Caretaker: An Unnecessary Art Installation?
We are living, I have frequently been told, through weird times. Maybe. But do weird times...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 12th Jun 2020 | News, Review, Theatre and Art, United Kingdom
We are living, I have frequently been told, through weird times. Maybe. But do weird times...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 7th Jun 2020 | Applied Theatre, Essay, United Kingdom
In his wide-ranging, and widely read, survey of postwar British theatre, called State of the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 3rd Jun 2020 | Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
The National Theatre’s triumphant march through its archive of NT Live recordings continues this...
Read MorePosted by Rajashree Das | 1st Jun 2020 | Covid-19, News, Theatre and Disability, Transmedia, United Kingdom
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought significant shifts in routines all over the world. With more...
Read MorePosted by Niloofar Mohtadi | 31st May 2020 | Directing, Interview, United Kingdom
Jonathan Pitches is a Professor of Theater and Performance at the University of Leeds. He is the...
Read MorePosted by Kara McKechnie | 30th May 2020 | Covid-19, Dramaturgs’ Network: Invisible Diaries, Dramaturgy, Essay, United Kingdom
This article is part of the Dramaturgs’ Network’s Invisible Diaries series. Slung Low is a company...
Read MorePosted by Kara McKechnie | 30th May 2020 | Covid-19, Dramaturgs’ Network: Invisible Diaries, Dramaturgy, Essay, United Kingdom
This article is part of the Dramaturgs’ Network’s Invisible Diaries series. I am part German and...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 29th May 2020 | London, Review, Transmedia, United Kingdom
During the lockdown, the best online theatre, more or less, are shows that are specially created...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 24th May 2020 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Over the past couple of months, theatre reviewing has become film reviewing, and venues all over...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 21st May 2020 | London, Review, Theatre and Art, United Kingdom
So far, it could be said that the National Theatre is having a good lockdown. Every week, this...
Read MorePosted by Katalin Trencsényi | 19th May 2020 | Dramaturgs’ Network: Invisible Diaries, Dramaturgy, Essay, United Kingdom
This article is part of the Dramaturgs’ Network’s Invisible Diaries series, and has...
Read MorePosted by Laura Jayne Wright | 13th May 2020 | Review, Transmedia, United Kingdom
While theatres remain closed, the way we watch Shakespeare is changing. When I picture the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 4th May 2020 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
London’s Hampstead Theatre has recently been very successful in bringing some of its best shows to...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 3rd May 2020 | Review, Theatre and Film, United Kingdom
She’s an ordinary young woman, and she really doesn’t know what to think. After all, things are...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 1st May 2020 | Review, Theatre and Age, Theatre and Film, United Kingdom
Reviewing theatre now means reviewing the film. Knowing that Emma Rice’s Old Vic 2018 production...
Read MorePosted by Matthew Lockitt | 26th Apr 2020 | Musical Theatre, News, United Kingdom
British musical theatre maestro Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber has launched a YouTube channel, The Shows...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 25th Apr 2020 | Documentary Theatre, Review, Theatre and Film, United Kingdom
Artemisia Gentileschi definitely had a hard time. Although she was an outstanding Renaissance...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 14th Apr 2020 | Theatre and Art, Transmedia, United Kingdom
Armchair theatre-lovers rejoice. During the lockdown, the National Theatre is streaming a...
Read MorePosted by Harriet Devine | 13th Apr 2020 | News, South Africa, United Kingdom
Donald Howarth, who has died in London aged 88, was one of the celebrated generation of...
Read MorePosted by Paul Yachnin | 12th Apr 2020 | Dramaturgy, Essay, United Kingdom
Shakespeare lived his life in plague-time. He was born in April 1564, a few months before...
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