Monday, September 24, 2012
This thoroughly entertaining new collection is Caryl Churchill at her most quirky and accessible.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:36AMWednesday, September 19, 2012
A fine new play byTarell Alvin McCraney now in London, and headed for New York
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:39AMMonday, August 6, 2012
Brian Friel’s wonderful 1964 play gets a perfect production at the Donmar Warehouse wotj Lyndsey Turner directing
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 02:18PMSaturday, July 28, 2012
Returning to the Globe is its first Artistic Director, Mark Rylance, as the “bottled spider.” Hs version of the monarch is an affable spider without much bottle, so self effacing is his …
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:29PMTuesday, July 3, 2012
Disguised as a comedy Birthday is Joe Penhall’s passionate polemic on the state of the National Health Service when it comes to childbirth. Returning to the setting in the NHS of his 2000…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 04:00PMFriday, June 22, 2012
The remarkable American production of Gatz from the Elevator Repair Service comes to London as a part of LIFT 2012 the international theatre festival. Recreating F Scott Fitzgerald’s class…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:17AMMonday, June 18, 2012
After starring in Harvey Fierstein’s musical La Cage Aux Folles at the Menier and on Broadway, Douglas Hodge is in the director’s chair for Fierstein’s earlier play . The magnificent D…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:35AMWednesday, May 23, 2012
As London prepares to host the Olympic Games, with brilliant timing comes Mike Bartlett’s stage version of David Puttnam’s 1981 film
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:16PMMonday, May 21, 2012
For those who want to see Danny DeVito live on stage, this will deliver. Sorry to rain on your parade Sunshine Boys!
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:06AMSunday, May 13, 2012
Riding on the success of BBC Television’s dancing contest, Strictly Come Dancing where celebrities compete paired with professional dancers, comes this world premiere staging of the 1935 F…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:53PMMonday, May 7, 2012
n Mike Bartlett’s excellent play it's easy for each generation represented to identify with their own, but there is plenty of room for thought and empath
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:44AMSunday, April 29, 2012
Edward Bond’s plays expect the audience to work, to think, to reflect. There are no easy answers, no neat solutions-
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:48AMMonday, April 16, 2012
David Suchet and Laurie Metcalf are magnificent in this very fine production which has an unexpected feel good factor
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:35PMFriday, July 1, 2011
Edward Hall's all male company at Hampstead Theatre.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:51AMTuesday, June 14, 2011
this musical's London run may well outlast New York as a genuinely funny musical for all the family.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:31PMSaturday, June 4, 2011
Allowing for the saturnine Higgins, which has the effect of making you think about the ethics, the real delight of Shaw's play is ever present in this well spoken production.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:32PMMonday, May 23, 2011
Chekhov described his play as a comedy, but there is little to laugh at in this the cruellest version I have seen. . . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:35AMSunday, May 22, 2011
Theatre company Filter's latest work in collaboration with the RSC . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:39AMFriday, April 22, 2011
a rate chance to see two minor early David Mamet plays.. . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 11:40PMThursday, April 21, 2011
Donmar's major production of minor Pinter play
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 02:43PMWednesday, March 30, 2011
Emma Rice's version of the French film; you will either adore it or hate it
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:29AMTuesday, March 22, 2011
This may be John Leguizamo's most deeply felt and therapeutic performance piece. It may also be the most entertaining .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:36PMLike all Neil Labute's plays this one engages you intellectually long after curtain down .
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