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Thursday, July 8, 2021
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 – where billions are …
Thursday, August 22, 2019
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 subject. While it is good…
Monday, August 5, 2019
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 From the moment the …
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
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 friend and instigate a…
Sunday, April 22, 2018
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 tale of ordinary people…
Saturday, December 2, 2017
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 asserting, skewed or not, is…
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
“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 the mid-1980s, 17-y…
Sunday, January 29, 2017
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; children and adults; heroes…
Friday, January 13, 2017
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, Aboriginal men and women hunt…
Tuesday, July 26, 2016
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 intermission. Whethe…
Wednesday, July 6, 2016
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 Invisible Hand, by Ayad A…
Sunday, May 22, 2016
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 the whims of the marke…
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
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 duly delivered R…
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
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” could not be more p…
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
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 Edward is openly defyin…
Thursday, August 27, 2015
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 years since the last…
Saturday, January 3, 2015
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 that one” and “I …
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
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, Akhtar opened The …
Monday, November 24, 2014
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 Pulitzer prize winning…
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
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 good.” This brill…
Monday, August 4, 2014
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 Charenton, an asylum …
Friday, March 14, 2014
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? Watch Milton Jones…
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
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 funny and disturbing. S…
Sunday, August 11, 2013
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. ‘Oubliette’ lite…
Thursday, July 11, 2013
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 closed off-Broadway…
Friday, May 17, 2013
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 pulsates so fervently …
Thursday, May 9, 2013
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 Grimm could rival the …
Friday, April 19, 2013
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, confront their Greek…
Sunday, September 30, 2012
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 the movement directly…
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
New play by Evan M. Wiener follows the hunt for Adolf Eichmann.
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
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 in Israel in open cou…
Sunday, July 8, 2012
The problem with history plays is one of time. In theatrical time, the greatest of problems are resolved in a hundred and fifty minutes or less. Across that tiny stretch of time we have conflict, rising acting,…
Friday, March 23, 2012
Yesterday's post on Next to Normal brought some (not entirely unexpected) e-mail, though no comments. Chief among these missives was the following from fellow IRNE critic Larry Stark, of the Theater Mirro…
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Diana (Kerry A. Dowling) ponders her private cast of characters.While I was watching Next to Normal (at Speakeasy Stage through April 15), I unexpectedly found myself reminded over and over again of the essay&n…
Monday, March 5, 2012
Welsh actor with a flair for playing different nationalities – not least his own, as Lloyd George and DCI Noel BainThe actor Philip Madoc, who has died aged 77 after a short illness, became one of Wales's bes…
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Christy Pusz gets in touch with God. Photo: T. Clark Erickson.There's a telling moment in Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage (at the Huntington through Feb. 5) in which Alan, an alpha-male asshole if ever ther…
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
I know, I know, it has only been a little more than a month since the last Hubbie Awards. But I have seen some pretty good shows since then! And I felt it was conceptually cleaner to wrap up the 2011 Hub…
Saturday, November 26, 2011
I didn't think it was possible to write a boring play about Adolf Eichmann.Nevertheless, fledgling playwright Evan M. Wiener has managed to do it, and the Huntington has staged it with all the trimmings, under …
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Michael Cristofer gives a riveting performance in Evan Weiner's too-predictable play about the capture of Adolf Eichmann.
Legit Reviews: The psychological cat-and-mouse game between Adolph Eichmann and the Israeli Mossad agent who captured him gives "Captors" its dramatic juice.
Saturday, November 19, 2011
The popular actor discusses his role as covert Israeli agent Peter Malkin in the Huntington Theatre Company's production of Captors.
Monday, May 9, 2011
The theatre I am working at has asked me to stay on for the next show.This hopefully means that they like me. And I think it also means that I have been forgiven for an unfortunate incident which occurred durin…
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