“Touching the Void” at The Duke of York’s Theatre
Theatre can touch thousands of lives. But can it compete with the success of a bestselling book?...
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Martin Crimp’s “Cyrano de Bergerac” at the Playhouse Theatre
“You into words?” Jamie Lloyd’s magnificent treatment of Cyrano de Bergerac very much...
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Michael Frayn’s “Noises Off” at the Garrick Theatre
One of my formative memories in the theatre dates back to twelve years ago, when I attended a...
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Tennessee Williams’ “The Night of the Iguana” at Noël Coward Theatre
A defrocked minister who botches up his job as a tour guide; a recently widowed hotel manager who...
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On The Other Side Of “Ant Street”: An Interview With Theatre Director Oliver Micevski
Oliver Micevski (b. Skopje, Macedonia, 1980) is one of the most creative and intelligently...
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“Bitter Wheat” at Garrick Theatre
John Malkovich is back in town — and he’s starring in the most controversial play of the year....
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“Garry” at The White Bear Theatre
In the programme notes, director Graham Watts states, “there are hundreds of astonishing plays...
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Stefano Massini’s “The Lehman Trilogy” at the Piccadilly Theatre
Three generations, three centuries, three acts: The Lehman Trilogy is a theatrical feast that...
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Kenneth Lonergan’s “The Starry Messenger” at Wyndham’s Theatre
Dramatic representations of ennui often have an important decision to make at the onset of their...
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David Henry Hwang On Theatre, Trump, And Asian-American Identity
American writers don’t get much bigger than David Henry Hwang. The award-winning playwright’s...
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Peter Shaffer’s “Equus” at Theatre Royal Stratford East
There is no doubt that Peter Shaffer’s Equus is a modern classic. But does that justify reviving...
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“All About Eve” at Noel Coward Theatre
Some seventy-odd years ago, New Yorker Mary Orr wrote a short story for the Cosmopolitan magazine...
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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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Kevin Elyot’s “Coming Clean” At The Trafalgar Studios
Long before Mark Ravenhill’s Shopping And Fucking, or Jonathan Harvey’s Beautiful Thing, Kevin...
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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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2018 Was The Year In Japan That Saw The Stage Sing, While Contemporary Drama Barely Made A Squeak
Musicals have flourished in 2018, with many young stars also helping to sell out straight plays in...
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Nina Raine’s “Stories” at The National Theatre
In 2017, playwright Nina Raine’s Consent, an excellent National Theatre play about lawyers and...
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“Pack Of Lies” at Menier Chocolate Factory
We do love our spy stories, don’t we? The idea of betrayal, both political and personal, seems to...
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“Heathers The Musical” Wildly Funny And In Deliciously Bad Taste
Heathers The Musical Theatre Royal Haymarket, London ★★★ On its release in 1989, Heathers was an...
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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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