“The Madness Of George III” at Nottingham Playhouse
Why do we love the royals so much? In his Introduction to the play text, published to coincide...
Read More
Tag: National Theatre
Shakespeare on Zoom: How a Theatre Group in Isolation Conjured up a “Tempest”
While theatres remain closed, the way we watch Shakespeare is changing. When I picture the...
Read More
The Story Behind Andrew Ssebaggala’s “Mother Uganda”
Rose Mbowa is an indubitable doyenne in Uganda’s theatre. At Makerere University, an ivy league of...
Read More
Tony Kushner’s “The Visit” at the National Theatre
Now that’s what I call a star turn. Hitting the brakes on an express train, Lesley Manville lands...
Read More
Williams and Dyer’s “Death of England,” National Theatre
Is this an angry island? Although the British national character (if there is such a thing) has...
Read More
“The Welkin” at The National Theatre
History plays should perform a delicate balancing act: they have to tell us something worth...
Read More
Brexit Revisited
“Fetch me ’ammer.” (Edward Bond, Saved) “Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with...
Read More
Stripping and Getting Personal: Catharsis and Medical Performance
This excerpt is taken from the concluding chapter of Performance, Medicine and the Human, a book...
Read More
Shelagh Delaney’s “A Taste of Honey” at the Trafalgar Studios
It is hard to believe that Shelagh Delaney wrote A Taste of Honey when she was only nineteen. This...
Read More
National Theatre: Inua Ellam’s “Three Sisters” Surges with Narrative Energy, Depicting Sisterhood and Colonial Injustice in the Short-Lived Republic of Biafra
In recent years there has been a resurgence of progressive adaptations of Chekhov’s realist...
Read More
Elena Ferrante’s “My Brilliant Friend” at The National Theatre
Adapting novels for the stage is a tricky business. When the novel in question happens to be...
Read More
Annie Baker’s “The Antipodes” at the National Theatre
“Wily, slippery thing.” “Spiky little animal.” “One long nightmare.” These are the phrases that...
Read More![Alice Birch’s “[BLANK]” at the Donmar Warehouse](https://thetheatretimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/image-3-627x376.jpg)
Alice Birch’s “[BLANK]” at the Donmar Warehouse
Believe me when I tell you that there is much more to Alice Birch’s play [BLANK] than meets the...
Read More
Olonkho Show “Dzhyrybyna the Warrior Woman”: Hit the Tambourine
The guest performance of the Olonkho Theatre from Yakutia in St. Petersburg as part of the Theatre...
Read More
Interview with Emily Mann
Emily Mann, long-time Artistic Director of the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey is...
Read More
Poetic Political Theatre: A Review of “The Secret River” by Kate Grenville, Adapted by Andrew Bovell
The Sydney Theatre Company’s 2013 landmark staging of The Secret River to the United Kingdom was...
Read More
Alexander Zeldin’s “Faith, Hope and Charity” at the National Theatre
Alexander Zeldin’s new play arrives at the National Theatre’s Dorfman stage with a title...
Read More
“Hansard” at the National Theatre
Simon Wood’s debut play Hansard, performed at London’s National Theatre Lyttleton...
Read More
“The Secret River” at The National Theatre
The revival of Sydney Theatre Company’s production of The Secret River, performed to great acclaim...
Read More
Probing Tom Stoppard on Russia: Part of The Legacy of Theater Critic and Educator J. Cooper Robb
Cooper Robb, an immensely knowledgeable and prolific American theater critic, who recently passed...
Read MoreLike Us On Facebook
Most Popular Posts
Waking Up in the Spotlight with “The Unusual… 24th March 2026 - From Richard To Richard: MITEM 2026 And a Europe in… 14th April 2026
- David Yazbek: The Master of Adapting Films into… 2nd April 2026
- From Shakespeare To Contemporary Montenegrin… 25th March 2026
- The 2026 International Ibsen Award: A Reflection On… 27th March 2026
