LOST WORLD . A HUMAN BEAUTY There is particular genius in creating a play which doesn't build to a showy debacle but grips you with the possibility of an unnamed crisis, and so…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:11AMTuesday, April 18, 2023
​ABBASOLUTELY A DELIGHT  ​​  ​​   If there is a formula for a cheerful touring play in our frazzled and disputatious times, it woul…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:09AMMonday, April 17, 2023
The book Impro by Keith Johnstone made a great impression on me as a history teacher in a Hull comprehensive school in the 1980s. The opening chapter was the best description of fostering cr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMFrom fights at the Bodyguard musical to wild drunken antics at comedy clubs and even heckling at the opera, performers and theatre staff say crowds are getting out of hand. What's going on?…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMSunday, April 16, 2023
Residents and members of bereaved families call on BBC and National Theatre to scrap productions
The BBC and the National Theatre are facing rising hostility over two high-profile production…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMFriday, April 14, 2023
As the longest-running musical in Broadway history closes, Times critics with a lasting affection for the show take stock of its legacy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:24PMWe went backstage during one of the final performances before the show's famous chandelier crashes down one last time. "The Phantom of the Opera," the longest running show in the history of …
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