“Company” Review, Gielgud Theatre: “You Can’t Imagine It Being Staged Any Other Way Again”
This is a game-changer. “Radical update” is a phrase that is all too often bandied about in...
Read MorePosted by Alice Jones | 6th Nov 2018 | London, Musical Theatre, Review, United Kingdom
This is a game-changer. “Radical update” is a phrase that is all too often bandied about in...
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 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 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 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 James Hogan | 29th Oct 2018 | Essay, LGBTQ+ Theatre, London, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Oberon founder James Hogan writes about his experiences as a gay man in 1960s London, and why he...
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 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 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...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 24th Oct 2018 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
There are not that many plays about sport, but, whether you gamble on results or not, you can bet...
Read MorePosted by Lisa Marie Bowler | 23rd Oct 2018 | Dance Umbrella 2018, Festivals, London, Review, South Africa, Theatre and Dance, United Kingdom
The platform stage erected in Shoreditch Town Hall’s grand Victorian assembly room is receiving a...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 22nd Oct 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
We do love our spy stories, don’t we? The idea of betrayal, both political and personal, seems to...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 21st Oct 2018 | Boston, LGBTQ+ Theatre, London, Review, United Kingdom, United States of America
If we call a long journey home an Odyssey, what do you call a journey which is doing everything it...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 18th Oct 2018 | Acting, London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
Blackout. Dark, the color of childhood fear. Black, the color of despair. Black. No light visible;...
Read MorePosted by Lisa Marie Bowler | 17th Oct 2018 | Dance Umbrella 2018, Festivals, London, New York, Review, United Kingdom, United States of America
As a passionate Londoner, I cannot help but be intrigued: a group of Americans is here to present...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 17th Oct 2018 | London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
Director Madani Younis, who since 2011 has transformed the Bush Theatre in West London into one of...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 16th Oct 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Ah. Fear of flying. Yes, this is instantly recognizable: that sense that being propelled through...
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