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Friday, April 7, 2023

In ‘Hamnet,’ Shakespeare’s Wife Takes the Stage, at Last by Andrew Dickson

A Royal Shakespeare Company adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s hit novel gives voice and agency to a historical character we know little about.

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Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Es Devlin’s Next Stage by Andrew Dickson

The British designer, whose new installation will be unveiled at Tate Modern this week, made her name in theater. These days, you’re as likely to find her work in art galleries, stadium gi…

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Thursday, August 4, 2022

Twelve angry children: young jurors call adults to account for climate crisis in The Trials by Andrew Dickson

Dawn King’s new play at the Donmar imagines a reckoning for environmental chaos, presided over by the kids who inherit the mess. We join the writer and cast, including stars of Heartstoppe…

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Sunday, July 3, 2022

Peter Brook’s legacy is everywhere in today’s theatre by Andrew Dickson

Restlessly creative, the great director – who has died aged 97 – had an unparalleled ability to conjure a gleaming theatrical image Peter Brook: the great seeker of British theatre Never…

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Friday, March 4, 2022

He Break Dances. He Pole Dances. He Sings Like an Angel. by Andrew Dickson

The Polish countertenor Jakub Jozef Orlinski has the credits you’d expect for a fast-rising classical music star, and some others you might not.

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Friday, January 21, 2022

Augmented Reality Theater Takes a Bow. In Your Kitchen. by Andrew Dickson

The Interactive Storytelling Studio at the National Theater in London is using technology to bring a miniature musical to viewers’ homes. It’s one of several high-tech British projects p…

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Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Irina Brook’s stage obsession: ‘It’s been 50 years – theatre, theatre, theatre!’ by Andrew Dickson

She grew up in an artistic dynasty and was once rejected for a part by her dad. Now the director is turning her life into an epic new project. She reflects on Chekhov, Shakespeare and Iggy P…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AM
Wednesday, July 7, 2021

‘Life is never what you expect!’ Deborah Warner on theatre, nature and new parenthood by Andrew Dickson

The groundbreaking director’s new project, Arcadia, fills tents with poetry and music in Manchester. She talks about Covid and Brexit, becoming a mother and taking over Bath’s Ustinov A …

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Sunday, April 18, 2021

Third time lucky? Inside the RSC’s much-delayed Winter’s Tale by Andrew Dickson

Bedevilled by lockdowns and brain-bending Covid protocols, the Shakespeare play about isolation, grief and fresh starts is finally being staged and emotions are running high. We join the dre…

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Sunday, December 13, 2020

‘I crave flesh-and-blood actors, an audience that laughs and gasps as one’: the magic of Christmas theatre by Arifa Akbar Interviews By Lyndsey Winship and Andrew Dickson

After a tough year for theatre, our chief critic celebrates the joy of the Christmas show, while five festive performers reveal how it feels to be waiting in the wings Remember your first ev…

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Monday, December 7, 2020

'Holding their nerve': Almeida reopens with play devised during lockdown by Andrew Dickson

With auditions on Zoom, social distancing on stage and scenes that can be cut if an actor tests positive, Nine Lessons and Carols is a play for Covid times In the near-empty Almeida theatre …

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Sunday, March 22, 2020

Shakespeare in lockdown: did he write King Lear in plague quarantine? by Andrew Dickson

Pestilence was rife in the Bard’s time, closing theatres and ravaging life. Did he write his bleak, desperate drama while self-isolating? We sift the evidence While those of us stuck in s…

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Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Toby Jones: 'Actors talking about acting? It makes you scream!' by Andrew Dickson

He’s played everything from an elf in Harry Potter to Truman Capote and a harassed coach driver. Now, Jones is taking on Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. Just don’t call it the role of a lifetim…

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Friday, November 1, 2019

Bans, defiance and death blows: how theatre tore down the Berlin Wall by Andrew Dickson

They defied the Stasi and sparked a revolution. Our writer reveals the pivotal role East Germany’s dynamic theatre culture played in the fall of the GDR – and the collapse of European co…

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Wednesday, October 9, 2019

To BP or not BP … Would Shakespeare have taken oil company money? by Andrew Dickson

The RSC has finally turned its back on BP funding after actor Mark Rylance said it is what the Bard would have wanted. But as Simon Callow points out – the playwright was hardly a model of…

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Tuesday, April 23, 2019

The Bard stuff: actors reveal their favourite Shakespeare character by Andrew Dickson

To mark the Stratford playwright’s birthday, Ophelia Lovibond, Paapa Essiedu, Jade Anouka, Roger Allam and John Kani discuss the roles they love best The great thing about Shakespeare is t…

