Tuesday, May 16, 2017
LET THERE BE LIGHT! The year 1632 : we are halfway through the epic conflict between Galileo Galilei and the Holy Roman Church, an authority in its day quite as ruthless as Stalin and…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:47PMIN WHICH MICHAEL ADAIR LOSES HIS THEATRE-CRITIC VIRGINITY TO A PACK OF SCOTTISH MINXES A few years ago, when High School Musical and Glee were in their pomp, we were forever se…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:11AMMonday, May 15, 2017
Full Disclosure, you guys, I’m OBSESSED with "Come From Away" And I’m equally obsessed with today’s guest, Caesar Samayoa. Caesar plays multiple roles in the show including Kevin, who …
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00AMFriday, May 12, 2017
BLEACH, BLUES, AND BLACK AMERICA RISING Here’s a pocket musical with huge themes, a blues opera of historic seriousness but with a singing washing-machine in a bubbled minidress. A …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:39PMWednesday, May 10, 2017
FRESH AS A (VIOLENT) DAISY AFTER 376 YEARS What wonders, sir, are these? How beauteous fringe theatre is! We Tuesday matinee-goers, paying peanuts for the smaller space in an �…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:05AMTuesday, May 9, 2017
A CRIME, A CARDINAL, A CONFLICT It is Twelfth Night, the feast of the Epiphany, 1941. In the Jermyn’s tight intimacy we are sitting in the clinical director’s office of a home…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:18PMMonday, May 8, 2017
AFTER SADDAM: WHAT’S LEFT WHEN YOU TAKE AWAY A TYRANT? An electrifying moment in this sharp, riveting play sees two bitter rivals, in a moment of stillness between blood-feud …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:20PMThis was, without a doubt, one of the most fun and interesting interviews I've ever done, you guys. Gabriel Ebert talks being cast as Mr. Wormwood in "Matilda" at the age of 24--winning a To…
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00AMThursday, May 4, 2017
REAGAN, RELIGION, AND REMEMBERING… Direct comparisons are dangerous, even when – as this week – two consecutive days see major works opening in London, both set in the 1…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:10PMWednesday, May 3, 2017
IRELAND OF THE SORROWS: THE KIDS, THE CRAIC AND THE KILLING It is 1982 in County Armagh. Not a good time to be Irish, not there. Not with internees still in the H blocks and ten r…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:48PMNOBILITY AND THE NOSE on tour You’ve hardly sat down before there’s a jolly mass drinking-song in pantaloons, leather breastplates and hat-feathers being romped through in fr…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:32AMGUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI FINDS THE DONMAR’S NEW VERSION OF BRECHT CRIMINALLY IRRESISTIBLE How do you get, keep and wield power? What do you use it for, and why? And, if you will sto…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:56AMMonday, May 1, 2017
You Guys, I said it the day it happened and I'll say it again: The chat I had with Miss Saigon's Eva Noblezada is one of the most memorable I've ever had. I can't put my finger on exactly wh…
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00AMSaturday, April 29, 2017
BILIOUS BUT BRACING: THE METROPOLIS AND THE MOVIES Simon may be from the wrong side of New York, a roughneck who ties his wife Anne to a chair and tapes her mouth for being “critical&…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:53AMThursday, April 27, 2017
GUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI SEES ANCIENT GRUDGE BREAK TO NEW MUTINY AT THE GLOBE The recent spats at the Globe, between the now outgoing Artistic Director Emma Rice and The Powers That B…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:40PM1918..1968..AND NOW.. ALAN BENNETT’S ENGLAND In his 1994 diaries Alan Bennett described the funeral of a Dunkirk veteran in a village church. “crammed with the men who won the war…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:43AMTuesday, April 25, 2017
VAN HOVE, VISCONTI, AND OUR JUDE London is getting used to Ivo van Hove of Toneelgroep Amsterdam. But his tremendous A View from The Bridge (in a bleak arena) and his striking NT …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:26PMMonday, April 24, 2017
At Long Last the Jenn Colella interview is here! We couldn't be more excited to talk with the fabulous Broadway star about her work in this season's "Come From Away" and to hear her AMAZING …
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00AMThursday, April 20, 2017
A WINDOW ON AN IVORY TOWER… Full disclosure: I bought a ticket for an early preview, because press night was my husband’s birthday but I couldn’t resist checking out Chr…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:39PMYou guys, We're OBSESSED with Ariana DeBose!
Ariana is Currently co-starring as Jane in the critically acclaimed "A Bronx Tale"--directed by Robert De Niro and Jerry Zacks. She made her …
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00AMWednesday, April 19, 2017
GHOSTS OF WAR AND SHIPWRECK “When all the world’s at war, it’s better to be dead”. Pallid pessimistic ghosts roam around a lonely Maine lighthouse in WW2, with heaving sepia s…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:09AMMonday, April 17, 2017
28-year-old Gideon Glick is giving one of the most buzzed-about performances on Broadway this season as Jordan Berman, an unlucky in love New York City bachelor in the play "Significant Othe…
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00AMThursday, April 13, 2017
A JOURNEY THROUGH A PLAGUE YEAR With the horror of Syria fresh on us, and Africa’s travails with Ebola still haunting, this sombre, unforgettable treatment of Albert Camus’ LA PES…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:27PMTuesday, April 11, 2017
A CANUTE FOR THE AGE OF ANYWHERES This substantial début play by Tallulah Brown hits an intriguing syncope with David Goodhart’s much-discussed definition of the UK tribes. Not le…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:00PMMonday, April 10, 2017
I LOVE NATHAN LEE GRAHAM! As a lot of you know, I'm a bit of a gay history nerd, so I was thrilled recently to get to see Nathan--one of my favorite NYC actors--in the new off-Broadway musi…
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00AMSunday, April 9, 2017
A WILD TALE FROM HELL’S BORDERS – on the road This enterprising regional touring company generally focuses on the East, whether John Clare or Arthur Ransome, Viking …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:28AMWednesday, April 5, 2017
YOU GUYS!!! I've been pursuing this interview with Rebecca for YEARS! I'm totally obsessed. I first fell in love with this incredible woman in 2008 when I saw her in the Broadway production …
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00AMMonday, April 3, 2017
You Guys! It was such a thrill to spend an afternoon chatting with the perfectly British and perfectly handsome and perfectly hilarious Michael Xavier. Currently starring opposite Glenn Clos…
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00AMWednesday, March 22, 2017
YOU GUYS!! Theater People is 100 episodes old!! To mark the occasion, we recorded this episode live at BroadwayCon. Basically I made some of my favorite guests listen to me talk about how mu…
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00AMMonday, March 13, 2017
What an episode, you guys! In the first segment two-time Tony winner (and five time nominee!!!) Michael Cerveris is back to talk making his own music, acting, and life post-"Fun Home." In t…
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00AMTuesday, March 7, 2017
You guys, we've been working on locking down an interview with today's guest Rory O'Malley for YEARS! He was originally scheduled to be the THIRD ever guest of Theater People! For this episo…
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