PLAGUE YEAR Part 2 – 2021 Below, if you care to scroll , I chronicled the shows that met my return from chemo-then-lockdown in 2020. An enfeebled theatrical year. Today a lo…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:55PMPART 1: THE ONSET I set out, in this eerie Twixtmas gap, to chronicle and celebrate the return of live theatre since May 2021. And this will follow. But when I totted up the 20…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:49AMThese are the pictures that defined an unpredictable year across the worlds of art, music, dance and performance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:12AMFingers crossed and fervent wishes sent for the end of the pandemic, here are some of the arts-and-culture events we're looking forward to in the new year, from a Billie Eilish concert to na…
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMAmy Adams makes her West End debut, immersive dance confronts mental health and Steve Coogan’s alter ego embarks on a rare live UK tour • Preview more cultural highlights of 2022 Continu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMA SHARP , SERPENTINE, SUPERB PERFORMANCE Lounging in the small hours on her office couch, under a wall of posters for her many clients’ shows – both famous and forgotten �…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:57AMIt was a year of revivals in every sense, as venues threw open their doors again. From fresh takes on classics to blazing new talents and shows that captured the current moment, our critics …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AMTheatres are battling to stay open as they contend with staff shortages and slumping tickets sales in what is usually their busiest time of year. For the cast of a pantomime in Corby, Northa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36PMThe Times’s three European theater critics pick their favorite productions of the year — plus a turkey apiece for the festive season.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:18AMThe Lion King, Life of Pi and the National’s Hex among shows affected during crucial festive season Coronavirus – latest updates West End shows including The Lion King have had to cancel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PMA PRIMA DONNY JOINS THE FEARLESS FOUR Last year as a family we came to see the doughty quartet doing this variety show, an adult-joking non-panto to fill the fearful gap. It was th…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:31AMSoul singer posts tweet lambasting people she says disrupted The Drifters Girl show in London The soul singer Beverley Knight has lambasted raucous theatregoers who she said disrupted a perf…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AM1968 AND ALL THAT James Graham’s mission might seem unfashionable: trawling 20c history and public culture, looking not for villains and heroes but for the nuances of human behaviour, …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:35PMPULLING OUT THE STOPS FOR PULLMAN First things first: this is the most wonderfully evocative, romantic and dramatic bit of set-projection you will see all year. Bob Crowley, video maes…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:07PMA REVIVING REVIVAL Do you need to be of a generation to remember Morecambe and Wise, to which this play is a loving tribute-cum-amiable-ripoff? Probably not. They are stamped on th…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:36PMMembers of Belarus Free Theatre say authorities ‘are more scared of artists than of political statements’ For 16 years, the Belarus Free Theatre has advocated for freedom of expression, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMDigital innovation continued this year, but experiencing plays in isolation grew tiring. Then came an in-person season as exciting as a child’s first fireworks.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48AMISLAND OF WONDER AND UNEASE One of the interesting, rewarding quirks in Tom Littler’s small-but-perfectly-formed Tempest is that Tam Williams doubles as Ferdinand, the ultra-vi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:31AMBetty! starring Maxine Peake views parliamentarian’s life through lens of drama group in Dewsbury village hall She was a working-class Yorkshire girl who first took to the stage in a high-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMA year of uncertainty was capped by a happy ending: a rush of performances this fall, including standouts by masters (Twyla Tharp) and breakout stars (LaTasha Barnes).
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:02AMGLIMPSES OF ETERNITY (Review first published on D.Mail, in shorter form) This is wonderful. Sometimes a simple short performance can shake, rouse, even change you. So step a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:19AMNatalia Osipova hopes to ‘broaden appeal’ of ballet by selling unique digital copies of performances She is one of the world’s most acclaimed dancers, dazzling audiences with performan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48PMTracy-Ann Oberman, Donna Air and Annie Lennox will perform in the one-off fundraising West End drama Women’s experiences of domestic and sexual violence will be dramatised in a West End th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24PMworth going again I say.. Just thought I should mention to theatrecat readers how wonderful this show it. Saw it twice before the pandemic, nipped back to a matinee a week or so back. …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:34AM“I would ask you to sit back and luxuriate in his extraordinary words and music,” the director John Doyle said before Friday’s performance of the “Assassins” revival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:32AMAudra McDonald, Bernadette Peters, Andrew Lloyd Webber and others mourned and celebrated the essential composer and lyricist, who died at 91.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PMIn a never before seen interview, Stephen Sondheim sat down with The New York Times in June 2008 to talk about his life, career and accomplishments.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:42PM2021 BRITAIN IN A STATELY STORMY NUTSHELL Just what we needed, I thought! A good old state-of-the-nation black comedy with a semi-derelict Manor in a howling storm, the sea wall abo…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:16AMYomi Ṣode’s one-hander and Regent’s Park production of Romeo and Juliet win four awards each A one-man play about grief and a contemporary version of a Shakespearean classic have domin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMSIX CENTURIES ON, IT’S GEOFFREY CHAUCER’S ROUND Zadie Smith humbly refers to her first play as more like “homework” than the novelist’s usual dread of a blank page. Ch…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:19AMA CHEKHQUERED RESPONSE Vanya and Sonia are siblings – though she is adopted – and have led dull dutiful lives in a remote country house surrounded by cherry trees and an or…
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