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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 – where billions are …

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 subject. While it is good…

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 From the moment the …

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 friend and instigate a…

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 tale of ordinary people…

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 asserting, skewed or not, is…

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 the mid-1980s, 17-y…

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; children and adults; heroes…

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, Aboriginal men and women hunt…

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 intermission. Whethe…

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 Invisible Hand, by Ayad A…

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 the whims of the marke…

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 duly delivered R…

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” could not be more p…

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 Edward is openly defyin…

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 years since the last…

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 that one” and “I …

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, Akhtar opened The …

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 Pulitzer prize winning…

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 good.” This brill…

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 Charenton, an asylum …

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? Watch Milton Jones…

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 funny and disturbing. S…

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. ‘Oubliette’ lite…

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 closed off-Broadway…

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 pulsates so fervently …

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 Grimm could rival the …

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, confront their Greek…

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 the movement directly…

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

'Captors': Compelling history, unanswered questions

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

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 in Israel in open cou…

Sunday, July 8, 2012

The Captors

by Tim Treanor

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

To and from the mailbox

by Thomas Garvey

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

Next to Normal at SpeakEasy Stage

by Thomas Garvey

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

Philip Madoc obituary

by Michael Coveney

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

Hello, God? It's me, Carnage

by Thomas Garvey

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

One last Hubbies hit for 2011 . . .

by Thomas Garvey

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

Captors at the Huntington

by Thomas Garvey

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

Review: Captors

by Sandy MacDonald

Michael Cristofer gives a riveting performance in Evan Weiner's too-predictable play about the capture of Adolf Eichmann.

Captors

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

Feature: Louis Cancelmi Plays for a Captive Audience

by Amy Adler

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

Getting to the Bottom of Politics

by Jess Gow

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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