Thursday, May 25, 2017
GUEST REVIEWER MICHAEL ADAIR ROCKS ALONG WITH RICE AT THE GLOBE… “In Love We Trust” – is the motto of the SS Unity, the ship that swiftly sinks moments into Emma Rice�…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:31AMTuesday, May 23, 2017
GUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI FINDS LOVE, PITY AND HORROR IN EQUAL MEASURE AT THE OLD VIC Jack Thorne’s explosive new Woyzeck brings Büchner’s unfinished working class tragedy …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:33PMMonday, May 22, 2017
LOOK INTO THE DARK AND SMILE ALL TOUR LONG This cheerfully macabre celebration of Charles Addams’ famous 1930’s cartoon is off on tour: link below. I saw one of the last shows in i…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:47PMFriday, May 19, 2017
TWISTEDLY IRRESISTIBLE I would not like you to think that I stalk Greg Hicks (though obviously I do: aaah, that odd strong Caesar, that agonized Leontes, that bonkers newspaper edit…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:10AMWednesday, May 17, 2017
ENLARGE, ENLIGHTEN , ENLIVEN…ENTERTAIN! Expatiating on the Grand Staircase of a dreary Tudor stately home (built with ironic love by designer Robert Jones) our tour guide Let…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:00PMTuesday, May 16, 2017
LET THERE BE LIGHT! The year 1632 : we are halfway through the epic conflict between Galileo Galilei and the Holy Roman Church, an authority in its day quite as ruthless as Stalin and…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:47PMIN WHICH MICHAEL ADAIR LOSES HIS THEATRE-CRITIC VIRGINITY TO A PACK OF SCOTTISH MINXES A few years ago, when High School Musical and Glee were in their pomp, we were forever se…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:11AMFriday, May 12, 2017
BLEACH, BLUES, AND BLACK AMERICA RISING Here’s a pocket musical with huge themes, a blues opera of historic seriousness but with a singing washing-machine in a bubbled minidress. A …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:39PMWednesday, May 10, 2017
FRESH AS A (VIOLENT) DAISY AFTER 376 YEARS What wonders, sir, are these? How beauteous fringe theatre is! We Tuesday matinee-goers, paying peanuts for the smaller space in an �…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:05AMTuesday, May 9, 2017
A CRIME, A CARDINAL, A CONFLICT It is Twelfth Night, the feast of the Epiphany, 1941. In the Jermyn’s tight intimacy we are sitting in the clinical director’s office of a home…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:18PMMonday, May 8, 2017
AFTER SADDAM: WHAT’S LEFT WHEN YOU TAKE AWAY A TYRANT? An electrifying moment in this sharp, riveting play sees two bitter rivals, in a moment of stillness between blood-feud …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:20PMThursday, May 4, 2017
REAGAN, RELIGION, AND REMEMBERING… Direct comparisons are dangerous, even when – as this week – two consecutive days see major works opening in London, both set in the 1…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:10PMWednesday, May 3, 2017
IRELAND OF THE SORROWS: THE KIDS, THE CRAIC AND THE KILLING It is 1982 in County Armagh. Not a good time to be Irish, not there. Not with internees still in the H blocks and ten r…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:48PMNOBILITY AND THE NOSE on tour You’ve hardly sat down before there’s a jolly mass drinking-song in pantaloons, leather breastplates and hat-feathers being romped through in fr…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:32AMGUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI FINDS THE DONMAR’S NEW VERSION OF BRECHT CRIMINALLY IRRESISTIBLE How do you get, keep and wield power? What do you use it for, and why? And, if you will sto…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:56AMSaturday, April 29, 2017
BILIOUS BUT BRACING: THE METROPOLIS AND THE MOVIES Simon may be from the wrong side of New York, a roughneck who ties his wife Anne to a chair and tapes her mouth for being “critical&…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:53AMThursday, April 27, 2017
GUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI SEES ANCIENT GRUDGE BREAK TO NEW MUTINY AT THE GLOBE The recent spats at the Globe, between the now outgoing Artistic Director Emma Rice and The Powers That B…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:40PM1918..1968..AND NOW.. ALAN BENNETT’S ENGLAND In his 1994 diaries Alan Bennett described the funeral of a Dunkirk veteran in a village church. “crammed with the men who won the war…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:43AMTuesday, April 25, 2017
VAN HOVE, VISCONTI, AND OUR JUDE London is getting used to Ivo van Hove of Toneelgroep Amsterdam. But his tremendous A View from The Bridge (in a bleak arena) and his striking NT …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:26PMThursday, April 20, 2017
A WINDOW ON AN IVORY TOWER… Full disclosure: I bought a ticket for an early preview, because press night was my husband’s birthday but I couldn’t resist checking out Chr…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:39PMWednesday, April 19, 2017
GHOSTS OF WAR AND SHIPWRECK “When all the world’s at war, it’s better to be dead”. Pallid pessimistic ghosts roam around a lonely Maine lighthouse in WW2, with heaving sepia s…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:09AMThursday, April 13, 2017
A JOURNEY THROUGH A PLAGUE YEAR With the horror of Syria fresh on us, and Africa’s travails with Ebola still haunting, this sombre, unforgettable treatment of Albert Camus’ LA PES…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:27PMTuesday, April 11, 2017
A CANUTE FOR THE AGE OF ANYWHERES This substantial début play by Tallulah Brown hits an intriguing syncope with David Goodhart’s much-discussed definition of the UK tribes. Not le…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:00PMSunday, April 9, 2017
A WILD TALE FROM HELL’S BORDERS – on the road This enterprising regional touring company generally focuses on the East, whether John Clare or Arthur Ransome, Viking …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:28AMFriday, April 7, 2017
BEVERLEY ON THE ROAD AGAIN This a fascinating play, not least because forty years on we can’t seem to get enough of it. Cherished by am-dram, revived by excellent casts and theatres…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:38AMWednesday, April 5, 2017
A DANGEROUS PASTORAL You wait months for a violently emotional taboo-smashing play by Edward Albee and two come along at once. After the bitter razor-sharp humanity of Who’s Afraid …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:56PMTuesday, April 4, 2017
THE HOME LIVES OF OUR OWN DEAR LAWYERS… When a topic is painfully current and theatre plunges in, the heart does not always sing with optimism. But Nina Raine is an old hand , a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:53PMSaturday, April 1, 2017
TWO CULTURES, ONE TRICKY DEAL David Henry Hwang’s play as a hit in the US, and as it premiered at this enterprising little theatre under diretor Andrew Keates, I took an appropriate…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:48AMTuesday, March 28, 2017
MOLIERE , MOZART, MARBER AND A MORAL.. Something for everyone here. I like the assonance, alliteration and rhetorical flourishes in Patrick Marber’s reworking of the old Don Juan myth …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:47PMSunday, March 26, 2017
A HANDBAG FROM THE PAST.. This is a joyful thing, and it needn’t have been. There is always peril in a play you know too well from schooldays and through a score of performan…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:47PMAN AMPHIBIOUS SONDHEIM ROMP Here’s the god Dionysius, deprived of his Noel-Coward smoking jacket and unconvincingly disguised as Heracles in a lion skin. He’s having a panic attac…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:55AM 
