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MOLIERE WOULD HAVE LOVED IT

   Much to celebrate here, and not only the return of that maverick angel Ma...

HOBO , GENIUS, AMERICA’S SOUL

“Everybody might be just one big soul, so everywhere you look in the day or night, that’s where I’m gonna be” . That’s Woody Guthrie, in his last years, knowing his body was succumbing to the cruel speechless paralysis of Huntingdon’s Chorea. That link to universal human soulhood was hard-earned, through decades of hard work, wanderin...

HOLD THE FRONT PAGE, OR HANG ON A MINUTE..

Everyone (especially journalists) loves a drama about newspapers. Hot-tempered rackety bantering , stories urgently chased, rivalries and righteousness, secrets and lies. In Tracey Scott Wilson’s 2003 play, now updated (though without including social-media in its plot) we are in a hot and troubled America...

ABSURDITIES OF PASSION WIND UP A TORRID SUMMER

This is by Turgenev, revolutionary in his time (banned for a while), now adapted with mischief and appreciation by the late Brian Friel and directed – with even more mischief but a redeeming humanity – by Lyndsey Turner. Like the later Chekhov masterpieces it’s there to remind us that a country estate...

THEY’RE BACK. SO AM I.

Well, you know by now how it is with me and Mischief Theatre. All the way from 2013’s first west end outing to the new Thespians (https://theatrecat.com/2026/05/14/thespians-mercury-colch...