Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Dixon and Daughters, National Theatre review - cold discomfort harm by Aleks.sierz

Trauma play about domestic abuse raises questions about the role of theatre Men are bastards. Okay, not all of us, but enough to make the lives of millions of women a misery. This we know, …

SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 04:36PM
Thursday, April 6, 2023

A Little Life, Harold Pinter Theatre review - unrelenting trauma by Aleks.sierz

Ivo van Hove’s stage version of Hanya Yanagihara’s bestseller is a real misery fest Wow! James Norton naked! Wow! New play by Ivo van Hove. Wow! It’s four hours long. Wow! Wow! Wow! Th…

SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 01:03AM
Wednesday, April 5, 2023

A Little Life review – James Norton’s sexually abused lawyer is spared no misery by Arifa Akbar

Harold Pinter theatre, LondonSome called it torture porn, others a masterpiece. Ivo van Hove brings Hanya Yanagihara’s novel to the West End, complete with spurting blood, relentless sadis…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32PM

RiverRun Festival Opening Video by The Kennedy Center

President Kennedy called for preserving our planet 60 years ago in his Address before the 18th General Assembly of the United Nations on September 20, 1963. Now from World Water Day to Earth…

SOURCE: YouTube at 01:42PM
Sunday, April 2, 2023

A Little Life and misery lit: Have we finally suffered enough? by Eloise Hendy

As Hanya Yanagihara’s novel about a self-harming victim of abuse is adapted for the West End, Eloise Hendy explores how trauma and misery became a literary trend

SOURCE: The Independent at 03:18AM
Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Modern Misery: A Review of “Proximity” at Lyric Opera by Ted C. Fishman

"Proximity"’s deeply emotionally affecting scores, a cast of universally fine vocal leads and kinetic, video-centric staging add up to jarring, hard-to-shake work that will stir audiences …

SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM
Tuesday, March 28, 2023

JPAS gives audiences ‘Misery’ with final 2023 production by Alan Smason

By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) The final production for the Jefferson Performing Arts Society’s 2022-23 season is Misery, the play written by the late script…

SOURCE: TheatreCriticsm.com at 03:25PM
Saturday, March 11, 2023

‘Torture porn or serious literature?’: the love-hate phenomenon of cult novel A Little Life by Alex Needham

One million copies sold, sobbing superfans on TikTok and a new stage adaptation starring James Norton – yet Hanya Yanagihara’s 2015 book continues to divides readers On the cover of the …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AM
Friday, March 10, 2023

Springs Fine Arts Center announces ’23-’24 season by Osc Staff Report

Highlights include 'Misery,' 'Elf' and 'Rent

SOURCE: www.onstagecolorado.com at 05:10PM
Monday, February 27, 2023

“MERLIN”— MAGIC TO DON’T! by Ron Fassler

February 27, 2023: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler “The thing about Doug Henning was that he could make the audience disappear, too!” — Nathan Lane Merlin, the infamo…

SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 08:02AM
Friday, December 30, 2022

PROTEC/ATTAC - UTR 2023 | The Public Theater by The Public Theater

Protec/Attac January 11, 14-15, 19-22 Created by Peter Mills Weiss and Julia Mounsey Presented in association with Chelsea Factory Learn more: https://publictheater.org/productions/season/…

SOURCE: YouTube at 03:18PM
Friday, December 9, 2022

The Cast of A LITTLE SHAKESPEARE: ROMEO AND JULIET play Red Flags | Part Two | Two River Theater by Two River Theater

The cast of A LITTLE SHAKESPEARE: ROMEO AND JULIET send their characters on blind dates... will they find a match or misery? A LITTLE SHAKESPEARE: ROMEO AND JULIET is onstage Dec 2 – 11 /…

SOURCE: YouTube at 12:06PM
Wednesday, November 30, 2022

The Cast of A LITTLE SHAKESPEARE: ROMEO AND JULIET Play RED FLAGS | Part One | Two River Theater by Two River Theater

The cast of A LITTLE SHAKESPEARE: ROMEO AND JULIET send their characters on blind dates... will they find a match or misery? A LITTLE SHAKESPEARE: ROMEO AND JULIET is onstage Dec 2 – 11 /…

SOURCE: YouTube at 02:08PM
Saturday, November 19, 2022

“The Nurse and the Addict” (Taylor Trensch) by Automatic Episode Import

Based on Stephen King's Misery this is a song that truly gets under your skin and brings the subtext of King's novel to the forefront. A rumination on the cyclical nature of addiction and ho…

SOURCE: broadwaypodcastnetwork.com at 12:02AM
Friday, October 21, 2022

In London, Massed Human Misery and Communal Revelations by Roslyn Sulcas

Crystal Pite’s “Light of Passage” at the Royal Ballet takes on big issues: refugees, life and death. At Ballet Black, Gregory Maqoma shines.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:49AM
Thursday, October 20, 2022

