Friday, October 15, 2021
By Libby Purves
Our TheatreCat Libby Purves reviews The Tragedy of Macbeth with Saoirse Ronan as Lady Macbeth now playing at the Almedia Theatre in London
This post REVIEW: The Tragedy of Ma…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 04:38PMThursday, October 14, 2021
THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH. Almeida, N1 THE SCOTTISH PLAY WE NEEDED Say what you like about star-casting and auteur-ish directors messing with Shakespeare, but sometimes a multiple…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:59PMAN OLD STORY OF YOUNG MEN Balliol College Oxford, 1910. Confident young Etonians are hurling crockery downstairs, yelling “I’m a bastard, I’m a bastard, rather be a bastard than …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:30AMSunday, October 10, 2021
EAST IS EAST, IN EAST ANGLIA Shamser Sinha – who is on the National Theatre Connections project – relished the idea of writing a play about a South-Asian working-class family i…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:32PMFriday, October 8, 2021
AN EVER-MORPHING PROTEAN TEXT…RENEWS AGAIN BEFORE OUR EYES Every Hamlet should give us something new. The play is a philosophical and psychological labyrinth, its jewels and se…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:12AMWednesday, October 6, 2021
FOUR WIVES LATER, MANTEL AND MILES COMPLETE THE JOURNEY It was rising eight years ago that the first two parts of Hilary Mantel’s majestic Wolf Hall trilogy came to the stage, adap…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:20PMNOT QUITE A REVIEW, MORE A TRIP DOWN A SIDE ALLEY I was on the early train up when news came that poor old Southwark had ,for the second time, been forced by illness to cancel two performanc…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:13AMSunday, October 3, 2021
WHO NEEDS PANTO? A CLASSY FLIGHT OF FANCY ON THE ROAD This show, which I had the joy of seeing in a packed Theatre Royal Norwich alongside many small thrilled children, knows exa…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:59AMThursday, September 30, 2021
THE LAST GREAT PLAGUE If you lived as an adult alongside the onset of AIDS forty years ago you don’t forget it: the lost friends and workmates , the rumours of ignorance which h…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:13PMThursday, September 23, 2021
By Libby Purves
Our very own theatreCat Libby Purves indulges her love of Coward with a look at Jennifer Saunders in Blithe Spirit now playing at the Harold Pinter Theatre.
This post REVIEW:…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 08:08AMWednesday, September 22, 2021
A POCKET JEWEL We always knew that among the first sproutings of recovery would be a few Alan Ayckbourns, popping up as welcome as snowdrops. I am always fond of this early one, …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:40AMTuesday, September 21, 2021
AN ARCATI MORE THAN MEDIUM I once took a student nephew to this Coward masterpiece, and the thrill for me was that he didn’t know there was a g—–. Until there was. Therefore for a risi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:34PMThursday, September 16, 2021
A SHAGGY-DOG TALE IN CRUMBLING SPLENDOUR Sometimes the building upstages the play. I had not explored the late-Victorian, half-restored glory of the Coronet before, and my fir…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:15AMWednesday, September 15, 2021
By Libby Purves
Our theatreCat Libby Purves heads to the Menier Chocolate Facory as it re-opens to review Paula Vogel's Pulitzer-winning play Indecent.
This post REVIEW: Indecent, Menier Cho…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:59AMAN EPIC OF PASSION AND PERFORMANCE Here is life, history, theatrical passion, great migrations and lyrical romance in the rain. Here’s anger and humour and love and desp…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:22AMFriday, September 10, 2021
By Libby Purves
Libby Purves, our resident TheatreCat reviews The Memory Of Water now playing at Hampstead Theatre. Runs until 16 October
This post REVIEW: The Memory Of Water, Hampstead The…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:00AMA HISTORIC HIT BACK, BETTER THAN EVER This portrait of three bickering sisters, trading memories and revelations in the days before a mother’s funeral in a snowy Yorkshire winter…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:34AMThursday, September 9, 2021
LOVE, GRIEF, AND A BRAD PITT ALBATROSS With loving detail, right down a glimpse of coat-racks beyond the far door, the downstairs studio serving Tom Wells’ new play has become a rem…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:28PMWednesday, September 8, 2021
ICE WORK IF YOU GET IT… Phew. The Broadway-rooted, Disneylicious, long-awaited red-carpet premiere night featured (of course) an ice -blue carpet. And the throng bursting …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:30PMMonday, August 30, 2021
ARTHUR SMITH CONJURES UP HIS DAD These days our Arfur comes complete with an overture! It takes the form of Kirsty Newton at the piano (artfully disguised as an upright 1940’s pub-…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:30PMThursday, August 26, 2021
THEATRE’S FAIRY GODFATHER DOES IT AGAIN We needed this. The return of the big classic shows to packed houses in the Barbican, Chichester and Sadlers Wells has been invigorating, but Lloy…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:52AMWednesday, August 25, 2021
Occupied France, 1944. Two teenagers newly in love meet in an empty house. Elodie is French, Otto a German soldier. They are both endearing and annoying, as befits their ag…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:00AMNOT A REVIEW BUT MIGHT SEND YOU THERE… Take this as a report not a review, because actual work commitments made me skip at the interval. But I was persuaded to the long 70 minute first h…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:12AMTuesday, August 17, 2021
This is the Mercury rising, rebuilt over two years with a cool café and dance studio, modern eco-glazing and, to respect the town’s history, a solemn archaeological dis…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:29PMThursday, August 12, 2021
WONDERFUL OLD COBBLERS ON ABDICATION STREET (longer version of review done for Mail) You know you’re in safe hands when a stagestruck Prince Edward, diffident and excitable, �…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:04AMFriday, August 6, 2021
FLOODS OF RELIEF Ten years have passed since, in a Times Chief Theatre Critic hat, I last saw a former principal of the Royal Ballet leaping in puddles , singing his great heart out, and…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:07AMThursday, August 5, 2021
A VOICE FROM THE 90’s PREFIGURES THE FUTURE… This is a grand intellectual teaser of a show, and under Lucy Bailey’s almost mischievous direction does a good job of shaking up fas…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:49PMGUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI FINDS MORE SMOKE THAN FIRE ON THE HACKNEY STAGE Grimeborn are following up their fantastic 2019 Das Rheingold (see my previous review) with Die Walküre this …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:57AMVICARIOUS TRAVEL, JUST WHAT WE NEED The big musicals are back: two dark-edged, South Pacific at Chichester and Carousel imminent at Regent’s Park, while halfway between them flowers…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:55AMSunday, July 25, 2021
By Libby Purves
Libby Purves travelled down to the Chichester Festival Theatre to catch up with Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific.
This post REVIEW: South Pacific, Chichester Festival …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:23AMThursday, July 22, 2021
THE DARK SIDE OF THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT. DON’T TELL JACOB REES-MOGG Hats off to James Dacre’s Royal & Derngate for bravely slapping on a brand new musical in the ver…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:41AM 
