Wednesday, December 3, 2025
LADIES WHO LURCH The Lord Chamberlain took a bit of handling to let this play’s louche presumptions of extramarital liaisons be flaunted onstage: and one public morality campaigne…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:00AMTuesday, December 2, 2025
 A BEAR WHO DESERVES HIS STATION   This could have been awful , a desecration of the children’s favourite which became a national icon of reassurance when he sat down …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:13AMSaturday, November 22, 2025
GRIEF, GUILT, CONSCIENCE    A great bright disc of moon overhangs the old tree in the storm, as it falls in the tumult of sound that could be war.  It’s 1948: Arthu…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:31AMThursday, November 20, 2025
ABSURD, TRANSCENDENT, JOYFUL     Forget Ancient Greece and the films inspired by the suitors of royal Parthenope, this is Handel in comic-opera mood (one can’t always b…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:26PMSaturday, November 15, 2025
  A VERY CIVIL CRIME Meet Robert, a retired barrister, working in a charity shop as we meet him, cautiously sniffing trousers and appreciating candelabras. Nothing unusual there i…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:13AMWednesday, November 12, 2025
AN INNOCENCE OF WITCHES     A brand-new musical always stirs hope, especially when we’re promised voices like Gabrielle Brooks (magnetically magnificent as Rit…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:04AMFriday, November 7, 2025
NOT AT ALL A DRAG… Candy-coloured prettiness frames a 1890s world, of bored girls in flounces longing for escape from guardians, lovesick young men not averse to heiresse…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:46AMWednesday, November 5, 2025
INNOCENCE, WICKEDNESS , RAGE   Ti Green’s set is ,at first, a gilded wonder of dignified curves and arches, palatially spectacular when filled with the red robes of the Duke a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:56AMWednesday, October 29, 2025
EVERYONE’S CALIFORNIAN NOW..    When the Old Vic had Jonathan Spector’s play in 2022 it was the first time after lockdowns that I had the joy of beng in a space with…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:02PMEDWARDIANA FOR A FEMINIST AGE   It looks wonderful. Designer Colin Richmond has been set loose, with Oliver Fenwick’s lighting, to create both the the raftered, big-windowe…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:18AMFriday, October 24, 2025
A FAMILY SAGA , A MEMORABLE AUNT    Bit early for an onstage Christmas-tree, but this comedy-drama by Richard Greenberg ran months on Broadway twelve years ago, and it suits …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:24AMThursday, October 23, 2025
OLD FAITH IN A MODERN CITY    Anna Ziegler’s play was an off-Broadway sellout, glimmering with insights into Jewish-American family conflicts, traditions and rebel…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:50AMWednesday, October 22, 2025
CHAOS IN FRAYING CHINTZ Catching up after a break away I nipped in to check whether after 60 years Joe Orton can still get people gasping with shock.  Peter McIntosh’s set alo…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:52PMWednesday, October 15, 2025
A BRILLIANT ECHO    Shouldn’t be surprised that this is a cracking play:  Katherine Moar’s 90-minute debut FARM HALL , about 1940s nuclear scientists, sparke…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:02AMTuesday, October 14, 2025
A DARK SERENISSIMA   No pretty biscuit-tin Venice here, but rather its ancient darkness: Jess Curtis’ artful set offers stark steps, corners, slotted openings into which h…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:12AMWednesday, September 24, 2025
TANGLED JUSTICE, MORAL SWAMPS  There is no sure hero in Shakespeare’s ‘mystery play†, which can be exhilarating. Emily BUrns’ remarkably sure-footed…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:09AMMonday, September 22, 2025
ANYTHING CAN WASH UP ON THE NORTH SEA COAST …    Robin Brooks and director Fiona McAlpine mischievously bill this eccentric, enlivening short play as “a s…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:22PMFriday, September 19, 2025
RAIN, RAGE , REGRETS   If you’re expecting the original Ibsen tale of a bored wife wondering whether to leave a dull husband and deciding not to, pause.  This …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:29AMThursday, September 18, 2025
HOLLYWOOD AND HYPOCRISY     It’s a brilliant moment for this sharp bit of work from the American Michael McKeever to land at the Elephant with a bracing thump.  We�…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:53AMTuesday, September 16, 2025
THE BEST OF TASTELESSNESS  It’s always special when the small Menier’s latest musical proves so perfect, so original in interpretation but faithful to its classic co…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:38AMSunday, September 14, 2025
FAME, FRAUD AND FAMILY     Long after it opened, a massive hit both sides of the Atlantic, and finally closed , the enterprising Finborough hauls out a 1921 A.A.Mi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:16PMSaturday, 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…
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 missi…
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 …
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…
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 ta…
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 playwrigh…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:39AMBACK TO THE LAND Â Â Â Â Birdsong, a grassy bank. At a rough rustic table sits a rough rustic:Â bearded, silent, rolling fags and contemplating a broken tractor part. Â Int…
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 …
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 willow…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:26PM 
