The week in theatre: The Seagull; Punch – review by Susannah Clapp

Barbican theatre; Young Vic, LondonCate Blanchett is magnetic – and maddening – as faded actor Arkadina in Chekhov’s supreme play about writers. Plus, James Graham’s bracing real-lif…

Interview: Abingdon Theatre Company’s Chad Austin & Max Mondi on What We Can Learn from MAYBE TOMORROW — “What Do We Owe to Each Other?” by Matt Smith

“It’s really hard to do anything when you don’t have much to look forward to. Because then you’re just stuck in the present. There’s nothing to do in the present. It’s here and t…

Review: The Past Haunts the Present in The Great Privation

A Tryal of Witches review – an enthralling memorial to Suffolk’s persecuted women by Chris Wiegand

Theatre Royal, Bury St EdmundsAn all-female cast deliver Tallulah Brown’s play about 17th-century East Anglians under threat of the self-styled Witchfinder General The past sings to the pr…

THE SCORE Theatre Royal Haymarket by Libby Purves and Friends

HEART AND HUMOUR, REALPOLITIK AND GOD         This is a wonderful play, all you could want: philosophy, history prefiguring  the present moment,  humour and character ,  stunning cent…

Ranky Tanky - Millennium Stage (March 8, 2025) by The Kennedy Center

Subscribe to The Kennedy Center! http://bit.ly/2gNFrtb Ranky Tanky has achieved many firsts for South Carolina’s West African–rooted Gullah community since their formation, earning yet a…

Liberation by Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief

Bess Wohl’s latest play is the ambitious and engrossing "Liberation," her attempt to investigate the roots of the Women’s Liberation Movement back in the 1970s from a decidedly contempor…

Backstroke review – Tamsin Greig and Celia Imrie lift choppy mother-daughter drama by Arifa Akbar

Donmar Warehouse, LondonGreig breathes compassion into her relation with self-absorbed parent Imrie but their exchanges swim across the decades incoherently A mother lies dying in a hospital…

11 U.S. Presidents on the Arts from George Washington to the Present by New York Theater

Donald Trump took over as chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts – which he told reporters he had never visited – on the birthday last week of Abraham Lincoln, wh…

Men’s Business review – a night of extreme nihilism, offal and frequent awkward sex by Helen Meany

Glass Mask theatre, DublinSimon Stephens’s update of Franz Kroetz’s stark 1972 play sees butcher Charlie and welder Victor amid knives and flanks of meat, the threat of violence palpable…

A Bar Song (Tipsy) - Shaboozey (‘60s Sam Cooke Style Cover) ft. Nathan Chester by Postmodernjukebox

“A Bar Song (Tipsy)” by Shaboozey '60s Sam Cooke style cover by Postmodern Jukebox ft. Nathan Chester. Get The Song: http://pmjlive.com/abarsong | Subscribe: subPMJ World Tour Tix: http:…

Back the The Future: The Musical at the DCPA! by Denver Center For The Performing Arts

Jan 22 - Feb 9 | Buell Theatre https://www.denvercenter.org/tickets-events/back-to-the-future-the-musical/ Great Scott! Back to the Future, the beloved, cinematic classic is now a Broadway …

The Fabric Workshop and Museum presents Soft/Cover by Pamela J. Forsythe

The Fabric Workshop and Museum marks 50 years of its artists-in-residence program with this survey of intriguing multi-media works from the 1970s to the present. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.

Racecar Racecar Racecar by Scotty Bennett

Sarah Blush directs a cast of five in the story of a father and daughter on a road trip from New York City to a storage unit in California. It is a trip that is both se in the present and pa…

Zachary Quinto and the "Brilliant Minds" of the NBC Show by Frank Rizzo

In NBC’s new medical series “Brilliant Minds,” Zachary Quinto plays an idiosyncratic neurologist inspired by Dr. Oliver Sacks, best known for his writings on neurological disorders in …

How to Dance out of the Past and into the Present in Bill T. Jones Still/Here. by Juliana Devaan

