“The Harmony Test,” Hampstead Theatre
“Welcome to motherhood, bitch!” By the time a character delivers this reality check, there have...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 27th May 2024 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender
“Welcome to motherhood, bitch!” By the time a character delivers this reality check, there have...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 25th May 2024 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics
It’s often said that contemporary American playwrights are too polite, too afraid of giving...
Read MorePosted by Aisha Malik | 20th Mar 2023 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Gender
Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl and follows her to India. Boy has a transformative...
Read MorePosted by Trevor Boffone | 9th Oct 2019 | Musical Theatre, Review, United States of America
Teenagers dealing with sex, suicide, abusive parents, and queer love might not seem like typical...
Read MorePosted by Sania Lekshmi and Nidhi Panicker | 23rd Sep 2019 | Directing, India, Interview
“While being respectful, I am not reverential,” says he, an Indian theatre director, screenwriter,...
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 | 5th Jul 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom
An armadillo is a small mammal, but this is not a play about the amazing relative of the anteater....
Read MorePosted by Laura Kressly | 3rd Jul 2019 | The Play's The Thing UK
In the programme notes, director Graham Watts states, “there are hundreds of astonishing plays...
Read MorePosted by Isaiah Lopaz | 25th Jun 2019 | Belgium, Review, Theatre and Politics
“You have to sit on the side of the stage. You’ll see that when you enter you have the option of...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 3rd Apr 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Pain. A world of pain. Pain. For anyone suffering from a rare condition called Complex Regional...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 28th Mar 2019 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, London, Review, United Kingdom
There is a classic conflict in many gay plays: between characters who identify as gay (in the...
Read MorePosted by Ryan Pepper | 26th Mar 2019 | Canada, Review
It isn’t easy to review a play like Behaviour, written by Ottawa playwright Darrah Teitel and...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 8th Mar 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom
There is no doubt that Peter Shaffer’s Equus is a modern classic. But does that justify reviving...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 6th Mar 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom
James Saunders is one of British theatre’s forgotten playwrights. Although he wrote some 70 plays...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 2nd Mar 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
Okay, let’s start with a definition: “Cougar: an older woman who actively seeks the casual, often...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 20th Feb 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Gender fluidity should be fun—after all, it’s all about love. And love can take any shape it...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 30th Jan 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
The most hyped play of the year is here. Because of the huge demand for seats, and the relative...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 21st Jan 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Mainstream theatre is often a huge treasure chest, blazing with jewels and flashing lights, while...
Read MorePosted by Jane Baldwin | 26th Dec 2018 | Nigeria, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
Inua Ellams’ Barber Shop Chronicles, his first full-length play, was a smash-hit when it opened in...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 9th Dec 2018 | Review, United Kingdom
Iona is not having a good day. She’s a super talkative Dublin teen who desperately wants to be...
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