Monday, November 8, 2021
Alana 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 09:03AMWednesday, October 27, 2021
An 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 06:06AMTuesday, October 26, 2021
What 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 01:26AMFriday, March 13, 2020
“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 12:44AMMonday, March 9, 2020
Evelyn 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 01:30PMWednesday, March 4, 2020
What 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 07:52AMFriday, February 28, 2020
John 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 09:46AMSaturday, February 22, 2020
Antoinette 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…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:25PMWednesday, February 19, 2020
Now that’s what I call a star turn. Hitting the brakes on an express train, Lesley Manville lands on the National Theatre’s Olivier stage surrounded by thick smoke, supported by prosthet…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:34PMSunday, February 16, 2020
A woman walks into her home. Then does another. And another. Stef Smith’s Nora: A Doll’s House is not merely an adaptation of Ibsen’s 1879 play. It is three adaptations superimposed on…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:06AMFriday, February 14, 2020
Towards the end of Leopoldstadt, a young writer named Leonard is handed a sheet of paper with his family tree on it. The chart spans four generations and bears the imprint of two dozen lives…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:13PMWednesday, February 12, 2020
“Tonight’s been a drama-overload,” observes one of the “magnificent six” in Crongton Knights. She is not exaggerating: Emteaz Hussain’s adaptation of Alex
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:28AMFriday, February 7, 2020
Could diabolical interference be the only way for a woman in 17th-century London to advance in life without being bound to a man? For Joanna Faustus, the answer is in the affirmative. So she…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:15AMFriday, January 31, 2020
The wilting characters of Uncle Vanya would like us to believe that their scenes from country life should not amount to much, except, perhaps, for an endless succession of tedious trifles. T…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:40PMMonday, January 20, 2020
Set in Chicago in 1957, Tony Tortora’s Cops zooms in on four jaded police detectives trying to navigate a police force steeped
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:01AMFriday, January 17, 2020
Imagine if the “rude mechanicals” from A Midsummer Night’s Dream were asked to stage Hamlet in just an hour and with only
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:36AMThursday, December 19, 2019
It is hard to believe that Shelagh Delaney wrote A Taste of Honey when she was only nineteen. This increasingly textured and knotty play, which received its first—and famous—staging in 1…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:00AMSunday, December 15, 2019
This Duchess of Malfi is a cool one. It is so cool that it has lost its gripping temper and, with it, some of its fire. A surprising drop in temperature, because director Rebecca Frecknall h…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:47AMThursday, December 12, 2019
“You into words?” Jamie Lloyd’s magnificent treatment of Cyrano de Bergerac very much is. Refracted through Lloyd’s modestly masterful staging, Martin Crimp’s vigorous, insightful …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:43AMTuesday, December 10, 2019
Based on Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s beloved classic The Little Prince, this year’s festive show at the Omnibus Theatre promises a joyously sparkling
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:34AMSunday, December 8, 2019
Fairview is a scorching minefield that looks like a green meadow. At long last, London audiences can enter the beguiling terrain of Jackie Sibblies Drury’s 2018 play in a flawless Young Vi…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:55AMFriday, December 6, 2019
Written and directed by Peter Rowe, New Wolsey Theatre’s “rockin’ panto” Cinderella lands in North Finchley with a glittery, flaming bouquet of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:49AMThursday, December 5, 2019
’Tis the season for Christmas pantos across the UK, and there could not be a more ideal opener to this mad tradition than Lyric Hammersmith’s joyously woke Cinderella. Written by Jude Ch…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:52PMMonday, December 2, 2019
First performed in 1945, Emlyn Williams’ play The Wind of Heaven depicts a Welsh village caught in spiritual turmoil in the wake
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:10AMThursday, November 28, 2019
Adapting novels for the stage is a tricky business. When the novel in question happens to be wildly popular and epically proportioned, the challenges faced by the adapter can escalate withou…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:59PMTuesday, November 26, 2019
Founded in 2001, the Dramaturgs’ Network is the only organization in the United Kingdom solely dedicated to supporting dramaturgs and promoting the practice and theory of dramaturgy. Among…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:17AMSunday, November 24, 2019
What’s the use of thinking about the future? What’s the use of thinking about the future in a theatre? Created by the Copenhagen-based theatre company Fix&Foxy, Tue Biering’s one-w…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:33AMFriday, November 8, 2019
Isabel Allende’s 1982 novel The House of the Spirits is not an easy work to bring to the stage. An ambitious family
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:35PMThursday, November 7, 2019
The winner of the 2019 Papatango New Writing Prize, Shook by Samuel Bailey offers a glimpse into an unexpected corner of the criminal justice system. It is set in a classroom, but not in a s…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:47PMPerformed in Norwegian with English surtitles, Jon Fosse’s play Shadows has a conceptual premise that depends on a disjuncture between the actor
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:47AMTuesday, November 5, 2019
Grief can be a blinding experience, but it can also give clarity of sight. This is what happens to Sal, the bereaving
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:37AM 
