“The Tragedy of Macbeth” at the Almeida Theatre
What does it take to stretch Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy to a runtime of over three hours? Not,...
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Review: An Inconvenient Black History of British Musical Theatre (1900-1950)
The Boy Friend. Oliver!. Cats. Blood Brothers. The Phantom of the Opera. Les Miserables. Billy...
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Shahid Iqbal Khan’s “10 Nights” at the Bush Theatre: Moving Insight into Ritual and Belief
Since 9/11 there has been considerable interest in staging stories about British Muslims, and the...
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Towards Fairer Contractual Practices for Freelance Dramaturgs: A Conversation Facilitated by Catriona Craig
On 21 June 2021, the Dramaturgs Network (a volunteer arts organization by and for dramaturgs...
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Hilary Mantel and Ben Miles’s The Mirror and the Light at the Gielgud Theatre: Engaging, but Rather Low Key
This is a labor of love. Hilary Mantel has adapted The Mirror and the Light, the third novel of...
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Bess Wohl’s “Camp Siegfried” at the Old Vic: Powerfully Chilling and Resonant
Are we too obsessed with Nazism? Apart from countless television programs which revisit that grim...
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Ken Reynolds: 1938–2021. A Personal and Professional Remembrance of East European Theatre’s Finest Photographer
“Stop now! See that? You see that cloud? That beautiful shape?” That is what Ken Reynolds would...
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Rockets and Blue Lights, National Theatre
For more than three decades, playwright Winsome Pinnock has been at the forefront of new writing,...
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“RashDash: Look at Me, Don’t Look at Me,” Paines Plough Roundabout
Imagine you suffered terrible injustices that in your day and age were just the norm, that your...
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“Every dollar is a soldier/With money you’re a dragon”: A Virtual Promenade between Two Migrant Fates
Running Aug 24-29 at the 2021 Edinburgh Fringe, Every dollar is a soldier/With money you’re a...
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The Song Project, Royal Court
As its name suggests, The Song Project is more a collaborative experiment than a conventional...
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Stars from West End Stage Read “Broadway Baby,” Celebrating London Theatre Kids Week
Lionizing the vitalness of theatre and creativity, a star-studded virtual reading of a new...
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A Gathering of Absence: The Multimedia Performance of “Abandoned Shores / Negative Photographs”
Abandoned Shores / Negative Photographs (Turkish: Terk Edilmiş Kıyılar // Negatif Fotoğraflar) by...
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“Oleanna,” Arts Theatre
Before seeing this play, I decided to eat a steak. I thought I needed some extra strength. And it...
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Lucy McCormick’s “Life: LIVE!” at Battersea Arts Centre
I cannot imagine a better way to end one’s Covid-19 lockdown than to head to a Lucy McCormick show...
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“Hamlet”: A Play That Speaks to Pandemics Past and Present
I went to the theatre for the first time in 15 months to see the Theatre Royal Windsor’s new...
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“Walden” at The Harold Pinter Theatre
There’s something definitely inspiring about producer Sonia Friedman’s decision to reopen one of...
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About “Outside In”
With many theatres now reopening again, it is surely a good moment to celebrate all those venues...
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About “Sweatbox” and “Blis-ta”
Although some theatres are tentatively reopening, the creative vigor of other companies is...
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“Harm” at The Bush Theatre
After months (and months) of watching theatre on screens large, medium, small and tiny, I...
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