Wednesday, May 17, 2017
ENLARGE, ENLIGHTEN , ENLIVEN…ENTERTAIN! Expatiating on the Grand Staircase of a dreary Tudor stately home (built with ironic love by designer Robert Jones) our tour guide Let…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 16, 2017
LET THERE BE LIGHT! The year 1632 : we are halfway through the epic conflict between Galileo Galilei and the Holy Roman Church, an authority in its day quite as ruthless as Stalin and…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:47PM[SHARE]IN WHICH MICHAEL ADAIR LOSES HIS THEATRE-CRITIC VIRGINITY TO A PACK OF SCOTTISH MINXES A few years ago, when High School Musical and Glee were in their pomp, we were forever se…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:11AM[SHARE]Friday, May 12, 2017
BLEACH, BLUES, AND BLACK AMERICA RISING Here's a pocket musical with huge themes, a blues opera of historic seriousness but with a singing washing-machine in a bubbled minidress. A ti…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:39PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 10, 2017
FRESH AS A (VIOLENT) DAISY AFTER 376 YEARS What wonders, sir, are these? How beauteous fringe theatre is! We Tuesday matinee-goers, paying peanuts for the smaller space in an …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:05AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 9, 2017
A CRIME, A CARDINAL, A CONFLICT It is Twelfth Night, the feast of the Epiphany, 1941. In the Jermyn's tight intimacy we are sitting in the clinical director’s office of a home f…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:18PM[SHARE]Monday, May 8, 2017
AFTER SADDAM: WHAT’S LEFTÂ WHEN YOU TAKE AWAY AÂ TYRANT? An electrifying moment in this sharp, riveting play sees two bitter rivals, in a moment of stillness between blood-f…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:20PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 4, 2017
REAGAN, RELIGION, AND REMEMBERING… Direct comparisons are dangerous, even when – as this week – two consecutive days see major works opening in London, both set in the 1…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:10PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 3, 2017
IRELAND OF THE SORROWS: THE KIDS, THE  CRAIC AND THE KILLING It is 1982 in  County Armagh. Not a good time to be Irish, not there. Not with internees still in the H blocks and t…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:48PM[SHARE]NOBILITY AND THE NOSE  on tour  You've hardly sat down before there's a jolly mass drinking-song in pantaloons, leather breastplates and hat-feathers being romped through in fr…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:32AM[SHARE]GUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI FINDS THE DONMAR'S NEW VERSION OF BRECHT CRIMINALLY IRRESISTIBLE How do you get, keep and wield power? What do you use it for, and why? And, if you will stop …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:56AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 29, 2017
BILIOUS BUT BRACING: THE METROPOLIS AND THE MOVIES Simon may be from the wrong side of New York, a roughneck who ties his wife Anne to a chair and tapes her mouth for being “critica…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:53AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 27, 2017
GUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI SEES ANCIENT GRUDGE BREAK TO NEW MUTINY AT THE GLOBE The recent spats at the Globe, between the now outgoing Artistic Director Emma Rice and The Powers That B…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:40PM[SHARE]1918..1968..AND NOW.. ALAN BENNETT'S ENGLAND In his 1994 diaries Alan Bennett described the funeral of a Dunkirk veteran in a village church. "crammed with the men who won the war. Yo…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:43AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 25, 2017
VAN HOVE, VISCONTI, AND OUR JUDE London is  getting used to Ivo van Hove of Toneelgroep Amsterdam. But his tremendous A View from The Bridge (in a bleak arena)  and his striking…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:26PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 20, 2017
A WINDOW ONÂ AN IVORY TOWER… Â Full disclosure: I bought a ticket for an early preview, because press night was my husband's birthday but I couldn't resist checking out Chr…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:39PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 19, 2017
GHOSTS OF WAR AND SHIPWRECK "When all the world's at war, it's better to be dead". Pallid pessimistic ghosts roam around a lonely Maine lighthouse in WW2, with heaving sepia seas behi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:09AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 13, 2017
A JOURNEY THROUGH A PLAGUE YEAR With the horror of Syria fresh on us, and Africa's travails with Ebola still haunting, this sombre, unforgettable treatment of Albert Camus' LA PESTE f…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:27PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 11, 2017
A CANUTE FOR THE AGE OFÂ ANYWHERES This substantial début play by Tallulah Brown hits an intriguing syncope with David Goodhart's much-discussed definition of the UK tribes. Not le…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 9, 2017
A WILD TALE FROM HELL'S BORDERS Â – on the road This enterprising regional touring company generally focuses on the East, whether John Clare or Arthur Ransome, Viking …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:28AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Palace Theatre, Watford: A smart two-hander, An Intervention begins with a drink-fuelled confrontation between A, a young woman who has just been on an anti-war protest, and her best friend,…
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