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Tim Price’s “Nye” at the National Theatre: A Fun Life of the Creator of the National Health Service

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 14th Mar 2024 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

For me, this is the most emotional show on the London stage. Why’s that? Because it’s about Nye...

“This Is Our Home” – Online Theatre Three Years Later

Posted by Teodora Medeleanu | 7th Mar 2024 | Review, Transmedia, Ukraine

The performance follows four women in different parts of Ukraine, at various distances from the...

Lucy Kirkwood’s “The Human Body” at the Donmar Warehouse: Twin Tales of Illicit Love and the Founding of the National Health Service

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 6th Mar 2024 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

It’s election year so the gaze of British theatre turns towards the National Health Service. But,...

Marius von Mayenburg’s Nachtland at the Young Vic: Satire on Art and Anti-Semitism Is Both Absurdist and Unsettling

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 4th Mar 2024 | Germany, London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

We’ve all heard of the metaphorical madwoman in the attic, but what about the symbolic unexploded...

In Poor Voice

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 3rd Mar 2024 | Review, Transmedia, United States of America

Call me clueless, but I wasn’t aware, before seeing Mona Pirnot’s new play I Love You So Much I...

Ascanio Celestini’s “Rumba. The Donkey and the Ox”

Posted by Margaret Rose | 1st Mar 2024 | Italy, Review, Theatre and Religion

Writer, actor, and director Ascanio Celestini is one of Italy’s most celebrated theatrical...

Theater, Addiction, and Responsibility

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 1st Mar 2024 | Musical Theatre, Review, United States of America

I almost didn’t go see Days of Wine and Roses: The Musical because my memories of the highly...

Peter Sellars’ “Beatrice di Tenda”: Freedom, Defiance, and Tyranny

Posted by Maria Delgado | 27th Feb 2024 | France, Review, Spain, Theatre and Opera

Vincenzo Bellini’s penultimate opera, Beatrice di Tenda, rests between two more frequently...

Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People at the Duke of York’s Theatre: Thomas Ostermeier’s West End Debut Has Starry Cast And Punk Aesthetics

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 26th Feb 2024 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

It’s a sign of the times that German director Thomas Ostermeier’s West End debut is his production...

Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray” at the Theatre Royal Haymarket

Posted by Mert Dilek | 19th Feb 2024 | London, Review, United Kingdom

A solo performance in theatre may often trap us inside a single dramatic character, taking us deep...

“Golden Calabash:” A Peep at Modern Politics

Posted by Kaggwa Andrew Mayiga | 16th Feb 2024 | Review, Theatre and Politics, Uganda

John Ssegawa’s Golden Calabash, Ekimala Ebita Embuga opened at the National Theatre in Kampala running during the Christmas season from 23rd to 26th December 2023. The theatre spent 2023 trying to find solutions to its...

Alberto Conejero’s “En Mitad de Tanto Fuego” (In the Midst of So Much Fire): Addressing the Gaps from the Margins

Posted by Maria Delgado | 15th Feb 2024 | Review, Spain

Alberto Conejero’s trajectory as a playwright has been rooted in telling the stories that have...

Sergio Blanco’s “When You Pass Over My Tomb” at the Arcola Theatre: Exquisite Meta-Theatrical Exploration Of Death and Necrophilia

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 14th Feb 2024 | Adaptation, London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom, Uruguay

Nowadays it seems that it’s the fringe and Off-West End venues that are keeping the spirit of...

Young Choreographers at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma

Posted by Ariadne Mikou | 14th Feb 2024 | Italy, Review, Theatre and Dance, Theatre and Opera

For the corps de ballet of an Opera House, the place par excellence for the preservation of the...

What Can I Say?

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 12th Feb 2024 | Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America

Rachel Bonds’s Jonah—directed by Danya Taymor at the Roundabout’s Laura Pels Theatre— is one of...

Jez Butterworth’s “The Hills of California” at the Harold Pinter Theatre: Warm Evocation of 1950s Pop Culture Is Fun, But Lacks Dramatic Resolution

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 11th Feb 2024 | London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom

In West End theatre, the cliché that nothing succeeds like success keeps the wheels of commerce...

Rage and Fury: Calixto Bieito Stages Aribert Reimann’s “Lear” at the Teatro Real Madrid

Posted by Maria Delgado | 8th Feb 2024 | Review, Spain

Shakespeare’s King Lear has defied composers who refused invitations to render this bleakest...

“Misericordia” (Mercy) at Madrid’s Teatro Valle Inclán: Families, (Auto)fiction and Exile

Posted by Maria Delgado | 6th Feb 2024 | Review, Spain

There is a lot to admire in Denise Despeyroux’s newest play produced by the Centro Dramático...

“The Fantastical Fellowship:” Niche Comedy at Under St. Mark’s

Posted by Rhiannon Ling | 5th Feb 2024 | Immersive Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America, Worldwide

For lovers of the fantastical and the geeky, the scene at Under St. Mark’s is one of nostalgia and...

Sam Holcroft’s “A Mirror” at the Trafalgar Theatre

Posted by Mert Dilek | 4th Feb 2024 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

“This play is a lie,” boldly declares the poster of Sam Holcroft’s new play A Mirror, now playing...

Review

Tim Price’s “Nye” at the National Theatre: A Fun Life of the Creator of the National Health Service

“This Is Our Home” – Online Theatre Three Years Later

Lucy Kirkwood’s “The Human Body” at the Donmar Warehouse: Twin Tales of Illicit Love and the Founding of the National Health Service

Marius von Mayenburg’s Nachtland at the Young Vic: Satire on Art and Anti-Semitism Is Both Absurdist and Unsettling

In Poor Voice

Ascanio Celestini’s “Rumba. The Donkey and the Ox”

Theater, Addiction, and Responsibility

Peter Sellars’ “Beatrice di Tenda”: Freedom, Defiance, and Tyranny

Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People at the Duke of York’s Theatre: Thomas Ostermeier’s West End Debut Has Starry Cast And Punk Aesthetics

Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray” at the Theatre Royal Haymarket

“Golden Calabash:” A Peep at Modern Politics

Alberto Conejero’s “En Mitad de Tanto Fuego” (In the Midst of So Much Fire): Addressing the Gaps from the Margins

Sergio Blanco’s “When You Pass Over My Tomb” at the Arcola Theatre: Exquisite Meta-Theatrical Exploration Of Death and Necrophilia

Young Choreographers at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma

What Can I Say?

Jez Butterworth’s “The Hills of California” at the Harold Pinter Theatre: Warm Evocation of 1950s Pop Culture Is Fun, But Lacks Dramatic Resolution

Rage and Fury: Calixto Bieito Stages Aribert Reimann’s “Lear” at the Teatro Real Madrid

“Misericordia” (Mercy) at Madrid’s Teatro Valle Inclán: Families, (Auto)fiction and Exile

“The Fantastical Fellowship:” Niche Comedy at Under St. Mark’s

Sam Holcroft’s “A Mirror” at the Trafalgar Theatre

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