Friday, April 19, 2019
From Loro to Stealing Sheep, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMWednesday, April 17, 2019
DOWNBEAT, DOWNCAST Some years ago, leaving a particularly slow and uninspiring Chekhov performance in Yorkshire (never mind which play, spare the blushes) I heard a weary man …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:56AMTuesday, April 16, 2019
It mesmerised Proust, terrified Homer Simpson and gave us the Hunchback – Guardian critics celebrate Paris’s gothic masterpiece at the heart of the modern imagination
As Notre Dame Cathe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:13AMSunday, April 14, 2019
REFLECTIONS ON A RICH SEA OF INK… I saw 22 plays in two days, but it was hardly half a bite of what was on offer. In three days there were 40 , each performed several ……
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:19PMFriday, April 12, 2019
From Mid90s to Dave, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMThursday, April 11, 2019
ANOTHER KIND OF HOUR Staggering back from holiday, I sentimentally booked this at the New Wolsey in Ipswich because 2019 is the 50th anniversary of my unremarkable student performanc…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:46AMBEATRIX BEATS BREXIT WITH TOP BEAK-WORK The Haymarket these spring mornings is dense with toddlers and their attendants (I’d say by the look of it 20% parents, 50% grandparen…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:54AMWednesday, April 10, 2019
A FRESH WIND BLOWING THROUGH AN OLD TALE Down on the Riverbank Club, teen DJ Rattie is bangin’ it behind the deck, telling the shy diffident Mole “There is nothing–…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:29PMFriday, April 5, 2019
THE OLDEST HAVE BORNE MOST… Jack is an ageing, terminally ill, scruffy, alcoholic remnant of an actor, with a grubby cardigan and Falstaff gut. He is muttering lines from King Lear in h…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:23AMWednesday, April 3, 2019
SECRETS AND MEMORIES IN A WASTE OF WATERS You can’t fault the atmosphere: Jasmine Swan’s set takes you straight to the wide skies and muddy, reedy mystery of Breydon Wat…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:26AMSaturday, March 30, 2019
CRACKS IN THE LIBERAL VENEER I adored the energy, cleverness and cheek of BAD JEWS so much I went twice, as the pitiless author set his characters kicking, twisting, protesting an…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:53AMA COSY NIGHTMARE LEGACY OF THE 1930’S From the late 1930’s for nearly forty years, Mary Barton and her husband Berthold Wiesner ran a pioneering fertility clinic: they were among…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:50AMFriday, March 29, 2019
BRILLIANT, NECESSARY, QUESTIONING If we accept that people are widely diverse, we have to accept that paedophiles are too. Not all the same identi-monster. Moreover,�…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:05AMThursday, March 28, 2019
WHAT THE BUTLER CAME TO KNOW… From its premiere at the Royal & Derngate and on the first leg of its tour, here is the stage version of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Booker-winning novel. I…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:45PMMonday, March 25, 2019
WRITTEN IN THE BLOOD What great timing! Just as the worried-well Health Secretary gets rubbished for taking a commercial DNA test, announcing that it has “saved his life” because …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:50PMSunday, March 24, 2019
I’M GONNA SIT RIGHT DOWN AND WRITE MYSELF A REVIEW… So dress up sassy, shake your chassis, get some mesh on your flesh like the ladies who sing with the band. Sell your vocals to the …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:01PMFriday, March 22, 2019
NOT AT ALL FLAT, SUFFOLK… Exuberantly funny, elegant as a Deauville hotel balcony and sharp as the crack of a 78rpm record over a lover’s head, Joanna Carrick’s wit…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:39AMThursday, March 21, 2019
POISONED LOVE I sometimes wish Harold Pinter had written more plays like this: decadent, agonized, helplessly sensitive to the nuances of friendship and treachery. More praise has a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:00AMWednesday, March 20, 2019
MARTYRS OF THE MCCARTHY YEARS Ideological hostilities across the world, fake news and paranoia, a resurgent deep left, uneasy relations with Russia, antisemites question…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:58AMFriday, March 8, 2019
From Captain Marvel to Henry Moore, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMFriday, February 15, 2019
From Notting Hill to Fatboy Slim, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:04PMWednesday, January 2, 2019
Blanchett and Hiddleston get sexual, there are chills in a Glasgow tower block, Matthew Bourne takes on the star-crossed lovers, plus Catherine Tate, Tim Minchin and Ben Elton return to the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMThursday, December 27, 2018
NOT YET DEAD CAT BUT… Since I stopped being The Times Chief Theatre Critic it has been five years: on this site there have been 930 posts, over half a million words, all stil…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:22PM27 December 1938: The final dress rehearsal is a free Christmas treat for children and old folks Related: Welfare of circus animals at Westminster: from the archive, 17 February 1965 The ten…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18AMFriday, December 21, 2018
A HOLLOW CROWN IN MUD AND BLOOD The clue is in the paper hat, worn by a dour-faced Simon Russell Beale on the programme cover. This is not stately, sacred, shockingly regicidal S…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:32AMJAMAICA BREEZES UP WEST, WITH GRIEF AND GUSTO Jamaican mourning tradition, longer than the Irish wake and noisier than the Jewish shiva, involves – we learn ̵…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:43AMMonday, December 17, 2018
Romeo and Juliet muddled into middle age, Akram Khan suffered shell-shock, Rambert2 lost control – and William Forsythe gave ballet a stratospheric street shakeupMore best culture 2018 Ove…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PMFriday, December 14, 2018
PSYCHOPATHIC LIBERAL MEETS DINOSAUR PARENTS Can we, I wonder, ever learn to deplore past attitudes without being vengeful about it? Hot on the heels of Mike Bartlett’s heartfe…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:22AMThursday, December 13, 2018
ONE MORE TIME, WITH FEELING . After two other full cast renderings in a fortnight -David Edgar’s socially angry take at the RSC and Jack Thorne’s warm spectacular at the…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:46PMWednesday, December 12, 2018
A GOTHIC EYEFUL In this troublous nation, 2018 seems to be the Christmas of Aaargh! and Eughhh! and hahahahaaa! , as a gross-out gigglefest sweeps London theatre. There’s the …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:40PMENERGY, ANGER, HOPE It is 1842: young Charles Dickens, thirty years old and with five novels under his belt, is ranting. The Industrial Revolution is revving up nicely,…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:37AM 
