“Young Marx” at Bridge Theatre
Given the rather uneven record of the National Theatre at the moment, there’s already a certain...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 9th Nov 2017 | London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Given the rather uneven record of the National Theatre at the moment, there’s already a certain...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 9th Nov 2017 | Adaptation, Immersive Theatre, London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Some site-specific theatre feels like a really good fit. You could say, in this case, that it...
Read MorePosted by Letizia Fusini | 5th Nov 2017 | China, Chinese Theatre Abroad, London, Review, Theatre and Opera, United Kingdom
Founded in 1955 by the renowned Chinese theatre star Mei Lanfang, the China National Peking Opera...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 1st Nov 2017 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
In Bertolt Brecht’s Life of Galileo (1943), there’s a typically didactic exchange: Andrea, the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 31st Oct 2017 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
Prolific writer Mike Bartlett is the most impressive penman to have emerged in British theatre in...
Read MorePosted by Iain Hollingshead | 30th Oct 2017 | London, Musical Theatre, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Last month, 1,601 people were left disappointed by the news that Hamilton, the American musical...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 29th Oct 2017 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, London, Review, United Kingdom
A new baby is like an alien invasion: it blows your mind and it colonizes your world. For any...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 25th Oct 2017 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
Over the last ten years, a new form has evolved on the British stage, rather simply referred to as...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 25th Oct 2017 | London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
What does it mean to feel contemporary? Feel. Contemporary. Really feel. According to...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 24th Oct 2017 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
How do you bring a 10th-century Old English epic closer to a 21st-century audience? And, more...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 24th Oct 2017 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
Playwright Simon Stephens and director Marianne Elliott are hyped as a winning partnership. Their...
Read MorePosted by The Theatre Times | 23rd Oct 2017 | London, News, United Kingdom
“You’re told you can’t do this. I’ve tried to go: yes we can.” The new artistic director of...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 17th Oct 2017 | Dramaturgy, London, Review, United Kingdom
Some plays would now be completely forgotten if not for a scandal that makes them memorable. NC...
Read MorePosted by Adam Sherwin | 16th Oct 2017 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Sir David Hare will return to the National Theatre with the latest addition to a wave of plays...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 8th Oct 2017 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
Jane Eyre is one of those mythical stories that make their home in your imagination. Where they...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 2nd Oct 2017 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
The black cab is such an iconic symbol of London that it’s easy to forget that inside every taxi...
Read MorePosted by Adam Sherwin | 18th Sep 2017 | Directing, Essay, London
A titan of the stage, whose influence over the development of post-War British theatre was...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 17th Sep 2017 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
Anyone who likes playing “Spot the weirdo” will find themselves instantly at home in Howard...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 11th Sep 2017 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Some legendary plays are a disappointment when you see them again — they don’t live up to the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 5th Sep 2017 | India, London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Gandhi has a lot to answer for. I don’t mean the saintly campaigner for Indian independence, who...
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