Tanika Gupta’s “The Empress” at the Lyric Hammersmith: Epic RSC History Play Tackles Race and Empire
Anniversaries are great moments for reassessment. Ten years ago, the Royal Shakespeare Company...
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“Leaning Church”: The Voices of a Vanished City
This is the story of the Big Bang. Not the explosion that gave birth to the universe. But an...
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“Cake: The Marie Antoinette Playlist” Review: An Absolute Treat
Cake: The Marie Antoinette Playlist may be presented as a concert, but Drew McOnie’s...
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“Kinder” Review: Tackling Big Issues One Little Footstep At A Time
In a short hour, Smoking Apple’s touring production, Kinder, transports us across...
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The Tony Blair Rock Opera Features Bagpipes, Lady Macbeth and a Wrestling Match With Gordon Brown
If you’re looking for subtlety and sophistication, Harry Hill and Steve Brown’s Tony! The Tony...
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“Fear Eats The Soul”: Love In The Grip of Hate
These two people are separated by history, geography, language, maths, and other school subjects...
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Little Thumb on the Prairie
The headline for Swing State, a new play by Rebecca Gilman, is its pitch-perfect production...
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James Reaney’s “The Donnelly Trilogy” and the Making of the Canadian Nation
When you head out of London on Highway 4 North, it is almost a straight line through to Lucan,...
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“Gulliver’s Travels”: a Lesson in Satire for Children.
“The life of man to represent, And turn it all to ridicule, Wit did a puppet-show...
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A Journey of Discovery and Identity Formation: “The Dictionary of Lost Words” Makes Its Wonderful Stage Debut
The Dictionary of Lost Words follows Esme as she navigates the patriarchal world of Victorian...
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On Stage And In A Wheelchair
Zhao Hongcheng has made hundreds of videos about the challenges of life as a disabled person. Now...
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“That Face” at Orange Tree Theatre
Playwright Polly Stenham had a meteoric rise with this play, her award-winning 2007 debut which...
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“Amahemhem”: Walking Alongside the Ghosts of Our Past
At the University of Pretoria, South Africa’s Student Gallery, I was met with the open space of...
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Sydney Theatre Company’s “The Importance of Being Earnest”: Fresh, Funny and Completely Joyous
It is easy to forget that when Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest was first written and...
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Edinburgh Festivals, May Luck Be With You
Edinburgh in August is a kind of Mecca for theatergoers around the world. It is due to its...
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Sweeney Todd: Not a Demon, But a Barber of Fleet Street
Up to the present moment a debate has been going on – whether the demon-barber of Fleet Street had...
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Lauren Gunderson’s Anthropology at the Hampstead Theatre: Interesting Digital Thriller Falters On The Edge of Darkness
Androids no longer dream of electric sheep — instead they inhabit our dreams. Whether it is novels...
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“What the Constitution Means to Me” Is As Timely As Ever
In 2019, I sat in the balcony of the Helen Hayes Theatre. My social media circles had been abuzz...
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“German Autumn” At The Uppsala Stadsteater
In the Lilla scenen of Uppsala Stadsteater (City Theatre), a haunting echo of the past emerged,...
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Anupama Chandrasekhar’s “The Father And The Assassin” At The National Theatre: Vastly Compelling And Darkly Comic History Play About Indian Independence
Nobodies who kill somebodies: let’s make a list. Okay, there’s Lee Harvey Oswald (JFK), James Earl...
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