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“Three Sisters” at The Almeida Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 14th May 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom

About a year ago, director Rebecca Frecknall electrified this venue with an award-winning revival...

“Jude” at The Hampstead Theatre: Adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s 1895 Tragic Novel, “Jude The Obscure”

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 13th May 2019 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom

Edward Hall bids farewell to this venue, where he has been artistic director since 2010, with this...

En-route To Constructing Translation For The Stage: The UCL Theatre Translation Futures Forum

Posted by Sui He | 11th May 2019 | London, News, Taiwan, Translation, United Kingdom

In March 2019, translators, directors, performers and researchers gathered at University College...

“Top Girls” at The National Theatre

Posted by Duška Radosavljević | 10th May 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom

Written only as recently as 1981, Caryl Churchill’s modern classic Top Girls has already been on...

“All My Sons” at The Old Vic: Tragedy at The Heart of the American Dream

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 9th May 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom, United States of America

Superstar Sally Field has come to town. With two academy awards and countless other accolades, the...

Helen Edmundson’s “Small Island” At The National Theatre: Tribute To The Windrush Generation

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 9th May 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom

Novelist Andrea Levy’s 2004 masterpiece, Small Island, is a tribute to the Windrush Generation,...

Henrik Ibsen’s “Rosmersholm” At The Duke Of York’s Theatre: Vibrant Classic

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 8th May 2019 | London, Review, Translation, United Kingdom

Rosmersholm is considered a difficult and rarely performed play. But, judging from this...

“The Half God Of Rainfall” at The Kiln Theatre: A Galaxy-Hopping Mythological Mash-up

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 8th May 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom

If British theatre often seems to lack ambition, the same cannot be said of The Half God Of...

Zoe Cooper’s “Out Of Water” At The Orange Tree Theatre: Feelgood Gender Issues

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 7th May 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom

Most new writing for the British stage is timid in subject matter, predictable in plotting and...

Cultural Snacks In A Chinese Karaoke Bar: “Lucky Ping-Pong Dragon Karaoke”

Posted by Ian Zarate and Haylin Cai | 27th Apr 2019 | Festivals, London, Review, United Kingdom

Turbo bubble-tea brewing, participative economic discussions, and live, squirting orgasms were...

“A German Life” at The Bridge Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 25th Apr 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom

Maggie Smith is not only a national treasure but every casting director’s go-to “old bat” (her...

“Top Girls” at The National Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 23rd Apr 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom

Caryl Churchill is a phenomenal artist. Not only has she written a huge body of work, but each...

Rethinking The Purpose Of British Arts Institutions

Posted by Lyn Gardner | 21st Apr 2019 | Essay, London, Participatory Theatre, United Kingdom

You can read this article in French here. This series of articles, commissioned together...

“Pah-La” at The Royal Court

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 20th Apr 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

Theatre can give a voice to the voiceless — but at what cost? Abhishek Majumdar, who debuted at...

Ross Willis’s”Wolfie” at The Theatre 503: Nurture vs. Nature Debate

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 11th Apr 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom

Every fairy tale is a cauldron of emotion. These are tales that steam with resentments flare-up in...

“The Phlebotomist” at The Hampstead Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 9th Apr 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom

Contemporary British theatre loves time travel — and not just to the past. It also enjoys...

Kieran Hurley’s “Mouthpiece” At The Soho Theatre: Feast Of Meta-Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 7th Apr 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom

There are plenty of plays in which a character finds their own voice. But what about stories which...

“Grief Is The Thing With Feathers” at The Barbican Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 6th Apr 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom

Wow, what a collection of talent: this show stars Peaky Blinder Cillian Murphy, and Enda Walsh’s...

“The Shape Of The Pain” at Wilton’s Music Hall

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 3rd Apr 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom

Pain. A world of pain. Pain. For anyone suffering from a rare condition called Complex Regional...

Any One Thing’s “Recollection”: Breaking The Threshold Of Immersive Theatre

Posted by Aida Rocci | 31st Mar 2019 | Immersive Theatre, London, Participatory Theatre, Review, United Kingdom

Recollection takes up to six participants in a thrilling journey about the importance of memories and personal data. Going beyond the sensational premise, the budding Any One Thing ambitiously explores the ideas of ‘personalized’ and ‘immersive’ theatre in depth, taking the genre to the boundaries of what is real.