Monday, November 8, 2021
THE MYTH AND TERROR THAT CHILDREN KNOW Sometimes a violent rip occurs in the thin veil of materialism ,commonsense, morality and law. Children know this: a bereaveme…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:28AMThursday, November 4, 2021
COULD YOU? WOULD YOU? FOR A MILLION BUCKS? Here’s a struggling young couple (well, not that young, both on second marriages and he has a daughter going to college). Along comes a billion…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:18AMWednesday, November 3, 2021
UNIVERSALLY ACKNOWLEDGED TO BE A HOOT It had to happen: someone had to notice that in the comfortable upper-middle and aristocratic worlds of Jane Austen’s novel, nothing c…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:43PMSaturday, October 23, 2021
NOT A REVIEW BUT SOME JOLLY NEWS Not a review, because this was the first performance of a modest weekend testing the water: a script-in-hand, moustaches-falling-off, fresh-outta-wor…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:49AMWednesday, October 20, 2021
By Libby Purves
Our theatreCat Libby Purves reviews Grenfell - Value Engineering which looks at the Grenfell Enquiry playing at the Tabernacle Theatre
This post REVIEW: Grenfell Value Engine…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:13AMTuesday, October 19, 2021
THE HEART STILL FEELS THE BEAT Everything Bob Marley sings lifts the heart, instructing it to rise and triumph and unite in joy: lively-up yourself! Let’s get toget…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:08PMTHE DEVIL IN THE DETAIL: scenes from the Grenfell Inquiry There was a spate of criticism when Richard Norton Taylor’s dramatisation of the Grenfell Inquiry was announced, despite it b…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:42AMSunday, October 17, 2021
By Libby Purves
Our TheatreCat Libby Purves reviews Hugh Salmon's play Into Battle which is having its World Premiere at Greenwich Theatre.
This post REVIEW: Into Battle, Greenwich Theatre �…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:51AMSaturday, October 16, 2021
By Libby Purves
Our TheatreCat Libby Purves reviews Disney's Bedknobs and Broomsticks the musical at the Theatre Royal Norwich as part of the show's UK Tour. Who needs panto? A classy flight…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:58PM THE RACE WHERE NOBODY WINS This feels like a howl of baffled frustration, from a millennial generation ( writer and director, and all four characters) unable to deal with the emo…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:59AMFriday, October 15, 2021
By Libby Purves
Our TheatreCat Libby Purves reviews The Tragedy of Macbeth with Saoirse Ronan as Lady Macbeth now playing at the Almedia Theatre in London
This post REVIEW: The Tragedy of Ma…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 04:38PMThursday, October 14, 2021
THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH. Almeida, N1 THE SCOTTISH PLAY WE NEEDED Say what you like about star-casting and auteur-ish directors messing with Shakespeare, but sometimes a multiple…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:59PMAN OLD STORY OF YOUNG MEN Balliol College Oxford, 1910. Confident young Etonians are hurling crockery downstairs, yelling “I’m a bastard, I’m a bastard, rather be a bastard than …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:30AMSunday, October 10, 2021
EAST IS EAST, IN EAST ANGLIA Shamser Sinha – who is on the National Theatre Connections project – relished the idea of writing a play about a South-Asian working-class family i…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:32PMFriday, October 8, 2021
AN EVER-MORPHING PROTEAN TEXT…RENEWS AGAIN BEFORE OUR EYES Every Hamlet should give us something new. The play is a philosophical and psychological labyrinth, its jewels and se…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:12AMWednesday, October 6, 2021
FOUR WIVES LATER, MANTEL AND MILES COMPLETE THE JOURNEY It was rising eight years ago that the first two parts of Hilary Mantel’s majestic Wolf Hall trilogy came to the stage, adap…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:20PMNOT QUITE A REVIEW, MORE A TRIP DOWN A SIDE ALLEY I was on the early train up when news came that poor old Southwark had ,for the second time, been forced by illness to cancel two performanc…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:13AMSunday, October 3, 2021
WHO NEEDS PANTO? A CLASSY FLIGHT OF FANCY ON THE ROAD This show, which I had the joy of seeing in a packed Theatre Royal Norwich alongside many small thrilled children, knows exa…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:59AMThursday, September 30, 2021
THE LAST GREAT PLAGUE If you lived as an adult alongside the onset of AIDS forty years ago you don’t forget it: the lost friends and workmates , the rumours of ignorance which h…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:13PMThursday, September 23, 2021
By Libby Purves
Our very own theatreCat Libby Purves indulges her love of Coward with a look at Jennifer Saunders in Blithe Spirit now playing at the Harold Pinter Theatre.
This post REVIEW:…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 08:08AMWednesday, September 22, 2021
A POCKET JEWEL We always knew that among the first sproutings of recovery would be a few Alan Ayckbourns, popping up as welcome as snowdrops. I am always fond of this early one, …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:40AMTuesday, September 21, 2021
AN ARCATI MORE THAN MEDIUM I once took a student nephew to this Coward masterpiece, and the thrill for me was that he didn’t know there was a g—–. Until there was. Therefore for a risi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:34PMThursday, September 16, 2021
A SHAGGY-DOG TALE IN CRUMBLING SPLENDOUR Sometimes the building upstages the play. I had not explored the late-Victorian, half-restored glory of the Coronet before, and my fir…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:15AMWednesday, September 15, 2021
By Libby Purves
Our theatreCat Libby Purves heads to the Menier Chocolate Facory as it re-opens to review Paula Vogel's Pulitzer-winning play Indecent.
This post REVIEW: Indecent, Menier Cho…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:59AMAN EPIC OF PASSION AND PERFORMANCE Here is life, history, theatrical passion, great migrations and lyrical romance in the rain. Here’s anger and humour and love and desp…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:22AMFriday, September 10, 2021
By Libby Purves
Libby Purves, our resident TheatreCat reviews The Memory Of Water now playing at Hampstead Theatre. Runs until 16 October
This post REVIEW: The Memory Of Water, Hampstead The…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:00AMA HISTORIC HIT BACK, BETTER THAN EVER This portrait of three bickering sisters, trading memories and revelations in the days before a mother’s funeral in a snowy Yorkshire winter…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:34AMThursday, September 9, 2021
LOVE, GRIEF, AND A BRAD PITT ALBATROSS With loving detail, right down a glimpse of coat-racks beyond the far door, the downstairs studio serving Tom Wells’ new play has become a rem…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:28PMWednesday, September 8, 2021
ICE WORK IF YOU GET IT… Phew. The Broadway-rooted, Disneylicious, long-awaited red-carpet premiere night featured (of course) an ice -blue carpet. And the throng bursting …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:30PMMonday, August 30, 2021
ARTHUR SMITH CONJURES UP HIS DAD These days our Arfur comes complete with an overture! It takes the form of Kirsty Newton at the piano (artfully disguised as an upright 1940’s pub-…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:30PMThursday, August 26, 2021
THEATRE’S FAIRY GODFATHER DOES IT AGAIN We needed this. The return of the big classic shows to packed houses in the Barbican, Chichester and Sadlers Wells has been invigorating, but Lloy…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:52AM 
