Thursday, June 10, 2021
AMELIORATING PARISIAN LIVES ONE PUPPET AT A TIME It could hardly be calculated more finely to fulfil every post-lockdown need: a cast of sixteen nimble actor-musician-singers vis…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:14AMFriday, June 4, 2021
PINK SATIN AND A FAIRY PINATA FOR A PIMMS-Y NIGHT OUT Face it, this play’s a rom-com, a lark, a happy pretty way to blame the fickleness of young love on petulant fairies…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:04AMSunday, May 30, 2021
SPACE IS THE LIMIT AS THE WEST END RETURNS There was real excitement in a first west end moment since the November lockdown crushed the few brave shoots of returning theatre. The Sonia Fri…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:16PMWednesday, May 26, 2021
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds INSTEAD OF TRAVEL… So what do we need, to reopen a tiny Georgian playhouse in a time of continuing uncertainty, mas…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:22AMSaturday, December 12, 2020
O YES IT IS I had booked us in the very day Lloyd Webber and QDOS announced that with antiviral door handles, fogging, separating of bubbles and teeth-gritted determination,…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:31PMFriday, December 11, 2020
ANOTHER ….GOD BLESS US EVERY ONE Scrooge is testy, cold and solitary as an oyster, shocking as ever in his indifference to the poor who ought to die off and “decrease the surplu…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:13PMThursday, December 10, 2020
A SCROOGE TO REMEMBER Beneath festoons of horrid chains, nimble amid strongboxes and trunks and safes, three actors bring the old text to violently emotional life. Assisted only b…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:26PMGreat journeys told in tiny windows The daily epics of the refugee crisis haunt us on every bulletin:: small boat crossings, lethal lorry journeys, arrests and detentions. It. Is r…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:09PMSunday, December 6, 2020
MINIATURE REVELS They’re at it again. And in this dour year, crowned with the financially reckless renaissance of West End theatre, Dan and Jeff – Daniel Clarkson and Jeff Turner – are…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:01AMFriday, October 30, 2020
TITTER YE NOT: IT WAS TOUGH An element of pilgrimage here: new-fledged theatre, new play, worth the long masked train to London and then a bus’s wild wanderings south of the ri…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:29AMSaturday, October 24, 2020
Those who know Amy Johnson’s history well will be happy with Lone Flyer as a grippingly impressionistic portrait of a remarkable woman.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, October 6, 2020
And so to a real press night, an event now as rare as a mystical apparition , a shining sword rising from a dark lake. . The gallant Southwark Playhouse offers a miniature musical, Jason Rob…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:19AMTWO MORE FROM ALAN BENNETT One of the darkest and one of the merriest. PlAYING SANDWICHES is an even more than usually sombre one of Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads.�…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:30AMFriday, September 18, 2020
The Talking Heads monologues The Shrine and Bed Among the Lentils are absorbing and thrilling and touching and – here is the surprise – amid Alan Bennett’s wry pathos the playlets are …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, September 4, 2020
By Libby Purves
The Theatrecat Libby Purves finds herself back in the stalls for Beat The Devil at the Bridge Theatre London and it's a very Fiennes start!
This post REVIEW: Beat The Devil, …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:43AMThursday, September 3, 2020
BACK IN THE STALLS! AND A VERY FIENNES START After nine months’ exile – my chemotherapy ended slap bang at the start of lockdown – I felt like the Ancient Mariner, goo…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:15AMSaturday, August 1, 2020
A SINGING, SEASIDE, STRIKING DEFIANCE OF THE NEW SEPARATION Theatrecat remains dark, as it has been since December when chemotherapy began and then ran seamlessly, in March, into loc…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:38AMThursday, March 19, 2020
…FROM ME AND FROM THEATRECAT.COM (&HOUSE ARTIST ROGER HARDY) HERE’S THE CAT AND THE MICE . THEY COLLABORATE FOR ONCE TO WISH EVERY THEATRE, ARTIST AND SUPPORT WORKER LUCK, SO…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:39PMFriday, December 6, 2019
A MESSAGE FOR THOSE KIND ENOUGH TO DROP INTO THIS SITE… Theatrecat followers: a bit of news below, in detail for your information or in case any of you are undergoing the parallel thing. …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:56AMThis freshened-up and first-rate production of A Christmas Carol at the Old Vic sees Paterson Joseph giving one of the performances of his life, his humanity simply erupting onto the stage.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, November 26, 2019
MONSTROUS AND MAJESTIC , A NARNIA FOR NOW How to interpret an old favourite? A Christian fantasy allegory, the world of Narnia, the first of C.S.Lewis’ immortal children’…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:26AMThursday, November 21, 2019
BEN DOWELL REVIEWS: A bright, socially withdrawn teenager called Evan is desperately lonely, taking comfort in the internet and not much else. He has a crush on a girl from his school, but c…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:39AMSaturday, November 16, 2019
Mary Poppins is as supercalifragilisticexpialidocious as one can hope, a riot of good cheer, fun, excellent signing and some quite breathtaking stagecraft.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, November 15, 2019
BEN DOWELL AND DAUGHTER POP WITH PLEASURE AT ITS PEP.. It has floated in one the chilly autumn breeze like a much-needed blast of summer sunshine. Yes, this Mary Poppins is as supercalifragi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:08PMWednesday, November 13, 2019
A BIG APPLE ROMANCE WITH CRUNCH How romantic New York is to the British heart! From Superman to Friends we seem to know it, from Elf and 34th Street (not to mention the Pogues…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:52PMSaturday, November 2, 2019
High Fidelity stomps along unmemorably with great goodwill and a three-piece band overhead, and moments of soul or hare-krishna pastiche are wittily done
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMWednesday, October 30, 2019
NORTHERN GUEST REVIEWER HELEN GASKELL TIRES OF THE RELENTLESS GRIT… A family of five, scattered across the North of England, are brought together by tragedy. The play shows a picture …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:19PMARROGANCE, ANGER , INDIA’S SHAME Hema’s is a house of women now. The old grandmother is in bed below the tall screen doors , feeding crows who move shadow-shapes behind…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:16AMTuesday, October 29, 2019
GUEST CRITIC BEN DOWELL DOES NOT HAVE A GOOD NIGHT OUT What a strange evening this is. Young director Tinuke Craig has taken Maxim Gorky’s 1911 play (there was a revision in 1935 but s…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:21AMThursday, October 24, 2019
RENAISSANCE RUTTING, VENUS AND VANITIES Sandro Botticelli, he makes clear to us at the start, plans to tell his version. He’s Dickie Beau: skinny and swaggeringly queeny in blac…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:54PMIT TAKES TWO… Here’s a sharp eyed little gem about coupledom and the wary, fretful road towards parenthood in an age of easy contraception and illimitable expectation…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:47AM 