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Friday, February 8, 2019

The best Shakespeare films – ranked! by Andrew Dickson

Kenneth Branagh graduates from player to playwright this week for All is True, in which he plays an ailing Bard. But which big-screen Shakey is the greatest?Despite its hey-nonny-nonny reput…

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Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Cate Blanchett on her S&M-themed play: 'I see theatre as a provocation' by Andrew Dickson

Cate Blanchett has played queens, vagabonds and Bob Dylan. Now the double Oscar-winner is hitting the London stage in an avant garde work about sexual domination – and hinting at a farewel…

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Friday, December 14, 2018

'Don't spit on the deck!' Arts bosses on how to hand over power by Andrew Dickson

When Indhu Rubasingham turned the Tricycle theatre into the Kiln earlier this year, there were protests and passionate defences. Vicky Featherstone, Richard Eyre and Charles Saumarez Smith d…

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Monday, August 27, 2018

Rediscovering Queen Margaret: 'I tried to think of Shakespeare as my co-writer' by Andrew Dickson

A new work by Jeanie O’Hare distils four Shakespeare plays to retell the story of the Wars of the Roses, focusing on Margaret of Anjou, the formidable wife of Henry VIThe unmissable theatr…

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Monday, July 23, 2018

South Western review – pasties at dawn in a riotous wild west homage by Andrew Dickson

Tobacco Factory, BristolWardrobe Ensemble’s western pastiche is a diverting gallop through fake blood, feminist twists and Bristolian in-jokesIn 2015, boutique, Bristol-based collective th…

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Tuesday, June 19, 2018

A is for 'ah well', F is for fish and chips: show delivers A-Z of Englishness by Andrew Dickson

English, created by National Theatre Wales and Quarantine, is a brainstorm about language and identity On either side of the stage, screens flash up words and phrases. “Accident of birth�…

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Monday, May 28, 2018

King Lear – review by Andrew Dickson

Shakespeare's Globe, LondonA gaunt and arthritic king totters on stage, his head a thatch of matted white hair – then, grinning, he springs up like a jack-in-the-box and whisks off the wig…

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Thursday, April 19, 2018

Shakespeare timeline: follow the plot of the playwright's life by Andrew Dickson

From his birth in Stratford-upon-Avon to family tragedy, friendship with the monarch and success at the Globe, explore the twists and turns in Shakespeare’s own storyOn 26 April, Stratford…

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Wednesday, April 11, 2018

After ‘Hamlet’ and ‘King Lear,’ Where Else Can Paapa Essiedu Go? by Andrew Dickson

One director said “the canon is wide open” for this young British actor, who is onstage at BAM this month and at the Kennedy Center in May.

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Tuesday, March 27, 2018

'Don't screw it up!' Artistic directors on the perils of regime change by Andrew Dickson

Rupert Goold was left an out-of-date bottle of cassis. Josie Rourke received wisdom – and a warning. Jackie Wylie banned talk of Black Watch. Three ADs on taking over the top jobThe Britis…

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Friday, March 23, 2018

Turning a Ghoulish Children’s Book Into a Grand Opera by Andrew Dickson

Neil Gaiman’s “Coraline” has been transformed into an opera in London, with music by Mark-Anthony Turnage. It goes to some genuinely disturbing places.

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Monday, February 26, 2018

Is this a dagger dangling before me? Staging the strange world of Macbeth by Andrew Dickson

With Christopher Eccleston and Rory Kinnear taking a stab at Shakespeare’s thane, we look at the trouble with one of its most famous – and weirdest – momentsMacbeth is full of things t…

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Tuesday, October 24, 2017

'Tear it down and start again': playwright Elinor Cook on sexism in British theatre by Andrew Dickson

Her sharp and funny plays have feted female friendship. As Elinor Cook takes Ibsen to the Caribbean with her version of The Lady from the Sea, she talks about fighting against the industry�…

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Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Floods, locust farms and teens in charge: Blast Theory's vision of Hull in 2097 by Andrew Dickson

The experimental troupe are giving the UK city of culture a glimpse of what it might look like in 80 years’ time – and it isn’t pretty. Our writer travels to Denmark to meet the team b…

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Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Blood and cherry blossom: Yukio Ninagawa's samurai Macbeth is back by Andrew Dickson

His bold take on Shakespeare’s tragedy features kabuki witches, Buddhist chants and a cello-playing Lady Macbeth. As it returns, Yukio Ninagawa’s collaborators remember how he enthralled…

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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