
A guide to the week’s theatre
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:30AMIn taking on the male-dominated theatrical craft, contemporary women carvers are changing the face of a centuries-old tradition.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AMHYTNER ROLLS ANOTHER WINNING DICE Daniel Mays has played a lot of tough-guy roles but has by nature a rather innocent and worried-looking face. It is this quality that Nick Hytner sp…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:23AMRIDE A WILD APP In a week when tech firms shuddered at the shock demise of their favourite bank, how better to spend 90 minutes withJoseph Charlton’s exhilarating, fast moving 3…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:28PMA RADIATING RESPONSIBILITY Since I watched Sizewell A going up as a child, live close to Sizewell B and dwell amid a forest of local posters furiously condemning Sizewell C, …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:17PMEvents planned in UK and Ireland, including a British Library exhibition, to mark 400 years since complete works first published Four hundred years ago, a small band of William Shakespeare�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:44AMA guide to the week’s theatre
SOURCE: The Independent at 01:30AMBroadway’s longest running musical, set to close next month, has been a source of stability for orchestra members, many of whom have grown up with the show.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AMSUGAR RUSH I can never resist scribbling down rhymes in new musicals, whether in a spirit appalled or admiring. Take a bow Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary – writers of this extreme ca…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:00AMOlga Voronkova is a London-based, Belarusian video editor, scriptwriter, copywriter, and producer working with Belarus Free Theatre and Young Vic. Her work focuses on the intersection of act…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:49AMAN UN-SOLEMN WARNING FROM THE FUTURE H.G.Wells is the inspiration, with a larkily extrovert Dave Hearn from Mischief Theatre pretending to be his great-grandson, heir, and owner of th…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:59PMThe measure is part of a wave of legislation by conservative lawmakers across the country against drag performances. Many are wondering how it will be applied.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:52AMMORE DETAILS, MORE DEVILRY An Afghan army officer flees the Taleban and finds safety on the 23rd floor of Grenfell Tower. His local nickhame is “Sabar”, meaning “pa…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:48AMLea Michele is leaving "Funny Girl" on Broadway in September. Subscribe: https://bit.ly/2HFUeAK Website: https://kellyandryan.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LiveKellyandRyan/ Ins…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:00AMStage version of 1988 Japanese animation leads the pack while Standing at the Sky’s Edge has eight nominations My Neighbour Totoro, the new stage adaptation of Studio Ghibli’s beloved 19…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:16AM“Bob Fosse’s Dancin’,” revived by the director Wayne Cilento, is back on Broadway. Its stars? An eclectic cast of dancers who are anything but machines.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AMActor best known for her stage work and acclaimed for her portrayal of Mary Barnes in the title role of David Edgar’s 1978 play Patti Love, who has died aged 75, was an actor of supreme ta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:56AMThese actors turned playwrights all excavate memories and meaning from their lives in creating these four shows, which arrive in New York in the coming months.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AM“Life of Pi” and Laura Linney on Broadway, Lise Davidsen at the Met Opera, SZA on tour: Here’s what we’re looking forward to this season.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AMOnce the butt of others’ standup routines, comics from the lowest social strata are turning the tables, with humour as their weapon On a wooden chair on a makeshift stage at Cat Café Stud…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMLevi Holloway’s new horror play Grey House has been announced to play the Lyceum Theatre. Two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello will direct the production, slated to begin previews on Ap…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00PMLevi Holloway’s new horror play “Grey House” has been announced to play the Lyceum Theatre. Two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello will direct the production, slated to begin previews…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 12:00PMThe Merchant of Venice 1936 among four plays to feature at RSC’s reopened Swan theatre this summer A new take on Shakespeare’s controversial play The Merchant of Venice, set in London’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMA new exhibition lets us see the Yorkshire artist’s greatest hits – and overlooked rarities – through new eyes. Photographer Justin Sutcliffe went behind the scenes “I’ve always be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMTheatre operators and producers changing marketing strategy as rowdy behaviour escalates Popular musicals will be told to avoid phrases such as “best party in town” and “dancing in the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMHIGH ABOVE THE BRUTAL AND BELOVED CITY It’s an architectural moment. Within the stark brutalist NT is a set in homage to a brutalist landmark: the early 1960’s Park Hill Fl…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:15AMThe Brits faced criticism for not nominating women in gender-neutral category but women reign in theatre awards chosen by public Women have dominated the gender-neutral performing categories…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:45PMCOUGAR CHAOS The Greeks just go on giving. Writer-director Simon Stone’s play, set today amid the upper-middle classes of Holland Park and second-home Suffolk, credits itself m…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:53AMJordan Fisher talks about working with Josh Groban and Annaliegh Ashford in "Sweeney Todd" on Broadway. Subscribe: https://bit.ly/2HFUeAK Website: https://kellyandryan.com/ Facebook: http…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:07PMA MONETARY MORALITY PLAY Three hour-long plays, two intervals, three men in black frock-coats explain some financial history in a revolving glass box in front of a projected , m…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:05AMIntroduction São Paulo Theatre School was founded in 2009 with the aim to establish a democratic space and implement an innovative pedagogical system in agreement with the specific nature o…
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