Thursday, 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 08:41AMWednesday, July 14, 2021
ROARING BACK TO LIFE Almost the most magnificent part of Daniel Evans’ production is that it’s happening at all: despite the distanced glimmer of blue paper masks, Chichester …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:40AMSunday, July 11, 2021
t IF RANSOME MET ORWELL It’s 1939 in Southwold harbour (nicely resonant for me to see this in Southwold itself, on its second night). Arthur Ransome, famed already for his …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:23PMThursday, July 8, 2021
MIDLIFE, MIDNIGHT, MEMORY Fittingly, Deborah Bruce’s play is set over the night the clocks change back. It’s about Time, its reverses and attritions; and being about los…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:52AMWednesday, July 7, 2021
FORMAL. INTERVIEWS DON’T END JUST BECAUSE YOU’RE DEAD The afterlife is out of fashion, at least in traditional religious forms – harps and angels, heaven and hell, reincarnation …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:50PMSaturday, July 3, 2021
SHEEN SHINES AS THE WELSH WORD-WIZARD It might be helpful if critics admitted sometimes arriving bad-tempered, hot, out of tune, dreading the long masked late night train journey ho…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:03PMWednesday, June 30, 2021
FATHERS AND SONS, PASSION AND PIETY Last night saw one famous victory as England kicked through to the semis. Indeed the Bridge theatre press-night audience was a bit banjaxed by emerg…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:14AMTuesday, June 29, 2021
YESTERDAY’S MEN LOVING MEN The mission of Two’s Company is producing “new plays from the past”, and their talent is for treasure-hunting . Plays written now about past decad…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:04PMThursday, June 10, 2021
AMELIORATING PARISIAN LIVES ONE PUPPET AT A TIME It could hardly be calculated more finely to fulfil every post-lockdown need: a cast of sixteen nimble actor-musician-singers vis…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:14AMFriday, June 4, 2021
PINK SATIN AND A FAIRY PINATA FOR A PIMMS-Y NIGHT OUT Face it, this play’s a rom-com, a lark, a happy pretty way to blame the fickleness of young love on petulant fairies…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:04AMSunday, May 30, 2021
SPACE IS THE LIMIT AS THE WEST END RETURNS There was real excitement in a first west end moment since the November lockdown crushed the few brave shoots of returning theatre. The Sonia Fri…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:16PMWednesday, May 26, 2021
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds INSTEAD OF TRAVEL… So what do we need, to reopen a tiny Georgian playhouse in a time of continuing uncertainty, mas…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:22AMSaturday, December 12, 2020
O YES IT IS I had booked us in the very day Lloyd Webber and QDOS announced that with antiviral door handles, fogging, separating of bubbles and teeth-gritted determination,…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:31PMFriday, December 11, 2020
ANOTHER ….GOD BLESS US EVERY ONE Scrooge is testy, cold and solitary as an oyster, shocking as ever in his indifference to the poor who ought to die off and “decrease the surplu…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:13PMThursday, December 10, 2020
A SCROOGE TO REMEMBER Beneath festoons of horrid chains, nimble amid strongboxes and trunks and safes, three actors bring the old text to violently emotional life. Assisted only b…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:26PMGreat journeys told in tiny windows The daily epics of the refugee crisis haunt us on every bulletin:: small boat crossings, lethal lorry journeys, arrests and detentions. It. Is r…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:09PMSunday, December 6, 2020
MINIATURE REVELS They’re at it again. And in this dour year, crowned with the financially reckless renaissance of West End theatre, Dan and Jeff – Daniel Clarkson and Jeff Turner – are…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:01AMFriday, October 30, 2020
TITTER YE NOT: IT WAS TOUGH An element of pilgrimage here: new-fledged theatre, new play, worth the long masked train to London and then a bus’s wild wanderings south of the ri…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:29AMSaturday, October 24, 2020
Those who know Amy Johnson’s history well will be happy with Lone Flyer as a grippingly impressionistic portrait of a remarkable woman.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, October 6, 2020
And so to a real press night, an event now as rare as a mystical apparition , a shining sword rising from a dark lake. . The gallant Southwark Playhouse offers a miniature musical, Jason Rob…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:19AMTWO MORE FROM ALAN BENNETT One of the darkest and one of the merriest. PlAYING SANDWICHES is an even more than usually sombre one of Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads.�…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:30AMFriday, September 18, 2020
The Talking Heads monologues The Shrine and Bed Among the Lentils are absorbing and thrilling and touching and – here is the surprise – amid Alan Bennett’s wry pathos the playlets are …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, September 4, 2020
By Libby Purves
The Theatrecat Libby Purves finds herself back in the stalls for Beat The Devil at the Bridge Theatre London and it's a very Fiennes start!
This post REVIEW: Beat The Devil, …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:43AMThursday, September 3, 2020
BACK IN THE STALLS! AND A VERY FIENNES START After nine months’ exile – my chemotherapy ended slap bang at the start of lockdown – I felt like the Ancient Mariner, goo…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:15AMSaturday, August 1, 2020
A SINGING, SEASIDE, STRIKING DEFIANCE OF THE NEW SEPARATION Theatrecat remains dark, as it has been since December when chemotherapy began and then ran seamlessly, in March, into loc…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:38AMThursday, March 19, 2020
…FROM ME AND FROM THEATRECAT.COM (&HOUSE ARTIST ROGER HARDY) HERE’S THE CAT AND THE MICE . THEY COLLABORATE FOR ONCE TO WISH EVERY THEATRE, ARTIST AND SUPPORT WORKER LUCK, SO…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:39PMFriday, December 6, 2019
A MESSAGE FOR THOSE KIND ENOUGH TO DROP INTO THIS SITE… Theatrecat followers: a bit of news below, in detail for your information or in case any of you are undergoing the parallel thing. …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:56AMThis freshened-up and first-rate production of A Christmas Carol at the Old Vic sees Paterson Joseph giving one of the performances of his life, his humanity simply erupting onto the stage.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, November 26, 2019
MONSTROUS AND MAJESTIC , A NARNIA FOR NOW How to interpret an old favourite? A Christian fantasy allegory, the world of Narnia, the first of C.S.Lewis’ immortal children’…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:26AMThursday, November 21, 2019
BEN DOWELL REVIEWS: A bright, socially withdrawn teenager called Evan is desperately lonely, taking comfort in the internet and not much else. He has a crush on a girl from his school, but c…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:39AMSaturday, November 16, 2019
Mary Poppins is as supercalifragilisticexpialidocious as one can hope, a riot of good cheer, fun, excellent signing and some quite breathtaking stagecraft.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM 
