“Alkaline” at The Park Theatre
Britain is rightly proud of its record on multiculturalism, but whenever cross-cultural couples...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 19th Jul 2018 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
Britain is rightly proud of its record on multiculturalism, but whenever cross-cultural couples...
Read MorePosted by Irene Kukota | 18th Jul 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
When looking forward to seeing a work of art, a certain play or a performance what is our feeling...
Read MorePosted by Deborah Orr | 16th Jul 2018 | Essay, London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
Bret Yount is choreographing. But there isn’t any dancing. Nor, for the moment, is there...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 13th Jul 2018 | Adaptation, London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
History repeats itself. This much we know. In the 1980s, under a Tory government obsessed with...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 12th Jul 2018 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
We are now pretty familiar with the idea that human reproduction (making babies) has been turned...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 7th Jul 2018 | London, Northern Ireland, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Actor Aidan Turner, who plays the Cornish land-owner Poldark in the hit BBC series of that name,...
Read MorePosted by Alice Jones | 3rd Jul 2018 | Essay, London, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
I went to see Flight Of The Conchords this week. The New Zealand musical comedy duo flaunted their...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 1st Jul 2018 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
It’s the stuff of nightmares. There’s a massive explosion, the sound of smashing glass, falling...
Read MorePosted by Alison Miller | 27th Jun 2018 | Festivals, London, Review, Translation, Ukraine, United Kingdom
Meet The team behind Maklena and become part of the story! Armed secret police were everywhere...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 20th Jun 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Forget about dark alleys, deserted parks and slippery slopes: the most dangerous place in the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 17th Jun 2018 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
Miss Jean Brodie, the larger-than-life Edinburgh schoolteacher that strides through Muriel Spark’s...
Read MorePosted by Adam Bloodworth | 14th Jun 2018 | Adaptation, London, News, United Kingdom
Channing Tatum fans are about to get a whole lot closer to the star’s character Magic Mike, as a...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 13th Jun 2018 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Regular air travel is a hassle. All that queuing, all that security, all those hot halls, and then...
Read MorePosted by Alice Jones | 13th Jun 2018 | Adaptation, Books, Interview, London, United Kingdom
The story of Elizabeth Strout is one of creative faith and persistence. Growing up in Maine, “a...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 12th Jun 2018 | Documentary Theatre, London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
Masculinity, whether toxic or in crisis (but never ever problem-free), is a hardy perennial...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 12th Jun 2018 | India, LGBTQ+ Theatre, London, Review, United Kingdom
In his play, Contempt, queer activist and lawyer Danish Sheikh draws parallels (or contrasts)...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 7th Jun 2018 | London, Review, Theatre and Opera, United Kingdom
Playwright Martin Crimp began his career by writing surreal short plays that hinted at his love of...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 6th Jun 2018 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
Winsome Pinnock has for decades been a central figure in the promotion of BAME drama not just as a...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 2nd Jun 2018 | Acting, London, Northern Ireland, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
Since the Northern Irish playwright’s death in 2015, Brian Friel’s work is rarely sighted in...
Read MorePosted by Jessica Barrett | 28th May 2018 | Interview, London, Musical Theatre, United Kingdom
Giles Terera has won armies of fans and an Olivier award for his performance as Aaron Burr in the...
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