Wednesday, May 4, 2022
IN THE MIDDLE OF LIFE’S JOURNEY..THROW A PLATE OR TWO Ah, middle age! Waists spreading outwards, options contracting, marriage all too familiar, parents getting older fast and ch…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:21PMIncident raises further questions over comedian safety after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at Oscars
The comedian Dave Chappelle was attacked during a performance in Los Angeles, according t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMTuesday, May 3, 2022
Meet actor and creator Isidora Kecman! We talk about speaking out for those
who don’t feel comfortable doing it for themselves, asking for what you
want, addressing the roots of system…
SOURCE: www.womenandtheatre.com at 07:02PMEquity says ‘sacking by press release’ from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s West End show caused pain and distress
Current and future cast members of Cinderella must be compensated for their los…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMAbi Stafford Lillo left City Ballet amid a family feud and a dispute over whether a choreographer had body-shamed her or she lacked the strength to dance her final role.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:00AMClaudia Rankine, whose latest play, The White Card, is to tour the UK, warns of negative effect on mental health
Footage of violent racist incidents such as the murder of George Floyd is tr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMMonday, May 2, 2022
Moscow venue drops Timofey Kulyabin’s opera Don Pasquale and Kirill Serebrennikov’s ballet Nureyev
Russia-Ukraine war: latest updates
Russia’s Bolshoi theatre has upset opera and balle…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PMSaturday, April 30, 2022
Marisha Wallace wants to inspire young girls and call out lack of diversity as she takes on role in Oklahoma!
A professional career in theatre was not always on the cards for Marisha Wallace…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AMThursday, April 28, 2022
SEXUAL ASSAULT , HARD LAW, AND AN ASTONING WEST END DEBUT Forget the cold sadistic clotheshorse Vilanelle from Killing Eve. Actually, forget all Jodie Comer’s screen awards. This …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:09AMWednesday, April 27, 2022
Royal Shakespeare Company’s version of celebrated Studio Ghibli movie will be first opening ‘of this scale’ in nearly 40 years
The Royal Shakespeare Company is to stage an adaptation o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03AMTuesday, April 26, 2022
In our first themed blog post, we talk about the many ways to build a
career in theatre and share some resources for people who are getting
started…
SOURCE: www.womenandtheatre.com at 07:00PMHALF A CENTURY OF HAPPY MISCHIEF Full disclosure: I have been following this man around for the best part of 50 years. Went with my brother Mike to his first show, Housewife Superstar, at th…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:48AMFriday, April 22, 2022
NOW THE TWO PLAYS TOGETHER HENRY VI: REBELLION. ENGLAND IN FERMENT, AND SOME DANGEROUS WOMEN We are in the 1450s, in a dangerous doldrum: Henry V of Agincourt is long dea…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:52AMThursday, April 21, 2022
Comedians such as Nish Kumar say they have noticed a change since crowds have returned to clubs
It was halfway through a show in Shrewsbury when Nish Kumar noticed an audience member being d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMWednesday, April 20, 2022
ENGLAND IN FERMENT, AND SOME DANGEROUS WOMEN We are in the 1450s, in a dangerous doldrum: Henry V of Agincourt is long dead, his stripling son married to pretty French Margaret …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:22PMParts to be staged in Stoke, Doncaster, Trowbridge and Sunderland in 2023 using local writers and amateur casts before finale in London
A retelling of The Odyssey, Homer’s epic story of en…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMTuesday, April 19, 2022
Meet singer and actor Jade Litaker! We talk about showing Black characters
who win, the inherent whiteness of femininity, the importance of financial
accessibility in theatre, and more…
SOURCE: www.womenandtheatre.com at 07:00PMThe Family Sex Show organisers receive abuse over UK production aimed at children as young as five
A theatre show that promised to reimagine sex education by discussing the issue in a frank …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:33PMDO WE STILL LOVE ROOSTER? So it’s back, another St George’s day before a west country village fair. Twelve years on from Jez Butterworth’s glorious shock-troop assault on me…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:11AMMonday, April 18, 2022
Dispute at Actors’ Benevolent Fund pitted Penelope Keith and other trustees against general secretary
A charity that supports actors who are experiencing hardship due to old age, injury or…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48PMQuincy Isaiah talks about the moment that made him decide to become a theater major when he was studying business.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 01:01PMGES-2 was meant to be Moscow’s answer to Tate Modern, but the invasion of Ukraine has cast a pall over the project
Russia-Ukraine war: latest updates
On a recent Saturday in April, Muscovi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48PMSunday, April 17, 2022
THE ORANGE MONSTER RIDES AGAIN The first thing to say is what everyone has said: that Bertie Carvel as Donald Trump is magnificent. Eerily so, capturing not only the ex-President’s …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:04PMThursday, April 14, 2022
Playhouse to stage Beyond Belief in 2023 to ‘say a proper goodbye’ to late SDLP leader who helped persuade IRA to give up arms
A musical drama about the life of John Hume, one of the mai…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24PMTapping into the power to create change
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SOURCE: Dramatics Magazine at 03:48PMTheatre’s chief hopes production gives younger people understanding of the price paid by radicals in the past
The world premiere of a musical about the “young, sexy, radical” early lif…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54AMTuesday, April 12, 2022
Meet director and actor Dana Iannuzzi! We talk about leading through
kindness instead of fear, reaching out to people you’re curious about,
representing the human experience through ar…
SOURCE: www.womenandtheatre.com at 07:00PMSunday, April 10, 2022
THE LOST BOYS OF THEATRE… The tiny Actors’ Centre is reborn under its new name, and since this play is set in what was a traditionally febrile, theatrical, subversively arty qua…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:08AMThursday, April 7, 2022
QUEER AS FOLK BY THE INFINITY POOL Jeremy O Harris is a much feted American playwright (a Tony for Slave Play) adept at drilling in to the moment: BLM, fashionable white guilt, showy t…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:03AMWednesday, April 6, 2022
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 07:35AMTuesday, April 5, 2022
Meet actor, singer, songwriter, and directer Jenna Kepnes! We talk about
the importance of art and artists, human connection, using privilege
responsibly, building diversity in industry …
SOURCE: www.womenandtheatre.com at 07:00PM 
