LOVE AND THE NOT-FOR-MARRYING MAN Love stories take many forms. Here – electric, understated, unmistakeable and timeless – the erotic connection is between Ben Batt’s Ge…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:06PMMA’AM , THE MINION AND THE MACHO MAN “I never boasted an education. I learned tricks” says Princess Margaret, bitterly, at a late point in Richard Stirling’s interestin…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:03AMSIN OR SYMPTOM? A HUMAN TURNED TO A HORROR Last time I encountered a monologue written for a paedophile abuser, it was by Alan Bennett in a remarkable – and I think unrep…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:48AMFAIRY DUST AND PHYSICAL COMEDY I am happy to say that in the second act there is some inappropriate sexual harassment. By garishly clad fairies, deploying weaponized soprano trills an…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:08AMWe're SO thrilled to welcome Adam Kantor back to the podcast! When we last chatted with Adam, he was mid-run as Motel in the 2015 Broadway revival of "Fiddler on the Roof." Adam is now back …
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00AMA CITY’S MEMORY Two girls on the Downs in 1940 giggle over a spot of rabbit-poaching on Lady Cooper’s land. A roar, Junkers overhead. Figures emerge from smoke and darkness as a c…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:25AMA WATCHFUL SORROW There are some evenings when, as the cast take their bow with that half-relaxed half-smile, you are shocked: you feel you have not been watching a performance…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:08AMCELEBRATION FOR A CITY Right place, right time, a last flurry of fireworks by the Humber. The hottest of young playwrights, James Graham, lovingly teases the city where he was a stude…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:47AMYOU GUYS!!!! Sitting down with Lea Salonga for this interview was literally a dream come true. Lea, of course, needs no introduction, but since I have to put something here, here goes: In 19…
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00AMBANKERS AS LIBERATORS The first recitative line in this one-act musical, as the little band sounds curfew, is chilling: a Town Crier from the 1760’s : “Jews and aliens of…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:36PMYOU HAVE TO LAUGH OR YOU WOULD WEEP.. The most arresting new character I’ve met this year is the magnificent Hayley Atwell as Jenny; star of a New York private equity investm…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:39PMAVE HYTNER IMPERATOR! THE BRIDGE AS ARENA Before the start, singing along with Eye of the Tiger in the melée and enjoying the red flags, baseball hats and beercans, we …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:47AMAVE HYTNER IMPERATOR! THE BRIDGE AS ARENA Before the start, singing along with Eye of the Tiger in the melée and enjoying the red flags, baseball hats and beercans, we …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:50PMTWO QUEENS, TWO FATES Who shall be whom? In Robert Icke’s arresting adaptation of Schiller’s play, the scene opens with a sober-suited group of men watching two women in identical…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:06PMA WILDE RIDE WITH A BOLTER Beneath the artful fan-shapes of the set, gloriously coloured bustles and ruffles flit between black tailcoats and epigrams ping around the room like…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:06AMCLAMBERING TOWARDS LOVE You don’t often, in romances, get lines like “Tomato ketchup’s always been my Achilles heel”. Or indeed proper consideration being given to the …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:29PMPEGGY GUGGENHEIM WALKS AGAIN You cross the stage floor to the toilets and a warning sign on the little set alerts you to the danger of tripping over a “solid stone” bench. …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:30AMYou Guys!! We are the biggest Ryann Redmond fans ever! We first fell in love with her in 2012 when she made her Broadway debut as Bridget, the lovably awkward sidekick in "Bring It On: The M…
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00AMSULTRY HEAT AND SEXUAL DREAD… Our age is beginning, once more, to appreciate E.M.Forster properly: the recent TV Howards’s End caught his wit as well as the social indignat…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:52AMMy principal review from the Old Vic is here (http://tinyurl.com/y8u2na24) . But now it transfers (with glorious irony to the Noel Coward Theatre..it’s the least Cowardy of all plays e…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:30AMVILLAIN VAUDEVILLE Everyone loves the film. Something in the nostalgic British psyche likes to think of a gang of ruthless desperadoes lodging with a dear old lady, pretendin…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:51AMTOP FOLK ON THE ROAD There are boxes , planks, a rope; around and upon them, singly and severally, still or moving, the aristocracy of modern folk music. Strings, accordion, guitars…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:54AMGIRLS ON THE EDGE Honour to the Royal Court for two things. First for the initial wobble, then for executing a rapid u-turn over Andrea Dunbar’ s rather wonderful play . So after …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:24PMWe're SO excited to welcome Telly back to the podcast! Since we last spoke with him, Telly has solidified his standing as one of Broadway's most popular leading men! For the episode, we'll c…
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00AMAT LAST…AND FINE TO THE LAST After snowbound frustration in December drove me onto the road after part I, I saw the first again and that evening reached the second play in one…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:01PMIT IS JUST AS WONDERFUL AS THEY SAID IT WAS. It could have been just a novelty: the biography of a half-forgotten Founding Father of the USA, an orphaned immigrant who rose to be Ge…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:15PMTHE OTHER OSCAR, A DELIGHT What delight, in the midst of Michael Grandage’s Oscar Wilde season at this theatre, that daytimes this month (11 pm and 2pm) t should see the stage…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:24AMFor our final episode of 2017, we're chatting with our pal, everyone's favorite Olivier winner, Lesli Margherita (Matilda The Musical, Dames At Sea, Zorro The Musical). This holiday season, …
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00AMSWEET YOUNG LOVE IN PARIS: NOT. “We’re not going the full Mousetrap here” said the press desk, “but there is a moment at the end…we’re asking..” . Fine, no spoi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:19AMDISNEY ECHOES AT THE NT: YOU WOODN’T BELIEVE IT The first glimpse of old Geppetto does make you gasp. He is immense, a huge benevolent head bowed attentively as great arms operate t…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:10PMOLD DOG NEW TRICKS After a couple of challenging takes on Strindberg, the little theatre’s new AD Mr Littler (one presumes with a “whoooff!” of relief) has booked in, and…
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