Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Christopher 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 ex…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 12:48PM[SHARE]Friday, September 20, 2019
An 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 a phrase y…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 11:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Rich in empathy, dramatically raw, Alexander Zeldin's bleak study of society on the edge
Alexander Zeldin continues his devastating analysis of modern Britain in this culminating play of…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 10:03AM[SHARE]Monday, September 9, 2019
Matthew Needham in lithe drag queen form opens new London venue
London's latest theatre opening brings a stirring revival of Harvey Fierstein's vital gay drama, which premiered as Torch Song…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 3, 2019
Florian Zeller's play of family anguish receives a much-deserved West End transfer
A tale of teenage depression and its family resonances, Florian Zeller's The Son has a devastating simplici…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 11:33AM[SHARE]Friday, August 23, 2019
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's 2013 play is tensely dark, as well as very funny
You can't fail to feel the ghosts in Appropriate: they are there in the very timbers of the ancient Southern planta…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:42PM[SHARE]Monday, July 29, 2019
New West London venue opens with a zestful spectacular to suit all ages
London's Troubadour White City theatre has got off to a, literally, flying start.
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 16, 2019
Lean and hungry brilliance in Ned Bennett's production of Peter Shaffer
When he gave Martin Dysart, the troubled psychiatrist protagonist of Equus, a line in which he speaks about "moments o…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 20, 2019
Stagecraft skill and company playing meld seamlessly in Petersburg production
Lev Dodin has been artistic director of the famed Maly Drama Theatre for some three and a half decades now, ove…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 11:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 13, 2019
The indelible power of Lynn Nottage's new play confirmed in Donmar transfer
There's a joke early on in Sweat, Lynn Nottage's superlative drama about American working lives, in which a lively…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 10:18AM[SHARE]Monday, June 10, 2019
Okwui Okpokwasili's solo performance piece is an astounding piece of theatre
It's hard, and finally fruitless to attempt to describe Okwui Okpokwasili's Bronx Gothic in conventional terms of…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 6, 2019
Declan Donnellan riffs on Beaumont's meta-comedy in flavoursome Russian
Declan Donnellan has a rich record of working with Russian actors: his previous walk on the Slavic side, the darkly po…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:48AM[SHARE]Monday, June 3, 2019
Lenny Henry leads a strong cast in August Wilson's 1999 play of African American identity
The huge achievement of the last two decades or so of August Wilson's life, right up to his death in…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Arthur Miller's possession drama staged for spectacle
The Crucible is a play that speaks with unrelenting power at times of discord, most of all when the public consciousness looks ripe for …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 12, 2019
Powerful production of Arthur Miller's play of fraternal discord, past painThere's a sublime equilibrium to Arthur Miller's 1968 play between the overwhelmingly heavy weight of history …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 7, 2019
The season's closing pairing presents Danny Dyer and a radio revelationIt was back to the very beginning for this final instalment of "Pinter at the Pinter", with its pairing of A Sligh…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 10:32AM[SHARE]Friday, February 1, 2019
Adrian Lester compels in new American drama about care and connectionThe Off Broadway production of Cost of Living two years ago brought Martyna Majok the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:04PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 17, 2019
DH Lawrence's tragically inflected 1913 tale of family relationships powerfully toldThere's a stark power to Jack Gamble's production of DH Lawrence's The Daughter-in-Law, which has tra…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 10:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 13, 2018
Love it or leave it production sends the RSC on a laboured way to EssexFor those of us who have never thought much before about links between pantomime and Shakespeare, Fiona Laird's new Mer…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 11:32AM[SHARE]Friday, December 7, 2018
Natasha Gordon joins the company as her debut drama transfers from the NationalThis is Natasha Gordon's first play, and in it she has created a whole world. A world of grief and laughter, co…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 27, 2018
Supreme lucidity and two commanding performances make for a moving productionYou always wonder about those final scenes of Shakespeare's tragedies. Are they really needed dramatically; do th…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:48AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 22, 2018
Back to the 17th century: the village that cut itself off to dieThe end-of-season contemporary writing slot at the Globe must be a proposal as full of promise for playwrights as it is perhap…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:06AM[SHARE]Monday, September 10, 2018
A furious, darkly comic riff on race, this frenetic two-hander dazzlesUnderground Railroad Game is scabrous theatre " in every sense. To start with, Jennifer Kidwell and Scott R Sheppard's t…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:04AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 30, 2018
The ladies of France shine in a production that otherwise makes heavy weather If ever there was a play of "well bandied" words, it's surely Love's Labour's Lost. The early Shakespearean com…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:06AM[SHARE]Friday, August 10, 2018
Jordan Seavey paints a landscape of New York gay life that is as moving as it is witty I'm still not entirely sure what the full associations of the title of New York playwright Jordan Seave…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 5, 2018
Orlando Bloom compels as the hitman-cop ruling Tracy Letts's dark, gothic worldRight from the beginning of this production of Tracy Letts's very first play, it's clear we're in for a bi…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Calixto Bieito's melange of text and music delivers a mesmerising agony of desolationCalixto Bieito has a reputation as a radical theatre-maker, and by any traditional standards The Str…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:24PM[SHARE]Friday, May 18, 2018
Michelle Terry's new company explores gender fludity, charts new directionsThere's a distinct feeling of back-to-basics to this opening double bill at the Globe under the theatre's new …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 10:06AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 21, 2018
Bravura performance from Tanya Moodie in sharp new American drama of racial discordConflict and comedy can be unpredictable bedfellows, and Chicago playwright Joel Drake Johnson's 2014 play …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:48AM[SHARE]Monday, January 29, 2018
★★★★ THE OPEN HOUSE, THE PRINT ROOM A tyrannical family reunion and a dramatic volte-face in Will Eno's ingenious new dramaA tyrannical family reunion and a dramatic …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:45AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 14, 2016
Was Tennessee Williams breaking rules, or breaking apart when he wrote this 1969 play? A bit of both, probably, and the two main characters of the rarely performed In the Bar of a Tokyo Hote…
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