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Thursday, March 8, 2018

Macbeth, National Theatre - Rufus Norris goes for drab, gory and tricksy by Ismene.brown

Rory Kinnear plays the homicidal Thane like a Mitchell brother on the rampageFair is foul and foul is drab, gory and tricksy in Rufus Norris’s first stab at Shakespeare direction at the Na…

SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 03:30AM
Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Macbeth, National Theatre by Ismene.brown

Rory Kinnear plays the homicidal Thane like a Mitchell brother on the rampageFair is foul and foul is drab, gory and tricksy in Rufus Norris’s first stab at Shakespeare direction, Macbeth …

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:13PM
Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Long Day's Journey Into Night, Wyndham's Theatre review - Lesley Manville hits ecstatic, fatal highs by Ismene.brown

A fine staging of O'Neill's family tragedy crowned by an indelible performanceEugene O’Neill’s 1945 play Long Day’s Journey Into Night is famously a portrayal of the hellish …

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:00AM

Long Day's Journey Into Night, Wyndham's Theatre review - Lesley Manville hits ecstatic, fatal highs by Ismene.brown

★★★★ LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, WYNDHAM'S THEATRE A fine staging of O'Neill's family tragedy crowned by an indelible performance from Lesley ManvilleA fine staging of O'Neil…

SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:00AM
Friday, October 13, 2017

The Seagull, Lyric Hammersmith review – is Lesley Sharp's Irina a sex addict? by Ismene.brown

Chekhov's classic bird updates entertainingly, even if lopsidedly, as a play for todayThe awful mother, the celebrity-obsessed teenager, the mediocre old writer who wants some young sex…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 02:33PM
Wednesday, September 13, 2017

The March on Russia, Orange Tree Theatre review – vividly funny amid the bleakness by Ismene.brown

David Storey skilfully probes troubled relations inside a Yorkshire bungalowThe late David Storey spoke movingly, elsewhere on The Arts Desk, of his sense of overwhelming powerlessness at th…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 01:54AM
Sunday, May 14, 2017

Three Sisters, Sovremennik review - 'over-conscious of its legendariness' by Ismene.brown

Celebrated Moscow company delivers something far from contemporarySovremennik is Russian for “contemporary”, and ever since its founding in the Soviet Union's 1950s Thaw, Moscow’s Sov…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 02:48PM
Thursday, February 16, 2017

Travesties, Apollo Theatre by Ismene.brown

Adjust your brain, and give in to Tom Stoppard's howlingly funny playTom Stoppard’s humungously funny play Travesties was born out of a piece of James Joyce doggerel about how a Briti…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 11:18AM
Friday, December 2, 2016

This House, Garrick Theatre by Ismene.brown

Sharp Seventies political farce comes suddenly bang up to dateThis House arrives in the West End with magic timing - a comedy about the farcical horrors of being a government with a wafer-th…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 11:36PM
Monday, November 7, 2016

All My Sons, Rose Theatre, Kingston by Ismene.brown

Miller's morality play fights to be relevant in the Trump eraWhat would a Trump follower make of a successful businessman who grew his company on the proceeds of a negligent decision, a…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:36AM

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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
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