A Wry Takedown Of Pepys’s Misogyny: “17c” By Big Dance Theater, Dance Umbrella Festival, London
As a passionate Londoner, I cannot help but be intrigued: a group of Americans is here to present...
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...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 15th Oct 2018 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, London, Playwriting, Review, Scotland, United Kingdom
English-born and Scottish-based playwright Jo Clifford has been an astonishingly energetic and...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 13th Oct 2018 | London, Musical Theatre, Review, United Kingdom
If music be the food of fun, play on! In fact, give me excess of it, surfeit even. If this is how...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 13th Oct 2018 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Whatever you might think about Brexit, the dreaded B word, the current climate certainly seems to...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 9th Oct 2018 | London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Disability, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
It’s all about the casting. The paradox of playwright Sarah Kane’s short career is that while her...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 6th Oct 2018 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
Since Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway was first published in 1925 its reputation as a brilliant...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 3rd Oct 2018 | London, Musical Theatre, Review, United Kingdom
There was once a time when grime music was very angry and very threatening, but that seems a long...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 2nd Oct 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Holy shit! After being closed for two long years, the old and battered Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn...
Read MorePosted by Aida Rocci | 29th Sep 2018 | Dramaturgy, Immersive Theatre, London, Review, Theatre and Art, United Kingdom
Almost eighty years later the release of Fantasia, Sounds and Sorcery celebrates the iconic movie in an immersive production with ground-breaking technology.
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 28th Sep 2018 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Is appearing in the West End a rite of passage for Game Of Thrones stars? In the past couple of...
Read MorePosted by Sarah Carson | 26th Sep 2018 | London, Musical Theatre, Review, United Kingdom
Heathers The Musical Theatre Royal Haymarket, London ★★★ On its release in 1989, Heathers was an...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 25th Sep 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
A couple of nights ago, I went, for the first time, to the Queen’s Theatre in Hornchurch, which is...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 20th Sep 2018 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
Theatre 503 is a small underfunded fringe venue, but it’s one of the most important nurseries of...
Read MorePosted by Adam Sherwin | 16th Sep 2018 | Acting, London, News, United Kingdom
LAMDA will offer actors special classes in voicing audiobooks to meet the surge in demand Budding...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 6th Sep 2018 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
With Prime Minister Theresa May visiting Nigeria last week, trying to stump up some post-Brexit...
Read MorePosted by Christopher Harris | 29th Aug 2018 | Dramaturgy, Essay, London, Netherlands, Theatre and Opera, United Kingdom
The dramaturgy of love’s intertwining with violence has been a recurring theme in the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 21st Aug 2018 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
The Dark Web has an intriguing sound about it. Like something out of JRR Tolkien or JK Rowling, it...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 18th Aug 2018 | London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
Nostalgia used to be a disease, but now it’s a lifestyle choice. Look around you: British reality...
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