Jemma Redgrave and Adrian Scarborough excel in Peter Barnes radio solos brought to screen The four monologues that make up Barnes’ People were filmed in the grand surroundings of the Theat…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 07:33AMAdrian Lester and Danny Sapani in their skins in Lolita Chakrabarti’s new play Contact without touch: among the many readjustments that the pandemic has brought to theatre, its demands th…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 09:36AMNina Raine’s urgent story of hospital stress rings truer than ever today If ever there was a “play for today”, it’s surely this.
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 11:12AMBreffni Holahan’s bravura performance controls a monologue of mental malaise There’s such remarkable symbiosis between material and performance in Irish dramatist Margaret Perry’s Coll…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 07:54AMA strange meeting across the boundary of race: John Kani co-stars in his two-hander with Antony Sher John Kani’s Kunene and the King is history in microcosm. Its premiere at the RSC last y…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 08:24AMIan Rickson’s exemplary production relishes the nuances of Conor McPherson's adaptation Uncle Vanya must surely be the closest, the most essential of Chekhov’s plays, its cast – just f…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 07:48PMRelocation from the Russian provinces to Sixties Biafra brings insight and immediacy Inua Ellams’ Three Sisters plays Chekhov in the shadow of war, specifically the Nigerian-Biafran seces…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 09:36AMNew American drama directs a rapier wit at black stereotypes Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Fairview comes to the Young Vic with the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama under its belt, and a reputatio…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 03:18PMDavid Greig’s dream-drama of cosmic loneliness is sci-fi at its most philosophical David Greig’s reimagining of Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel has brought a masterpiece of intellectual sc…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 09:36AMMore manner than message in adaptation of Klaus Mann's 1930s novel You wonder about the title of French dramatist Sam Gallet’s Mephisto [A Rhapsody], an adaptation for our days of Klaus Ma…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 11:24AMQuestions of faith in Katori Hall’s luminous meditation on belief, doubt and miracles The American dramatist Katori Hall has created a work of rare accomplishment in Our Lady of Kibeho, a …
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 02:03PMJohn Simm is a strikingly intelligent Thane in a broadly theatrical production There’s a fine balance between the cosmic and the closely crafted in director Paul Miller’s Macbeth, his fi…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 01:48PMChristopher Hampton adapts von Horváth's novel about the mindset of totalitarianism The only novel by the Hungarian dramatist Ödön von Horváth, Youth Without God was written in exile aft…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 12:48PMAn original piece of theatre-making finds joyous exuberance, as well as sorrow, in the immigrant experience Canadian playwright Hannah Moscovitch’s “refugee musical” – now there’s …
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 11:42AMRich in empathy, dramatically raw, Alexander Zeldin's bleak study of society on the edge Alexander Zeldin continues his devastating analysis of modern Britain in this culminating play of a…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 10:03AMMatthew Needham in lithe drag queen form opens new London venue London’s latest theatre opening brings a stirring revival of Harvey Fierstein’s vital gay drama, which premiered as Torch …
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 04:42PMFlorian Zeller’s play of family anguish receives a much-deserved West End transfer A tale of teenage depression and its family resonances, Florian Zeller’s The Son has a devastating simp…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 11:33AMBranden Jacobs-Jenkins’s 2013 play is tensely dark, as well as very funny You can’t fail to feel the ghosts in Appropriate: they are there in the very timbers of the ancient Southern pl…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 08:42PMNew West London venue opens with a zestful spectacular to suit all ages London’s Troubadour White City theatre has got off to a, literally, flying start.
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 09:06AMLean and hungry brilliance in Ned Bennett's production of Peter Shaffer When he gave Martin Dysart, the troubled psychiatrist protagonist of Equus, a line in which he speaks about “moments…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 05:54PMStagecraft skill and company playing meld seamlessly in Petersburg production Lev Dodin has been artistic director of the famed Maly Drama Theatre for some three and a half decades now, ove…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 11:48AMThe indelible power of Lynn Nottage’s new play confirmed in Donmar transfer There’s a joke early on in Sweat, Lynn Nottage’s superlative drama about American working lives, in which a …
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 10:18AMOkwui Okpokwasili’s solo performance piece is an astounding piece of theatre It’s hard, and finally fruitless to attempt to describe Okwui Okpokwasili’s Bronx Gothic in conventional te…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 08:03AMDeclan Donnellan riffs on Beaumont’s meta-comedy in flavoursome Russian Declan Donnellan has a rich record of working with Russian actors: his previous walk on the Slavic side, the darkly …
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 08:48AMLenny Henry leads a strong cast in August Wilson’s 1999 play of African American identity The huge achievement of the last two decades or so of August Wilson’s life, right up to his deat…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 06:06AMArthur Miller’s possession drama staged for spectacle The Crucible is a play that speaks with unrelenting power at times of discord, most of all when the public consciousness looks ripe fo…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 07:00PMPowerful production of Arthur Miller's play of fraternal discord, past painThere’s a sublime equilibrium to Arthur Miller’s 1968 play between the overwhelmingly heavy weight of hist…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 03:42PMThe season's closing pairing presents Danny Dyer and a radio revelationIt was back to the very beginning for this final instalment of “Pinter at the Pinter”, with its pairing of A S…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 10:32AMAdrian Lester compels in new American drama about care and connectionThe Off Broadway production of Cost of Living two years ago brought Martyna Majok the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the …
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 03:04PMDH Lawrence's tragically inflected 1913 tale of family relationships powerfully toldThere’s a stark power to Jack Gamble’s production of DH Lawrence’s The Daughter-in-Law, which h…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 10:48AMLove it or leave it production sends the RSC on a laboured way to EssexFor those of us who have never thought much before about links between pantomime and Shakespeare, Fiona Laird’s new M…
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