Bartlett Sher's Broadway production comes to London with aplomb First staged in 2018, Bartlett Sher’s Lincoln Center Theater production of My Fair Lady is London’s latest import from B…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:33AMJez Butterworth's 2009 play is evergreen in its excellence At long last, the giant has come back. Over a decade after its critical apotheosis on both sides of the Atlantic, Jez Butterworth…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 04:33PM'Killing Eve' star's stage debut is a triumph National statistics tell us that, in the year ending September 2021, 41% of rape victims in England and Wales eventually withdrew their support …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:48AMJackie Sibblies Drury is one of the most exciting voices working in American theatre today. The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of Fairview and We Are Proud to Present a Presentation… has a …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:29AMAlana Valentine's play about crime and poverty in Australia receives a spirited production The complex history of capital punishment in Australia may not be familiar to many Londoners, but t…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 09:03AMAn adroit cast does justice to Isley Lynn's complexly woven narrative "You need to get better at communicating", says one character to another in Isley Lynn’s albatross. Indeed, the same…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:06AMWhat does it take to stretch Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy to a runtime of over three hours? Not, as it turns out, a tedious crawl through the play. Rather, an electrifying but patient jo…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:26AM“Would you rather have one shoe or no shoes?” Viv is here to show us that missing only one shoe is not necessarily the better option. Having lost one of her shoes on the way to work, she…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:44AMEvelyn Farrant, the scheming actor at the centre of Gerald Moon’s 1983 play Corpse!, would like to believe that he is the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:30PMWhat goes into an apology, and what comes out of it? The three plays assembled in The Apologists approach these questions from
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:52AMJohn Osborne’s Look Back in Anger is often remembered for its association with kitchen sink realism. Marking the play’s return to London
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:46AMAntoinette Nwandu’s play Pass Over is a palimpsest. Its outer surface looks familiar: haunted by the ever-present threat of a murderous police force, two black men are paralyzed into inact…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:25PMNow that’s what I call a star turn. Hitting the brakes on an express train, Lesley Manville lands on the National Theatre’s Olivier stage surrounded by thick smoke, supported by prosthet…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:34PMA woman walks into her home. Then does another. And another. Stef Smith’s Nora: A Doll’s House is not merely an adaptation of Ibsen’s 1879 play. It is three adaptations superimposed on…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:06AMTowards the end of Leopoldstadt, a young writer named Leonard is handed a sheet of paper with his family tree on it. The chart spans four generations and bears the imprint of two dozen lives…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:13PM“Tonight’s been a drama-overload,” observes one of the “magnificent six” in Crongton Knights. She is not exaggerating: Emteaz Hussain’s adaptation of Alex
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:28AMCould diabolical interference be the only way for a woman in 17th-century London to advance in life without being bound to a man? For Joanna Faustus, the answer is in the affirmative. So she…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:15AMThe wilting characters of Uncle Vanya would like us to believe that their scenes from country life should not amount to much, except, perhaps, for an endless succession of tedious trifles. T…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:40PMSet in Chicago in 1957, Tony Tortora’s Cops zooms in on four jaded police detectives trying to navigate a police force steeped
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:01AMImagine if the “rude mechanicals” from A Midsummer Night’s Dream were asked to stage Hamlet in just an hour and with only
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:36AMIt is hard to believe that Shelagh Delaney wrote A Taste of Honey when she was only nineteen. This increasingly textured and knotty play, which received its first—and famous—staging in 1…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:00AMThis Duchess of Malfi is a cool one. It is so cool that it has lost its gripping temper and, with it, some of its fire. A surprising drop in temperature, because director Rebecca Frecknall h…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:47AM“You into words?” Jamie Lloyd’s magnificent treatment of Cyrano de Bergerac very much is. Refracted through Lloyd’s modestly masterful staging, Martin Crimp’s vigorous, insightful …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:43AMBased on Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s beloved classic The Little Prince, this year’s festive show at the Omnibus Theatre promises a joyously sparkling
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:34AMFairview is a scorching minefield that looks like a green meadow. At long last, London audiences can enter the beguiling terrain of Jackie Sibblies Drury’s 2018 play in a flawless Young Vi…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:55AMWritten and directed by Peter Rowe, New Wolsey Theatre’s “rockin’ panto” Cinderella lands in North Finchley with a glittery, flaming bouquet of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:49AM’Tis the season for Christmas pantos across the UK, and there could not be a more ideal opener to this mad tradition than Lyric Hammersmith’s joyously woke Cinderella. Written by Jude Ch…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:52PMFirst performed in 1945, Emlyn Williams’ play The Wind of Heaven depicts a Welsh village caught in spiritual turmoil in the wake
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:10AMAdapting novels for the stage is a tricky business. When the novel in question happens to be wildly popular and epically proportioned, the challenges faced by the adapter can escalate withou…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:59PMFounded in 2001, the Dramaturgs’ Network is the only organization in the United Kingdom solely dedicated to supporting dramaturgs and promoting the practice and theory of dramaturgy. Among…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:17AMWhat’s the use of thinking about the future? What’s the use of thinking about the future in a theatre? Created by the Copenhagen-based theatre company Fix&Foxy, Tue Biering’s one-w…
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