Saturday, August 3, 2019
  ROCK 'N ROLL N' ROMEO    Deep under the trees, beyond Jimmy's meerkat and camel enclosures lies a 1960's beach: shelter, deckchairs and lounging teens, Mods and …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 2, 2019
GUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI GOES MAD FOR AMERICAN MONODRAMA A pairing of two American music dramas promised plenty of angsty feminist fun for a Friday night at Grimeborn; and I admit, in…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:39PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 1, 2019
Violetta is a reduction of Verdi's La traviata, using only three characters: the doomed courtesan Violetta, her idealistic yet immature lover Alfredo, and " surprise! Alfredo's mother.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]HEROIC ENDURANCE       In the background a lecture in the old Home Service style, decorous and passionless, finishes relating the story of Sir Ernest Shackleton's …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 23, 2019
COWBOYS WITHOUT INDIANS Â Â Â Â I suppose it's perverse to start at the end, but of all the aspects of Jeremy Sams' handsome production of the Rodgers & Hammerstein crowd-ple…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:34AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 17, 2019
FALLEN ANGELS ENDURING THE STORM      You can feel the heat in Rae Smith's design, Mexican sun on the rock overhead, and the corrugated iron roofs of the rundown hot…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:30AM[SHARE]Friday, July 12, 2019
  IT'S BACK, YOUNGER THAN EVER…   We love a starry debut, especially on opening night in a huge theatre:  a 21-year-old not yet through drama school making a stonking…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:31AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 10, 2019
David Hare has made as much sense of Ibsen's sprawling masterpiece Peer Gynt as seems possible.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Friday, July 5, 2019
DEVOTION , DISGUISE,  DECADENCE   What a strange and stirring play this is!  Set in convent, court and condemned-cell, it is spiked with moral ambiguities and fuelled …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 4, 2019
BLAIR TO BREXIT " A FAMILY TALE     Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany, are the Harry Potter team. They know how not to bore.  But they've been here before …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:29AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 3, 2019
FARCE AS LIFE, LIFE AS FARCE, FRAYN AGAIN TRIUMPHANS     It felt like a pilgrimage, homage to pay.  37 years ago Michael Frayn's greatest of comedies, a wicked love-so…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:01AM[SHARE]The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ The Musical is the result of Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary badgering the late Sue Townsend to be allowed to do it, and with poppy tunes and a high…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 30, 2019
COMEDY SHADING TO MELANCHOLY: WHAT'S TO COME IS STILL UNSURE…   First of all let's say that Andrew Scott is a marvel, a 21st century Ur-Coward hero, who manages to do i…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:06PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 29, 2019
This 25th anniversary revival of David Greig's play Europe is, for the most part, a long chin scratch about home, belonging and division.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]A SHILLING SHOCKER IS A JOY FOREVER   To come clean: one reason I dashed to catch this fresh back from holiday is not only that the Finborough is always interesting,  but…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:40AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 27, 2019
GUEST CRITIC BEN DOWELL SHIVERS " ADMIRINGLY " AT A TROUBLED TALE Â In this hypersensitive age of MeToo accusations, anxieties about online pornography and even deeper-seated disquiet abo…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:58AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 13, 2019
RANCID LILIES, GORGEOUS WORDS Â Â Â All the little Jermyn needs to complete this reimagination of Wildean epigrammatic decadence is to scent the auditorium overwhelmingly with lilie…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:02AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 11, 2019
FLYING,  FUNNY, FABULOUS   This is a dream of a Dream. One expected fun from the combination of Nicholas Hytner, a roiling mass of promenaders in the pit and …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:38PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 2, 2019
A NOTE ON A TREAT, MOUSELESS BUT MELLOW  The film based on Scott Fitzgerald's story of a life lived backwards, born old and ending in babyhood,  was pretty awful.  So I …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:44AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 30, 2019
When I left I thought I was disappointed in The Starry Messenger, but this morning I can't help thinking about Matthew Broderick's character Mark, and his wife, and the sadness of all our mi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 29, 2019
BULLYING, BOMBAST,  BETRAYAL    The rediscovery of Githa Sowerby in the 1990s is very satisfying.   At its premiere in 1913 critics saw the quality of this one but …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:46AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 23, 2019
Musically Dido is okay, especially Eyra Norman's Belinda and the spirited chorales. But it could have been a piece of theatre magic, and wasn't.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 22, 2019
After the querulous, inward-looking tedium of her feminist polemic The Writer, Ella Hickson returns to interesting form with this curiosity, Anna.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:53AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 18, 2019
Five mice for White Pearl at the Royal Court Theatre because it's different and clever and useful, and horribly good fun.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 16, 2019
SULTRY, SINFUL, SHOCKING, SHINING      Savagely observed absurdity, blinding flashes of insight, profound yearning, sudden poetry singing clear notes from the cru…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:31PM[SHARE]AN INTIMATE EPIC IN A FADING  EMPIRE  Hard to overstate what an absolute treat this is , and on how many levels. It is a terrific yarn, both romantic and tough, about history …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:11PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Hopes for The Last Temptation of Boris Johnson couldn't be higher: it is again built around truth " a 2016 dinner party where Boris and Marina Johnson entertained the Goves and Yevgeny Lebed…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 10, 2019
      There's something special about fin-de-siecle anger in any century: this is from 1697, years later than Wycherley and the mellower Sheridan, and bes…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 7, 2019
SMALL IS  BEAUTIFUL, SHORT CAN BE SHARP     There is something stimulating about ultra-short plays: five to twenty minutes but directed and performed with all the c…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:07AM[SHARE]Monday, May 6, 2019
LOVE  AND LOSS AND 'THAT'S THE DEAL'     Jack is a middle-aged Oxford English don of the '50's , a bachelor and apologist for Christianity. Graceful, witty books and le…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:15PM[SHARE]Friday, May 3, 2019
ECHOES OF ANTIQUITY , FRESHNESS OF YOUTH      It's a storming performance. Young Isabella Nefar as Judith erupts upon us:  adolescent, exuberant, afire…
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