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]Saturday, October 24, 2020
Those who know Amy Johnson's history well will be happy with Lone Flyer as a grippingly impressionistic portrait of a remarkable woman.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[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…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:30AM[SHARE]Friday, September 18, 2020
The Talking Heads monologues The Shrine and Bed Among the Lentils are absorbing and thrilling and touching and " here is the surprise " amid Alan Bennett's wry pathos the playlets are often …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 4, 2020
By Libby Purves
The Theatrecat Libby Purves finds herself back in the stalls for Beat The Devil at the Bridge Theatre London and it's a very Fiennes start!
This post REVIEW: Beat The Devil, …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:43AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 3, 2020
BACK IN THE STALLS! Â AND A VERY FIENNES START Â Â Â Â After nine months' exile " my chemotherapy ended slap bang at the start of lockdown "Â I felt like the Ancient Marine…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:15AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 1, 2020
AÂ SINGING, SEASIDE, Â STRIKING DEFIANCE OF THE NEW SEPARATION Â Theatrecat remains dark, Â as it has been since December when chemotherapy began and then ran seamlessly, in March, …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:38AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 19, 2020
…FROM ME AND FROM THEATRECAT.COM (&HOUSE ARTIST ROGER HARDY) Â HERE'S THE CAT AND THE MICE . Â Â THEY COLLABORATE FOR ONCE TO WISH EVERY THEATRE, ARTIST AND SUPPORT WORKER LUCK…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:39PM[SHARE]Friday, December 6, 2019
A MESSAGE FOR THOSE KIND ENOUGH TO DROP INTO THIS SITE… Theatrecat followers: a bit of news below, in detail for your information or in case any of you are undergoing the parallel thing.Â…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:56AM[SHARE]This freshened-up and first-rate production of A Christmas Carol at the Old Vic sees Paterson Joseph giving one of the performances of his life, his humanity simply erupting onto the stage.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 26, 2019
 MONSTROUS AND MAJESTIC , A NARNIA FOR NOW    How to interpret an old favourite? A Christian fantasy allegory, the world of Narnia, the first of C.S.Lewis' immortal…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:26AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 21, 2019
BEN DOWELL REVIEWS: A bright, socially withdrawn teenager called Evan is desperately lonely, taking comfort in the internet and not much else. He has a crush on a girl from his school, but c…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:39AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 16, 2019
Mary Poppins is as supercalifragilisticexpialidocious as one can hope, a riot of good cheer, fun, excellent signing and some quite breathtaking stagecraft.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Friday, November 15, 2019
BEN DOWELL AND DAUGHTER POP WITH PLEASURE AT ITS PEP.. It has floated in one the chilly autumn breeze like a much-needed blast of summer sunshine. Yes, this Mary Poppins is as supercalifragi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:08PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 13, 2019
A BIG APPLE ROMANCE WITH CRUNCH     How romantic New York is to the British heart! From Superman to Friends we seem to know it, from Elf and 34th Street (not to mentio…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:52PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 2, 2019
High Fidelity stomps along unmemorably with great goodwill and a three-piece band overhead, and moments of soul or hare-krishna pastiche are wittily done
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 30, 2019
NORTHERN GUEST REVIEWER HELEN GASKELL TIRES OF THE RELENTLESS GRIT…  A family of five, scattered across the North of England, are brought together by tragedy. The play shows a pict…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:19PM[SHARE]ARROGANCE, ANGER ,  INDIA'S SHAME   Hema's is a house of women now. The old grandmother is in bed below the tall screen doors , feeding crows who move shadow-s…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:16AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 29, 2019
GUEST CRITIC BEN DOWELL DOES NOT HAVE A GOOD NIGHT OUT Â What a strange evening this is. Young director Tinuke Craig has taken Maxim Gorky's 1911Â play (there was a revision in 1935 but…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:21AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 24, 2019
RENAISSANCEÂ RUTTING, Â VENUS ANDÂ Â VANITIES Â Sandro Botticelli, he makes clear to us at the start, plans to tell his version. He's Dickie Beau: skinny and swaggeringly queeny…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:54PM[SHARE]​​IT TAKES TWO​​…​  Here's a sharp eyed little gem about coupledom and the wary, fretful road towards parenthood in an age of easy contraception …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:47AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 23, 2019
TWO CURATORS, ACROSS EIGHTY YEARS   The little Swan , a jewel-box of a theatre, often sees the new plays the RSC does best: immaculate technique and careful clarity elucidating c…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:34AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 20, 2019
INSPECTOR GOOLE, BACK BACK ON THE ROAD  Below, edited, is my original London review of this remarkable production. This new tour deserves to be marked, though:  r…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:46AM[SHARE]Friday, October 18, 2019
A COOL EYE ON SHATTERED LIVES     Of all the well known flaws of our criminal justice system, one of the most glaring is how badly it fits women " though they are…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:44AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 12, 2019
Groan Ups has hamster substitutions, unexpected subtler laughs and a moment of real pathos before it swizzles into something more poignant.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 10, 2019
By Libby Purves
Libby Purves reviews Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's musical Assassins now playing at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury.
This post REVIEW: Assassins, Watermill Theatre Newbu…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 08:37AM[SHARE]THE DARK AND THE CRAZY    This is " for us anyway " the first production in the Trump era of this savage musical: a revue reimagining of all the attempts, successful …
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