Review Archives - The Theatre Times

“Sessions,” Soho Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 6th Dec 2021 | Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom

After lockdown, the stage monologue saved British theatre. At venue after venue, cash-strapped...

“Rare Earth Mettle,” Royal Court

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 3rd Dec 2021 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

Why are we indifferent to anti-Semitism? In the past few weeks the Royal Court, a proud citadel of...

Nonverbal “King Lear” Review – Conflict in Visuals, Sounds, and Imaginations

Posted by Dawna Fung | 2nd Dec 2021 | Adaptation, China, Hong Kong, Review

What has been left after all well-written dialogues, which were once deemed to be the spirit of...

Women in Science in Theater – Transforma Theatre Paves a New Crossroads with Stunning Insight

Posted by Fareeda Pyracha Ahmed | 1st Dec 2021 | Review, Theatre and Science, United States of America

For anyone wondering if live theater offers nothing but escapism from our mini-plague—or worse—on...

“Cruel Games”—A Soviet Play in Post-Soviet Realities

Posted by Emiliia Dementsova | 29th Nov 2021 | Adaptation, Review, Russia

Cruel Games at the Mossovet Theater is not just the name of a forgotten play by Alexei Arbuzov,...

“By Heart”: Can One Poem Save the World?

Posted by Julia Sirmons | 27th Nov 2021 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

“I have an aversion to ‘immersive theater,’” Tiago Rodrigues says at the beginning of By Heart. He...

“The Blue Piano/The Blue Guitar”: Review

Posted by Beverley Brommert | 23rd Nov 2021 | Covid-19, Immersive Theatre, Review, South Africa

THE BLUE PIANO/THE BLUE GUITAR. Director: Fred Abrahamse. Cast: Matthew Baldwin, Zoë McLaughlin...

“Balkan Bordello” at Teatri Oda

Posted by Borisav Matić | 21st Nov 2021 | Adaptation, Kosovo, Review, Serbia, Transcultural Collaborations

Balkan Bordello: An Orgiastic Musical in the Aftermath of War Imagine yourself at a hedonistic...

Re-Imagined Play Stirs Memories of “White Mischief” in Colonial Africa

Posted by Alexander Nderitu | 19th Nov 2021 | Adaptation, Denmark, Kenya, Review, Transcultural Collaborations

‘As an immigrant playwright in Denmark adapting August Strindberg’s world classic ‘at source’ (Miss Julie premiered in Copenhagen 1888 as penned by iconic Swedish playwright August Strindberg while he was living here.) has been a ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ open window. The last time I ever wrote, acted and produced a play was exactly 20 years ago in Nairobi, Kenya!’

A New Staging of Enesco’s “OEdipe” at Paris Opera by Wajdi Mouawad

Posted by Marisa C. Hayes | 18th Nov 2021 | France, Review, Theatre and Opera, Transcultural Collaborations

It’s been nearly 100 years since George Enesco’s Œdipe (Oedipus) was created to much success on...

Midwest Melancholy: “Girl From the North Country” at the Belasco Theatre

Posted by Andrew Agress | 17th Nov 2021 | Musical Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America

The second show after The Times They Are a-Changin’ to use the music of the great midwestern musician, Girl From the North Country proves the greater of the two. It opts for whichever songs convey the tone of the show over which are most well-known. Yes, it’s a musical of sadness and heartbreak, but it digs deeps into the human spirit to provide a powerfully cathartic experience.