Robert Icke’s Manhunt at the Royal Court Theatre: Terrifyingly Powerful Account Of Toxic Masculinity And Murderous Rage
Are we really in “a new era of male anger, societal discontent and rage”? This is what Royal Court...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 11th Apr 2025 | Documentary Theatre, Dramaturgy, Review, United Kingdom
Are we really in “a new era of male anger, societal discontent and rage”? This is what Royal Court...
Read MorePosted by Cristina Modreanu | 7th Apr 2025 | Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America
Did you knit your scarf? A woman asked me while we were waiting in the line for the restroom. No!...
Read MorePosted by Morgan Skolnik | 2nd Apr 2025 | New York, Review, Theatre and Religion
The room is thick with steam (ok, it’s smoke machine smoke), an accordion and clarinet cycle...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 2nd Apr 2025 | New York, Review, Theatre and Art
Alice Childress has been having a moment the past few years. This extraordinary Black playwright,...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 28th Mar 2025 | Acting, London, Review, United Kingdom
Anxiety. Apprehension. Angst even. Yes, that’s the feeling that rises in me as I come into the...
Read MorePosted by Morgan Skolnik | 27th Mar 2025 | New York, Review, Theatre and Gender
Much like the women it centers on, Roundabout Theatre Company’s Liberation is rebellious and not...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 21st Mar 2025 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
One of the joys of contemporary playwriting is its openness to flexible casting. In Ruby Thomas’s...
Read MorePosted by Emilija Kvočka | 18th Mar 2025 | Directing, Review, Serbia
The theatrical kamikaze that destroys all the mechanisms of the world and itself—that is, theatre...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 10th Mar 2025 | Directing, Italy, Review
In February I caught Antonio Syxty’s staging of Romeo e Giulietta (Romeo and Juliet) at Milan’s...
Read MorePosted by Emily Cordes | 8th Mar 2025 | Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America
But a woman is a changeling, always shifting shape Just when you think you have it figured out...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 5th Mar 2025 | Acting, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
How long would you wait for your soulmate? In “The Demon Lover”, a short story by Elizabeth Bowen,...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 5th Mar 2025 | Italy, Review, Theatre and Science
Rarely have I spent such an intense ninety minutes watching a show, as I did the other evening at...
Read MorePosted by Geraldine Brodie | 3rd Mar 2025 | Germany, Review, Theatre and Gender
Interpretations in cultures and languages external to Spain have been integral to the survival of...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 2nd Mar 2025 | Italy, Review, Theatre and Politics
In his short story, A Report to an Academy, written and published in 1917, Franz Kafka imagines...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 26th Feb 2025 | London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Decolonization, United Kingdom
Diaries are dynamite — they hold secrets, and secrets can tear families apart. In Coral Wylie’s...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 21st Feb 2025 | Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
British people are socially awkward: this explains why we talk about the weather, queue...
Read MorePosted by Morgan Skolnik | 13th Feb 2025 | Musical Theatre, New York, Review
“The singing is nice, but the staging is atrocious.” So remarked the couple sitting behind me at...
Read MorePosted by Morgan Skolnik | 13th Feb 2025 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics
Any frequent theater-goer is likely familiar with the “two block rule”, a piece of etiquette that...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 13th Feb 2025 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
With the United States now governed by swaggering, ignorant bigots spewing xenophobic venom,...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 10th Feb 2025 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
Marketing is the new real. For many years, in theatre as elsewhere in society, the most important...
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