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Friday, May 26, 2017

John Boyega in Woyzeck at the Old Vic, London – review round-up by Fergus Morgan

Harry Potter meets Star Wars in London’s Old Vic’s new production of Woyzeck. Joe Murphy’s production has a script from Cursed Child

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Review: Blush at Soho Theatre by Fergus Morgan

Issue-driven theatre: Fergus Morgan reviews Charlotte Josephine's play about internet porn. The post Review: Blush at Soho Theatre appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.

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Thursday, May 25, 2017

An Octoroon review at the Orange Tree Theatre – ‘totally bonkers’ by Fergus Morgan

An Octoroon is America’s Red Velvet. Sort of. Like Lolita Chakrabarti’s 2012 play, Branden Jacob-Jenkins’ OBIE award-winning 2014 work finds a black presence in

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Monday, May 22, 2017

The Gabriel Trilogy review at the Attenborough Theatre – ‘quietly stunning’ by Fergus Morgan

Everyday Epic, the theme for the 2017 Brighton Festival, fits Richard Nelson’s Gabriel trilogy like a glove. The three plays – Hungry,

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Friday, May 19, 2017

Deposit review at Hampstead Theatre Downstairs
, London – ‘a mini-masterpiece’ by Fergus Morgan

Housing is on the agenda. After Sh!t Theatre’s Letters to Windsor House and Cardboard Citizens’ Home Truths comes Matt Hartley’s Deposit, a

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Thursday, May 18, 2017

Review: Dyl at the Old Red Lion by Fergus Morgan

The baby and the bath water and the whole, cast-iron bath: Fergus Morgan reviews a slightly overwrought production of Mark Weinman's debut play. The post Review: Dyl at the Old Red Lion appe…

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Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Richard III review at the Arcola Theatre, London – ‘a fine, febrile performance’ by Fergus Morgan

It’s ambitious, to stage Richard III in the Arcola Theatre’s intimate main space, but it’s also injudicious. Mehmet Ergan’s unimaginative production is caught be…

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Friday, May 12, 2017

The Gap in the Light review at New Diorama Theatre, London – ‘swelteringly intense’ by Fergus Morgan

Combining the disorientating technological playfulness and self-exposing theatricality of Simon McBurney’s The Encounter with the stealthy psychological tension of The Woman in Blac…

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Tuesday, May 9, 2017

A Lie of the Mind review at Southwark Playhouse, London – ‘detailed performances’ by Fergus Morgan

Sam Shepard plays gnaw away at you. They tease you with cryptic clues, disintegrating storylines and restless, febrile characters. His 1985 play

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Lenny Henry in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Donmar Warehouse, London – review round-up by Fergus Morgan

There are no prizes for spotting the thinking behind the Donmar Warehouse’s staging of a fresh adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s classic 1941

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Monday, May 8, 2017

Tony Kushner’s Angels in America at the National Theatre, London – review round-up by Fergus Morgan

You would have to have been on a Valium-induced holiday to Antarctica not to have heard about Angels in America at the

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Friday, May 5, 2017

Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman at the Royal Court, London – review round-up by Fergus Morgan

Selling out its Sloane Square run in a day, breaking the Royal Court’s record for fastest-selling production, with a West End transfer already confirmed and

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Romeo and Juliet review at the Union Theatre, London – ‘conceptually flawed’ by Fergus Morgan

It’s 2017, and still not one Premier League footballer is openly gay. Eyeing this glaring anachronism, the Union Theatre has optimistically turned

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Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Romeo and Juliet at Shakespeare’s Globe, London – review round-up by Fergus Morgan

We’re only in April, but at the Globe, the Summer of Love is already bursting into life. Artistic director Emma Rice’s last outdoor season kicks off

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This Beautiful Future review at the Yard Theatre, London – ‘daringly unconventional’ by Fergus Morgan

Chartres, August 1944. A teenage Nazi soldier and a French girl secretly meet on the eve of the American army’s triumphant arrival, spending one

