GUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI FINDS HALF-TERM HEAVEN AT NORWICH PUPPET THEATRE “Have you ever wondered where dreams come from? Or how they get into your head?” A thought-provok…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:50AMTHE SCIENTIST AND THE SEX SYMBOL, IN A PARANOID WORLD The uneasy 1950s: Albert Einstein is exiled in America and called to appear before the unAmerican Activities committee for…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:24PMYOU GUYS!!! I am completely obsessed with today's guest, Gillian Pensavalle. Not only is the creator, producer, editor, and host of "The Hamilcast," but she is ALSO Patrick's podcast soulmat…
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00AMCLUNTERING FLAPPYSKETS ! DON’T SMITTLE AND SKRYKE , IT’S BARRIE AGAIN… By ‘eck, luv! They Northern Broadsides, they weren’t hid behind t’mangle when they wer…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:38PMA LESSON IN POLITICS, HUMANITY AND LOVE The joyful thing about James Graham is that for all the playwright’s youth, diamond wit and forensic insight, there is a deep humankin…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:17AMAFTER THE WARS WERE OVER… This is a lovely rediscovery, the kind of thing Two’s Company has repeatedly offered us in this enterprising theatre (we owe them those extraordin…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:58PMGUEST CRITIC MICHAEL ADAIR ENCOUNTERS IBSEN’S BRACING RAGE Ibsen’s 1889 work, The Lady From the Sea has washed ashore at the Donmar in a new version written by Elinor Cook…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:24AMO ENGLAND IS A GARDEN… There’s a lawn and a vast magnificent tree. In dim moonlight before the start a figure in khaki – could be any war – kneels to feel the eart…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:06PMOSCAR’S BACK! IN THE VERY WEEK OF HIS BIRTHDAY… A theatrical phenomenon of the 20th century is the way that some of the most perceptive parts for women were written by g…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:32PMLUKE JONES RELISHES ELDRIDGE ON MIDLIFE CHAOS When the music stops and the lights click on, your first thought is ‘sweet Jesus what the hell went down at this party”? �…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:20AMA TRANSYLVANIAN TRANSPORT OF DELIGHT Sometimes you just want a bit of fun. That is the moment to turn to Mel Brooks, master of daft parody. At 91, the master strode onstage ton…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:13PMA FINE ROMANCE? A quick quantum-mechanics lesson (though this is not a play about science). The Heisenberg principle asserts that there is a limit to knowing what will happen to the p…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:47AMYOU. GUYS. I. AM. DYING. OF. EXCITEMENT! We have been trying to get Helene Yorke on Theater People for YEARS! We have been completely obsessed with her since seeing her in her star-making tu…
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00AMFAITHFUL TO UNFAITHFULNESS, ZELLER SPARKLES AGAIN This is a companion-piece to the stormingly funny, cruelly witty THE TRUTH: Florian Zeller, translated from the French with ve…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:08PMA JOYFUL JIGSAW: TABLE MANNERS, LIVING TOGETHER, ROUND AND ROUND THE GARDEN In more rigorous technical times there was an art school exercise: “draw an imagined street-scene in pers…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:12PMThis episode has been YEARS in the making. We are so so so excited to welcome Jeremy Jordan to the podcast. .And actually, we sort of tricked him into it. Jeremy initially agreed to sit down…
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00AMA FAMILY SITCOM UPS ITS GAME… I didn’t much rate its premiere at the National in 2015, despite the achingly chic set I felt was “a kitchen-diner so huge and smart it makes David…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:19AMON SEEING IT AGAIN…THE LATE EDITION IS BETTER STILL… Nipping late into the Almedia after the opening, I concurred with every word of Luke Jones’ review on theatrec…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:36PMCHARLOTTE VALORI FINDS HERE, TOO, ARE TEARS FOR THE MISFORTUNES OF TROY While there are many excellent reasons to read Virgil’s Aeneid from cover to cover, more than once, the fourth book …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:28AMCHARLOTTE VALORI FINDS CLASS CIVIL WAR AT THE RSC Coriolanus doesn’t often hit the modern stage: its plot, a hymn to the necessary evil of educated patrician privilege in order to provide …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:48PMPEACE IN THEIR TIME…HOW TO DO IT This is a three-hour historical political play about Middle East negotiations in the 1990s: and it is absolutely thrilling. Pins you to your seat wi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:45PMYOU GUYS!! We are SO excited to welcome director Jeff Caohoun to the podcast! Jeff has been at the helm of some of our favorite shows like "Brooklyn: The Musical," "Bonnie & Clyde," and…
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00AMCHARLOTTE VALORI FINDS DREAMS COMING TRUE IN MEDIEVAL NORFOLK In Norfolk, we tend to be quietly, fondly proud of our surroundings – with an emphasis on ‘quietly.’ The tradition of Norf…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:50PMA PSYCHOTIC SAMSON AND HIS WOMEN “There is no such thing as the imagination” says August Strindberg indignantly. “Things are real or they are not.”. Right now, holed up in a s…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:54PMTHE CABMAN’S PROGRESS It couldn’t be better placed, here in the arches below Charing Cross station. Under the venerable rules of London licensed cabs – dating back to th…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:56AMYOU GUYS! I've been obsessed with Morgan James for years and I was SO thrilled to get to learn more of her story for this episode. Morgan first moved to NYC to study voice at Julliard--and t…
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00AMHARRIDAN OR HEROINE..? The feminist “Bechdel Test” for fiction says that there must be conversations between two women which are not about men. John Patrick Shanley’s tig…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:22PMYOU GUYS!! We are so so excited to welcome today's guest, Tyler Hanes! I first met Tyler years and years ago when he was making his Broadway debut in "Oklahoma!" and I have been creepily sta…
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00AMTHE BAD BOY WE NEEDED ONCE , AND STILL DO The corpse is the talking point and to some extent the star. Certainly Anah Ruddin, hopping out of the coffin spry as a fox for…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:48AMSUICIDE, SADNESS, SNIPING AND SUPPER It often puzzles me why sharp little stage gems like this don’t get pounced on by TV, – notably the BBC – instead of commissio…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:11PMA PRIMITIVE AWAKENING It is dark. An earth floor, plank stable door , murky pond. Sometimes a candle is lit, but Soutra Gilmour’s set remains tenebrous , primitive. A wom…
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