Wednesday, April 30, 2025
MATHILDE AND THE BUILDER (can he fix it? Probably not) The set is glassand towering, city-chic backed by reeds and seashore; the figures before us NYC glamorous, even when th…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:53AMTuesday, April 22, 2025
WINNERS, WAGS AND WRONGS Well, here’s a summer romp. Hot on the heels of Tom Hiddleston in a disco version up Drury Lane, here’s the RSC take on one of the sunniest Shakespeare …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:17PMFriday, April 11, 2025
TWO WOMEN, LONG YEARS ACROSS HALF A CONTINENT 1935: below projected headlines about Communists executed in Shanghai and the war between Japan and Red China comes an audition call fo…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:18AMThursday, April 10, 2025
A HAMLET THAT STANDS ALONE “is it not monstrous that this player here,But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,Could force his soul so to his own conceitThat from her working all his visage…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:38AMRIEN TO REGRET! This is a terrific, impassioned production: not only does Kimberley Sykes’ direction and Michele Meazza’ s movement work keep it watchably, startlingly vigorous, …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:25AMWednesday, April 9, 2025
TRAGEDY WITHOUT A MORAL Raoul Moat used steroids and bulking-powder to armour himself in muscle, nourished a bottomless well of grievance and self-pity , and imposed his needy will…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:08AMSaturday, April 5, 2025
THE DEPTHS BELOW THE WIT The plays, ever revived, we know well; the wit is often cited, the old injustice of his downfall recreated in plays and films: most recently we’ve seen…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:30AMThursday, April 3, 2025
VENEZIANA ! Buongiorno to Venice 1730, a city stage topped with the golden winged lion of St Mark, arched and curtained and lit with candelabras . Overhead a twelve-piece orchest…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:43AMTuesday, April 1, 2025
DARK FANGTASY IN A SCAFFOLDING CITY For this compact and creepy little atmospheric treat, John Donnelly turns to vampires. That’s not a spoiler: the programme is full of learned stuf…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:59AMThursday, March 27, 2025
BEYOND QATAR… Two years ago this show was a pleasure – (https://theatrecat.com/2023/06/21/dear-england-olivier-se1/) , and now, on the far side of more efforts and…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:14PMWednesday, March 26, 2025
POWER, MAJESTY AND JUSTICE Very good to see this intense three-hander by Ryan Calais Cameron (who gave us “For Black Boys..” ) migrating to Shaftesbury Avenue with increa…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:46PMFriday, March 21, 2025
THE 1660’s AND ALL THAT: THEATRE REBORN Oddly, for theatrecat it’s the second day running of enliveningly energetic female history. After six women told the story of Mary…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:03PMA ROUSING RACKET TO HONOUR A LIFE Mary Wollstonecraft was a pearl of the 18c Age of Reason, even more treasurable for having – as a woman – a harder time of it than all the Locke…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:19AMTuesday, March 18, 2025
THE UNSERIOUS UNDEAD “You will be horrified!” The five players announce, “- one way or another”. And with a flourish they hurl Bram Stoker’s book behind them into Tijana Bjela…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:27AMThursday, March 13, 2025
A STRANGE WARTIME FABLE OF LIFE, BIRTH AND JEWELLERY In a little Jeweller’s shop in 1942 Paris Joseph Haffmann is making a deal with his young assistant Pierre. He is Jewish, and h…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:41PMSaturday, March 8, 2025
AN ANCIENT BRUTALITY, RIGHT HERE Five women from the past mount the stage, candlelit, to enact theterrible story of the 17c Suffolk witch-trials. First there’s young Mar…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:25AMWednesday, March 5, 2025
BRUTAL, VIOLENT AND TENDER Around a King’s coffin surge personalities and politics , power plays and lineage . A royal bier is loaded with crown and jewelled cross, around it cou…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:30PM HEROIC STORY, NEAR MISS It could hardly be a better theme and story for this terrific little theatre, which since its opening has explored the darkness of Nazism and the heroism of th…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:44AMSaturday, March 1, 2025
A TROUSER-LEG TSUNAMI AND A COATHANGER DREAM They came off the boats: a Windrush generation, wanting to work and live in cold strange Britain. In an upper room Walker doe…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:47AMThursday, February 27, 2025
HEART AND HUMOUR, REALPOLITIK AND GOD This is a wonderful play, all you could want: philosophy, history prefiguring the present moment, humour and character , stunning cent…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:04PMA RAVE IN MESSINA Get da kids into Shakespeare! The world worries about it. So Jamie Lloyd hits a formula hard to beat with one of the sunniest comedies (only one pretend death). So 1)…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:28PMFriday, February 21, 2025
MOTHERHOOD, FOR LIFE Had there been trigger warnings they might add “extreme nursing” alongside the usual alerts about sickness, death, abortion and conflict. Believe me, …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:30AMThursday, February 20, 2025
A THREAT CALLED AGGIE . Good when the news feeds theatre-moments. This week, AI solved in two days a medical conundrum which had baffled humans for a decade. On the other hand, a mis…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:20PMWednesday, February 19, 2025
VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED ON SS ELSINORE Last time the ever-inventive Rupert Goold directed here it was the Merchant of Venice, set in a casino so we could all write “merchant of Vegas” …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:33PMTuesday, February 18, 2025
RICHARD II Bridge Theatre, SE1 A THRILLING DANCE AROUND A CROWN This is one of the most lyrically lovely, metaphorically rich of Shakespeare’s history plays, op…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:05PMFriday, February 14, 2025
A TRICYCLE MADE FOR THREE? After Mike Bartlett’s COCK – where one of a gay male couple falls for a girl – I wrote that the poor sap of a hero thinks he he choosing a sexuality …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:52AMThursday, February 13, 2025
A BRITISH BASTARD STALKS THROUGH HISTORY What’s to be done about truly awful people: amoral, selfishly irresponsible, arrogant and greedy? A time-honoured British approach is t…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:05AMTuesday, February 11, 2025
A GREAT TURNING POINT, CAUGHT IN ASPIC It is 1942. Prime minister Churchill has travelled to Moscow to meet Stalin. Each side has a problem at home with voices wanting to cut a d…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:38PMWILD SHORES IN WARTIME Risk taking a gap between seeing David Greig plays and you forget how downright louche things are likely to turn out. (I had lately revelled in Prudencia Hart …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:36PMMonday, February 10, 2025
A FEMALE EVOLUTION, FRANK AND FINE First salute the cast: Deborah Findlay, Romola Garai, Gina McKee, Anjli Mohindraand Harmony Rose-Bremner, for an unpretentiously powerful tour de force. Ea…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:41AMThursday, February 6, 2025
ABSURDITY AND SUBLIMITY After the glorious Parisian detail of the revived Rigoletto here , Johannes Schutz’ spare bland box with only four flat doors is an opposite take on how …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:56AM 
