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 07:35AMCAMPING ON THE PLANKING At the Coliseum last autumn Gilbert and Sullivan’s seagoing Savoy Opera was immense, with a huge revolving ship, Les Dennis as the first sea lord, a massive chorus …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:46PMTHE SHADOW OF A BEGINNING, ALABAMA 1936 Forget, for the moment, both the fame and the the arguments over Harper Lee’s classic novel: Aaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation is a free…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:33AMFestival’s 75th anniversary will include stage reimagining of The Jungle Book following Mowgli’s journey as a climate refugee An adaptation of The Jungle Book that reimagines the journey…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54PMThe British musical comedians share what makes them laugh, including a strange number of videos involving tiny hands and Debbie Reynolds pretending to be a football Get our weekend culture …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54PMWELCOME BACK, BITING SHARP AS EVER In 2010 Bruce Norris’ play wowed the Royal Court: this is a ten-year anniversary (well, plus two years lost to Covid) so forgive me for quoting wh…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:01PMTHE ROUGH TOUGH BIRTH OF A CITY It is not often I resort to drawing in the notebook, but there it is: half an hour into the first part of David Hare’s play about the city planner Robe…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:40AMA PLAY IS A PLAY IS A PLAY IS A WEDDING With typical wit, the doughty little Jermyn has captured an intellectual-farcical oddity from New York complete with author-director and star…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:51AMBRACING, BELTING, BENIGN At the end of the evening the great diva, director and muse informs us that we too must sing. In a packed house, on the far side of a pandemic which made …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:41AMLEARNING TO LIVE Sometimes judging others harshly is a relishable guilty pleasure. In Ruby Thomas’ wonderful 80-minute sequence of snapshots of family therapy, the write…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:17PMTwo DC theater critics take in the world's most inclusive circus and are blown away.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:46AMUkraine authorities say hundreds of people were hiding in theatre and that convoy of cars leaving besieged city was also shelled Russia-Ukraine war: latest updates Ukrainian officials have a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06AMNOT A FINE ROMANCE Mamet plays are Marmite plays. You can applaud Speed the Plow, adore Wag the Dog on screen, and have a pleasurable argument with the opposite sex after a particularl…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:49AMLOVE AS AN UNCOURTLY CONTEST In 2009 – and again in Chichester 2018 – I missed Mike Bartlett’s mischievous, half-earnest play about a gay man wrestling with his identity (and h…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:59PMIvan Putrov and Alina Cojocaru announce event featuring artists from Royal Ballet, English National Ballet and Paris Opera Ballet International ballet stars will take part in a charity gala …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PMGeorge Balanchine with, Mourka, his cat. Photo by Martha Swope (1964). NYPL Digital Collections, Image ID: 5120841 Although The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts has one of …
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 05:54AMOpera houses and theaters in European cities are offering to help fleeing or stranded ballet dancers, even as many are still stuck in Ukraine.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:54PMAlong with Life of Pi, the musical revivals are this year’s biggest contenders, with all four of their respective leads vying to win best actor or actress on 10 April Cabaret, the revival …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMAs Washington and King County drop COVID-19 masking and vaccination requirements this month, what arts groups and venues are doing is varied.
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMUse ‘all possible means of communication’ to directly contact Russian citizens, 17 signatories say Russia-Ukraine war: live news A group of eminent writers has appealed to Russian speake…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AMPlaybill for Intimate Apparel opera at Lincoln Center Theater Lynn Nottage is among the most important and prolific playwrights of the turn of the 21st century, and her work…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 03:24AMRalph Ellison photo portrait seated. The author Ralph Ellison is inextricably linked to his novel The Invisible Man, now considered a classic of American literature. While his other acti…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 03:24AMTheatre accused of perpetuating offensive stereotype in naming character Hershel Fink The Royal Court Theatre has apologised “unreservedly” to the Jewish community for naming a fictional…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:33PMConcerts, dance recitals and exhibitions have been postponed indefinitely after Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine The Russian invasion of Ukraine has prompted responses from the cultura…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AMVeteran Ian McKellen, who raised more than £1m for theatre charities and arts groups, also honoured The West End musical Frozen, the story of an ice queen and her fearless sister that capti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42PMA VIGOROUS, HEARTSHAKING BRUSH OF OPPOSITES Two artists in a studio: the older one pale and floppily blond, languidly self-protective, drawling, preaching a cool gospel of u…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:30AMYeichi Nimura in his Flag Dance, c. 1939. Constantine © Constantine Hassalevris. Jerome Robbins Dance Division photograph files, call number *MGZEA (Nimura, Yeichi) no. 12. To mark Asi…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 07:18PMOn April 15, 2021, Doc Chatters examined the many themes and symbols embedded in one painting of an iconic musician. Portrait, circa 1808, by an unidentified artist of the painting of Lud…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 07:18PMJulian Work's union stamp for 1948. We in The New York Public Library's Music & Recorded Sound Division are doing what we can to uncover and bring attention to composers from underre…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 07:18PMThe Music and Recorded Sound Division at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts acquired the innovative composer and sound artist Maryanne Amacher’s archive in 2020. Now, we�…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 07:18PMLeslie Odom Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Karen Olivo in the Encores! Off-Center Concert of Tick, Tick...Boom! (Photo © Joan Marcus) Lin-Manuel Miranda’s film adaptation of Jonathan Lars…
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