Thursday, August 2, 2018
DANCE AND DEFIANCE BELOW THE WAVES    Metta theatre's hit JUNGLE BOOK was fashionably hip-hop before Hamilton hit (and was certainly the only time I ever heard gri…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:15PM[SHARE]GUEST CRITIC  and sharp-eyed millennial BEN BLACKMORE DOES THE STATE (well, theatrecat) SOME SERVICE…. Rating three   box office shakeapearesglobe.com  to 13 Oct I have ne…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:17AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 1, 2018
RETROMANIA AS A ROAD TO RUIN In a lovely dolls-house set, Judy bustles about happily in a gay flouncy full skirt and pinny. She runs hubby's morning bath, makes his packed…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:34AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 31, 2018
GUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI VOTES FOR ETHEL SMYTH AT GRIMEBORN The celebrations of the centenary of Women's Suffrage in Britain have reached Dalston's cultural heartland as Spectra Ensem…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:11AM[SHARE]Friday, July 27, 2018
MADNESS, MENACE, MAJESTY        You need not be aged – or even a man – to be a memorable Lear. But there is an intense and concentrated emotion to …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 26, 2018
A FERTILE DESPAIR This is two hours of  treasure. Barry Humphries of course always was one, in all his characters, and this time he puts on "the most subtle and intricate disguise"…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 24, 2018
A CLASSIC OF POWER, PUZZLEMENT AND A DIFFICULT WOMAN     Sometimes less is more and understatement gives a show its sharpest edge. Which is not to suggest, perish t…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:33AM[SHARE]Monday, July 23, 2018
BEYOND THE JOKES, A WHIFF OF SULPHUR…     Danny Robins' funny, credible, sharp-tongued play pivots round four figures of central cultural importance to modern Bri…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:12AM[SHARE]Friday, July 20, 2018
RATHER LATE BUT WORTH IT….A FERTILE ARGUMENTÂ Forty years ago as a Today reporter I helped cover the first IVF baby , Louise Brown. A Scottish cardinal told me that it was si…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 18, 2018
DRIPS 'N DRUGS 'N ROCK 'N ROLL… Â Â Alan Bennett may fear he is a national teddy bear these days, but the crafty old bugger still has a gnarled finger on the nation's trick…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:19PM[SHARE]A TREE, A TEENAGER, A FAMILY TRAGEDY This is billed for ten years old or more, and its protagonist is a boy of thirteen. But warned: this  Old Vic young adult su…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:11AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 15, 2018
MARIA MARTEN STRIDES AGAIN: A WOMAN'S STORY   Founding this touring company 36 years ago, Ivan Cutting swore a great oath that one local story they wouldn't do …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:42AM[SHARE]Friday, July 13, 2018
FLUENT, FASCINATING,  FUN. FIVE!  This show has no right to be so much fun.  Over three hours, two intervals, three middle-aged blokes in black suits in a revol…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:37AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 12, 2018
STRIDING OUT OF THE FRAME : A KICK-ASS HEROINE OF THEATRE Theatre owes a lot to Joan Littlewood: daughter of East End larkiness , music-hall jangle and tough 1930's socialism; idealis…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:04AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 10, 2018
OH WHAT A TREAT… OI!        The sun has got his hat on, England's in the semi-final under a chap with a proper waistcoat, and Noel Gay's 1937 musical i…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:19AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 8, 2018
CHARLOTTE VALORI FINDS SAND, SEA AND SERIOUSNESS AT BUXTON On his way home from victory at Troy, Cretan king Idomeneo's ship is caught in a dreadful storm. In desperation, he vows to Neptune…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:22PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 7, 2018
CHARLOTTE VALORI UNCOVERS FORGOTTEN INCA GOLD WITH VERDI IN BUXTON Verdi's little-known opera about Peruvian Incas and Spanish conquistadors, Alzira, has finally received its UK premiere at …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:35PM[SHARE]A REVIVAL CRASHING WITH NEW LIFE AND ANCIENT DARKNESS A heatwave in festival season, everyone's muzzy yearning for greenwood misrule: it's perfect timing for the dangerous…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 5, 2018
CRITIC AND HELLRAISER LUKE JONES WINCES AND LAUGHS … This is as violent as anything I've seen on the stage. And I'm including in this survey that Titus Andronicus at the Globe w…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 13, 2018
A RISOTTO OF RESENTMENTS In some plays, you reach the interval not exactly dissatisfied but wondering "where is this going next? How will it knit up the ends.? So m…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:21AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 12, 2018
MICHAEL ADAIRÂ SHUDDERS AT THE HARD OLD PATRIARCHY… 'These modern neurotic women, doctor. What are we going to do with them?' says one exasperated male character to another. H…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:02AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 7, 2018
STRINDBERG MEETS STENHAM, BIRD MEETS BLENDER We're in a Hampstead mansion. The daughter of the house is whooping it up at her birthday party, a deafening, purple-lit rave where tight-…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:28PM[SHARE]THE RUMBUSTIOUS AFFAIR OF THE CLOGS IN THE NIGHT TIME Barrie Rutter and the Globe are made for each other:. Fresh out of his storming leadership (and frequent personal performa…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:38PM[SHARE]A WRITER, A MOTHER, A LIFE The elegant new Bridge continues to demonstrate – firmly " that it is uniquely versatile. After one traditional tragicomedy (Young Marx) we had a swir…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 5, 2018
LUKE JONES REVELS Â IN VIOLENCE, CHILL, NIGHTMARE..AND GREAT DIALOGUE Orlando Bloom – denim, cowboy hat, slicked back hair, twinkling grimace – is as chilled out as a ma…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:59AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 2, 2018
A TAPESTRY OF HOPE Â Â Â Â Â Lady Anne Tree was the Duke of Devonshire's daughter, sister in law of Kathleen Kennedy and Debo Mitford: Â grand as they come. Â…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:28PM[SHARE]Friday, June 1, 2018
THE EDUCATION JUNGLE    A late catch-up for this short tour from Theatre Royal York: but blimey, well worth it. sA drawing-room drama of manners with deep, tangled …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:53AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 31, 2018
SORROW AND SPLENDOUR IN WORDS THAT SING The first act of Brian Friel's great play ends with a shout of "bloody, bloody, bloody marvellous!". And so it bloody well is, this comi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:03AM[SHARE]Friday, May 25, 2018
LUKE JONES FALLS FOR TINKERBELL… Peter Pan has now flown into every medium possible. He is a play, novel, pantomime, musical, television programme, cartoon and a Kate Bush single. This…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:21AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 22, 2018
MULTINATIONAL MENACE It is always a dilemma, for those of us who despise star-ratings as a measuring device, when a 90 minute play seems set fair to earn three, or three-and-a-bit, tr…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:50PM[SHARE]Friday, May 18, 2018
THE NEW ERA BEGINS…   Here's a vulnerable Hamlet: a lonely lad in proper tearful grief and disappointment at his mother's remarriage.  A Hamlet who, in feigning …
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