Sunday, July 30, 2023
OLD SOHO SPEAKS AGAIN, AND WISELY  Of all the places you'd expect to see Quentin Crisp " even as a ghost or tribute " one of the least likely is a wooded amphitheatre in Suffolk at d…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:26PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 29, 2023
TRAGEDY,  JOKES, ORACLES, SINGING SHEEP AND A BEAR    After last year's storming Macbeth, Red Rose Chain returns to the wooded site at Sutton Hoo for its secon…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 19, 2023
THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN?   Tanika Gupta's play is a sprawling, angrily intimate epic about Indians in Britain during the height of empire, thirteen years running up to old Que…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:49AM[SHARE]Monday, July 17, 2023
A FEW OF OUR FAVOURITE THINGS… Â Â Â Â Let it be said first of all that Gina Beck is a glorious gamine Maria:Â sings like a bird and is satisfyingly able to convey in her vo…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:43PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 16, 2023
THE WAY IT WAS Â Â Â Ah, the forgotten plays of the 30s and 40s, how they lure me to basements and pub rooms and tunnels:Â Jermyn and Finborough and Southwark in particular! Â …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 12, 2023
BIRTH, DEATH, SCIENCE , ANGER     "The smell " the smell " the sheets…"  Curtain up, he is gripped by urgency, past or present. . Now a successful doctor home in Hun…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 20, 2023
COME ON MY SONS…   At the end of the first half of this exhilarating play, England is through to the World Cup quarter-finals in Russia after several bracing straight wins and …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:56PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 13, 2023
1926 AND ALL THAT, ON THE AIR Fresh from doing cartwheels in the Bake Off musical up the road, Haydn Gwynne is now a strangely convincing Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin , in pinstripe. O…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:58PM[SHARE]QUIET DESPERATION, NOISY GUNSHOTS "Everybody tell the story Everybody sing the song, Every now and then a country Goes a little wrong…" Â Â Â Â Hard for it not to feel topical,…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:47AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 11, 2023
HIGH NOTES AND KNOBBLY KNEES     I am a relative newcomer to Gilbert & Sullivan, having long thought I hated them (heard too many gammony fans in my childhood wrecking…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:43PM[SHARE]Friday, June 9, 2023
WELCOME BACK TO PUNXATAWNEY     Seven years after its premiere at the Old Vic earned a flurry of Oliviers, by way of a pandemic and a disappointingly short Broadway run , …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 7, 2023
A TIME CAPSULE OF OPEN MARRIAGE  I am pleased to find out about Miles Malleson: an Edwardian student joker, WW1 conscientious objector, Bolshevist, founder of Left drama groups a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:53PM[SHARE]MOTHER RUSSIA's WARRING SONS Â Â Â Â Â At the Almeida this shook and delighted us last year:Â a fresh history play: confrontational , shocking, classic in its focus on vast …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:38AM[SHARE]Friday, June 2, 2023
BIG SHOW, BIG HEART, SMALL SPACE     This, I urgently must tell you, is rather wonderful:  an example of the way that sometimes a big show in a small theatre can b…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:39AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 17, 2023
  BACK TO THE OFFICE, EVERYONE!    There is, by chance a bit of a Thing going on in theatre right now: women playing a particularly alpha type of men, with glee and an…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:04AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 11, 2023
WHEN DIVORCE WAS DISASTER   It's 1921.   Thirty years ago Lady Kitty ran out on her MP husband Clive and small son with his friend and colleague Hughie, exploding a public…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:08AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 10, 2023
BORN TO LEAD..    This is a joy, quirky and full-hearted, musically adroit and fast-moving and witty.  Moreover, I suspect its self-mocking variety-show humour would …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:43AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 4, 2023
THE ROARING TWENTIES, ROLLING OVER THE EDGE When Noel Coward shocked and enthralled the 1920s with this most bitter and intense of his plays, he was meanwhile hastily finishing the farcical …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:15PM[SHARE]GATHER ROUND AND HEAR AN OLD, OLD STORY… Â Deep breath, concentrate at the back:Â there's this Ancient Briton King, who once banished a chap who vengefully stole his baby sons, leavi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:22AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 2, 2023
A THEATRICAL ECHO, SEVENTY YEARS AGO Â Â A theatrical tease opens both halves: the voice of Noel Coward singing "There's a right way and a wrong way, an old way and a new way" for the o…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:34PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 30, 2023
HARRY HILL TAKES ON TONY BLAIR. FIIIIIIIGHHHT!!!!  I couldn't be more delighted that it's touring, this splendidly rude show. We need this kind of merrily offensive burlesque, in…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:15PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 27, 2023
THE POWER OF NO, IN 1950S AMERICA  If we think we suffer from a paranoid cancel-culture , we should note this reminder of mid-1950s America " notably Hollywood " in the M…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:09AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 26, 2023
BLACK, BOYISH, BEAUTIFUL    It's not all musicals and movie-spinoffs that put bill-paying bums on seats. The best producers trust their nerve and instinct ,rake through the f…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:30AM[SHARE]  REDEFINING FEELINGS IN AN AGE OF ANGRY ANGST "We are three people trying to redefine feeling" they say. They do this between Paris, Munich, Salzburg and Greek islands, and eith…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:58AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 20, 2023
BLAZING MUSIC HOLDS THE HOUSE TOGETHER     After 1930's Donegal at the NT the day before,  Dancing at Lughnasa portraying a group of women meeting  stress and poverty…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:26AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 19, 2023
A SAD LOST WORLD . A HUMAN BEAUTY There is particular genius in creating a play which doesn't build to a showy debacle but grips you with the possibility of an unnamed crisis, and so…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:11AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 18, 2023
​ABBASOLUTELY A DELIGHT  ​​  ​​   If there is a formula for a cheerful touring play in our frazzled and disputatious times, it woul…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:09AM[SHARE]Friday, April 14, 2023
NEVER FLAT, COWARD There 's always a slight frisson when Noel Coward's rueful, dark-streaked romantic comedy is revived in our censorious age. We are nine decades on from the night i…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 13, 2023
LOVE, DEATH, GRIEF    It's a joy to have the intimate Swan auditorium open again, refurbished after going dark in the first sudden Covid closure, and to see once again a stro…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 5, 2023
SEA FRETÂ Â Â Â I'll give it one thing: over an hour into this infuriating two- hour play there's a brief but wonderful part for the veteran June Watson. She stumps in with octog…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:57AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 4, 2023
  BEAUTIFUL SCIENCE. UGLY WORLD    Unexpectedly enthralled, I spent an hour and a half eavesdropping on six nuclear physicists, and couldn't be more glad to have caught…
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