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Complicite/Simon McBurney West Coast Premiere of “The Encounter” at The Wallis (Beverly Hills)

Posted by Lauren Deutsch | 15th Apr 2017 | Transmedia, United Kingdom

If your vacations haven’t been focused on interaction with indigenous shamans (as have many of...

“Don Juan in Soho” Featuring David Tennant

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 15th Apr 2017 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom

Updating the classics is not without its pitfalls. How can a modern audience, which has a...

How “Cutting Up” Shakespeare’s Plays Can Be An Act Of Creative Destruction

Posted by Bruce Smith | 11th Apr 2017 | Adaptation, United Kingdom

The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) has been the site of many creative adaptations of...

David Henry Hwang’s “Chinglish” Premieres in London

Posted by Mary Mazzilli | 8th Apr 2017 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom

There is something strangely genuine and comically truthful about the European première of David...

“My Country; A Work in Progress” The First Play Explicitly About Brexit

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 4th Apr 2017 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

Oh dear. The first play explicitly about Brexit is being staged by the National Theatre in a...

Brexit Play Attempts to Break the Bubble

Posted by Mark O'Thomas | 4th Apr 2017 | Documentary Theatre, London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

Much has been written over recent months about the apparent bubble in which we are all now living,...

Tamsin Greig’s Gender-Bending Performance in “Twelfth Night”

Posted by Elizabeth Schafer | 3rd Apr 2017 | Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom

In 1602, a law student called John Manningham saw Twelfth Night, or What You Will, and wrote what...

Hamlet-Inspired “Love in Idleness” at the Menier Chocolate Factory

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 3rd Apr 2017 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom

The rehabilitation of playwright Terence Rattigan has surpassed even the stage when not only are...

Political Origins of the Edinburgh International Festival

Posted by Rebecca Monks | 2nd Apr 2017 | Festivals, Scotland, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

In 1947 Edinburgh was still in a post-war haze. The city was craving colour, culture, and above...

Mat Fraser, Disabled Actor And Advocate, Will Portray Richard III In New Play

Posted by Koos Couvée | 2nd Apr 2017 | Theatre and Disability, United Kingdom

An actor born with defects resulting from the drug Thalidomide has been cast as Shakespeare’s...

Romeo, Juliet, and You: CoLab Theatre is Back Challenging the Bard with Interactivity

Posted by Aida Rocci | 2nd Apr 2017 | Dramaturgy, Immersive Theatre, London, Review, United Kingdom

“But he which bore my letter, Friar John, Was stay’d by accident, and yesternight...

Interview: Mikhail Baryshnikov On The Premiere Of Brodsky/Baryshnikov Project In London

Posted by Irene Kukota | 1st Apr 2017 | Interview, Russia, United Kingdom

“Fire, Death, Anxiety, Love, Fear…It’s All There.” Brodsky / Baryshnikov is a one-man show based...

Opera: Sex, Violence, and Politics – An Immersive Exhibition

Posted by Adam Sherwin | 27th Mar 2017 | Immersive Theatre, London, Review, Theatre and Opera, United Kingdom

Scenes depicting graphic sex and violence have a role in modern opera, the departing director of...

There Is No Friendship In Politics: “Limehouse” Appeals To The Politically Prone

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 27th Mar 2017 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

Politics is a serious business, but it’s also a fun spectator sport. Think of the duels in Prime...

So You Want to Go to the Edinburgh Festival?

Posted by Aida Rocci | 22nd Mar 2017 | Festivals, Scotland

If you are a performer, comedian, musician, or artist of any kind, presenting your work at the Edinburgh festival can be quite an enterprise that might only pay off in terms of experience and, if lucky, reputation.

“The Pitchfork Disney” at Shoreditch Town Hall

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 19th Mar 2017 | London, Review, United Kingdom

Playwright Philip Ridley has one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary theatre. His...

Bilingual Conversations at the Cervantes Theatre: An Interview With Paula Paz

Posted by Aida Rocci | 16th Mar 2017 | Interview, London, Spain, Transcultural Collaborations, Translation, United Kingdom

Interview with Paula Paz, Associate Director of the Cervantes Theatre, the new theatre with hopes of becoming a house of Spanish and Latin American theatre and culture in London.