Maria Irene Fornes’s “Mud” at Teatro Circulo
Maria Irene Fornes’s 1983 play Mud, widely considered a contemporary classic, is rarely produced...
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Kuro Tanino’s “The Dark Inn” Illustrates Our Inability To Let Go Of Our Desires
The darkness of the human condition, where people are enslaved by their own desires in a kind of...
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Nassim Soleimanpour and the Manila Envelope Theatre
Seven years ago, a new play challenged the role of the actor, the playwright, the audience, and the capacity of one individual to travel. The play was White Rabbit Red Rabbit, written by the mysterious Nassim Soleimanpour, an Iranian writer who encouraged the audience to email him with impressions about his play.
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Thomas Ostermeier’s “Richard III” at BAM
Richard Crookback is Shakespeare’s dazzling carnival monster, a showoff criminal who charms us...
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“A Feminine Edition”: Women’s Voices Prevail At 2017 Cairo Contemporary Theatre Festival
Ten out of 20 plays at this year’s Cairo International Festival for Contemporary and Experimental...
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“A Day By The Sea” at Southwark Playhouse
Some plays would now be completely forgotten if not for a scandal that makes them memorable. NC...
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Fresh Takes On Fresh Meat, Part 1
Jonas McLean catches the first weekend of Ottawa’s Fresh Meat Fest, a self-described “playground”...
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Corbyn-Era Labour Tackled By David Hare In New National Theatre Play
Sir David Hare will return to the National Theatre with the latest addition to a wave of plays...
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“Jane Eyre” at the National Theatre
Jane Eyre is one of those mythical stories that make their home in your imagination. Where they...
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“The Knowledge” at Charing Cross Theatre
The black cab is such an iconic symbol of London that it’s easy to forget that inside every taxi...
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“Beckett In The City”
From Brecht’s plan to project films of Marxist revolutions behind Didi and Gogo in Waiting For...
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David Storey’s “The March On Russia” at Orange Tree Theatre
The family celebration drama is a genre that had its heyday in the 1960s when social mobility made...
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Future Shock At The Philadelphia Fringe Festival
The Philadelphia Fringe Festival, now in its twenty-first year, has been gentrified. What began in...
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The Easy Trigger Of “Guilty Landscapes III”
Given that the publicity synopsis to Dries Verhoeven’s video installation pretty much tells all,...
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“The Blinding Light” at Jermyn Street Theatre
Anyone who likes playing “Spot the weirdo” will find themselves instantly at home in Howard...
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“The Hungry Ghosts” A Comedy About Addiction
Core Artists Ensemble brings Tessa Borbridge’s The Hungry Ghosts to The Barrow Group Theatre this...
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“Road” at The Royal Court
Some legendary plays are a disappointment when you see them again — they don’t live up to the...
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“Lions And Tigers” at Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Gandhi has a lot to answer for. I don’t mean the saintly campaigner for Indian independence, who...
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Joe Orton’s “The Loot” Revived at Park Theatre
Fifty years ago this month, playwright Joe Orton was murdered by his lover Kenneth Halliwell. His...
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Rob Drummond’s New Solo Show About Democracy – “The Majority” at The National Theatre
Another plague is sweeping British theatre: audience participation. Instead of just sitting back...
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