“The Animals And Children Took To The Streets” at The Lyric Hammersmith
Whenever I hear the word “cosmopolitan” I think of Europe in the 1920s: German Expressionism,...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 10th Mar 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Whenever I hear the word “cosmopolitan” I think of Europe in the 1920s: German Expressionism,...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 9th Mar 2019 | France, London, Review, United Kingdom
Well, you have to hand it to French playwright Florian Zeller — he’s certainly cracked the problem...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 9th Mar 2019 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America
The English author Samuel Butler once quipped grimly that the death of a father was “a new lease...
Read MorePosted by Michael Appler | 8th Mar 2019 | Musical Theatre, New York, Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America
Lincoln Center has reissued its mandate for Lerner and Loewe’s 1956 classic, casting off whatever creative anxiety earlier dogged the production and staging a decidedly lighter, exuberant My Fair Lady.
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 8th Mar 2019 | Japan, Review, Theatre and Disability, United Kingdom
“I believe people with almost any kind of physique can do contemporary dance. Yet though...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 8th Mar 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom
There is no doubt that Peter Shaffer’s Equus is a modern classic. But does that justify reviving...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 7th Mar 2019 | Review, Spain
Tickets for French writer-director Pascal Rambert’s Hermanas (Bárbara And Irene) (English title...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 7th Mar 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
Titles matter: they send out messages. So, in the current #MeToo climate, isn’t it a bit...
Read MorePosted by Vivienne Glance | 6th Mar 2019 | Australia, Festivals, Review, Transcultural Collaborations
Review: Kwongkan, Perth Festival 2019 “Kwongkan” means sand in the language of the Nyoongar...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 6th Mar 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom
James Saunders is one of British theatre’s forgotten playwrights. Although he wrote some 70 plays...
Read MorePosted by Abigail Weil | 6th Mar 2019 | New York, Puppetry, Review, Theatre for Young Audiences, Transcultural Collaborations, United States of America
On a recent Sunday afternoon, at the New Victory Theater, timelines collided. The New Vic, founded...
Read MorePosted by Leigh Boucher | 5th Mar 2019 | Australia, Review, Sydney, Theatre and Politics
How To Rule The World is Indigenous playwright Nakkiah Lui’s critical riposte to the intellectual...
Read MorePosted by Michael Appler | 5th Mar 2019 | Musical Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America
Fiasco Theater has dared to tempt fate yet again with Merrily, staging a buoyant, light-on-its-feet reimagining that’s stripped the musical of its original clutter, aiming, instead, for the story’s thematic heart.
Read MorePosted by Clement Lee | 4th Mar 2019 | Canada, Festivals, Hong Kong, Review
Theatre as a memory vessel is nothing new to contemporary theatre. There is a reason why types of...
Read MorePosted by Wendy Arons | 4th Mar 2019 | Pittsburgh, Review, The Pittsburgh Tatler, United States of America
While there are several guns conjured to the imagination in EM Lewis’s one-person play The Gun...
Read MorePosted by Wendy Arons | 4th Mar 2019 | Pittsburgh, Review, The Pittsburgh Tatler, United States of America
Unless you are somehow immune to the infectious pleasures of a good drag show, I’m willing to...
Read MorePosted by Diwan Singh Bajeli | 4th Mar 2019 | Festivals, India, Review
Staged at the 20th Bharat Rang Mahotsav, Buxi Jagabandhu showcased the heroic resistance of Odia...
Read MorePosted by Armando Rotondi | 4th Mar 2019 | News, Review, Transcultural Collaborations
It was a great success the first Barcelona Meeting on Independent and Non-Institutionalised...
Read MorePosted by Mayra Ortiz Rodríguez | 3rd Mar 2019 | Argentina, Playwriting, Review
Traditional literary analysis has focused on a tripartite division of genres as if they were...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 3rd Mar 2019 | Review, Spain
One of the highlights of Lluís Pasqual’s years at the helm of Madrid’s Centro Dramático Nacional...
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