Lesley Storm’s “Black Chiffon” at the Park Theatre: 1940s Psychological Thriller Revived
In British plays of the postwar period, before the liberated 1960s, there is always an unresolved...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 27th Sep 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom
In British plays of the postwar period, before the liberated 1960s, there is always an unresolved...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 22nd Sep 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Identity politics have been around for decades. But it’s always good to revisit the subject....
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 21st Sep 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
The past can often hang like a nightmare on the present. And, in the case of Jewish identity, this...
Read MorePosted by Juno Schwarz | 21st Sep 2019 | London, Review, Transmedia, Ukraine, United Kingdom
What happens when somebody dies at the frontline? Who’s responsible for getting in touch with...
Read MorePosted by Mert Dilek | 21st Sep 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Alexander Zeldin’s new play arrives at the National Theatre’s Dorfman stage with a title...
Read MorePosted by Konrad Zielinski | 20th Sep 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Simon Wood’s debut play Hansard, performed at London’s National Theatre Lyttleton...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 13th Sep 2019 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
Rachel O’Riordan, the new artistic director of this Off-West End venue, has arrived with a program...
Read MorePosted by Konrad Zielinski | 12th Sep 2019 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
The revival of Sydney Theatre Company’s production of The Secret River, performed to great acclaim...
Read MorePosted by Mert Dilek | 8th Sep 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom
The Turbine Theatre opens its doors to London audiences with Drew McOnie’s intimate production of...
Read MorePosted by Mert Dilek | 7th Sep 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom
A defrocked minister who botches up his job as a tour guide; a recently widowed hotel manager who...
Read MorePosted by Mert Dilek | 5th Sep 2019 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
“Crystal clear.” The adjective, repeated like a mantra in Robert Icke’s The Doctor, is charged...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 4th Sep 2019 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
After six years, associate director Robert Icke bids farewell to the Almeida Theatre. In this...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 22nd Aug 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Theatre legends die hard. Playwright Philip King, who passed away in 1979, was once hailed as the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 18th Aug 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is sometimes referred to as a silent illness. Typically, it...
Read MorePosted by Iga Szczodrowska | 11th Aug 2019 | Festivals, London, Poland, Polish Theatre Abroad, Review
The Shakespeare and Poland Festival at the Globe – a two-week exploration of the relationship...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 26th Jul 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Age, United Kingdom
For a while, child abuse was banished from our stages. After all, there is a limit, surely, to how...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 25th Jul 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Few theatres have done as much to promote new young talent as the Royal Court; few theatres have...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 24th Jul 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom
The best kind of two-hander is the play about couples. And the most dramatic way of saying...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 20th Jul 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
In the middle of the current decade, there was a mild vogue for reviving a handful of the great...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 13th Jul 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Last month, Andrzej Lukowski, London Time Out’s theater editor, wrote a well-argued piece in The...
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