Saturday, March 21, 2026
TOO DEEP FOR TEARS Perhaps this imagining of the young Vincent gains extra power after the emotional hit of the recent Van Gogh at Arles exhibition; starry nights and wonder lie fresh in…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:14AM[SHARE]Friday, March 20, 2026
REACH FOR THE LIMITLESS STARS    This 70-minute squib was a big Fringe hit, though one clenched reviewer suggested that it could only appeal to those who love physics. This f…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:14AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 18, 2026
SECOND HOME HOLIDAY HELL IN OLD RUSSIA    Watch a Chekhov play, and however deep the characters' despair and disappointment you feel the author's love, just as you do f…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:44AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 12, 2026
MYSTICISM AND MISCHIEF     This extraordinary show from Kadimah Yiddish Theatre, based on Isaac Bashevis Singer's story (and absolutely not with the Streisand movie…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:04AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 10, 2026
BROKEN HEARTS AND MACAROONS: A DISTANT WAR CLOSE TO HOME Â Â Â Â Â How is it for a family to be a symbol, focus and vortex of murderous global disharmony? Â The Rosenbergs k…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:56AM[SHARE]Friday, March 6, 2026
A DARKNESS FROM THE PAST, WITH MODERN ECHOESÂ Â Â Â Â Â Fittingly in ou age of outing, condemnation and cancellation there have within a twelvemonth been three plays about t…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:58AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 4, 2026
1939: GLOBAL MOMENT , INTIMATE PAIN    There are some tremendous moments in the last ten minutes of this late-period Arthur Miller play: some from Pearl Chanda as Sylvia,…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:40AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 3, 2026
A THOUGHTFUL ANGER Â Â Â Â We need to know and feel something beyond the daily global news; sometimes theatre can place us carefully and mercilessly in the room and try to make us…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:38AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 24, 2026
A 1920's BIRD OF PARADISE IN THE HENCOOP Â Â Trust Trevor Nunn to make this a bit of an event: a rarely-seen Noel Coward play set with ferocious accuracy and style in its birth-year 192…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:40PM[SHARE]THE MARY ANN WHO BECAME GEORGE ELIOT Â Â Â It's 1842; Bird Grove is the handsome house near Coventry which Robert Evans bought in his retirement from managing a grand estate. With he…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:48AM[SHARE]Friday, February 20, 2026
PEERLESS, COMPLETE WITH PEERESSES   Melodious romantic yearning and extreme nonsense, Victoriana sending itself up in rap-speed pattering rhyme and lovesick fairies invading the …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:15AM[SHARE]Friday, February 13, 2026
GAGS BEFORE GRAVITAS  They're a national treasure:Jim Hacker and Sir Humphrey, inventions of Jonathan Lynn and Anthony Jay long before the age of Spads and WhatsApps. The TV shows…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 10, 2026
WICKED ECHOES FROM ANOTHER DEPRESSION      Well, here's something oddly familiar! A legendary international financier with charm, vast wealth, grubby fingers in many p…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:42PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 8, 2026
This is an adapted version of a piece I wrote for The Times on 19 January. Following Joanna Carrick's funeral on Friday, it seems right to put it up here, because theatre pioneers and projec…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 3, 2026
SLY USEFUL OBSERVATION…MARRIAGE OF EQUALS Noel Coward was a lad of 18 when he finished this very adult portrait of a marriage in trouble, invalided out of the army, nervous and tuber…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:53AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 20, 2025
A VERY GREAT TALENT TO AMUSE     Rival psychopathies emerge from the first moments of "Cornley Drama Society" as Chris (Daniel Fraser) and Robert (Henry Lewis) face off a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:55AM[SHARE]Friday, December 19, 2025
OH DEAR…   Event theatre! New from NY!   It got Tony and Pulitzer nominations, and smart Broadway people called it "heartwarming: and "best crafted and exacting…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:46AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 18, 2025
UNDER AN ALIEN TREE   The suffering and the pity of Gaza affects us all: bitter division on the streets, hysterical demonstrations feeding a violently rising antisemitism. And…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:35AM[SHARE]Friday, December 12, 2025
   "The woods are lovely, dark and deep…" " They certainly are when designed by Tom Scutt . And Jordan Fein's glorious new production will, I think, conver…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:29AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 10, 2025
DRINK DEEP OF GLORIUMPTIOUS FROBSCOTTLE      The RSC holiday season show offers a rising generation some proper theatrical wonder, away from banal screen CGI and a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:20AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 9, 2025
CINDERELLA AND THE MATZO BALL.     JW3. , Finchley Rd L'CHAIM ! TO LIFE, AND PANTOMIME JOKES   It's not often that you get to hiss and boo Prince Ch…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:48PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 6, 2025
JUST FOR KIDS? CONTRARIWISE! WE ARE ALL ALICE    In a fleeting moment of meta-theatre when the monstrous crow (well, umbrella) had the house shouting "Behind you!", Tweedl…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:22PM[SHARE] HELLO AGAIN SAILORS   This is one of ENO's beloved triumphs, the one which got some of us through the latter Covid years in frivolous merriment. For back in gloryIn 2021…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 3, 2025
A GHOSTLESS DICKENS TREAT FOR CHRISTMAS This is wonderful: a three-hander adaptation by Abigail Pickard Price, with the Guildford Shakespeare Company. They're well up to the new-…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:37AM[SHARE]LADIES WHO LURCH The Lord Chamberlain took a bit of handling to let this play's louche presumptions of extramarital liaisons be flaunted onstage: and one public morality campaigner shout…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 2, 2025
 A BEAR WHO DESERVES HIS STATION   This could have been awful , a desecration of the children's favourite which became a national icon of reassurance when he sat down to tea …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:13AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 22, 2025
GRIEF, GUILT, CONSCIENCE Â Â Â A great bright disc of moon overhangs the old tree in the storm, as it falls in the tumult of sound that could be war. Â It's 1948:Â Arthur Mille…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 20, 2025
ABSURD, TRANSCENDENT, JOYFUL Â Â Â Â Forget Ancient Greece and the films inspired by the suitors of royal Parthenope, this is Handel in comic-opera mood (one can't always be writi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:26PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 15, 2025
  A VERY CIVIL CRIME Meet Robert, a retired barrister, working in a charity shop as we meet him, cautiously sniffing trousers and appreciating candelabras. Nothing unusual there i…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:13AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 12, 2025
AN INNOCENCE OF WITCHES     A brand-new musical always stirs hope, especially when we're promised voices like Gabrielle Brooks (magnetically magnificent as Rita in Ge…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:04AM[SHARE]Friday, November 7, 2025
NOT AT ALL A DRAG… Candy-coloured prettiness frames a 1890s world, of bored girls in flounces longing for escape from guardians, lovesick young men not averse to heiresses, a…
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