Thursday, October 12, 2023
In the latest by Marie NDiaye, a tale of crimes real and possibly unreal is heightened by audaciously perceptive prose.
Vengeance Is Mine, by Marie NDiaye, translated by Jordan Stump,
Knop…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMFriday, July 1, 2016
Their guerrilla Hamlet gained a cult following last year. Now The Factory group have brought their minimal, part-swapping approach to The SeagullIn the downstairs studio at London's Hampstea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:28PMFriday, April 1, 2016
‘The best argument anyone has yet made for the continued necessity of the theatre,’ according to one US critic. As The Flick premieres in the UK, Annie Baker talks about art, awkwardness…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:35AMSunday, January 17, 2016
As the lead in David Bowie’s musical Lazarus, Michael C Hall felt the singer’s death like an ‘internal fist clench’. The former Dexter star talks about inhabiting the role Bowie firs…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:02PMMonday, November 16, 2015
Young VicJust a stroll from the Young Vic's bar, where people are drinking wine on the terrace, stands an ugly metal shipping container. It's there to accommodate audiences of just 28 who wi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:10AMMonday, May 25, 2015
Moments before curtain up, New Yorkers dash for empty seats closer to the stage. Could UK audiences be more bold?
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMIt's the talk of New York, a Broadway show with music by U2's Bono plagued by broken limbs and technical mishaps. With its official opening repeatedly delayed, critics plan to break with pro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMWith its official opening repeatedly delayed, critics plan to break with protocol and review the Spider-Man musical before press night. We sneaked a seat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMNeil Tennant called his band's late-80s spell of commercial infallibility their "imperial phase". But with a score that often sounds as though John Williams's Stormtroopers are about to marc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMWednesday, April 15, 2015
The 'Cybill' and 'Good Wife' star on Sondheim, power dressing - and what she really thinks of Michael Sheen
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 02:00AMMonday, February 9, 2015
Brooklyn Academy of Music, New YorkThe comic who started the Bill Cosby backlash dissects hip-hop, yoga pants and steroids in his mellow Comedy Camisado routine that’s as funny as it is la…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:15AMThursday, December 4, 2014
As much as Broadway now relies on Hollywood actors to bring in the crowds, so A-listers increasingly view stints onstage as integral to a rich career. Here, six award-winning actors on their…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:25AMMonday, September 8, 2014
Not content with being a famous fashionista at 11, Tavi Gevinson is now upstaging Kieran Culkin and Michael Cera on Broadway in Kenneth Lonergans This Is Our Youth Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00PMThursday, April 24, 2014
Michelle Williams is heart-stopping as Sally Bowles
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 10:00PMSaturday, April 12, 2014
'The Basquiat of street dance' tries to explain his amazing eye-popping work, his equally extraordinary approach to it and how he earned Jay Z's patronageWhen I begin recording our interview…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMThursday, April 3, 2014
Top tap dancer Savion Glover says tap is more than expression. It's an education
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 02:00AMThursday, March 6, 2014
The Breaking Bad star is thrilling as Lyndon B. Johnson but this star vehicle is too much of a history lesson, says Hermione Hoby
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 11:00PMFriday, January 31, 2014
Playwright, actor and Homeland star Tracy Letts talks to Hermione Hoby
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 03:00AMFriday, August 9, 2013
Members of the influential New York ensemble explain what prompted them finally to tackle the bard for the first time - and why Richard Burton's 1964 version was an inspirationBefore Punchdr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:44AMMonday, June 11, 2012
Broadway's big night was beamed live to a huge audience at New York's favourite intersection. So who was down there – and why?Times Square: where jingoists go to cheer the deaths of terror…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:16AMSaturday, December 3, 2011
In New York, Hermione Hoby thrills to the latest in American horror theatreMy wrists are tied, I'm in total darkness and a man very close to my face is shouting: "Get on your knees, bitch!"I…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMTuesday, August 9, 2011
One Thousand and One Nights is this year's big Edinburgh show. Its director tells Hermione Hoby how it was almost scuppered by the Arab spring – and why he added big rubber penisesDirector…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:30PMTuesday, June 28, 2011
Justin Bond hit the big time as the raging cabaret legend Kiki DuRane. Now, finds Hermione Hoby, the transgender singer has come up with a whole new identityIt's the hottest day of the year,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00PMWednesday, April 13, 2011
Ethel Barrymore theatre, New YorkThere probably isn't a more dazzlingly cerebral play of the last 50 years than Tom Stoppard's 1993 masterpiece. Its spry apothegms come as thick and fast as …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04AMSaturday, March 12, 2011
(EMI)Neil Tennant called his band's late-80s spell of commercial infallibility their "imperial phase". But with a score that often sounds as though John Williams's Stormtroopers are about to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMWednesday, February 9, 2011
Having been prevented from reviewing 'Broadway's biggest punchline' for months, the New York critics are fed up of waiting – and are lining up to kick it. Is it curtains for Spidey?Had you…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:34AMSaturday, February 5, 2011
It's the talk of New York, a Broadway show with music by U2's Bono plagued by broken limbs and technical mishaps. With its official opening repeatedly delayed, critics plan to break with pro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02PMTuesday, November 2, 2010
Moments before curtain up, New Yorkers dash for empty seats closer to the stage. Could UK audiences be more bold?One of the unforeseen pleasures of moving to New York has been contemplating …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:23AM 
