By Libby Purves Our very own theatreCat Libby Purves reviews Nigel Havers and Patricia Hodge in Noel Coward's Private Lives which is now touring. This post REVIEW: Private Lives, Nigel Haver…
By Libby Purves Our very own TheatreCat Libby Purves reviews Jonathan O'Boyle's production of Top Hat now playing at The Mill at Sonning. This post REVIEW: Top Hat the musical, The Mill at S…
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…
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 �…
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…
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…
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:…
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…
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…
By Libby Purves Libby Purves travelled down to the Chichester Festival Theatre to catch up with Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific. This post REVIEW: South Pacific, Chichester Festival …
Those who know Amy Johnson's history well will be happy with Lone Flyer as a grippingly impressionistic portrait of a remarkable woman.
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 often …
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, …
This 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.
Mary Poppins is as supercalifragilisticexpialidocious as one can hope, a riot of good cheer, fun, excellent signing and some quite breathtaking stagecraft.
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
Groan Ups has hamster substitutions, unexpected subtler laughs and a moment of real pathos before it swizzles into something more poignant.
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…
Underneath Birthdays Past, Birthdays Present beats Ayckbourn's sorrowful, understanding heart, showing us that comedy is just tragedy on its way to happening.
The National Theatre does not disappoint with A Taste of Honey. The production is absolutely superb, with some of the cleverest staging imaginable.
The King of Hell's Palace is a play brimful of good intentions but with virtually no artistry or dramatic tension.
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…
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 …
By Libby Purves Libby Purves reviews The Doctor very freely adapted from Arthur Schnitzler's Professor Bernhardi by Robert Icke now playing at thew Almeida Theatre, London. This post REVIEW:…
Arthur Schnitzler was, like Chekhov, a doctor; he was an Austrian Jew at a time when mistrust was rising. The Doctor belongs passionately to that time: but director Robert Icke's very free a…