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 …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:01AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 17, 2018
BOW, BOW! THEY'RE ON THE ROAD AGAIN.. It must be nearly five years since Sasha Regan's all-male Iolanthe at Wiltons' caused me to break a lifelong resistance and enjoy …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:28AM[SHARE]SCHLOCK-HORRORWITZ  AND HURRAH FOR THE SKELETON   Gotta love the buccaneering quality of west end theatres: the Small Faces musical at the little Ambassadors off Cam…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 15, 2018
THE SHINE AND THE TERROR It is no bad thing to have your stage hero effectively co-designing the set. Christopher Oram's recreation of Mark Rothko's 1950's studio is a bleak bo…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:18PM[SHARE]Friday, May 11, 2018
CLEAR YOUNG VOICES FROM A DISTANT PAST   Three children in the 1540's play in a hay-barn, built fragrant and real in the tiny theatre.  One has found a pilgr…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:55AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 8, 2018
ROUGH, RURAL, A NEGLECTED ALBION An immense intrusive pipe bisects the stage, a rusty oil tank below it with part of a tractor one side and a cheerless Victorian brick farmhous…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:39PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 3, 2018
OSCAR AT HIS MOST EARNEST Worth going to Jonathan Church's latest Wilde "Classic Spring"revival if only for a feast of Foxes: patriarch Edward as old Lord Caversham and his re…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:58PM[SHARE]CREATIVES, C***TS AND CONTRACTS  The theatrical repertoire has a new monster:  Bernard, created by Joe Penhall and brought to scorchingly memorable, sociopathicall…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:09AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 2, 2018
FAST, FINE  STREETWISE SHAKESPEARE     Running and scuffling, a crowd of kids in black scatter across the stark stage under an open-sided, distressedly concr…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:55AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 1, 2018
GUEST CRITIC MICHAEL ADAIR  FINDS  KINSHIP IN  A FAMILY SORROW Well, this is timely. In the shadow of Windrush, a play  immerses us in the colourful traditions …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:12AM[SHARE]Friday, April 27, 2018
COWARD GOES FARCEO-FORTISSIMO      In the final outburst from our hero Gary Essendine – silk-dressing-gowned philanderer, arrogantly insecure d…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:08AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 26, 2018
A WAR OVER, A WORLD ADRIFT It's a great tapestry of a play: Rodney Ackland's portrait of a Soho nightclub as WW2 ended. Socialites and slobs, black-marketeers and failing artists, una…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 24, 2018
REBEL WITHOUT AN ARGUMENT It is a curiosity of the age that young British women seem to be far angrier about The Patriarchy than their mothers , even though law, language, women's acc…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:04PM[SHARE]GOLDEN SANDS AND GRIEVANCES Nicola Werenowska has certainly found fertile ground for the setting of her play: the decline of English seaside towns (in this case Clacton) from t…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:50PM[SHARE]Monday, April 23, 2018
Part 1: SECRET HEARTS (and an explanation) This is a fabulously quixotic enterprise directed by Tom Littler: a revival of all nine of Noel Coward's one-act plays, written in 1935 as a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:56AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 21, 2018
MORE THAN A PICNIC Â I could tell you that it is worth going up West for the transfer of Hampstead's fine play just to see Roger Allam (his fine quiff sadly suppressed under…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:37PM[SHARE]Friday, April 20, 2018
BAT'S BACK…    In a remarkably quick return after its Coliseum outing , Jim Steinman's barmy musical is storming onto the Tottenham Court Road, rocking on. Few cast c…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:17AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 17, 2018
A LATE NIGHT TO REMEMBER      At twenty to midnight, 106 years to the day after the collision, an audience gathered in this big theatre to mark and remember…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:15AM[SHARE]Monday, April 16, 2018
SCI-FI AND SORROW We begin with a tiny proscenium box, an almost Punch-and-Judy window, framing Harry and his wife Max: nice middle-aged people, evoked to sitcom perfection by a beard…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:35AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 12, 2018
  THE JOINT IS JUMPING! AGAIN…   Openings are running in themed  sets – three Restoration comedies coming along like No.11 buses, and now two …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:35AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 10, 2018
SWOTS OR SWINDLERS, VILLAINS OR VICTIMS? Sometimes a West End transfer serves a play royally. At Chichester last year I enjoyed James Graham's playful, thoughtfully mischievous…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:39PM[SHARE]CATHY, STILL NOT HOME AFTER FIFTY YEARS Homeless charities like to remind us of the mantra: we are all just two bad decisions away from the pavement. The trajectory of our heroine Cat…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:53AM[SHARE]Monday, April 9, 2018
SHORT, SHARP, STIMULATING    The INK new writing festival (http://inkfestival.org) is a phenomenon: a space where writers of any experience or none can submit short plays …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 4, 2018
FROTHING OVER WITH FEMALE HILARITY A pre-curtain ensemble of one harpsichord and a quartet of periwigged lady saxophonists, playing Mozart with a touch of oompah, is always…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:48PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 24, 2018
IT'S THAT SHOW AGAIN, AND VERY WELCOME TOO It's WW2 themed. Gas masks, posters, programmes in an ARP fire-bucket and rude songs to cheer the troops on leave and show Hitler that Brita…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:02AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 22, 2018
HARD HOMECOMINGS FOR THE DOGS OF WAR Boots, boots, boots, boots: stamping out the immemorial rhythm of army discipline, nineteen men and women move as one, expressionless, freed for a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:21PM[SHARE]A SOLO REFLECTION ON PUBERTY AND AFTER. Naomi Sheldon's solo, semi-autobiographical hour comes from Edinburgh crowned with plaudits, though cunningly in the programme she does …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:32AM[SHARE]FOR ONCE IN A LIFETIME THE DEAR MENIER DOES NOT MAKE GUEST REVIEWER LUKE JONES HAPPY. NOT HAPPY AT ALL.  EXCEPT AT THE PROJECTIONS. Two prisoners are locked in an Argent…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:35AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 20, 2018
IT'S THAT MAN AGAIN… It is awkward that two major new productions of the Scottish Play, by two determinedly auteurish directors, open in the same month. Rufus Norris' bleak "pos…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:16PM[SHARE]GUEST CRITIC JENNIFER-JANE BENJAMIN FINDS WHAT MATTERS Lights up. A confederate statue. A blackout. And it disappears. It's November 1963 and we're in Lake Charles, Louisiana. JFK has…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:43PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 18, 2018
SILENT, SIGNIFICANT CREATURES The candlelit Wanamaker has proved its worth as a music-room, notably with All The Angels and the divine Farinelli. This takes it further with the first …
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