Thursday, July 8, 2021

The Invisible Hand review – thrilling tale of money lust and morality by Mark Lawson

Kiln theatre, LondonA US bank employee is captured in Pakistan in Indhu Rubasingham’s pacy revival of Ayad Akhtar’s chillingly ingenious play A frequent critique of financial markets –…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03PM
Thursday, August 22, 2019

The Weatherman review – a glimpse into the sex trade's grisly reality by Michael Billington

Park theatre, LondonAn array of disturbed characters are cogs in the grimmest of machines in Eugene O’Hare’s frustrating but well-written debut Sex trafficking is a big and serious subje…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AM
Monday, August 5, 2019

The Incident Room review – Yorkshire Ripper retelling puts police in the spotlight by Catherine Love

Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghNew Diorama’s beautifully crafted play casts doubt on titillating tales of the notorious serial killer, but can’t escape the clutches of morbid fascination …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06PM
Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Spartacus by Arts Review

First presented by The Australian Ballet in 1978 with choreography by Laszlo Seregi, Spartacus with its stirring tale of the Thracian prisoner forced to become a gladiator, kill his best fr…

SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 08:58PM
Sunday, April 22, 2018

Review :Amazing Freedom Fighters of Amsterdam by Michael Block

By Ed MalinBarbara Kahn's new historical play Verzet Amsterdam is running through April 22nd at Theater for the New City.  Roberto Gonzales Jr. and Barbara Kahn direct this exciting tal…

SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 05:48PM
Saturday, December 2, 2017

Languages by John Simon

Be prepared for vehement disagreement with what follows, but mind that I am not proposing it as a binding universal truth, only as my own certainly arguable private views. What I am assertin…

SOURCE: John Simon at 02:06AM
Tuesday, May 9, 2017

‘Hounds Of Love’ at Laemmle's Music Hall 3, Los Angeles, USA by Blouin Artinfo

“Hounds Of Love” will be screened at Laemmle's Music Hall 3, Los Angeles from May 12, 2017.The film is directed by Ben Young and stars Ashleigh Cummings, Emma Booth and Stephen Curry. In…

SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 04:01AM
Sunday, January 29, 2017

Us/Them review – an evocative retelling of the Beslan school siege by Susannah Clapp

Dorfman, LondonCarly Wijs’s 2016 Edinburgh fringe hit tells the story of the 2004 Russian school siege with clear-eyed audacityUs/Them: hostages and captors; Russians and Chechens; childre…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03AM
Friday, January 13, 2017

The Season review – family comedy gives wing to some spirited performances by Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore

Pakana writer Nathan Maynard’s impressive debut play is about moonbird people but is rooted in the everyday, with an ability to laugh about itself - hard Once a year in Tasmania, Aborigina…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42AM
Tuesday, July 26, 2016

A Man Like You by Ryan Mikita

Stannah, who gives a wrenching and emotionally present turn as the diplomat in distress, rarely leaves the stage for more than thirty seconds out of the entire 100 minute production with no …

SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:08PM
Wednesday, July 6, 2016

First Day of Rehearsal - The Invisible Hand by Westport Country Playhouse

By AnnaBeth CrittendenMarketing InternOn Friday, June 24, the staff of the Playhouse filed into the Sheffer rehearsal studio to meet the cast and production team of our third show, The Invis…

SOURCE: Westport Country Playhouse at 05:25PM
Sunday, May 22, 2016

REVIEW ROUND-UP: The Invisible Hand at the Tricycle Theatre by Emma Clarendon

American banker Nick Bright knows that his freedom comes at a price. Confined to a cell within the depths of rural Pakistan, every second counts. Who will decide his fate? His captors, or th…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:35AM
Wednesday, March 2, 2016

JOSEPH & THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOUR DREAMCOAT – Touring by Jonathan Baz

Churchill Theatre, Bromley****Music by Andrew Lloyd WebberLyrics by Tim RiceDirected by Bill KenwrightThe CompanyA technicolour spectacle is promised by the cast and crew of Joseph and it is…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:41AM
Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Review: Bel Canto/Lyric Opera of Chicago by Aaron Hunt

RECOMMENDED As the latest torrents of terrorism shatter our souls with their senseless deaths and enhanced suspicions, Lyric Opera of Chicago’s world-premiere production of “Bel Canto”…

SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 06:00PM
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

REVIEW: Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, Minerva Theatre Chichester ✭✭✭✭ by Stephen Collins

By Stephen Collins There are many extraordinary moments from Keenan. Highlights include his improvisation of horse-racing victories; the powerful sequence which opens the second Act when Edw…

SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 04:24PM
Thursday, August 27, 2015

Our Country’s Good review – dramatic redemption from Australian hell by Michael Billington

Olivier, LondonThe National production of Timberlake Wertenbaker’s historical play shows convicts and captors alike escaping their colonial chains in shared expressionSince it is only two …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:30AM
Saturday, January 3, 2015

My 10+ Most Memorable Shows of 2014 by Broadway & Me

Just as I’m sure you’ve been doing, I’ve spent the holidays reading all of the year-end “Best” lists and after the usual “What were they thinking?” “Oh yeah, I forgot about t…

SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:24AM
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

"The Invisible Hand" is a Sure-Handed Thriller by Broadway & Me

This is turning out to be Ayad Akhtar’s year. Of course last year, when his play Disgraced won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, wasn’t so bad for him either. But in just the past six months…

SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:55PM
Monday, November 24, 2014

The Invisible Hand by Doug Marino

A force to be reckoned with, Ayad Akhtar has penned yet another powerful drama now playing out on the stage at New York Theatre Workshop.  He's currently on Broadway representing his Pu…

SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:42AM
Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Our Country's Good by Mirvish Productions

Our Country's Good In 1788, Britain opened Australia’s first penal colony with 734 men, women and children—criminals—sent into exile “for our country’s goo…

SOURCE: YouTube at 01:53PM
Monday, August 4, 2014

QUILLS • Max & Louie Productions by Andrea

Playwright Doug Wright, whose works include "I Am My Own Wife", "Grey Gardens" and "Hands on a Hardbody", offered audiences a fictionalized depiction of the Marquis de Sade's last years in C…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 03:28AM
Friday, March 14, 2014

Milton Jones, Rachel Mars and Foil, Arms & Hog on their comedy routines

Testing their jokes, how different audiences react and embracing stereotypes – three top comedians analyse their performancesMilton Jones: "Incredible to think, isn't it?"Reading on mobile…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:20AM
Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Stockholm by Theasy.com

Stockholm Off Broadway, 59E59 Theatres, One Year Lease Theater Company Reviewed by Jason Rost BOTTOM LINE: An intense physical and poetic exploration of domestic violence, both darkly funn…

SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 05:51PM
Sunday, August 11, 2013

Review: (Toronto) Oubliette (SummerWorks) by The Charlebois Post

Dead-Wringerby Lisa McKeown@lisammckeownEntering the backspace of the Theatre Passe Muraille is like entering a kind of cave, the perfect setting for Think, Pig’s production of Oubliette. …

SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 05:24PM
Thursday, July 11, 2013

LABUTE NEW THEATER FESTIVAL I • St. Louis Actors' Studio by Andrea

Tony-nominated playwright and screenwriter Neil LaBute's plays include, "In the Company of Men", "The Shape of Things", "Fat Pig", "reasons to be pretty" and "Reasons to Be Happy", that just…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 02:55AM
Friday, May 17, 2013

Review: Roadkill/Chicago Shakespeare Theater by Johnny Oleksinski

RECOMMENDED Few works of theater have the adrenaline-fueled urgency of “Roadkill.” But it’s not the familiar rush of exhilaration; it’s the primal clamor for survival that pu…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 09:02PM
Thursday, May 9, 2013

Royal Ballet: Hansel and Gretel – review by Judith Mackrell

Linbury Studio, LondonAs Liam Scarlett premieres his first full-length narrative ballet, it's clear he has some very nasty things in the woodshed of his imagination. Not even the brothers Gr…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:52AM
Friday, April 19, 2013

A splendid ‘Trojan Women’

Euripides’s “Trojan Women” is often held up as a model of antiwar sentiment. It is that, but it’s also a masterwork of human psychology in which the title women, bereft of all hope, …

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:10PM
Sunday, September 30, 2012

Pre-Occuped by Occupy, Part I by Thomas Garvey

Our local theaters pretty much ignored Occupy Boston while it lived (it celebrates its first birthday this weekend, btw).  Indeed, the only actor or writer I know to have engaged with t…

SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:13PM
Tuesday, July 24, 2012

'Captors': Compelling history, unanswered questions

New play by Evan M. Wiener follows the hunt for Adolf Eichmann.

SOURCE: rss.feedsportal.com at 12:49PM
Wednesday, July 18, 2012

'Captors' shortchanges captor-captive relationship

It's been a half century since Israeli Mossad agents captured Adolf Eichmann, one of the major architects of Hitler's Final Solution, and spirited him from Buenos Aires to Jerusalem. Tried i…

SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 11:48AM

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Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
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Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
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Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
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