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Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Queer women on stage: Representation v. exploitation by Alice Saville

There's a long history of same-sex romance between women being exploited as a male fantasy. Naomi Westerman talks about rejecting the male gaze, and her new play Puppy. The post Queer women…

SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 07:12PM
Monday, February 20, 2017

Picking My Scabs for Your Entertainment by Alice Saville

Scottee's new show Bravado is an unsparing look at his relationship with masculinity. Here, he looks at confessional performance, self care, and asks "Must all working class artists bleed fo…

SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 07:56AM
Sunday, February 12, 2017

Why theatre needs to love film, not fear it by Alice Saville

As cinema, TV broadcasts and online streaming offer more and more ways to watch performance, Alice Saville asks why the theatre world is so slow to embrace the potential of film. The post Wh…

SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 07:51PM
Thursday, January 26, 2017

Le Gateau Chocolat: ‘Before I’m gay, black and fat, I’m human. My work is about that’ by Alice Saville

Le Gateau Chocolat must be one of the hardest working men in cabaret. But, he insists: “My whole career was a wonderful

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AM
Monday, November 28, 2016

Lotte Collett, designer: ‘I absolutely refuse to have any designs created digitally’ by Alice Saville

Forget confetti cannons, soap stars and glitter-encrusted backdrops: Hackney Empire’s acclaimed in-house panto has long seduced critics with a mixture of streetwise

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AM
Monday, November 14, 2016

EV Crowe: ‘People think historical plays are going to be boring’ by Alice Saville

Your two previous plays for the Royal Court have had modern settings: Kin was set in a girls’ boarding school, while Hero looked

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AM
Monday, June 17, 2013

Review: The Nightmare Dreamer by Alice Saville

Across the city, people are troubled by nightmares, each with a horribly personal symbolism of their own; their only hope being Txema Pérez, this piece’s eponymous dreamer. A drifter …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:49PM
Monday, May 20, 2013

Review: Cuddles by Alice Saville

There are certain things that we expect from vampires: they must drink blood, fear light, be immortal and be killed by a stake through the heart. However, new elaborations are gathering like…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:31AM
Saturday, September 15, 2012

Review: Hindle Wakes by Alice Saville

The setting is a drawing room, idyllic fields beyond conjured by printed screens, but Stanley Houghton’s play casts out the afternoon world of tea and scones for a whisky-fuelled criticism…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:38PM
Thursday, September 13, 2012

Review: Confessions of a Butterfly by Alice Saville

What can we do if people treat us inhumanely? This is the question posed by Jonathan Salt’s new play, and the answer he finds is: we must be more than human. This biopic of Janusz Korczak,…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:28PM
Sunday, September 9, 2012

Review: 4:48 Psychosis by Alice Saville

Life is unbearable, but drugs are a ‘chemical lobotomy’; Sarah Kane’s work is caught in a dilemma of pathologised grief, pill bottles and troubled relationships, messily expressing the…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:18AM
Monday, August 27, 2012

Edinburgh Fringe Review: The Wind in the Willows by Alice Saville

Yvonne Arnaud Youth Theatre’s production of The Wind in the Willows is a deeply traditional affair. No concessions are made to the teenage years of the participants; there are no rock song…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:43AM
Friday, August 24, 2012

Edinburgh Fringe Review: Max and Ivan are… Con Artists by Alice Saville

No one could accuse Max and Ivan of lacking ambition. Following a successful go at the Sherlock Holmes juggernaut last year, they’ve launched themselves into the world of the heist blockbu…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:15AM
Thursday, August 23, 2012

Edinburgh Fringe Review: Departure Lounge by Alice Saville

Looking inside the mind of a teenage boy isn’t always the most attractive prospect; this bright new musical by Dougal Irvine uses high-octane sequences of song and dance to shed light on t…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:09AM
Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Edinburgh Fringe Review: The Idiot at the Wall by Alice Saville

As tourists wander Edinburgh’s Royal Mile clutching Nessie ornaments and tartan tea towels, there’s a rather more nuanced reaction to Scottish folk traditions taking place in Elspeth Tur…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:25PM
Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Review: The Maids by Alice Saville

When they said ‘black comedy’ I thought they meant the play, not finding a seat. In this production of Jean Genet’s The Maids, lighting design leaves the audience in almost complete da…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:47AM
Saturday, July 14, 2012

Review: St John’s Night by Alice Saville

Staging an Ibsen play which the playwright disowned in later life as a reworking of a student acquaintance’s “rough mess of a draft” might seem like asking for trouble. Spo…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:17PM
Sunday, June 24, 2012

Review: Spring Awakening by Alice Saville

Anyone making the trip to Brockley in search of an alternative rock musical is liable to get something of a shock; this production is of the less-often-performed play by German dramatist Fra…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:48AM
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Review: Tales from the River Thames by Alice Saville

Pirates, mermaids, monsters, magic, singing and dancing, all served up on a bed of real sand; this ambitious promenade show from the Unicorn Theatre and NIE combines an impressive range of i…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:22AM
Thursday, June 14, 2012

Review: Torch Song Triology by Alice Saville

To the accompaniment of the harp, the audience become the confidantes of drag queen Arnold (David Bedella), vulnerable as he applies his make-up backstage at a New York nightclub. As his gre…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:28PM

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards