Yaël Farber presents Shakespeare’s blistering play with bravura Less than three years after her magnificent Macbeth, Yaël Farber returns to the Almeida with another Shakespeare tragedy. …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:48AMTony-winning production lands in the West End with an astounding cast Doom and gloom, we are told, may have abounded in the classical underworld, but Hadestown suggests otherwise. Returning …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:42AMA solo performance in theatre may often trap us inside a single dramatic character, taking us deep into their interiority. Or it may zigzag feverishly between an astounding range of figures …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:39AM“This play is a lie,” boldly declares the poster of Sam Holcroft’s new play A Mirror, now playing at London’s Trafalgar Theatre after its initial run at the Almeida Theatre last summ…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:02AMHow to render Macbeth anew—and how to do it well? It’s a question that has undoubtedly preoccupied countless directors, actors, and designers over the centuries. And it’s a question th…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:28AMAn American actor, an English director, and a Northern Irish playwright walk into a house in London to start working on a new production. This is not so much the opener of a joke as the tant…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:21AMThe Netflix hit broadens its beguiling story with this thrilling, high-powered stage production Stranger Things has shown us over four seasons that the alternate dimension known as the Upsid…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 12:02PMShakespeare meets Game of Thrones in an efficient but emotionally stilted production Few would have imagined that Kenneth Branagh’s return to the West End would see him garbed in fur-lined…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 10:13PMDirector Jamie Lloyd is at the height of his powers in this stark, sublime reinterpretation of a modern classic Jamie Lloyd has the gift that keeps on giving. Hot on the heels of recent prod…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:07AMToday’s obvious was most likely yesterday’s incredible. This is the conceit at the heart of Dr Semmelweis, a new play written by Stephen Brown with Mark Rylance, which has transferred to…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:07AMMartin McDonagh is perhaps better known today globally for his recent accomplishments on screen as a writer and director, but he cut his teeth through his prodigious work as a playwright. Fi…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:05PMMike Faist and Lucas Hedges star in an underpowered adaptation of Annie Proulx's short story For a masterclass in expansive adaptation, one could do worse than turn to Ang Lee’s Oscar-winn…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 10:42AMContemporary Black British theatre is admirably adamant about pushing its own boundaries and expanding its audience. A recent case in point is Ryan Calais Cameron’s bracing play For Black …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:17PMDominic Cooke's otherwise uneven production boasts formidable performances What is one to do with Greek tragedy on the contemporary stage? For Simon Stone, whose Phaedra is currently playing…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 12:19AMThis new musical about the early life of Nelson Mandela is a mawkish misfire As bio-musicals continue to have their heyday, it makes sense for the Young Vic to throw its hat in the ring and …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:06AMTV is a strange medium, but James Graham is no stranger to its toxic charm. London audiences have recently witnessed the British playwright’s musical adaptation of the life of Tammy Faye, …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:57AMCharming performances in this watered-down version of Virginia Woolf’s novel Identity is thorny business. This was the parting thought of Anna X, the play that marked Emma Corrin’s West …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 03:32AMLyndsey Turner paints this seminal drama with disturbing colours How can this beauty arise from such ugliness? The Crucible, Arthur Miller’s 1953 drama about the Salem witch trials of 1692…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 09:43AMÉdouard Louis’s book is brought to life in a fierce performance A bare interior with tarnished walls, a single bed, and an oxygen tube. The stage seems to have been set for a Beckett play…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:07AMBartlett Sher's Broadway production comes to London with aplomb First staged in 2018, Bartlett Sher’s Lincoln Center Theater production of My Fair Lady is London’s latest import from B…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:33AMJez Butterworth's 2009 play is evergreen in its excellence At long last, the giant has come back. Over a decade after its critical apotheosis on both sides of the Atlantic, Jez Butterworth�…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 04:33PM'Killing Eve' star's stage debut is a triumph National statistics tell us that, in the year ending September 2021, 41% of rape victims in England and Wales eventually withdrew their support …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:48AMJackie Sibblies Drury is one of the most exciting voices working in American theatre today. The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of Fairview and We Are Proud to Present a Presentation… has a …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:29AMAlana Valentine's play about crime and poverty in Australia receives a spirited production The complex history of capital punishment in Australia may not be familiar to many Londoners, but t…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 09:03AMAn adroit cast does justice to Isley Lynn's complexly woven narrative "You need to get better at communicating", says one character to another in Isley Lynn’s albatross. Indeed, the same…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:06AMWhat does it take to stretch Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy to a runtime of over three hours? Not, as it turns out, a tedious crawl through the play. Rather, an electrifying but patient jo…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:26AM“Would you rather have one shoe or no shoes?” Viv is here to show us that missing only one shoe is not necessarily the better option. Having lost one of her shoes on the way to work, she…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:44AMEvelyn Farrant, the scheming actor at the centre of Gerald Moon’s 1983 play Corpse!, would like to believe that he is the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:30PMWhat goes into an apology, and what comes out of it? The three plays assembled in The Apologists approach these questions from
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:52AMJohn Osborne’s Look Back in Anger is often remembered for its association with kitchen sink realism. Marking the play’s return to London
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:46AMAntoinette Nwandu’s play Pass Over is a palimpsest. Its outer surface looks familiar: haunted by the ever-present threat of a murderous police force, two black men are paralyzed into inact…
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