Nina Raine’s “Stories” at The National Theatre
In 2017, playwright Nina Raine’s Consent, an excellent National Theatre play about lawyers and...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 6th Nov 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
In 2017, playwright Nina Raine’s Consent, an excellent National Theatre play about lawyers and...
Read MorePosted by Juno Schwarz | 5th Nov 2018 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
First published in 1943 in New York, the story of the little prince and his travels hasn’t lost...
Read MorePosted by Huw Griffiths | 5th Nov 2018 | Adaptation, Australia, Review, Sydney
The fitness of Henrik Ibsen’s plays to address the political questions of our modern lives renews...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 4th Nov 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Two countries; two histories. Being black in the US; being black in the UK. Compare and contrast....
Read MorePosted by Haylin Cai | 3rd Nov 2018 | China, Chinese Theatre Abroad, London, Review, Transmedia, United Kingdom
Exploring the common phenomenon of livestream communication in modern society, the performance...
Read MorePosted by Abigail Weil | 2nd Nov 2018 | New York, Review, United States of America
What forces in today’s society will retain their power three hundred years into the future?...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 2nd Nov 2018 | Interview, Musical Theatre, New York, Review, Theatre and Disability, Transcultural Collaborations, United States of America
Jonathan Kalb: So Jonathan, did you like the show? Jonathan Kalb: Can we come back to that,...
Read MorePosted by Miranda Laurence | 2nd Nov 2018 | Dance Umbrella 2018, Festivals, London, Review, Theatre and Dance, United Kingdom
Concert, By Colin Dunne, Dance Umbrella Festival 2018, London, Barbican The important thing about...
Read MorePosted by Michael Appler | 1st Nov 2018 | New York, Review, United States of America
Joe Papp would be proud had he lived to see what his Mobile Theater had become: a brimming, joyous sanctuary of inclusivity and plurality, of Shakespearean excellence armed with subtle and striking mindfulness, no longer a struggling caravan of the American theater’s earliest pioneers, but a rag-tag group of brilliant players all the same.
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 1st Nov 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
On the morning when this stylish revival of Martin Crimp’s 1988 play opens, I wake up to the news...
Read MorePosted by Robyn Grant-Moran | 31st Oct 2018 | Canada, Review
After attending a rehearsal and speaking with playwright Jani Lauzon and director Marjorie...
Read MorePosted by Katrina Holden-Buckley | 30th Oct 2018 | Boston, Review, Theatre and Opera, United States of America
Gioachino Rossini’s most famous opera, The Barber Of Seville, opened Friday night at the Cutler...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 30th Oct 2018 | New York, Review, United States of America
Nothing you do this week will likely be more worthwhile than spending 40-odd minutes with Dianne...
Read MorePosted by Lorena Meeser | 30th Oct 2018 | Directing, Mexico, Musical Theatre, Review
Kiss Of The Spider Woman is splendidly directed by Miguel Septién, an excellent director who...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 28th Oct 2018 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
On Friday, March 13, 2015, the Grand Hall at Battersea Arts Centre in South London went up in...
Read MorePosted by Harry Hoke | 28th Oct 2018 | Boston, Review, Russia, Russian Theatre Abroad, Theatre and Gender, Theatre and Politics
Authority. Surveillance. Enforcement. Confession. These are the tools of the state brought to life...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 28th Oct 2018 | London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Playwright David Edgar is lucky. To begin with, he appreciates his luck in having been born in...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 27th Oct 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Part of the Phoenix Season at the newly re-opened Grand Hall at Battersea Arts Centre is also BAC...
Read MorePosted by Abigail Weil | 27th Oct 2018 | Boston, Review, Russia, Russian Theatre Abroad, Theatre and Gender
Cheek by Jowl’s production of Shakespeare’s Measure For Measure, performed in Russian by actors...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 27th Oct 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
It’s all in the title, isn’t it? Martin McDonagh’s surreal new play comes with a warning that not...
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