The Globe stretches the theatrical experience with this bilingual BSL production More surely than any other London stage, the Globe has opened up our theatrical perspective on different lang…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 03:54PMKatori Hall is back in her native Memphis with an exuberant ensemble piece There’s an exuberant comedy from the start in Katori Hall’s The Hot Wing King, which comes to London after an i…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 12:42PMA female cast rips into toxic masculinity in a rebalanced treatment of villainy There’s a fierce, dark energy to the Globe’s new Richard III that I don’t recall at that venue for a fai…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 04:06PMAwkward mix of knockabout laughs, heartfelt tribute and feminist messaging never quite settles There are genres of theatre that demand buy-in from the audience – musicals, opera and the…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 02:12PMPeter Gill's new memory play is a wistful recreation of gay loves lost and found As its title suggests, Peter Gill’s Something in the Air is an elusive piece – it’s about catching at i…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 02:19PMWhile bravado support from Bill Pullman practically steals the show For sheer extremes of family dysfunction Theresa Rebeck’s Mad House must be aiming to set new records in American drama.…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:54AMThe first in his 'Century Cycle' catches the fabric of life that August Wilson made his own It’s great to see August Wilson’s early play – the first of his “Century Cycle”, that re…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 11:42AMJames Fritz’s play explores the spoken and unspoken ripples of grief with fine naturalism The title of James Fritz’s play is allusive, oblique even. I assume it refers to how, in the af…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 01:42AMJeremy O Harris's scintillating drama poses questions about possession, in life and art Danya Taymor’s production of “Daddy” A Melodrama has a huge exuberance: a tour de force in itsel…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 02:12AMAlexis Zegerman’s new play feels less than the sum of its parts The Fever Syndrome has an ambition that places itself firmly in the tradition of the great American family drama (comparison…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 12:33PMAgent supreme Peggy Ramsay returns to the stage in accomplished Alan Plater revival Was Peggy Ramsay a “woman out of time”? The legendary London literary agent, who nurtured the talents…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:33AMBlanche McIntyre regenders the Duke and relishes the London low-life Measure for Measure may be the quintessential Shakespearean “problem” play, but just what has earned it that epithet…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 01:24PMThe intensity of studio theatre only fitful in Bill Alexander's updated adaptation What’s in an article? Director Bill Alexander has titled his new production A Merchant of Venice, leaving…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 12:12PMStockard Channing explores the essentials in Marsha Norman revival ‘Night Mother remains a play of piercing pessimism, something that’s not necessarily the same as tragedy, though the tw…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 11:36AMOvercoming lockdown challenges, a broadcast first for RSC It has been a hard coming for this RSC Winter’s Tale but, mirroring the action of the play itself, considerable travail has brough…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:42PMAffectionate aplomb from Oliver Ford Davies and Stephen Boxer in Ben Brown's new play There’s such a genial feel to the pairing of Oliver Ford Davies and Stephen Boxer in Ben Brown’s ne…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 10:36AMJenny Caron Hall's production, with sister Rebecca starring, offers 'mechanical' treats Just what the Zoom era has brought to theatre – to performers and audiences alike – is something w…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 09:42AMJemma Redgrave and Adrian Scarborough excel in Peter Barnes radio solos brought to screen The four monologues that make up Barnes’ People were filmed in the grand surroundings of the Theat…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:33AMAdrian Lester and Danny Sapani in their skins in Lolita Chakrabarti’s new play Contact without touch: among the many readjustments that the pandemic has brought to theatre, its demands th…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 09:36AMNina Raine’s urgent story of hospital stress rings truer than ever today If ever there was a “play for today”, it’s surely this.
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 11:12AMBreffni Holahan’s bravura performance controls a monologue of mental malaise There’s such remarkable symbiosis between material and performance in Irish dramatist Margaret Perry’s Coll…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:54AMA strange meeting across the boundary of race: John Kani co-stars in his two-hander with Antony Sher John Kani’s Kunene and the King is history in microcosm. Its premiere at the RSC last y…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:24AMIan Rickson’s exemplary production relishes the nuances of Conor McPherson's adaptation Uncle Vanya must surely be the closest, the most essential of Chekhov’s plays, its cast – just f…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:48PMRelocation from the Russian provinces to Sixties Biafra brings insight and immediacy Inua Ellams’ Three Sisters plays Chekhov in the shadow of war, specifically the Nigerian-Biafran seces…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 09:36AMNew American drama directs a rapier wit at black stereotypes Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Fairview comes to the Young Vic with the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama under its belt, and a reputatio…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 03:18PMDavid Greig’s dream-drama of cosmic loneliness is sci-fi at its most philosophical David Greig’s reimagining of Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel has brought a masterpiece of intellectual sc…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 09:36AMMore manner than message in adaptation of Klaus Mann's 1930s novel You wonder about the title of French dramatist Sam Gallet’s Mephisto [A Rhapsody], an adaptation for our days of Klaus Ma…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 11:24AMQuestions of faith in Katori Hall’s luminous meditation on belief, doubt and miracles The American dramatist Katori Hall has created a work of rare accomplishment in Our Lady of Kibeho, a …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 02:03PMJohn Simm is a strikingly intelligent Thane in a broadly theatrical production There’s a fine balance between the cosmic and the closely crafted in director Paul Miller’s Macbeth, his fi…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 01:48PMChristopher Hampton adapts von Horváth's novel about the mindset of totalitarianism The only novel by the Hungarian dramatist Ödön von Horváth, Youth Without God was written in exile aft…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 12:48PMAn original piece of theatre-making finds joyous exuberance, as well as sorrow, in the immigrant experience Canadian playwright Hannah Moscovitch’s “refugee musical” – now there’s …
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