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Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Everything Between Us review at Finborough Theatre, London – ‘scabrously funny’ by Fergus Morgan

The troubled past and traumatised future of Northern Ireland come face to face in David Ireland’s ferociously funny 2010 two-hander Everything Between

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Friday, April 28, 2017

Late Company review at the Finborough Theatre, London – ‘superbly crafted’ by Fergus Morgan

Combining the creeping high school horror of Jay Asher’s 13 Reasons Why, the stigma-skewering impishness of Bruce Norris’ Clybourne Park, and a delectably bleak, Fargo-esque …

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Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Ivo van Hove’s Obsession starring Jude Law – review round-up by Fergus Morgan

Barely a month after the theatrical earthquake of Roman Tragedies, Ivo van Hove returns to the Barbican with Obsession, an adaptation of

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Review: Obsession at the Barbican by Fergus Morgan

What I'm suppose to think vs What I actually think: Fergus Morgan reviews the world premiere of Ivo van Hove's Obsession. The post Review: Obsession at the Barbican appeared first on Exeunt…

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Tuesday, April 25, 2017

The Philanthropist starring Simon Bird and Charlotte Ritchie – review round-up by Fergus Morgan

It’s Moliere month in the West End. While David Tennant stars in Patrick Marber’s 21st Century update of Don Juan, and Lee Mack and

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Friday, April 21, 2017

Home Truths review at the Bunker, London – ‘patchily panoramic’ by Fergus Morgan

Home Truths is Cardboard Citizens’ attempt to tell the history of British housing in nine new short plays. Cycle One – of

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Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Carousel starring Alfie Boe and Katherine Jenkins – review round-up by Fergus Morgan

The third fruit of the opinion-dividing partnership between the English National Opera and production company GradeLinnit, Lonny Price’s semi-staged revival of Rodgers

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Wednesday, April 12, 2017

The Plague review at Arcola Theatre, London – ‘richly allegorical’ by Fergus Morgan

Albert Camus’ 1947 novel The Plague, the story of a city torn apart by infectious fever, is a bold allegory on the Nazi occupation. In Neil Bartlett’s compelling new

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Tuesday, April 11, 2017

The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia? starring Damian Lewis and Sophie Okonedo – review round-up by Fergus Morgan

It’s Edward Albee season in the West End at the moment. While Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? drags audiences into marital hell six nights a

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Friday, April 7, 2017

NSDF: showcasing student creations for sixty years by Fergus Morgan

Question: what do Harold Pinter, Ruth Wilson, Sandi Toksvig and Michael Billington have in common? Answer: they all, at one point or

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42nd Street at Theatre Royal Drury Lane – review round-up by Fergus Morgan

First a novel in 1932, then a Hollywood film the subsequent year, then a smash-hit Broadway musical in 1980, 42nd Street’s route from page to

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Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Tommy review at New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich – ‘a revelatory staging’ by Fergus Morgan

The Who’s Tommy – the original rock opera – is a sprawling, kaleidoscopic storytelling experience. So it makes sense for Kerry Michael’s staging – a

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Monday, April 3, 2017

Natives review at Southwark Playhouse, London – ‘grindingly formulaic’ by Fergus Morgan

Glenn Waldron’s new play, Natives, interleaves the stories of three teenagers on their 14th birthday, tracking their movements as they slowly and

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Echo’s End review at Salisbury Playhouse – ‘arrestingly perceptive’ by Fergus Morgan

Barney Norris’ new play Echo’s End, like so much First World War drama before it, is infused with an august Rupert Brooke

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Friday, March 31, 2017

The Skriker review at Styx, London – ‘bold, but unilluminating’ by Fergus Morgan

Caryl Churchill’s The Skriker is a tough nut. Dense, otherworldly and frequently incomprehensible, it deals with an ancient, female spirit – the Skriker

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Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Don Juan in Soho starring David Tennant – review round-up by Fergus Morgan

Is Patrick Marber the busiest man in theatre at the moment? His National Theatre adaptation of Hedda Gabler has just closed (but will reappear

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All that Chat

2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic