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…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:46AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 5, 2025
INNOCENCE, WICKEDNESS , RAGE Â Â Ti Green's set is ,at first, a gilded wonder of dignified curves and arches, palatially spectacular when filled with the red robes of the Duke and sena…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:56AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 29, 2025
EVERYONE'S CALIFORNIAN NOW.. Â Â Â When the Old Vic had Jonathan Spector's play in 2022 it was the first time after lockdowns that I had the joy of beng in a space with a thousand ot…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:02PM[SHARE]EDWARDIANA FOR A FEMINIST AGEÂ Â Â It looks wonderful. Designer Colin Richmond has been set loose, with Oliver Fenwick's lighting, to create both the the raftered, big-windowed Edwar…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:18AM[SHARE]Friday, October 24, 2025
A FAMILY SAGA , A MEMORABLE AUNT    Bit early for an onstage Christmas-tree, but this comedy-drama by Richard Greenberg ran months on Broadway twelve years ago, and it suits …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 23, 2025
OLD FAITH IN A MODERN CITY    Anna Ziegler's play was an off-Broadway sellout, glimmering with insights into Jewish-American family conflicts, traditions and rebellions.…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 22, 2025
CHAOS IN FRAYING CHINTZ Catching up after a break away I nipped in to check whether after 60 years Joe Orton can still get people gasping with shock.  Peter McIntosh's set alone is a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:52PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 15, 2025
A BRILLIANT ECHO    Shouldn't be surprised that this is a cracking play:  Katherine Moar's 90-minute debut FARM HALL , about 1940s nuclear scientists, sparked cheers and a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:02AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 14, 2025
A DARK SERENISSIMA Â Â No pretty biscuit-tin Venice here, but rather its ancient darkness:Â Jess Curtis' artful set offers stark steps, corners, slotted openings into which half-gli…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 24, 2025
TANGLED JUSTICE, MORAL SWAMPS  There is no sure hero in Shakespeare's 'mystery play" , which can be exhilarating. Emily BUrns' remarkably sure-footed, clear and well-trimmed p…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:09AM[SHARE]Monday, September 22, 2025
ANYTHING CAN WASH UP ON THE NORTH SEA COAST …    Robin Brooks and director Fiona McAlpine mischievously bill this eccentric, enlivening short play as "a shocking so…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:22PM[SHARE]Friday, September 19, 2025
RAIN, RAGE , REGRETS   If you're expecting the original Ibsen tale of a bored wife wondering whether to leave a dull husband and deciding not to, pause.  This is "aft…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:29AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 18, 2025
HOLLYWOOD AND HYPOCRISY Â Â Â Â It's a brilliant moment for this sharp bit of work from the American Michael McKeever to land at the Elephant with a bracing thump. Â We've got …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:53AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 16, 2025
THE BEST OF TASTELESSNESS  It's always special when the small Menier's latest musical proves so perfect, so original in interpretation but faithful to its classic core that it can…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:38AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 14, 2025
FAME, FRAUD AND FAMILY     Long after it opened, a massive hit both sides of the Atlantic, and finally closed , the enterprising Finborough hauls out a 1921 A.A.Mi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:16PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 13, 2025
NORDIC , NOIR, NEUROTIC    In a hotel room, sea uneasy beyond and faint wind howling, dishevelled Adolf with his crutch listens to his smooth, confident new friend Gustaf. He…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:23AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 10, 2025
AWKWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIER Â Â Â The curtain is a marvel to start with: its plasticky-floral cosiness taking you straight to a 1970s kitchenette and the heyday of Mrs W's mission to g…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:04PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 9, 2025
EMPYREAN ENTERTAINMENT; CLUTCH IT TO YOUR FAINTING BOSOM NOW!   It should be on prescription,  so healing of life's frustrations is this Charles Court Opera revival of Gilbert…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:02PM[SHARE]Friday, September 5, 2025
AMBRIDGE OVER SLIGHTLY TROUBLED WATER  Tim Stimpson is a long-serving modern writer on Radio 4's The Archers, and loves it:  so his play is about the dawning, 75 years ago,  …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:29AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 3, 2025
POETIC PASSIONS IN A TUDOR POLICE STATE Â Â Here's a lively aquib from the RSC, a bravura 85 minute two-hander about Christopher Marlowe "Â dead at 29 in a Deptford tavern brawl " a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:59AM[SHARE]Friday, August 29, 2025
A MODERN CHEKHOVIAN PLAY, BEAUTIFUL Â Â The first thoughts that steuck me on leaving Andrew Keatley's well-made, slightly old fashioned family drama were that a lesser playwright would…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:39AM[SHARE]BACK TO THE LAND Â Â Â Â Birdsong, a grassy bank. At a rough rustic table sits a rough rustic:Â bearded, silent, rolling fags and contemplating a broken tractor part. Â Int…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:52AM[SHARE]Friday, August 8, 2025
A FAMILY BUSINESS AT SIXES AND 007s This little theatre has given us some strong meat lately " themes of Nazi crimes, Jewishness, Russianness " but this time it hosts the Barn theatre's spar…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:26AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 6, 2025
A TRUE-CRIME RICARDIAN ROMCOM Here's a wonderfully 1950s retro play, not just in style and simplicity but in the willowy vintage-Harrods outfits of Rachel Pickup as the willowy Marta…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:26PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 30, 2025
LA COMMEDIA E FINITA! (oh no it's not)    The title is the first line, delivered by a furious Leoncavallo in 1893 Milan. It is a time of wild flowering in opera , old Verd…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:28AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 26, 2025
A WILD YOUNG PRINCE OF DENMARK IN THE DUSK     Easy to forget, after decades of prestige-casting and its torrent of ringing, over-quoted lines, how much HAMLET is a play …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:41AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 24, 2025
MUM-POLE OF THE BAILEY….?    I paused overnight before writing this, to see if a bout of two-star irritation might fade.  After all, lawyer-playwright  Suzie Miller g…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:28PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 23, 2025
FAITH LOST, AND WAKENED Â Â Â This is a moody, cloudy production shot through with streaks of mad rage, deliberately unsettling. Â Autolycus, spirit of Time the thief and occasio…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:06AM[SHARE]Friday, July 18, 2025
WESTMINSTER , A WILL, A WICKED WRANGLE Â Â Â Â This excellent play is the first by Shaan Sahota, a doctor by profession:Â but goodness, she (and the NT Studio, and director Dan…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 17, 2025
MEDIEVAL MODERNITY There's a nice irony in opening, this week, a tale of an aristocratically  bred heiress, seized first by evangelical Christian faith and then by a charismatic man,  …
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