“ANNA” at The National Theatre
Stasiland is a fascinating mental space. As a historical location, the former East Germany, or...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 5th Jun 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Stasiland is a fascinating mental space. As a historical location, the former East Germany, or...
Read MorePosted by Amy Toledano | 3rd Jun 2019 | London, Musical Theatre, Review, United Kingdom
In Amour at Charing Cross Theatre, Post-World War II Paris is putting itself back together. People...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 1st Jun 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
The rewriting of Ancient Greek myth offers a way of creating contemporary stories that have a deep...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 1st Jun 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
A hit of the Edinburgh Fringe 2017, Selina Thompson’s one-woman show salt is on at the Royal Court...
Read MorePosted by Maeve Campbell | 30th May 2019 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, London, Review, United Kingdom
Drag auteur, Peaches Christ, has made their name as an adaptor of cult movies, directing the great...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 28th May 2019 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
Royal Court’s Artistic Director Vicky Featherstone’s commitment to staging a diversity of...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 27th May 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Most of the facts about the Atlantic slave trade are well known; what is less understood is how...
Read MorePosted by Mert Dilek | 26th May 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Something is tantalizingly amiss at the National’s Dorfman Theatre. There is a headset attached to...
Read MorePosted by Mert Dilek | 24th May 2019 | Adaptation, London, Review, Russian Theatre Abroad, United Kingdom
“I’m bored, bored, bored.” The refrain, occasionally spoken but frequently felt, is at the heart...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted by Sui He | 11th May 2019 | London, News, Taiwan, Translation, United Kingdom
In March 2019, translators, directors, performers and researchers gathered at University College...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted 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,...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 8th May 2019 | London, Review, Translation, United Kingdom
Rosmersholm is considered a difficult and rarely performed play. But, judging from this...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted 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...
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