Thursday, June 7, 2018
THE RUMBUSTIOUS AFFAIR OF THE CLOGS IN THE NIGHT TIME Barrie Rutter and the Globe are made for each other:. Fresh out of his storming leadership (and frequent personal performa…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:38PMA WRITER, A MOTHER, A LIFE The elegant new Bridge continues to demonstrate – firmly — that it is uniquely versatile. After one traditional tragicomedy (Young Marx) we had a sw…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:32AMTuesday, June 5, 2018
LUKE JONES REVELS IN VIOLENCE, CHILL, NIGHTMARE..AND GREAT DIALOGUE Orlando Bloom – denim, cowboy hat, slicked back hair, twinkling grimace – is as chilled out as a man …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:59AMSaturday, June 2, 2018
A TAPESTRY OF HOPE Lady Anne Tree was the Duke of Devonshire’s daughter, sister in law of Kathleen Kennedy and Debo Mitford: grand as they come. Kept from…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:28PMFriday, June 1, 2018
THE EDUCATION JUNGLE A late catch-up for this short tour from Theatre Royal York: but blimey, well worth it. sA drawing-room drama of manners with deep, tangled universall…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:53AMThursday, May 31, 2018
SORROW AND SPLENDOUR IN WORDS THAT SING The first act of Brian Friel’s great play ends with a shout of “bloody, bloody, bloody marvellous!”. And so it bloody well is, thi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:03AMFriday, May 25, 2018
LUKE JONES FALLS FOR TINKERBELL… Peter Pan has now flown into every medium possible. He is a play, novel, pantomime, musical, television programme, cartoon and a Kate Bush single. This…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:21AMTuesday, May 22, 2018
MULTINATIONAL MENACE It is always a dilemma, for those of us who despise star-ratings as a measuring device, when a 90 minute play seems set fair to earn three, or three-and-a-bit, tr…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:50PMFriday, May 18, 2018
THE NEW ERA BEGINS… Here’s a vulnerable Hamlet: a lonely lad in proper tearful grief and disappointment at his mother’s remarriage. A Hamlet who, in feigning madnes…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:01AMThursday, May 17, 2018
BOW, BOW! THEY’RE ON THE ROAD AGAIN.. It must be nearly five years since Sasha Regan’s all-male Iolanthe at Wiltons’ caused me to break a lifelong resistance and enjo…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:28AMSCHLOCK-HORRORWITZ AND HURRAH FOR THE SKELETON Gotta love the buccaneering quality of west end theatres: the Small Faces musical at the little Ambassadors off Cambridge Cir…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:42AMTuesday, May 15, 2018
THE SHINE AND THE TERROR It is no bad thing to have your stage hero effectively co-designing the set. Christopher Oram’s recreation of Mark Rothko’s 1950’s studio is a bl…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:18PMFriday, May 11, 2018
CLEAR YOUNG VOICES FROM A DISTANT PAST Three children in the 1540’s play in a hay-barn, built fragrant and real in the tiny theatre. One has found a pilgrim medal…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:55AMTuesday, May 8, 2018
ROUGH, RURAL, A NEGLECTED ALBION An immense intrusive pipe bisects the stage, a rusty oil tank below it with part of a tractor one side and a cheerless Victorian brick farmhous…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:39PMThursday, May 3, 2018
OSCAR AT HIS MOST EARNEST Worth going to Jonathan Church’s latest Wilde “Classic Spring”revival if only for a feast of Foxes: patriarch Edward as old Lord Caversham and his …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:58PMCREATIVES, C***TS AND CONTRACTS The theatrical repertoire has a new monster: Bernard, created by Joe Penhall and brought to scorchingly memorable, sociopathically irresi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:09AMWednesday, May 2, 2018
FAST, FINE STREETWISE SHAKESPEARE Running and scuffling, a crowd of kids in black scatter across the stark stage under an open-sided, distressedly concrete-looking bo…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:55AMTuesday, May 1, 2018
GUEST CRITIC MICHAEL ADAIR FINDS KINSHIP IN A FAMILY SORROW Well, this is timely. In the shadow of Windrush, a play immerses us in the colourful traditions of Caribbe…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:12AMFriday, April 27, 2018
COWARD GOES FARCEO-FORTISSIMO In the final outburst from our hero Gary Essendine – silk-dressing-gowned philanderer, arrogantly insecure darling of the …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:08AMThursday, April 26, 2018
A WAR OVER, A WORLD ADRIFT It’s a great tapestry of a play: Rodney Ackland’s portrait of a Soho nightclub as WW2 ended. Socialites and slobs, black-marketeers and failing artists,…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:06AMTuesday, April 24, 2018
REBEL WITHOUT AN ARGUMENT It is a curiosity of the age that young British women seem to be far angrier about The Patriarchy than their mothers , even though law, language, women’s a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:04PMGOLDEN SANDS AND GRIEVANCES Nicola Werenowska has certainly found fertile ground for the setting of her play: the decline of English seaside towns (in this case Clacton) from t…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:50PMMonday, April 23, 2018
Part 1: SECRET HEARTS (and an explanation) This is a fabulously quixotic enterprise directed by Tom Littler: a revival of all nine of Noel Coward’s one-act plays, written in 1935 as…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:56AMSaturday, April 21, 2018
MORE THAN A PICNIC I could tell you that it is worth going up West for the transfer of Hampstead’s fine play just to see Roger Allam (his fine quiff sadly suppressed under…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:37PMFriday, April 20, 2018
BAT’S BACK… In a remarkably quick return after its Coliseum outing , Jim Steinman’s barmy musical is storming onto the Tottenham Court Road, rocking on. Few cast chang…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:17AMTuesday, April 17, 2018
A LATE NIGHT TO REMEMBER At twenty to midnight, 106 years to the day after the collision, an audience gathered in this big theatre to mark and remember the disaster.…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:15AMMonday, April 16, 2018
SCI-FI AND SORROW We begin with a tiny proscenium box, an almost Punch-and-Judy window, framing Harry and his wife Max: nice middle-aged people, evoked to sitcom perfection by a beard…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:35AMThursday, April 12, 2018
THE JOINT IS JUMPING! AGAIN… Openings are running in themed sets – three Restoration comedies coming along like No.11 buses, and now two nights running…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:35AMTuesday, April 10, 2018
SWOTS OR SWINDLERS, VILLAINS OR VICTIMS? Sometimes a West End transfer serves a play royally. At Chichester last year I enjoyed James Graham’s playful, thoughtfully mischievo…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:39PMCATHY, STILL NOT HOME AFTER FIFTY YEARS Homeless charities like to remind us of the mantra: we are all just two bad decisions away from the pavement. The trajectory of our heroine Cat…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:53AMMonday, April 9, 2018
SHORT, SHARP, STIMULATING The INK new writing festival (http://inkfestival.org) is a phenomenon: a space where writers of any experience or none can submit short plays (most unde…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:03AM 
