Saturday, October 16, 2021
 THE RACE WHERE NOBODY WINS    This feels like a howl of baffled frustration, from a millennial generation ( writer and director, and all four characters) unable to deal wi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:59AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:59PM[SHARE]AN OLD STORY OF YOUNG MEN Â Â 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 a …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:30AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 10, 2021
EAST IS EAST, IN EAST ANGLIAÂ Â Â Â Shamser Sinha " who is on the National Theatre Connections project " relished the idea of writing a play about a South-Asian working-class fami…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:32PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 jew…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:20PM[SHARE]NOT 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 05:13AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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, …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:59AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 30, 2021
THE LAST GREAT PLAGUE Â Â Â Â 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 w…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:13PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:40AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 rising gen…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:34PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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,…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:15AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 15, 2021
AN 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…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:22AM[SHARE]Friday, September 10, 2021
A 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 …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:34AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:28PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 th…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:30PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 05:52AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 b…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]NOT 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…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 archae…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:29PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 12, 2021
WONDERFUL OLD COBBLERS ONÂ ABDICATION STREETÂ (longer version of review done for Mail) Â Â Â You know you're in safe hands when a stagestruck Prince Edward, diffident and exci…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:04AM[SHARE]Friday, 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,…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:07AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 5, 2021
A VOICE FROM THE 90's PREFIGURES THE FUTURE… Â Â 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 01:49PM[SHARE]GUEST 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 05:57AM[SHARE]VICARIOUS 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 flo…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:55AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 22, 2021
THE DARK SIDE OF THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT. DON'T TELL JACOB REES-MOGG Â Â Â Â Â Hats off to James Dacre's Royal & Derngate for bravely slapping on a brand new musical in t…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:41AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 14, 2021
ROARING BACK TO LIFE Â Â Â Almost the most magnificent part of Daniel Evans' production is that it's happening at all:Â despite the distanced glimmer of blue paper masks, Chiches…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:40AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 alread…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:23PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:52AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 7, 2021
FORMAL. INTERVIEWS DON'T END JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE DEAD Â Â The afterlife is out of fashion, at least in traditional religious forms " harps and angels, heaven and hell, reincarnation or…
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