  Dances are rarely historicized. They exist instead as ephemeral events, never repeated exactly as they were once performed. When a piece of dance is staged again in a new context, it appe…

The week in theatre: Oedipus; The Fear of 13; The Duchess (of Malfi) – review by Susannah Clapp

Wyndham’s; Donmar Warehouse; Trafalgar, LondonMark Strong and Lesley Manville transfix as Robert Icke wires Sophocles into the present; Adrien Brody excels in a sharp prison drama; and how…

Back to the Future: The Musical | Plays the Buell Theatre Jan 22 - Feb 9 by Denver Center For The Performing Arts

Great Scott! Back to the Future, the beloved, cinematic classic is now a Broadway musical with its destination set for Denver in 2024. When Marty McFly finds himself transported back to 1955…

Back to the Future: The Musical by Mirvish Productions

Great Scott! BACK TO THE FUTURE, the beloved, cinematic classic is now a Broadway musical with its destination set for Toronto in 2025. Winner of the 2022 Olivier Award for Best New Musical…

Breaking Bread: A Conversation on Gastro-Diplomacy with Alex Prud’homme | Oct. 19, 2024 by The Kennedy Center

https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/explore-by-genre/discussion/2024-2025/breaking-bread/ In a special event by journalist and author Alex Prud’homme, explore the impact of food and i…

Back to the Future: The Musical | Anatomy of a Scene by Broadwaysf

BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL is playing the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco from February 12–March 9, 2025. Great Scott! BACK TO THE FUTURE, the beloved, cinematic classic is now a Br…

Jimmy Carter at 100: Reflections on the First Post-Modern President by Trav S.D.

Today marks the 100th birthday of former American President Jimmy Carter (b. 1924). Apart from Gerald Ford, who scarcely counts, Carter is the first President whose tenure I remember from so…

Coriolanus review – David Oyelowo keeps you waiting and Es Devlin’s design is to die for by Arifa Akbar

Olivier theatre, LondonThe drama is underpowered until the end but what Lyndsey Turner’s production lacks in feeling it makes up in style Placard-holding protesters bomb an elegant stage w…

Theatre Review: ‘Church & State’ at Silver Spring Stage by Susan Brall

Lately, I have heard pundits complain that movies and television producers are timid about doing political drama. Early Greek playwrights, Shakespeare, writers like Arthur Miller, and those …

Yesterday’s Broadway Warhorses, Saddled With Today’s Concerns by Jesse Green

Revivals of “Romeo and Juliet,” “Our Town,” “Gypsy” and “Sunset Boulevard” aim to show that rethinking for the present is what makes classics classic.

Lifeline by Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief

However, instead of telling Fleming’s story in chronological order, it travels backwards and forwards in time beginning with Fleming’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech in Stockholm in 1945,…

Wing Chun review – kung fu master gets the cinematic treatment in a spectacular show by Sanjoy Roy

Sadler’s Wells, LondonYip Man, who taught Bruce Lee, is the inspiration for this series of awesomely executed showdowns and acrobatics History may be about the past but it speaks to the pr…

Theater Quiz for August 2024: Convention Theater and Unconventional Theater by New York Theater

How well were you following the theater in August? By theater this month, that includes political theater, as well as the past and future on stage, not just the present. Answer the quiz belo…

Cate Blanchett to Return to the London Stage in The Seagull by Darryn King

Two-time Oscar winner and Tony nominee Cate Blanchett will star in a new version of Chekhov’s The Seagull in London. Thomas Ostermeier, who adapted the play with Duncan Macmillan, will dir…

Deadheads review – the fraying of two sisters’ childhood bond by Arifa Akbar

Assembly George Square, Edinburgh Maddie Lynes’ play subtly tracks a sibling relationship across the decades, sliding between flashbacks and the present day Three Sisters Productions is a …

Ronnie Burrage & Holographic Principle - Millennium Stage (August 22, 2024) by The Kennedy Center

Live Tonight on Millennium Stage: Holographic Principle is an exceptional all-star band of inventive musicians put together by drummer and composer Ronnie Burrage. Burrage grew up in St. …