Lolita Chakrabarti’s Hamnet at the Garrick Theatre: Pedestrian Adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s Bestseller About Shakespeare’s Wife and Son
Why are stage adaptations of bestselling novels so disappointing? Okay, I appreciate the...
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Hilary Mantel and Ben Miles’s The Mirror and the Light at the Gielgud Theatre: Engaging, but Rather Low Key
This is a labor of love. Hilary Mantel has adapted The Mirror and the Light, the third novel of...
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Performing Shakespeare in the Era of COVID-19
Although tragedy is not usually the preferred companion for hard times, Anglophone pop culture...
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Punchdrunk: New Venture With Pokemon Go Designer Offers Hope For Post-Pandemic Theatre
Pubs and cinemas may be opening in the UK, but the performing arts sector remains languishing...
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Can Dündar’s “#WeAreArrested” at the Arcola Theatre: Committed Political Theatre
Truth is the first casualty of war, and often it is journalists who have to pay the price. Killing...
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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...
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Shax, The Hong Kong Theatre Group That Is Shaking Up Shakespeare
Rosalind Wong didn’t plan to win the Hecklers Award 2016 for Best Director – but she did, walking...
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Shakespeare and Asia
When a weary Egeon laments in the first scene of The Comedy of Errors that in quest of his lost...
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It’s Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” But Not As You Know It
With praise for his Hamlet with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2016 still ringing in his ears —...
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Zoe Cooper’s “Out Of Water” At The Orange Tree Theatre: Feelgood Gender Issues
Most new writing for the British stage is timid in subject matter, predictable in plotting and...
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“Crime And Punishment”: The Crime You’ll Be Glad You Were A Witness To
In a scoop for Tokyo, Theatre Cocoon in Shibuya Ward is set to mark the new year with the world...
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“Imperium” at The Gielgud Theatre
History repeats itself. This much we know. In the 1980s, under a Tory government obsessed with...
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Longread. Katie Mitchell On Chekhov, Stanislavsky, And Characters Of Flesh And Blood
Katie, or rather, Katrina Jane Mitchell, is a leading British theatre director whose creative...
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Martin McDonagh’s “The Lieutenant Of Inishmore” At The Noël Coward Theatre
Actor Aidan Turner, who plays the Cornish land-owner Poldark in the hit BBC series of that name,...
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“Les Miserables”: A Great Theatrical Dream
Fifteen years after the premiere of the Mexican theatrical mise-en-scène of Les Miserables, it...
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A Day In The Life Of The Royal Shakespeare Company’s Head Of Props–Featuring Swords, Fake Blood, And Stage Secrets
“It’s a little bit like Forrest Gump’s box of chocolates: you never know what you’re going to...
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What It’s Like To Be A Female Fight Director
“We will not glorify violence” Visit Ruth Cooper-Brown at the weekend and you might...
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Natalya Vorozhbit’s “Bad Roads” At The Royal Court: Russian And Ukrainian Drama In The UK
This November, the Royal Court Theatre in London stages the global premiere of Ukrainian...
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Sir Peter Hall: A Colossus Who Rebuilt British Theatre From The Ground Up
A titan of the stage, whose influence over the development of post-War British theatre was...
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Sex, Death, and Gender Fluidity in Wilde’s “Salomé” at Royal Shakespeare Company
Salomé: one of the most dangerously seductive female figures ever, often considered the original...
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