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Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame” at the Old Vic: Starry Cast Tackle Modernist Classic

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 17th Feb 2020 | London, Review, United Kingdom

No playwright has had greater influence on successive generations of theatre-makers than Samuel...

Stef Smith’s “Nora: A Doll’s House” at the Young Vic

Posted by Mert Dilek | 16th Feb 2020 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom

A woman walks into her home. Then does another. And another. Stef Smith’s Nora: A Doll’s House is...

Tom Stoppard’s “Leopoldstadt” at Wyndham’s Theatre

Posted by Mert Dilek | 15th Feb 2020 | London, Review, United Kingdom

Towards the end of Leopoldstadt, a young writer named Leonard is handed a sheet of paper with his...

“Poet in Da Corner” at The Royal Court

Posted by Duška Radosavljević | 13th Feb 2020 | London, Review, Transmedia, United Kingdom

The last time I took my non-theatre-going husband to the Royal Court was in the autumn of 2013,...

“Daddies of Sugar” Pokes Fun at Shenanigans of Modern-Day Ruling Elites

Posted by Tonderai Chiyindiko | 13th Feb 2020 | Africa, Review, South Sudan

Daddies of Sugar with its catchy and somewhat risqué title is Jefferson Tshabalala better known in...

Movie or Musical? “West Side Story” at The Broadway Theatre

Posted by Andrew Agress | 12th Feb 2020 | New York, Review, Theatre and Film, United States of America

It seems that the classic Broadway musical West Side Story may be getting not one but two film...

Al Blyth’s “The Haystack” at the Hampstead Theatre: Not Entirely Believable Surveillance Thriller

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 12th Feb 2020 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

Total surveillance: this is the idea that every moment of our waking existence can be spied upon...

“The Sugar Syndrome” at The Orange Tree Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 11th Feb 2020 | London, Review, United Kingdom

Your sweet tooth can get you into trouble. Lots of trouble. In this revival of Lucy Prebble’s...

“Bran Nue Dae” Review: Exceptional Singing And Music Obscure The Political Heart Of This Classic Australian Musical

Posted by Bronwyn Carlson | 10th Feb 2020 | Australia, Review, Sydney, Theatre and Politics

Review: Bran Nue Dae, by Jimmy Chi and Kuckles and directed by Andrew Ross for Sydney Festival....

Space Opera in New York City

Posted by Marcina Zaccaria | 10th Feb 2020 | New York, Review, Theatre and Opera, United States of America

With a smattering of words, carefully grouped to alert the scholar that collectivism and...

“Little Shop of Horrors” at the Pittsburgh Public Theater in Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Posted by Wendy Arons | 9th Feb 2020 | Pittsburgh, Review, The Pittsburgh Tatler, United States of America

There’s no way Artistic Director Marya Sea Kaminski could possibly have predicted that the...

“Hoot” – Featuring the Inimitable and Versatile Matthew Ribnick is a Rib-Cracking Comedic Masterpiece!

Posted by Tonderai Chiyindiko | 8th Feb 2020 | Acting, Africa, Review, South Africa

Matthew Ribnick is not your average actor and his performance in the highly acclaimed Hoot is...

Druid Shakespeare: “Richard III” – The Voracious Void

Posted by Antigoni Gaitana | 7th Feb 2020 | Design, New York, Review, United States of America

A series of questions filled my mind. What was the motivation behind the choice of sets and costumes? In my opinion, the only thing that really worked well set wise was the ever-present void on stage, the grave downstage in which all bodies were thrown in – a constant reminder of death and of Richard’s deeds.