Saturday, October 22, 2022
DODD-LEVEL HAPPINESS IN SOHO    Hard, on its first night ever, not to review the theatre itself. Nica Burns and Nimax open the first new West End theatre in fifty years: agle…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:17AMTuesday, October 18, 2022
OLD MEN DO NOT FORGET     Peter Gill’s new play has a melancholy beauty about it; it’s a sort of poem as the veteran playwright and director engages …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:21PMThursday, October 13, 2022
THE PROFESSORIAL ROAD TO HELL   David Tennant is a fastidious actor. That sounds negative, prim perhaps, but in fact expresses why his performance in C.P.Taylor’s extraord…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:04PMWednesday, October 12, 2022
A HARLEM TRAVIATA Three in the morning and Angel the showgirl is raring , glitterimg drunk “if you caint be drunk in Harlem..†she slurs furiously. Her friend Guy brought …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:31AMMonday, October 10, 2022
RETURN OF A WILD AND QUESTIONING PLAY    This is the return of Robert Icke’s modern version of Schnitzler’s 1912 play – details below, as laid out in part of …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:07AMFriday, October 7, 2022
A WARNING FOR ALL TIMES   This is the big one. It’s the National Theatre at its strongest:  unapologetic, classic, unsparing, gripping, impassioned.  Here�…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:17AMThursday, October 6, 2022
THERAPISTS AS HUMANS  Georgina Burns is a trained and experienced NHS therapist, now with Hampstead support a playwright. So, unlike most other writers tempted by the theatric…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:34PMWednesday, October 5, 2022
A MODEST AND REMORSEFUL SELF-REBUKE     There’s a curious outbreak of reparations going on. The Old Vic, which binned Into the Woods in outrage at Terry Gilliam�
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:48PMTuesday, October 4, 2022
A GOTHIC SORROW IN OLD BOSTON When you say you’re off to a Suffolk village hall to see a tiny company – best known for its mini-pantos – doing a dramatised tribut…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:23AMFriday, September 30, 2022
AMBITION , DISGRACE, RUIN, WOMEN Heavy footfalls pace overhead, enervating, raising anxiety. Anna Fleischle’s galleried grey set is half Scandi-minimo-chic, half penitentiary. Dow…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:44AMThursday, September 29, 2022
GLORIOUS AS EVER     Millions know it by now, but in case like my enthralled companions last night you aren’t among them,  grant me a moment or skip the the penult…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:08AMWednesday, September 28, 2022
WISHFUL DELUSIONS IN A MIDDLE AGED DOLDRUM Susan finds herself in mid-life with a dull clerical husband (Nigel Lindsay really enjoying it) , obsessed with his dreary parish history pamph…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:23PMMonday, September 26, 2022
By Libby Purves
Our very own theatreCat Libby Purves reviews Helen Hunt in Jonathan Spector's comedy Eureka day at London's old Vic Theatre.
This post REVIEW: Eureka Day, Old Vic Theatre Lon…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:49AMFriday, September 23, 2022
LORD, WHAT FOOLS WE LIBERALS BE…    In a beanbagged, bright-coloured primary school in Berkeley, California, its executive committee of five seek consensus over reclassi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:37PMREFINED AND FEATHER-DUSTED: CRUELTY IN THE SUBURBS We are in a suburban drawing-room in 1926, which some characters will still call the “parlourâ€. Near the front, clo…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:03AMThursday, September 15, 2022
A CENTURY SURVIVED   It is no bad week to be contemplating the Jewish custom of sitting shiva: spending seven days on a hard wooden bench when “you laugh, you cry, you argue…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:22PMWednesday, September 14, 2022
EVEN A SNAIL WILL REACH ITS HOME      That’s a Nigerian saying, apparently.  But shiny though the shell is,  Richard Eyre’s play becomes a frustratin…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:39PMTuesday, September 13, 2022
SAYERS, SAYING IT FOR WORKING WOMEN  Here’s a treat: first half in Venice (with a glorious Canaletto backdrop) and the second, after some elegant Jermyn set-changing, in a Lon…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:50PMSaturday, September 3, 2022
GUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI FINDS SOME INTERESTING THREADS SLIGHTLY UNRAVELLED AT GRIMEBORN Fringe opera festivals sometimes give us a chance to see new work in progress – i.e. un…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:15AMWednesday, August 24, 2022
A SPIKY AND SPECTACULAR DELIGHT       Humanity in every century has needed to plunge into the dark forests, questing or fleeing, finding wonders or wolves:Â�…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:04PMThursday, August 18, 2022
IT’S BACK: A NEW DIRECTION HOME   This humbly immense, uniquely created show threw me for a loop five summers ago. It’s back on tour, via Oliviers and Broadway a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:47AMGUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI GETS SWEPT UP IN THE MAGIC, THE MUSIC AND THE META Opera Alegria’s vivacious foray into Mozart’s Magic Flute for Grimeborn takes its inspiration…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:00AMThursday, August 11, 2022
VOICES FROM THE GRAVE AND THE CELLAR, UNIGNORABLE     Timely, enterprising, emotionally shattering, politically shaming.  These two plays were both  both first born at …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:20PMTuesday, August 9, 2022
CARRY ON. OR, TO PUT IT ANOTHER WAY, KEEP MESSIN’ ABOUT…   My first concern was, will they dare give us the sadness? Kenneth Williams was a comic marvel self-created, a …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:40PMWednesday, August 3, 2022
GLITTER AND HARD GRAFT     A basement hung with glitter strings, a small moody band with earthy bass, a bar: few better places to revel in torch songs, deep-dug anthems an…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:52PMMUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.    Lyttelton, SE1 SHAKESPEARE IN THE SWING AGE    A star danced, and under it was Simon Godwin’s joyful, 1930s Riviera production born.�…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:47PM STARRY SISTERHOOD IN OLD VIENNA    Identical twin girls, separated at birth in their parents divorce, meet at summer camp and resolve to swop places.  Remember  “…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:13AMSaturday, July 30, 2022
THE SCOTTISH PLAY ON ANCIENT TURF   “This castle hath a pleasant seat..† Indeed it does: Red Rose Chain’s traditional outdoor show now lives alongside the…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:40AMWednesday, July 27, 2022
101 DALMATIANS    Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park NW1 BARKING IN THE PARK    Wooof!  The OAT’s new show, bounding and cavorting alongÂ�…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:18AMTuesday, July 26, 2022
CHARLIE IS , ONCE AGAIN, OUR DANCING DARLING…     Foiled by heatwave and trains, I made it six days later to the summer’s highlight, the glorious absurdity of…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:35AMSaturday, July 23, 2022
   Twice lately, under tall oaks and pines on what is becoming known as Suffolk’s mini-Minack, I have encountered touring opera companies doing wonderfully, relaxedly, …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:21AM 
