Uncle Actor
Andrew Scott’s Vanya—a solo show in which he plays all the roles in Anton Chekhov’s classic...
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Adaptation
Eline Arbo’s The Years At The Harold Pinter Theatre: Nobel Prize Winner Annie Ernaux’s Book Gets A Problematic West-End Staging
Marketing is the new real. For many years, in theatre as elsewhere in society, the most important...
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Roy Williams’s The Lonely Londoners at the Kiln Theatre: Superb Stage Adaptation Of The Classic Sam Selvon Windrush Novel
Is resilience the most powerful character trait? When you think about the suffering of the...
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Robert Icke’s Oedipus at Wyndham’s Theatre: Lots Of Stunning Acting Compensates For Some Questionable Writing
The myth of Oedipus is so central to our psychic world that I was really surprised how many people...
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Meet ONG Keng Sen, the Artistic Director of Singapore’s T:>Works and Keynote Speaker at the 2024 Singapore Literature Festival in NYC
The 6th biennial Singapore Literature Festival is held in New York City on October 19 and 20,...
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“Malvolio’s Fantasy.” A Glitzy Retelling Of Twelfth Night
A cast of young actors from diverse parts of the globe brought Malvolio’s Fantasy to the Space...
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Oscar Barney Finn and Paulo Brunetti Interview
I had the opportunity to interview frequent collaborators, writer-director Oscar Barney Finn and...
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“Macbeth (An Undoing)”: A New Take That Aims To Reimagine Lady Macbeth’s Path – But Ultimately Leaves You Guessing
What if significant portions of William Shakespeare’s text for Macbeth had been lost, leading to a...
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Sydney Theatre Company’s “Dracula”: A Virtuosic Performance, Sexy Staging, And A Queer Rewriting
The figure of Dracula has always lived somewhere between the written word, screen projections and...
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“That Perfect Dark”: Samuel Beckett’s “Company” in Dunedin
The southern city of Ōtepoti/Dunedin has played an important role in the history of Samuel Beckett...
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Sergio Blanco’s “When You Pass Over My Tomb” at the Arcola Theatre: Exquisite Meta-Theatrical Exploration Of Death and Necrophilia
Nowadays it seems that it’s the fringe and Off-West End venues that are keeping the spirit of...
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Belvoir’s “The Master and Margarita:” Astonishingly Ambitious, Physically Demanding, and a Resounding Success
Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov’s cult novel The Master and Margarita has inspired many artists....
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Hyderabad This Weekend: Three plays with Different Storylines to Think and Entertain
An ensemble of around 18 actors takes the stage this weekend in Hyderabad to present three plays...
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In Conversation with Sartre and Plato: Locus29’s “Hell Dialogues”
The Sheen Center is, I find myself thinking, the perfect place to host Locus29’s Hell Dialogues....
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“My Sister Jill:” Patricia Cornelius’ New Play is a Blistering Post-War Social and Cultural Commentary
Emerging from one of Australia’s most enduring and significant theatrical partnerships between...
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Lolita Chakrabarti’s Hamnet at the Garrick Theatre: Pedestrian Adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s Bestseller About Shakespeare’s Wife and Son
Why are stage adaptations of bestselling novels so disappointing? Okay, I appreciate the...
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The Life of Three “Best Friends:” Anat Gov’s Feminism at the 14th Street Y
Anat Gov’s Best Friends lives in a world of dichotomy. The title is both entirely true and...
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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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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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“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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