Rapping While White, Surviving While Black: “Hype Man” At Boston’s Company One
The legacy of rap in America is rich with rhymes and rhymers that challenge institutionalized...
Read MorePosted by James Montaño | 10th Mar 2018 | Boston, Review, United States of America
The legacy of rap in America is rich with rhymes and rhymers that challenge institutionalized...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 9th Mar 2018 | Adaptation, London, Musical Theatre, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
The idea here is both exquisitely complex and wonderfully simple. On the one hand, Chris Goode’s...
Read MorePosted by Christine Deitner | 8th Mar 2018 | Adaptation, Los Angeles, Review
Los Angeles can be a tricky theatre city to pin down. Though we do have a theatre district it is...
Read MorePosted by Colin Hambrook | 8th Mar 2018 | Review, Theatre and Disability, United Kingdom
Conceived and directed by Rachel Bagshaw and written by Chris Thorpe, The Shape of the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 7th Mar 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Whatever the weather, this week is Frozen. On Broadway, the Disney musical of that name begins...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 7th Mar 2018 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
New Yorkers have split into factions on Martin McDonagh since his plays first showed up here two...
Read MorePosted by Jane Baldwin | 3rd Mar 2018 | Adaptation, Review, United States of America
Rude Mechs, an Austin-based ensemble in their twenty-first year of collective creation, recently...
Read MorePosted by Kasia Lech | 3rd Mar 2018 | Czech Republic, Poland, Puppetry, Review, Theatre for Young Audiences
“A long, long time ago…or maybe not so long ago…in fact, quite recently, there was a...
Read MorePosted by David O'Donnell | 2nd Mar 2018 | Festivals, New Zealand, Review
Wellington, a portside city famed for its turbulent seas and hurricane-force winds, turned on a...
Read MorePosted by Michael Appler | 1st Mar 2018 | New York, Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America
Where others this season have failed to mount lovable productions of classic Broadway theater, Bartlett Sher’s lush, elegant revival of My Fair Lady is triumphantly successful.
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Meth | 1st Mar 2018 | Review, Theatre and Disability, United Kingdom
Ramps on the Moon’s adaptation of Pete Townsend’s 1969 concept album ‘Tommy’, toured the UK...
Read MorePosted by Zolima Citymag | 28th Feb 2018 | Hong Kong, Review, Theatre and Politics
Children. They have the power to change everything. The power to change the future. At least...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 27th Feb 2018 | New York, Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America
Yesterday I knew nothing about the playwright Gracie Gardner or The Hearth, a feminist theater...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 26th Feb 2018 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
First the goats, and now the sheep—has this venue become an urban farm? Rural life, which was once...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 25th Feb 2018 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
This is Carey Mulligan week. She appears, improbably enough, as a hard-nosed cop in David Hare’s...
Read MorePosted by Tania Barrenechea | 25th Feb 2018 | Musical Theatre, Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America
My Heart Felt That Sha La La The proscenium stage of the Playhouse has been converted into...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 25th Feb 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Monologues are increasingly popular in contemporary British theatre. In an age of austerity, they...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 24th Feb 2018 | Immersive Theatre, London, Review
“Two things only the people anxiously desire—bread and circuses,” said the Roman poet Juvenal. He...
Read MorePosted by Jack Wernick | 24th Feb 2018 | Immersive Theatre, New York, Review, Stage Combat, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
One of New York City’s most dynamic young theater companies makes a bold addition to its...
Read MorePosted by Anna Gordeeva | 24th Feb 2018 | Review, Russia, Russian Theatre - Featured, Theatre and Dance
The glass pavilions that appeared on Teatralnaya Square after the reconstruction of the Bolshoi...
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