Tuesday, November 7, 2023
WHEN WE THAT ARE LEFT GROW OLD…. Sometimes you have to rely on a team with multiple comedy awards to hold a mirror to society and move your heart. This is by Richard …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:13AMMonday, November 6, 2023
By Libby Purves
Our very own theatreCat Libby Purves reviews new musical The Time Traveller's Wife at the Apollo Theatre, London.
This post REVIEW: The Time Traveller’s Wife, Apollo Theatr…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:06PMThursday, November 2, 2023
DIANA AND THE DECEIVER Jonathan Maitland did a superb play for this theatre about Thatcher and Howe, “Dead Sheep”, and one on Jimmy Savile which was far more telling and cathartic than t…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:42PMWednesday, November 1, 2023
SCIENCE FANTASY AND HONEST EMOTION I don’t normally indulge in first-night anecdotes, but feel I should mention that in the big wedding scene Joanna Woodward tossed her bouque…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:23PMAGATHA STRIKES AGAIN This is Extreme Agatha Christie, her most preposterous (and bestselling) plot and one of the most murderously morbid (NB the final moments of the staging are no…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:59PMTuesday, October 31, 2023
MEMORIES OF A MAVERICK It’s an immersive show, in that you buy a drink in the cramped saloon of the old pub on Greek Street, find a corner, and ideally fall into conversation with anoth…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:20PMWHILE THE REAL ONE RUNS…. With the Covid Inquiry surging along in a froth of accusations and curses and scandalous Whatsappery, it was hard to resist a hasty day-return to Harry Davies’ …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:12PMFriday, October 27, 2023
THE FIRST WITCHFINDER, NOT WITHOUT LESSONS FOR TODAY This is remarkable, Joanna Carrick’s best and deepest play yet, following her acclaimed Reformation trilogy. In its sm…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:44AMWednesday, October 25, 2023
A MOTHER’S LIFE, A SON’S PERSPECTIVE Sometimes it is almost useful to be a day late (sorry, tied up yesterday) because it gives a chance to read other people’s take on the play you s…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:25AMFriday, October 20, 2023
GENIUS, REALPOLITIK, RELIGION In days of horrifying conflict there was quite a jolt in a confrontation between Stephen Hagan’s resplendently silver-suited Frederick the Great a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:16AMWednesday, October 18, 2023
By Libby Purves
Our very own theatreCat Libby Purves reviews Arthur Miller's A View From The Bridge playing at the Chichester Festival Theatre.
This post REVIEW: A View From The Bridge, Chic…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 02:32AMTuesday, October 17, 2023
PROPERTY RAGE FROM ANOTHER AGE Here’s a curiosity from 1972; an early , rarely-seen Caryl Churchill play revived with dashing elegance under the Jermyn’s Artistic director Stella Pow…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:18PMGRIM AND PURE BY THE DOCKS, PITY AND POETRY The lawyer Alfieri, prowling in memory round Arthur Miller’s stark tale of immigrant longshoremen on the 1940’s Brooklyn docks, speak…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:12PMMonday, October 16, 2023
A LEARNED FRIEND REMEMBERED Rumpole of the Bailey is occasional comfort-viewing in our house, thanks to Talkingpicturestv repeats. John Mortimer’s portrait of the old barrister a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:12AMSaturday, October 14, 2023
By Libby Purves
Our very own theatreCat Libby Purves reviews Jamie Lloyd's new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard at the Savoy Theatre.
This post REVIEW: Sunset Boulevard, …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:03AMFriday, October 13, 2023
ITS THE PICTURES THAT GOT SMALL? Not if Lloyd can help it. It felt strange to see this in the bowels of a gala-night Savoy, only a week or two after our local arts centre showed the 1950…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:16AMSunday, October 1, 2023
IT’S BACK, THROUGH THE NURSERY WINDOW, STILL FLYING Just to reassure you: this offshoot from Mischief, the team who brought you the perennial Play-goes-wrong, is still a lot o…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:50AMThursday, September 28, 2023
THE TWIG WHO BRANCHED OUT We get up to speed on the period, with irresistible tracks from the golden age of pop: Beatles, Stones, Animals. Onstage is a photographer’s white…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:33PMTuesday, September 26, 2023
A TANKFUL OF EMOTIONAL TENTACLES Where better than Hampstead to watch the interplay of cutting-edge science with emotional intensity and philosophical unanswerables? Upstairs we h…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:38AMSaturday, September 23, 2023
By Libby Purves
Our very own theatreCat Libby Purves reviews Rebecca the Musical at Charing Cross Theatre. Until 18 November 2023.
This post REVIEW: Rebecca, Charing Cross Theatre ✭✭✭�…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 12:01AMFriday, September 22, 2023
PHONETICALLY PHABULOUS Last time Bertie Carvel was on this stage it was as Donald Trump. Now our best shapeshifter is Henry Higgins: capering, swearing, somewhere on the far side of …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:17AMThursday, September 21, 2023
THE INFECTION OF WICKEDNESS The history of the Lodz ghetto in Poland is a part of the Holocaust story worth foxusing on, ot least because the Jewish population there were made …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:04PMLAST NIGHT I DREAMT I WENT TO MANDERLEY YET AGAIN… Daphne Du Maurier’s story is almost a national myth, what with the grand house on the towering cliffs, the terrifying housek…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:18AMTuesday, September 19, 2023
LOSS AND GRIEF IN A SILICON WORLD In a bleak grey minimalist space Merril (a restlessly gamine Myanna Buring) is grieving her much younger sister Angie, who has vanished, pre…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:55AMFriday, September 15, 2023
INDIA 1948 , LESSONS FOR ALL TIME This show is a happy return, especially if like me you missed it last summer: the National at its best, a modern epic and warning directed with fl…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:56AMThursday, September 14, 2023
SHOOT, SCORE, SPARK! This is the year of football plays. First Dear England at the Olivier, now the women’s turn on another stage, out East a bit. Here’s another neon strip lig…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:58AMWednesday, September 13, 2023
A SCANDALOUS WOMAN IN A STORMY WORLD A distant thunder of naval artillery: against elegant panelled walls in Naples a bundled matron in a bonnet watches her flighty daughter toss…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:22AMSunday, September 10, 2023
FOUR MORE AWFUL PEOPLE, HURRAH Two four-handers about awful middle class behaviour in a week: just what the irritable heatwave needed. This, which I caught in a late previ…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:50AMThursday, September 7, 2023
WHEN THE VIRTUE-SIGNALS DRIVE YOU OFF THE RAILS In a boutique restaurant going bankrupt, Jacq and Kas nervously prepare to admit it to their main investor Tobin and his wife Adaego.�…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:05AMFriday, August 18, 2023
HAVING THE BEST OF TIMES IN THE PARK Even in familiar classics you can never predict which anthem will set you dabbing your eye. You might expect it at Albin’s anguished ‘I …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:11PMThursday, August 17, 2023
DOPAMINE , DRUGS, DANGER, DOCTORS This intriguing play by Lucy Prebble aired in 2012 in the intimate Cottesloe space , with Billie Piper and Jonjo o’Neill as paid subjects in an antid…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:55AM 
