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…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:50PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 3, 2021
SHEEN SHINES AS THE WELSH WORD-WIZARD Â Â Â It might be helpful if critics admitted sometimes arriving bad-tempered, hot, out of tune, dreading the long masked late night train jour…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 30, 2021
FATHERS AND SONS, PASSION AND PIETY Â Â 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 e…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:14AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 06:04PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 10, 2021
AMELIORATING PARISIAN LIVES ONE PUPPET AT A TIME Â Â Â It could hardly be calculated more finely to fulfil every post-lockdown need: Â a cast of sixteen nimble actor-musician-sin…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:14AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 petu…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:04AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 F…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:16PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 26, 2021
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYSÂ Â Â Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds INSTEAD OF TRAVEL… Â Â So what do we need, to reopen a tiny Georgian playhouse in a time of continuing uncert…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:22AM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 de…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:31PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 su…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:13PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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. Assiste…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:26PM[SHARE]Great 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. …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:09PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 welco…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:01AM[SHARE]Friday, October 30, 2020
TITTER YE NOT: IT WAS TOUGH Â Â Â Â 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 …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:29AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 07:19AM[SHARE]TWO MORE FROM ALAN BENNETT Â Â Â Â Â Â Â One of the darkest and one of the merriest. Â PlAYING SANDWICHESÂ is an even more than usually sombre one of Alan Bennett's…
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