A 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…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:23AMROLL UP! IT’S BACK! Ah, Christmastime! There’s nothing like a buff chap in spike-heeled patent thigh-boots somersaulting in the air to make you feel festive. Unless it�…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:56PMA HUMAN ZOO OF ALPHA MEN There are good plays to be written about white male privilege, and about modern capitalism and its relentless expectation of self-promotion and constant advancement …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:37AMFestival to celebrate black culture and creativity, with Lemn Sissay and Shingai as headline acts The Lyric Hammersmith theatre is launching its first festival celebrating black talent, cul…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AMTHEY DO NOT GROW OLD AS WE IN THE STALLS GROW OLD May as well tell you, last week I had the ultimate pensioner experience, and it was a blast. A midweek, senior-price matinee i…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:07PMBeneath the slapstick humour, venues remain anxious over fresh restrictions and lower ticket sales Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage There were cheers and boo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PMTWENTY YEARS AGO, ANOTHER HEALTH CRISIS CHANGED LIVES Just before the pandemic closed everything down, Emily Jenkins’ deft two-hander won a top Edinburgh Fringe award and many plaud…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:55AMLiam Scarlett, 35, was suspended from Royal Ballet in 2019 over allegations and died in April 2021 A former Royal Ballet choreographer killed himself after feeling “humiliation” over all…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18PMFACE THE MUSIC, AND DANCE! This was a new outing for me. I have long loved the Watermill some miles west, but I hadn’t really registered the Mill at Sonning with it’s e…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:01AMIn “The Walk,” a 12-foot tall, 9-year-old Syrian girl named Amal trekked from Turkey to Britain to find her mother. In a politically divided continent, were any minds changed?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24AMReprise: they’re still at it, as good as ever If I were a PR for the Society of London Theatres, I would get these six performers together for a photocall with the five from Prid…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:15AMArts centre had over 120 claims, including racism, investigated in external review into its operations The Barbican centre has committed to “a radical transformation of culture and behavio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06AMDiploma course will provide training in live performance and theatre production at an international standard One of the world’s most renowned dance institutions is to offer a two-year inte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PMTrilogy to mark the 50th anniversary of the Crucible will have performers sprinting between stages Actors will simultaneously perform three plays in three theatres as part of an “ambitious…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMTHE MYTH AND TERROR THAT CHILDREN KNOW Sometimes a violent rip occurs in the thin veil of materialism ,commonsense, morality and law. Children know this: a bereaveme…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:28AMThe photographer has brought directors, door keepers and technicians out of the shadows for a special exhibition celebrating the survival of the West End The backstage heroes of the West End…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMCOULD YOU? WOULD YOU? FOR A MILLION BUCKS? Here’s a struggling young couple (well, not that young, both on second marriages and he has a daughter going to college). Along comes a billion…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:18AMUNIVERSALLY ACKNOWLEDGED TO BE A HOOT It had to happen: someone had to notice that in the comfortable upper-middle and aristocratic worlds of Jane Austen’s novel, nothing c…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:43PMLondon arts centre vows to foster inclusive culture after allegations by staff of discrimination The Barbican arts centre in London has pledged to introduce diversity targets for its workfor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMDrama about those who died when soldiers opened fire on protesters will premiere on 50th anniversary For almost 50 years, the bloodstained white handkerchief held aloft by Father Edward Daly…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMDenver Arts Week's Night at the Museums, Tattered Cover's 50th birthday, the Affordable Arts Fest and more free and cheap things to do around Denver in November.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:48AMNext round to Grace’s dining room is the actor Russell Tovey. Over a bowl of his favourite childhood treat, he tells Grace about his upbringing in Essex, embarrassing acting scenes, reconn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMThe artist’s “A Line,” her first New York solo show, sets the tone for the ambitious new 52 Walker, run by the gallerist Ebony L. Haynes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:54AMIn his Broadway play, Ruben Santiago-Hudson revisits the Lackawanna, N.Y., of his youth. A lot has changed since the late 1950s and ’60s, reflected here in recent photographs of the area.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:33AMRoyal Shakespeare Company cancels planned extension of The Mirror and the Light in West End Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The Royal Shakespeare Company ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMWhat does it take to scare the candy corn out of someone? Performers at two of New York’s hallowed haunted attractions explain the secrets behind the shocks.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:24AMNOT A REVIEW BUT SOME JOLLY NEWS Not a review, because this was the first performance of a modest weekend testing the water: a script-in-hand, moustaches-falling-off, fresh-outta-wor…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:49AMTHE HEART STILL FEELS THE BEAT Everything Bob Marley sings lifts the heart, instructing it to rise and triumph and unite in joy: lively-up yourself! Let’s get toget…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:08PMTHE DEVIL IN THE DETAIL: scenes from the Grenfell Inquiry There was a spate of criticism when Richard Norton Taylor’s dramatisation of the Grenfell Inquiry was announced, despite it b…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:42AMTHE RACE WHERE NOBODY WINS This feels like a howl of baffled frustration, from a millennial generation ( writer and director, and all four characters) unable to deal with the emo…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:59AMTHE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH. Almeida, N1 THE SCOTTISH PLAY WE NEEDED Say what you like about star-casting and auteur-ish directors messing with Shakespeare, but sometimes a multiple…
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