Why Suzan-Lori Parks Always Goes to the 'Stinky Places' - With three new projects, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright talks candidly about "the lov by Juan Michael Porter Ii

With three new projects including her first on-stage role, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright talks candidly about "the love I work" --- Suzan-Lori Parks is indefatigable. Even with three…

SOURCE: TDF at 12:00AM
Monday, October 10, 2022

In Fine Performance, Misery’s Annie Wilkes May Seem More Familiar Today Than You Recall by Bill Hirschman

An unintended resonance echoes in Empire Stage’s production of Misery that Stephen King likely did not quite foresee. In a world where some people steadfastly, even violently believe whate…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:33PM
Sunday, October 9, 2022

Mayerling review – astounding from beginning to end by Sarah Crompton

Royal Opera House, LondonKenneth MacMillan’s bleak psychological period piece is a gift for the Royal Ballet’s dancers, who take turns in performances of gripping, in-the-moment power Wh…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:33AM
Wednesday, August 3, 2022

12 Shows to See Off Broadway This August - Catch two new musicals, a hypnotic comedy, new takes on Shakespeare and more by Raven Snook

Catch two new musicals, a hypnotic comedy, new takes on Shakespeare and more August is the calm before the stormy fall season. But even though it's a quiet time for theatre, there are still …

SOURCE: TDF at 12:00AM
Saturday, July 30, 2022

People You Should Know . . . Alexander Perez by Zack Calhoon

Alexander Perez (Playwright) is a Cuban-American Playwright/Desk Jockey/Dad making it work in the Big Apple. Since 2015 his plays have seen productions in New York City, Chicago, Pittsburgh,…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 06:33PM
Thursday, July 7, 2022

JAMES CAAN, ‘THE GODFATHER’ AND ‘MISERY’ STAR, DIES AT 82 by Robert Shuman

(Carmel Dagan’s article appeared in Variety, 7/7; via Pam Green.) James Caan, whose indelible, Oscar-nominated performance as Sonny Corleone, the recklessly hotheaded son of Marlon Brando�…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:27PM
Monday, June 13, 2022

Belfast Girls - Hope, Hypocrisy and Grim Reality by Judd Hollander

Reviewed by Judd Hollander In the late 1840's the colonial government of Ireland, in the face of a severe famine and resulting economic crisis, came up with the Orphan Emigration Scheme. Cap…

SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:12PM
Monday, June 6, 2022

Romance languages by Irene Hsiao

Two years into this pestilence, the misery of war, the disappointment of mankind day after day weighing down desperate minds, with a future certain of nothing but social and planetary destru…

SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 02:18PM
Thursday, June 2, 2022

…What The End Will Be ** by Barry Gordin

By: David Sheward June 2, 2022: Late in …what the end will be, Mansa Ra’s combination sitcom and soap opera about three generations of gay black men, Keith Randolph Smith as the patri…

SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:02PM

Sunshine on Leith review – stirring journey from ‘misery to happiness’ by Mark Fisher

Pitlochry Festival theatreMusical built around the Proclaimers’ music is tear-jerking and joyful and awash with life We’ve romped most of the way through Life With You, the title track f…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AM
Thursday, May 12, 2022

Why I Have No Use for George Carlin by Trav S.D.

When I was in my late teens, going through an extended patch of misery that lasted several years, a birthday gift from my sister made everything worse. It was kindly intended, of course, by …

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:24AM
Thursday, December 9, 2021

Review: In a Gender-Flipped Revival, ‘Company’ Loves Misery by Jesse Green

Bobby is now Bobbie in this confusing, sour remake of the 1970 musical by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:06PM
Saturday, November 6, 2021

‘It’s a joyful piece of theatre to take us out of the misery of lockdown’: DOING SHAKESPEARE – Bridewell Theatre by John Chapman

The live version of Northern Comedy Theatre's lockdown Zoom hit sees Shakespeare diced, sliced and put through the mincer at the Bridewell Theatre.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM
Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Mum review – Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s unnerving look at motherhood by Mark Lawson

Soho theatre, LondonThis play daringly switches tone as it follows three mothers and explores exhaustion, panic and feelings of inadequacy The title of Mum – a fertile-with-ideas play by M…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PM
Monday, October 4, 2021

‘Seriously spectacular and a lot of fun’: BACK TO THE FUTURE — West End ★★★ by Fairy Powered Productions

The arrival of a trio of splashy big new musicals in the West End at roughly the same time – the others being Frozen and the ALW Cinderella – feels both like a brave move by producers b…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM
Friday, July 9, 2021

Film Review: the Macabre ‘Rock, Paper and Scissors’ by Kurt Gardner

This Argentian thriller recalls 'Misery' and 'What Ever Happened to Baby Jane,' but with its own nasty twist.

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:06PM

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