Tuesday, August 9, 2022
CARRY ON. OR, TO PUT IT ANOTHER WAY, KEEP MESSIN' ABOUT… Â Â My first concern was, will they dare give us the sadness? Kenneth Williams was a comic marvel self-created, a versatile a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:40PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 3, 2022
GLITTER AND HARD GRAFT     A basement hung with glitter strings, a small moody band with earthy bass, a bar: few better places to revel in torch songs, deep-dug anthems an…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:52PM[SHARE]MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.    Lyttelton, SE1 SHAKESPEARE IN THE SWING AGE    A star danced, and under it was Simon Godwin's joyful, 1930s Riviera production born. Qui…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:47PM[SHARE] STARRY SISTERHOOD IN OLD VIENNA    Identical twin girls, separated at birth in their parents divorce, meet at summer camp and resolve to swop places.  Remember  "The Pa…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:13AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 30, 2022
THE SCOTTISH PLAY ON ANCIENT TURF Â Â "This castle hath a pleasant seat.." Â Indeed it does:Â Red Rose Chain's traditional outdoor show now lives alongside the mysterious mounds …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:40AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 27, 2022
101 DALMATIANS    Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park NW1 BARKING IN THE PARK    Wooof!  The OAT's new show, bounding and cavorting along under the di…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 26, 2022
CHARLIE IS , ONCE AGAIN, OUR DANCING DARLING…     Foiled by heatwave and trains, I made it six days later to the summer's highlight, the glorious absurdity of this wicke…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:35AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 23, 2022
   Twice lately, under tall oaks and pines on what is becoming known as Suffolk's mini-Minack, I have encountered touring opera companies doing wonderfully, relaxedly, profess…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:21AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 14, 2022
SCRAMBLE!  CHOCKS AWAY!   Who knew that Caroline Quentin could achieve (almost) the splits, while strumming a ukulele? Or that that Richard Bean and Chris Oliver " who a de…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:01PM[SHARE]DECK-LICIOUS, DELOVELY, SAILING BACK IN STYLE A year on, and after a partly recast tour, SS America drops anchor back in the Barbican and in style. Actually feels even better than before…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:45AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 12, 2022
 MOTHER RUSSIA AND ITS MEN   Here's a fresh history play: confrontational , shocking, classic in its focus on vast flawed characters and pretty close to documented " and very…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:49PM[SHARE]Friday, July 8, 2022
MOB JUSTICE, NO JUSTICE    There are women who, seeing a friend in an almost-good outfit, cannot help reaching out: adjusting a belt , removing an ill-judged frill, suggesting…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 7, 2022
STEP BACK TO THE SIXTIES SIMPLICITIES…  Once again , off to this most enticing dinner-theatre embedded in a historic treasure, its big real watermill whirling away in the bar and t…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:35PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 5, 2022
The review below is from its Chichester opening a couple of weeks back. So just a note on seeing it again: something that could well become a habit, because it really is rich snd fine. It wo…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:11PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 30, 2022
THE BOTTLED SPIDER, HEDGEHOG, ABORTIVE ROOTING HOG, IS BACK…MAGNIFICENTLY Â Â Â Â Â The winter of discontent made glorious summer is ushered in with a wild conga round the s…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 29, 2022
ALL GREEK TO US, AND TOPICAL WITH IT Fascinating to see how, despite many light tempting fatuities and sentimentalities onscreen and onstage, and the countercurrents of self conscious experi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:37AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 28, 2022
IT HAS COME TO FRUITION. REJOICE! Â Â In a spirit of joyful pastiche, it's a Sweeney-Todd sound that opens the show:Â "`Prepare! To be made Aware! Of the most successful Labour Premi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:31AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 26, 2022
OF MAN'S FIRST DISOBEDIENCE….  Thorington is a new outdoor theatre, a beautiful bomb-crater amid tall sighing pine trees and beneath a great oak in Suffolk. It runs only one-night,…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:08PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 18, 2022
VIA MEDIA ANGLICANA IN A NEW JERUSALEM    We're in a vicarage kitchen in a small West Country town, its incumbent dealing with parishioners, a resentful, weary wife and t…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 15, 2022
WOOLFING ROUND THE GENDER BEND A bit of a conversion experience for me, this. Disliked Woolf for years, Lighthouse and Waves and all, and therefore never read Orlando. Thought of it as a bit…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:14AM[SHARE]A DARKER HAZE ON AMERICA'SÂ MEADOW Traditionally, audiences don't go to Oklahoma to be unsettled . On the other hand you don't go to the Young Vic to have your expectations cosily met by …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:18AM[SHARE]Friday, May 13, 2022
TEENS FALLING, UNPROTECTED   An empty basement in a working class Kentucky neighbourhood in the mid 70s. An offstage adult world is preoccupied with unemployment, the main…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:34AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 12, 2022
A SCRUTABLE TAKE ON CHINA   This is a beguiling 70-minute solo show from the actor, writer, wandering maverick entrepreneur and China pundit Mark Kitto. He plays three pa…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:24AM[SHARE]Monday, May 9, 2022
VOICES FROM THE VALLEYS Â Â Â Â It is a curious feeling to be half charmed and half irritated by a production: one moment absorbed in a confrontation and engaged with a character, …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:21AM[SHARE]Friday, May 6, 2022
NURSING ACROSS CONTINENTS    Kayla Meikle, stalwart in Victorian dignity and Caribbean matriarchy, addresses us firmly at the start of Jackie Sibblies Drury's manic, sometimes…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 4, 2022
IN THE MIDDLE OF LIFE'S JOURNEY..THROW A PLATE OR TWO    Ah, middle age! Waists spreading outwards, options contracting, marriage all too familiar, parents getting older fast …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:21PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 28, 2022
SEXUAL ASSAULT , HARD LAW, AND AN ASTONING WEST END DEBUT   Forget the cold sadistic clotheshorse Vilanelle from Killing Eve. Actually, forget all Jodie Comer's screen awards. …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:09AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 26, 2022
HALF A CENTURY OF HAPPY MISCHIEF Full disclosure: I have been following this man around for the best part of 50 years. Went with my brother Mike to his first show, Housewife Superstar, at th…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:48AM[SHARE]Friday, April 22, 2022
NOW THE TWO PLAYS TOGETHER HENRY VI: REBELLION.    ENGLAND IN FERMENT, AND SOME DANGEROUS WOMEN    We are in the 1450s, in a dangerous doldrum: Henry V of Agincou…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:52AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 20, 2022
ENGLAND IN FERMENT, AND SOME DANGEROUS WOMEN    We are in the 1450s, in a dangerous doldrum: Henry V of Agincourt is long dead, his stripling son married to pretty French…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:22PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 19, 2022
DO WE STILL LOVE ROOSTER?   So it's back, another St George's day before a west country village fair.  Twelve years on from Jez Butterworth's glorious shock-troop assault on…
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