Thursday, March 21, 2024
RO$$INI BONANZA! Guest reviewer Dean Thompson finds much in a small space… Opera lovers or new to opera will love this! So, get on your horse and gallop over to see Charles Court Opera…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:23AMMonday, March 18, 2024
A CELLULOID INVASION This was at first a startling choice: Eastern Angles’ tradition is generally, as it heroically tours night-by-night across the eastern counties, to programme…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:52PMWednesday, March 13, 2024
BOARDROOM BEASTS This may break all records for the smartest costumes ever at the Southwark’s smallest space: six irreproachable business suits, including two sets of tweed-chic fema…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:26AMTuesday, March 12, 2024
A FRESH CAST, ONE YEAR ON Can it really be a whole year since, with theatre still gallantly recovering from Covid, Nicholas Hytner rolled the dice and opted to offer us some razzle dazzle?…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:40AMFriday, March 8, 2024
PLANT FOOD PEOPLE FROM THE PAST I missed this first time round, due to the babysitting years, so it was grand to catch up. It’s a 1980’s revival, a spoof on 1960’s sci…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:15AMThursday, March 7, 2024
A MAVERICK MINISTER There’s another play to be written about Aneurin Bevan, stubborn founder of the National Health Service: perhaps a more contentious one, or a fantasy in w…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:44AMWednesday, March 6, 2024
ONCE BRITTEN TWICE SHY? The late David Hemmings, one of Britten’s mentored, worshipped boy sopranos, was unforgettable aged 12 as the original MIles in the composer’s terrifying…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:45PMTHE WINDRUSH WARRIORS Moses’ crowded bedsit is where the new ones turn up off the boat train, wanting to know how to do London; he can tell them names like Clapham -“not C…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:49AMMonday, March 4, 2024
GUEST REVIEWER AND OPERABUFF DEAN THOMPSON LOVES ENO’S LATEST Ingenious – Dazzling – Hilarious! If you haven’t seen The Magic Flute before, then this is the one to see; if you have…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:46AMFriday, March 1, 2024
CORONATION, COMMISSION, COLLABORATION You need not be a selfish pig to be an artist of genius, but there’s no question that it often helps. Occurs, anyway. In Mark R…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:10AMThursday, February 29, 2024
AN ATTIC WARNING Fasten your seat belts for a bracingly odd German play by Marius von Mayenburg; hold on tight as it veers in a switchback weirdness, which I for one ended up tho…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:47PMWednesday, February 28, 2024
THEY SHALL NOT PASS Given the current swell of antisemitism there was a heartstopping moment from Jez Unwin as Yitzhak Scheinberg, patriarch of a hardworking East End Jewish family wh…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:26PM1948 AND ALL THAT Right now, the birth of the NHS in 1948 is more than appropriate to write about (there’s another play about Nye Bevan next week). For as the most jaded doctor pred…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:16AMTuesday, February 20, 2024
WANNA BE IN MOVIES? REALLY? BRRRR! We open in a chilly Suffolk cottage in the rain (I am tonight probably the only person here to have come direct from a chilly Suffolk cottage, in rain. C…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:31AMFriday, February 16, 2024
TENTACLES STRETCHING INTO PAST AND FUTURE Electricity is coming to the village but the elderly Randolphs wont bother, preferring the paraffin lamplight of their forebears. Their ho…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:46PMThursday, February 15, 2024
WHEN THE BOOMERS WERE ROCKIN’ ALL OVER THE WORLD... “We were there!” cry the cast of John O’Farrell’s jukebox tribute to the 1985 Live Aid concert. Memories undimmed nearly f…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:14PMBy Libby Purves
Our very own theatreCat Libby Purves reviews A Midsummer Night's Dream presented by the RSC at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford Upon Avon.
This post REVIEW: A Midsumm…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 04:30AMWednesday, February 14, 2024
FAIRYTALE AS FESTIVAL “The lunatic, the lover and the poet” are all served in any Midsummer Night’s dream. Here the first two get most traction, the poetry least (until …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:24AMMonday, February 12, 2024
LYRICAL, FARCICAL, PERFECT Figaro, rascally wigmaker and foam-flinging wet-shaver, is basically the first rapper, isnt he? Staccato eloquence at speed, braggart confidence in breech…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:50PMWednesday, February 7, 2024
AMERICAN DREAMS IN FADING BLACKPOOL Suddenly within a fortnight come two very classy new plays, funny and thoughtful and moving beyond the ordinary. Moreover, in a tiny revolution …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:11PMSunday, February 4, 2024
By Libby Purves
Our very own theatreCat Libby Purves reviews Bronco Billy, a new musical at the Charing Cross Theatre.
This post REVIEW: Bronco Billy, Charing Cross Theatre ✭✭✭ first a…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:59PMFriday, February 2, 2024
THAT OL’TIME WESTERN DREAM OF 1979 I have a weakness for this little theatre under the arches and its Players’ Bar. Honouring a music-hall history, and with some of the cheapest stal…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:10AMThursday, February 1, 2024
SMALL PEOPLE, BIG PLAY A hot summer wedding-day. The bride Sylvia is a bag of nerves, big sister Hazel competently combing and marshalling her teenage and smaller daught…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:07AMThursday, January 25, 2024
UNFROGGETTABLE MOMENTS IN THE UNDERWORLD Aitor Basauri does not need to be framed in a 20ft-high giant puppet frog in order to be funny, but blissful overkill is part of the pleasure …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:54AMWednesday, January 24, 2024
A DANCE AROUND AUSTEN’S LEGACY The book is known and loved enough: Jane Austen’s first full novel, written with satirical youthful wit but long laid aside unpublished. It gleefully sho…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:45PMTuesday, January 23, 2024
LEST ANYONE FORGET.. Storytime! Before a tangled treescape Samantha Spiro sits with a book on her lap. Across the simple stage a few notes from Gemma Rosefield’s ‘cello settl…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:31PMWednesday, January 17, 2024
BORDERS AND BRUTALITIES, Maybe I shouldnt review what is essentially physical-theatre. I have no dance-cred, and I was pleased to be warned years ago by the great Benedict Nightingale, when …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:15PMTuesday, January 16, 2024
WAR’S LONG SHADOW I have a taste for “Forgotten” plays of well-made realism, illustrating how it actually felt to live in Britain through now-distant decades. …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:24AMFriday, January 12, 2024
BEFORE THE SALEM TERROR This week, to little acclaim, the Ambassadors opened Tbe Enfield Haunting, a play centred on the spooky hysteria of troubled teenage girls.. The followi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:48AMWednesday, January 10, 2024
GRIEF, CLASS, AND THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT Press night having moved about and gone incommunicado, this is from when I bought a preview ticket at Richmond..same cast an…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:03PMThursday, December 21, 2023
JAPAN MEETS THE NOISY WEST This is exquisite, and not only in Paul Farnsworth’s dreamy set and Ayako Maeda’s costumes, from peasant fishermen to Shogun magnificence. The Men…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:56AM 
