Tuesday, October 15, 2024
CHOSEN PEOPLE, CHOSEN LIVES The saying goes “two Jews, three opinions”, though some say that’s an underestimate. Here are five people and innumerable opinions: two couples, …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:58PMWednesday, October 9, 2024
Sent from my iPad ZELDIN AGAIN I sometimes feel real sympathy (possibly unwanted) for actors who, trained and motivated to channel and express extreme and painful emotions, do their absolute…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:00AMFriday, October 4, 2024
POETRY AND PITY Tremendous swagged, fringed, and roped retro curtains , the Gielgud looking much as it would 100 years ago when Sean O’Casey’s most famous play reached Londo…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:46AMWednesday, October 2, 2024
SHARP SCRATCH? Crossing the Edgware Rd yesterday a shouting vaccine denier with a loudspeaker informed us all, stomping past in some sort of hurry, that vaccines were lies, inoculat…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:02AMMonday, September 30, 2024
STONED STONES IN WEST WITTERING, 1967 At the end the 1200-strong crowd explodes to join a final roar of “Satisfaction” with the cast – lawyers, police, fans, three generatons …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:33PMSaturday, September 28, 2024
VICTORIAN MISCHIEF WELL IN TUNE FOR TODAY . Do you want to see a senior Government minister entangled with a socially climbing financier and a fashion-greedy wife, playing the flute t…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:51AMFriday, September 27, 2024
LAURIE LEE, REMEMBERED AND REMEMBERING A nine-part orchestra, gilded harp and flute at its apex; behind, monochrome photos of a century past show rural Gloucestershire, then the…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:21AMWednesday, September 25, 2024
POLITICAL ECHOES, CLASS ARROGANCE, THRILLS The award for ExIt of the Year goes to the magnificent David Oyelowo, tearing up the central aisle of the Olivier in a fury as the f…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:57AMTuesday, September 24, 2024
FIRST CLASS FROM CHRISTIE, LUDWIG AND BAILEY This could have been a bit of a groan, like the overcomplex Rebus Game Called Malice , also on tour . But actually it’s a class act in ever…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:30AMTuesday, September 17, 2024
FRIENDSHIP HITS THE ROCKS OF TASTE : MISCHIEVOUS, SAD AND FUNNY Not everything that tours the country is Agatha Christie or star-fed froth: sometimes a serious emotional and in…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:59AMMonday, September 16, 2024
REACH FOR THE STARS: IT TAKES HARD GRAFT AND VODKA Any week now at the Gielgud we shall hear the famous drunken cry in Juno and the Paycock “what is the stars?”. At the heart of …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:49PMFriday, September 13, 2024
DATING FOR A CONFUSED AGE I have written before of the particular glee I feel when a brand-new and original show emerges , not from anxious corporate calculations but from young a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:57AMTuesday, September 10, 2024
WORTH ANOTHER VISIT? O YES It’s a gig, it’s a party, it’s as glorious as ever. Down on the floor the promenaders surge between changing stages as they rise and fall to create old Man…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:18AMMonday, September 9, 2024
UPMARKET EDINBURGH ROCK, SORT OF Sir Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus accounts for a tenth of all crime bestsellers in the UK: the ancient mazes around Edinburgh Castle, set against…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:46AMFriday, September 6, 2024
A MOMENT FOR REMEMBERING A desk, leather chairs, a heap of file boxes, a single sunflower in a pot. The century has turned, and it’s the last day in the office for Simon Wiesenthal…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:53AMWednesday, September 4, 2024
On this day of the report, a reminder of those two excellent verbatim plays from two stages of the inquiry. How theatre, with Nicholas Kent, reacted . There have been other plays about the e…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:25AMMonday, August 19, 2024
I IMPERSONATION, ILLUSION AND INTRIGUE Cottonwool clouds, a scatter of furniture and instruments, an ancient cine camera, a noble arch and some pillars and fake trees. On a 19…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:54PMSaturday, August 10, 2024
ROLL UP, ROLL UP… What sharper summer draw than “The Greatest Show On Earth” remembered within one of the smallest theatres? Jonathan O”Boyle’s production has the pre…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:49AMThursday, August 8, 2024
LAUNDRY, LECHERY, LADIES, LAUGHTER if anyone is ever so impertinent as to demand an audition piece from the RSC-seasoned John Hodgkinson, I suggest he delivers – with or witho…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:42PMWednesday, August 7, 2024
A TALL TALE, A SHIMMERING MAGIC Of all Shakespeare’s plays this is now the rarest staged, not without reason: some early scenes are co- written with a contemporary John Wilkins, its tale i…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:06PMTuesday, August 6, 2024
L’CHAIM ! THE VERY STUFF OF LIFE Of course it helps to be under a real sky: a lone fiddler high above the cornfield scratches out the first lonely notes against the evening clou…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:13PMSaturday, July 27, 2024
Duke Theseus offers instructions, Act 1 Scene 1. “Stir up the Athenian youth to merriments, Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth!” You can tru…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:01AMThursday, July 25, 2024
AS LONG AS WE NEED IT… To do a timeworn musical, entangled in all- too -familiar earworms, you can either sharpen, challenge and update it or lovingly polish the old machine. If you s…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:27PMFriday, July 19, 2024
UP WHERE SHE BELONGS Imelda Staunton is a marvel, from Mama Rose in Gypsy to HMQ in The Crown. There is no lady of the stage more worthy of being greeted at the top of a Grand Staircase b…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:23AMGRISLY GLEE If there is any aspect of 21c Western culture sorely in need of being laughed at, it s ithe morbid fascination with police-procedural telly,, especially true-crime and i…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:38AMThursday, July 18, 2024
AN OVEN-READY MUSICAL, NEVER MUFFIN A MOMENT As summer heats the merciless city, good to know that five minutes’ south of London Bridge station is La France Profonde, a village …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:40AMWednesday, July 10, 2024
GEORGIANS IN THE PINK, AND SOMEWHAT PUNK Sheridan’s social satire from the 1770s hits the age of fake news, viral reputation-trashing and post-imperial embarrassment. …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:30AMThursday, July 4, 2024
ON THE EVE OF THE ELECTION…. …I emerged onto the Cut in a grey afternoon blinking tears, unable to process having been made to cry by James Corden. He’s been for me a fig…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:53PMTEENAGE DREAMS, AND FAME AS NIGHTMARE Got to love the dedication of the Southwark: to mark its smaller-space production of Samantha Hurley’s New York play about a demented teenage fan, it …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:53AMWednesday, July 3, 2024
A THING OF WONDER People who saw Mnemonic at its origin 25 years ago still talk about it. A few say it changed them. It was a collaborative, at first wholly unscripted , creatio…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:05AMTuesday, July 2, 2024
A WARTIME SPRINGTIME It’s not the reptile but the turtledove, as in the Song of Solomon “The time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our l…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:04PM 
