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Friday, May 4, 2012

Globe to Globe: Cymbline, Shakespeare's Globe by Ash Smyth

This retelling of the Cymbeline story opened – or at least appeared to open – with the entire cast contributing their tuppenceworth on the issue of what the story of Cymbeline actually w…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:51AM
Saturday, April 28, 2012

theASHtray: Walliams on Dahl, Gill vs. Beard, and a new (old) play by Eugene O'Neill by Ash Smyth

There’s something in the water at the commissioning editors’ local, I think, resulting, of late, in a rash of rather good arts-n-culture biopics. This week, it was the turn of Roald Dahl…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 01:37AM
Thursday, March 22, 2012

After Miss Julie, Young Vic by Ash Smyth

In 1888, the extremely weird Swedish playwright and novelist August Strindberg, radical lefty son of a shipping merchant and a housemaid, wrote a play called Miss Julie about the conflict be…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:34AM
Saturday, March 3, 2012

theASHtray: Klinghoffer, Cape Town, and Debussy pisses off the poets by Ash Smyth

Who does the PR these days for Middle Eastern extremists? Whoever it is clearly wasn’t on board when the Palestine Liberation Front decided to whack the Achille Lauro. Or wasn’t aware th…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:00AM
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

All New People, Duke of York's Theatre by Ash Smyth

Zach Braff’s debut theatre piece begins with Charlie (Mr Braff himself), in an empty house, swinging from a noosed extension lead, attempting to do the big FO while f(l)ailing to extinguis…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 11:53PM
Tuesday, February 7, 2012

DNA, Rose Theatre by Ash Smyth

I have to confess I was about five minutes in to Dennis Kelly’s DNA last night, before I concluded, definitively, that I had seen it before. Four years ago, it was part of the Connections …

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:05AM

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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