“Jane Clegg” at Finborough Theatre
Edwardian dramatist St John Ervine was once, along with Arthur Wing Pinero, Henry Arthur Jones,...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 11th Jul 2020 | Review, United Kingdom
Edwardian dramatist St John Ervine was once, along with Arthur Wing Pinero, Henry Arthur Jones,...
Read MorePosted by Dennis Altman | 10th Jul 2020 | Musical Theatre, Review, Theatre and Art, United States of America
When Disney released a film version of the musical Hamilton on July 3, it was 11 years since...
Read MorePosted by Mila Bulimbasic Botteri | 7th Jul 2020 | Croatia, Documentary Theatre, Review
What have millennial women fought for? “Did we fight for that? Why we fought for nothing,” cries...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 28th Jun 2020 | Review, Theatre and Film, United Kingdom
Lockdown occasionally spawns some real delights. Like the surprise appearance of a strange...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 26th Jun 2020 | Review, Theatre and Disability, United Kingdom
Why do we love the royals so much? In his Introduction to the play text, published to coincide...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 23rd Jun 2020 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Yesterday, I took a break from my sunny local park and turned a room in my house into the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 14th Jun 2020 | London, Review, Theatre and Art, Theatre and Disability, United Kingdom
If any musical can attempt to live up to this title in these troubled times, it must be this show...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 12th Jun 2020 | News, Review, Theatre and Art, United Kingdom
We are living, I have frequently been told, through weird times. Maybe. But do weird times...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 3rd Jun 2020 | Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
The National Theatre’s triumphant march through its archive of NT Live recordings continues this...
Read MorePosted by Mila Bulimbasic Botteri | 1st Jun 2020 | Bosnia, Documentary Theatre, Review
“Who was human before the war, remained so”, says one of the actors in the beginning of the play...
Read MorePosted by Ariadne Mikou | 29th May 2020 | Italy, Review, Theatre and Dance
Seven bodies, moving in silence, form a slowly transitioning human landscape. The change in their...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 29th May 2020 | London, Review, Transmedia, United Kingdom
During the lockdown, the best online theatre, more or less, are shows that are specially created...
Read MorePosted by Witold Loska | 24th May 2020 | Poland, Review, Theatre and Politics
What is the role today of one of the pivotal narratives of Western culture, William Shakespeare’s...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 24th May 2020 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Over the past couple of months, theatre reviewing has become film reviewing, and venues all over...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 21st May 2020 | London, Review, Theatre and Art, United Kingdom
So far, it could be said that the National Theatre is having a good lockdown. Every week, this...
Read MorePosted by Ariadne Mikou | 15th May 2020 | Festivals, Review, Theatre and Film
During an art and culture online ubiquity that was expanded in the course of the global pandemic,...
Read MorePosted by Laura Jayne Wright | 13th May 2020 | Review, Transmedia, United Kingdom
While theatres remain closed, the way we watch Shakespeare is changing. When I picture the...
Read MorePosted by Andrew Agress | 11th May 2020 | New York, Review, United States of America
In this time of isolation, wouldn’t it be nice to take a virtual visit to the park? Fear...
Read MorePosted by Konrad Zielinski | 8th May 2020 | Poland, Polish Theatre Abroad, Review
L. P. Hartley’s much-recycled observation that ‘the past is a foreign country’ seems an oddly...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 4th May 2020 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
London’s Hampstead Theatre has recently been very successful in bringing some of its best shows to...
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