Wednesday, 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 mentio…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:52PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 08:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 pict…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:19PM[SHARE]ARROGANCE, 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-s…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:16AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 29, 2019
GUEST CRITIC BEN DOWELL DOES NOT HAVE A GOOD NIGHT OUT Â What a strange evening this is. Young director Tinuke Craig has taken Maxim Gorky's 1911Â play (there was a revision in 1935 but…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:21AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 24, 2019
RENAISSANCEÂ RUTTING, Â VENUS ANDÂ Â VANITIES Â Sandro Botticelli, he makes clear to us at the start, plans to tell his version. He's Dickie Beau: skinny and swaggeringly queeny…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:54PM[SHARE]​​IT TAKES TWO​​…​  Here's a sharp eyed little gem about coupledom and the wary, fretful road towards parenthood in an age of easy contraception …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:47AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 23, 2019
TWO CURATORS, ACROSS EIGHTY YEARS   The little Swan , a jewel-box of a theatre, often sees the new plays the RSC does best: immaculate technique and careful clarity elucidating c…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:34AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 20, 2019
INSPECTOR GOOLE, BACK BACK ON THE ROAD  Below, edited, is my original London review of this remarkable production. This new tour deserves to be marked, though:  r…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:46AM[SHARE]Friday, October 18, 2019
A COOL EYE ON SHATTERED LIVES     Of all the well known flaws of our criminal justice system, one of the most glaring is how badly it fits women " though they are…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:44AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 12, 2019
Groan Ups has hamster substitutions, unexpected subtler laughs and a moment of real pathos before it swizzles into something more poignant.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 10, 2019
By Libby Purves
Libby Purves reviews Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's musical Assassins now playing at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury.
This post REVIEW: Assassins, Watermill Theatre Newbu…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 08:37AM[SHARE]THE DARK AND THE CRAZY    This is " for us anyway " the first production in the Trump era of this savage musical: a revue reimagining of all the attempts, successful …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 2, 2019
PEOPLE OF THE BLITZ  Sarah Waters' best novel, evoking lives during and after the London Blitz,  was told backward in time. It is much the same way, indeed, as we meet real…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:41PM[SHARE]THE LOW DISHONEST DECADE…  It's always intimate, the Jermyn,. We're in an autumn garden, apples on the ground and fading roses on the wall;  birdsong, and a tea table set…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:55AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 1, 2019
A COLLIDING WORLD    Couldn't miss this: for two years as a teenager (Dad in the Jo'burg Embassy)  I lived alongside the frightened, arrogant paranoia of white South A…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:18PM[SHARE]Monday, September 30, 2019
15 CHARACTERS OBJECTING TO AN AUTHOR..  The Jane Austen industry never flags, in tribute or in parody. You can barely throw a bonnet without hitting an Austentatious improv,�…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:45PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 29, 2019
Underneath Birthdays Past, Birthdays Present beats Ayckbourn's sorrowful, understanding heart, showing us that comedy is just tragedy on its way to happening.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 27, 2019
KING JOHN WAS NOT A GOOD MAN…   Maybe we should stick to AA Milne's version?  "King John was not a good man He had his little ways  And sometimes no one spoke to him For day…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 25, 2019
GLOBAL AND GENDER POLITICS INÂ PERFECT MINIATURE Â Â Â A glass conference-centre in the host nation France;Â a visiting US President avid for airstrikes after a terrorist outra…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:34PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 22, 2019
The National Theatre does not disappoint with A Taste of Honey. The production is absolutely superb, with some of the cleverest staging imaginable.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 18, 2019
GUEST REVIEWER BEN DOWELL SAYS HANKS FOR THE MEMORY , AND BRAVELY FACES THE WEIRDNESS Â This is a lavish revival of the 1996 musical version of the 1988 Tom Hanks fantasy comedy, complete…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:02AM[SHARE]Friday, September 13, 2019
The King of Hell's Palace is a play brimful of good intentions but with virtually no artistry or dramatic tension.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 10, 2019
THIRTY YEARS LATER AND STILL FURIOUS: HEDDA'S BACK Â Â Â Â Last night, while Parliament spiralled into disorderly, resentful confusion and Mr Bercow dramatically put an end to him…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:41PM[SHARE]Friday, September 6, 2019
Marina Litvinenko's final address in A Very Expensive Poison, reminding us of our political cowardice and idly greedy tolerance of crooked Russian money in our capital city, will bring theat…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 4, 2019
By Libby Purves
Libby Purves reviews Simon Woods' first play Hansard now playing at the Lyttelton Theatre in the National Theatre complex.
This post REVIEW: Hansard, National Theatre London …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 10:08AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 3, 2019
OLD TIMES, OLD  SORROWS: BEFORE THE RAINBOW  With Parliament in uproar upriver , the NT hit a luckily apt moment to stage Simon Woods' first play and promote it as a "w…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:32PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 31, 2019
GUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI SWOONS OVER SWASHBUCKLINGÂ AT GRIMEBORN Director Emma Jude Harris "couldn't believe her luck" when she discovered Cabildo, the only opera by pioneering com…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:10AM[SHARE]Friday, August 30, 2019
BITTERLY BRITISH    It was a good mix of ages in the Curve audience, so perhaps a public service to remind the rising generation, awash in Brexindignation, that Ut…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:05PM[SHARE]GUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI FINDS JOPLIN TROUBLINGLY FUN Scott Joplin was rightly proud of Treemonisha, an opera for which he wrote both libretto and score; it was never fully staged in …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:14AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 29, 2019
GUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI MARVELS AT THE OPERATIC POTENTIAL OF SIGNDANCE The double bill of Gillian Whitehead's Hotspur with Schoenberg's great Modernist Pierrot Lunaire is the first o…
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