Saturday, August 8, 2026
A LEGEND REBORN On a sweltering opening night under the trees, what more can you ask than fresh life and passion flung into a famous show which had become, frankly, a bit of an e…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 25, 2026
SHAKESPEARE: OUTDOOR, OUTRAGEOUS AND OPEN-HEARTED Start by knowing that this is a bangingly entertaining evening out under the Suffolk skies, with ragamuffin costumes and lovely ramshackl…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:45PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 22, 2026
THE SEASON BEGINS! Not doing formal mouse-rate reviews of these, but for local eyes and visitors it’s worth nipping through the ones I can get to – this one is around all week…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 21, 2026
TROUBLED HEARTS AND TORCH SONGS When someone pops a sticker on your cameraphone at the door it generally means a performer is going to get their kit off, repeatedly. Not in this …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:21AM[SHARE]Friday, July 17, 2026
FLOWERS, PHONETICS, PHABULOUS Always a joy to have them back: the phoneticist and the flower-girl, born to enthral one another and us. Cheers first for Keziah Ibe as Eliza, fresh o…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:11AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 5, 2026
AMBITION, LOVE AND CHOICES IN AN OLDER IRELAND Jonathan Bank’s Mint Theater company lately gave us an arresting revival of Miles Malleson’s Yours Unfaithfully in this theatre,…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:03PM[SHARE]Friday, July 3, 2026
SOLDIERING AND SACRIFICE . This is one of the RSC’s big hitters: five stars everywhere ,and promoted more as comedy than the romantic-chivalric classic it is, Rostand’s 19c tra…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:26AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 30, 2026
1939: TWO NATIONS, TWO MEN, TWO WIVES It has a familiar sitcom structure: a couple whose marriage is not what it respectably seems, making anxious preparations for weekend guest…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:47AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 25, 2026
LAUGHING AT LIES It’s ten years since Florian Zeller’s elegantly embroidered trompe l’oeil sex-comedy about two couples opened at the Menier under LIndsay Posner’s direc…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:08PM[SHARE]OL’ BLUE EYES, THE COMEBACK It’s one of the great showbiz comeback stories: how a tough Italian-American kid saw Bing Crosby in 1935 and had a dream; rose in he 1940s to cra…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 17, 2026
BEAUTIFUL This, to me unexpectedly, was the most beautiful single hour in a theatre yet. Visually, musically, and in its majesty and depth of speech impossible to fault, it’s …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:37PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 9, 2026
WORTH SINGING ALONG TO? Ask ourselves in all honesty: did we all schlepp out to Richmond for press night because national-treasure Dame Maureen Lipman, at 80, is doing eight s…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:57AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 7, 2026
THE ELDERLY ENDGAME We are seated in a big arena, on three sides of a care-home sitting-room, clearly secure – staff tap door keypads – designed for the containment of demen…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:41AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 4, 2026
A SWELL PARTY, EVENTUALLY We “Call the Midwife” fans all suspected there was more pizazz to nurse Trixie than bicycling round Poplar in the 1950s, and indeed Helen George always was …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:41AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 3, 2026
HOME AGAIN IN TRIUMPH Can it really be nearly twenty years since this show about WW1 galloped into world theatre history on this stage? A maverick experiment with two life-size pu…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:41AM[SHARE]Friday, May 15, 2026
THE SAD SERIOUS COMEDY OF DEATH A Devon cottage kitchen, opening to a tangled spring garden: beyond this idyll a semi- abstract tangle of branches around a great circle of sky: …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:35AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 14, 2026
A FUNNY SHOW HAPPENENED ON THE WAY TO THE COLISEUM Ancient Greece is suffering drought and near-famine, and on a small island (population 16 and a half) prayers to Dionysius (“…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 13, 2026
THREE WOMEN AND A DISTANT QUEEN Ava Pickett’s breathlessly exciting début play won, at the Almeida, both a prestigious prize and mixed reviews. As a first-timer, seeing its t…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:43AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 7, 2026
FREAK ALONG WITH ANCIENT GREEKS The Greek gods, with their legends , family rifts and seduction of hapless mortals, are irresistible to all who love dramatic retelli…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 5, 2026
SAD HEARTS AND SHOWBIZ The play begins in a pure music-hall moment: below the stage a hammeringly jolly piano, onto it a capering leg-show chorus and sparklers, ushering…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:38PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 30, 2026
AFTER THE SHOOTING Despite the title, Anna Yates’ setting in an episcopalian church room full of calm skylight, and one effective moment near the end, Fran Kranz’ tense 105-minute p…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:04AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 25, 2026
A MUSICAL IS BORN…OUT OF POP”S PAST I liked this rackety, brassy, exhilarating banger of a show: a cartoonish bit of history, a jukebox musical with a heart of gold .…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:43AM[SHARE]Friday, April 24, 2026
ETHICS AND EVASIONS It’s a cluttered upper room, overcrowded with grand old furniture, a gramophone, harp, oddities like fencing foils and a home-built valve radio. The sense is o…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 23, 2026
UNIVERSAL , INTIMATE, TRUE Sometimes it’s more than worth it to flog irritably through a London strike day, make it without even time for a drink but find someth…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:18AM[SHARE]Friday, April 10, 2026
IMPRESSIONS AND OBSESSIONSÂ Â Â The old `Players' Theatre has a good eye of oddball new musicals, cheap enough to sample before anyone's train home. And here off-Broadway's Carmel Owe…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:56AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 9, 2026
A SHUDDER FROM THE PAST I came to this fresh from admiring two 76-year-olds , Anna Wintour and Meryl Streep, being painfully cool and haughty in a trailer plugging Devil Wears Prada 2. Â …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:38AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 8, 2026
FRIENDSHIP, BRILLIANCE, DOUBT Â Â Â Â The universe as a bundle of unknowable of approximates:Â Relativity and Complementarity, Uncertainty theory, quantum mechanics, particles …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:49AM[SHARE]Friday, April 3, 2026
A HOUSE OF ANCIENT SHAME     What terrible secrets lie in an impressive yet spooky mansion, with artful descending ceilings and a trapdoor designed by Jon Bausor ? We…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:25AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 2, 2026
RUPERT AND BRENDA Â Â Couldn't miss this piece of 40th anniversary history by Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky because I had a very small "Â infinitestimal "Â dog in this fight. I wa…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:05AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 24, 2026
  CRY HAVOC!  Director Tamara Harvey, who gave us that beautiful, thoughtful PERICLES last year (also starring Alfred Enoch),  is not one to interpret Henry V in the stormingl…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:41PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 21, 2026
TOO DEEP FOR TEARS Perhaps this imagining of the young Vincent gains extra power after the emotional hit of the recent Van Gogh at Arles exhibition; starry nights and wonder lie fresh in…
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