“One Jewish Boy” at The Old Red Lion Theatre
There’s a nasty smell in the air. Something rotten. Horrible. I can’t quite put my finger on it....
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Martha Plimpton On “Sweat”: “In Rehearsals, I Would Nauseate Myself”
“I’m a white heterosexual woman with a fair amount of good fortune and–as the saying...
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In The Post-Truth Era, Documentary Theatre Searches For Common Ground
With the onslaught of “alternative facts” or “fake news,” it can feel as though the ground has...
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“An Enemy Of The People”: The Not-So-Silent Majority Speaks Out Again
In one bound, the rising English director Jonathan Munby found himself in the spotlight of...
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“Cuckoo” at The Soho Theatre
Iona is not having a good day. She’s a super talkative Dublin teen who desperately wants to be...
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Jo Clifford’s “Losing Venice” at The Orange Tree Theatre
English-born and Scottish-based playwright Jo Clifford has been an astonishingly energetic and...
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“Free EU Roaming”: Adapting Catalan Referendum Into A Play
Presented at the Smock Alley Theatre for the last edition of the Dublin Fringe Festival, Free EU...
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Dawn King’s “Foxfinder” At The Ambassadors Theatre
Is appearing in the West End a rite of passage for Game Of Thrones stars? In the past couple of...
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Temperament And Innovation: The Performing Arts In A Devolved Wales
If Wales is known throughout the world it is most likely for its singing. The Welsh have often...
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“Allelujah!” at The Bridge Theatre
The NHS is us. For decades our national identity has been bandaged together with the idea, and...
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“Alkaline” at The Park Theatre
Britain is rightly proud of its record on multiculturalism, but whenever cross-cultural couples...
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“Nightfall” at The Bridge Theatre
Playwright Barney Norris is as prolific as he is talented. Barely out of his twenties, he has...
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“Absolute Hell” at The National Theatre
Rodney Ackland must be the most well-known forgotten man in postwar British theatre. His legend...
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Natasha Marshall’s “Half Breed” at The Soho Theatre
In the 2000s one of the many glories of new writing for British stages was the linguistically...
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“The Way Of The World” at The Donmar Warehouse
Let us have a quick moan about repertoire. You know, the types of plays that most of our theatres...
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“Gundog” at The Royal Court
First the goats, and now the sheep—has this venue become an urban farm? Rural life, which was once...
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Immersive “Julius Caesar” at The Bridge Theatre
“Two things only the people anxiously desire—bread and circuses,” said the Roman poet Juvenal. He...
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Men, The Internet, and Politics: “The Believers Are But Brothers” at The Bush Theatre
Do boys never leave the playground? Just when I was reasonably sure that the crisis of masculinity...
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“Imaginationship” at The Finborough Theatre Explores a Divided Nation
It’s the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Finborough Arms pub, so Neil McPherson, artistic...
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“The Birthday Party” – Revival at Harold Pinter Theatre
Is modernism dead and buried? Anyone considering the long haul of Harold Pinter’s The Birthday...
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