Saturday, September 13, 2025
NORDIC , NOIR, NEUROTIC In a hotel room, sea uneasy beyond and faint wind howling, dishevelled Adolf with his crutch listens to his smooth, confident new friend Gustaf. He show…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:23AMWednesday, September 10, 2025
AWKWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIER The curtain is a marvel to start with: its plasticky-floral cosiness taking you straight to a 1970s kitchenette and the heyday of Mrs W’s mission to gathe…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:04PMTuesday, September 9, 2025
EMPYREAN ENTERTAINMENT; CLUTCH IT TO YOUR FAINTING BOSOM NOW! It should be on prescription, so healing of life’s frustrations is this Charles Court Opera revival of Gilbert and S…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:02PMFriday, September 5, 2025
AMBRIDGE OVER SLIGHTLY TROUBLED WATER Tim Stimpson is a long-serving modern writer on Radio 4’s The Archers, and loves it: so his play is about the dawning, 75 years ago, of thi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:29AMWednesday, September 3, 2025
POETIC PASSIONS IN A TUDOR POLICE STATE Here’s a lively aquib from the RSC, a bravura 85 minute two-hander about Christopher Marlowe – dead at 29 in a Deptford tavern brawl – a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:59AMFriday, August 29, 2025
A MODERN CHEKHOVIAN PLAY, BEAUTIFUL The first thoughts that steuck me on leaving Andrew Keatley’s well-made, slightly old fashioned family drama were that a lesser playwright would h…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:39AMBACK TO THE LAND Birdsong, a grassy bank. At a rough rustic table sits a rough rustic: bearded, silent, rolling fags and contemplating a broken tractor part. Into this Thoma…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:52AMFriday, August 8, 2025
A FAMILY BUSINESS AT SIXES AND 007s This little theatre has given us some strong meat lately – themes of Nazi crimes, Jewishness, Russianness – but this time it hosts the Barn theatre’…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:26AMWednesday, August 6, 2025
A TRUE-CRIME RICARDIAN ROMCOM Here’s a wonderfully 1950s retro play, not just in style and simplicity but in the willowy vintage-Harrods outfits of Rachel Pickup as the willowy Marta H…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:26PMWednesday, July 30, 2025
LA COMMEDIA E FINITA! (oh no it’s not) The title is the first line, delivered by a furious Leoncavallo in 1893 Milan. It is a time of wild flowering in opera , old Verdi’s gr…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:28AMSaturday, July 26, 2025
A WILD YOUNG PRINCE OF DENMARK IN THE DUSK Easy to forget, after decades of prestige-casting and its torrent of ringing, over-quoted lines, how much HAMLET is a play about bein…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:41AMThursday, July 24, 2025
MUM-POLE OF THE BAILEY….? I paused overnight before writing this, to see if a bout of two-star irritation might fade. After all, lawyer-playwright Suzie Miller gave us the a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:28PMWednesday, July 23, 2025
FAITH LOST, AND WAKENED This is a moody, cloudy production shot through with streaks of mad rage, deliberately unsettling. Autolycus, spirit of Time the thief and occasional narr…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:06AMFriday, July 18, 2025
WESTMINSTER , A WILL, A WICKED WRANGLE This excellent play is the first by Shaan Sahota, a doctor by profession: but goodness, she (and the NT Studio, and director Daniel Ragget…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:06AMThursday, July 17, 2025
MEDIEVAL MODERNITY There’s a nice irony in opening, this week, a tale of an aristocratically bred heiress, seized first by evangelical Christian faith and then by a charismatic man, re…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:06PMThursday, July 10, 2025
SMOOTH AS VELVET, SHOT WITH GILT AND GUILT Ahhh I do love a well-made play from the 1920s (remember The Deep Blue Sea , just lately!). This one too deals with adultery and hidden pain…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:27AMWednesday, July 9, 2025
GRACE PERVADES Theatre Royal Bath Theatre is fond of sending itself love letters, albeit – from Sheridan’s The Critic to Frayn’s Noises Off – often prudently laced…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:43AMSaturday, June 14, 2025
A WILD NIGHT WITH COUNT TOLSTOY Even those who haven’t read Tolstoy’s great novel know about the train under which the despairing Anna will die. So it dominates from the …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:37AMFriday, June 13, 2025
PHYSICAL, PIRATICAL, PLAYFUL All aboard the Jolly Todger, where Long John Silver’s parrot Alexa (she comes from the Amazon, get it?) keeps accidentally ordering unwanted Chinese…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:46AMMonday, June 9, 2025
DREAM ON! Five years on, beyond Covid lockdowns and its magnificent Guys and Dolls, here again is the Bridge’s irresistible multi-mouse take on Shakespeare’s sunniest comedy of…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:44AMWednesday, June 4, 2025
WHY RATTIGAN COUNTS Quite a rare outing for this very late Terence Rattigan play, written after his star had fallen under the assault of mouthy Osborne, Amis and the “angry young men” …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:26AMSaturday, May 31, 2025
BROWN BRITISH LIVES, FROM ENOCH TO SUNAK Sathnam Sanghera’s novel drew on his own life, partly homage to Arnold Bennett and with some echoes of Priestley too, joined the fine chronicle…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:23AMThursday, May 29, 2025
It is indeed PLUTO not Apollo who rules the Underworld. Was tired. Apologies to all classicists.
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:53AMSONDHEIM AND THE STYX I last saw this 405BC Greek classic in Spymonkey’s version and found it – sorry – unfroggettable. Giant puppetry, a community chorus tap-dancing as frogs w…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:19AMThursday, May 15, 2025
DROWNING PASSION, TIMELESS RESCUE Marvellous play, this: wrenches the heart out of you , patches it up and sets it back on the hard road of life and love. It wrenched Terence Rattigan h…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:13AMI said it all at the Royal Court – https://theatrecat.com/2024/11/09/giant-royal-court-theatre/ – and it is an event not to miss, especially the way the world is in 2025. Everythi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:19AMWednesday, May 14, 2025
WELL WORTH THE MONEYPENNY This is glorious: just what we all needed. In the company’s spirit of never wasting a terrible joke, I absolutely Bond-ed to it. Following Mischi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:36AMTuesday, May 13, 2025
HOME AND FAMILY, BEAUTY AND SADNESS Few days late to the party with this , poor old theatrecat having seemed to fall off the press list; but very well worth the ticket (Old Vic pricing i…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:59AMFriday, May 9, 2025
AFFLUENZA APOCALYPSE As Aubrey de Mandeville puts it in the great Antrobus books, “God, here’s a strange lozenge-shaped affair!” Buñuel meets Monty Python, courtesy of …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:57AMThursday, May 8, 2025
A MODERN CLASSIC DONE WITH VIGOUR Michael Frayn’s play-about-actors is always welcome: a comic masterpiece and loving study in theatre’s own absurdity. The first act shows a final l…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:03AMFriday, May 2, 2025
A SATIRICAL WARNING FROM OLD UKRAINE Not long ago a rompingly funny version of Gogol’s satire on official incompetence ran at Marylebone ( https://theatrecat.com/2024/05/…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:23AM 
