Reviewed by Judd Hollander - Jack Holden is magnificent as he takes on the roles of over 30 characters in the one-man show Kenrex at the Lucelle Lortel Theatre. Written by Holden and Ed Stambolluian, this tran…

I was maybe 15 years old when a middle-aged man stopped me on the street and asked me if I was a swinger. I suddenly remembered the encounter while watching the soft porn comedy "The Amazing Sex Life of Rabbits…

Encounters between artists and practitioners are invariably profound experiences, where knowledge is exchanged in real time as a lived practice. Such meetings allow one to gain a holistic perception of each art…

"If music be the food of love play on." Orsino, Twelfth Night By Alix Cohen In August 1956, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn were performing in Canada when they crossed paths with the Stratford Shakespearean …

Performed beneath Rashid Johnson's "A Poem for Deep Thinkers," "The Hikers" unfolds inside the Guggenheim rotunda, where architecture, elevation, and live music shape a restrained duet by Lloyd Knight and Lesli…

The Stand, GlasgowThe one time Dancing On Ice contestant is hard not to like but his judgment of audience as 'tepid' is wide of the mark " they did well to get through such slim pickings 'Just jokes and you don…

Former West End dancer Alexander Loxton is suing police for £600,000, claiming that a foot injury during a stop and search ruined his "premier league" career. The Billy Elliot alum says that he has faced sev…

The actor, director and playwright on a delicious social enterprise, a radical climate movement, and his favourite place to commune with the dead Born in Cambridge in 1957, Simon McBurney is an actor, playwrigh…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Direct from London and an international tour, Complicite's acclaimed production of The Encounter, conceived, directed and performed by Simon McBurney, will play a limited engagemen…

The Fleabag star, who took all eight roles in the solo show Vanya, says intimate scenes on stage can be discomfiting for viewers During rehearsals for Andrew Scott's solo version of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, which…

(Photo by Sabina Murru) ANGELO TROFA is a director and actor. He studied at the "School for actors" of Riverrun theater, where he was the pupil of one of the masters of the Italian theater avant-garde, Rino…

People often end up marrying somebody they meet by chance, say on a train or a park bench, and they then spend years wondering whether the encounter was really random at all.

In Kimberly Bartosik's "The Encounter," young performers and professional dancers navigate a world in turmoil, looking for a way out.

Sadler's Wells, LondonA crusader and a Saracen have a fateful encounter in this richly layered work by Shobana Jeyasingh Dance, set to Monteverdi and a plangent score by Syrian-American composer Kareem Roustom …

14 of the Best Audition Cuts for Quirky Female Belters Written by Tiffany Wilkie September  15, 2021 If you're a quirky female character actor searching for the perfect belting song, we've got 14 …

Eight big-name actors are rebooting the award-winning love story Constellations in London's West End. The first couple discuss their parallel careers - and their hotly disputed encounter as children "In the qua…

It's been 436 days since the King's Head Theatre closed its doors due to the pandemic, but who's counting. The theatre makes a comeback with the debut of No Strings Attached by Charles Entsie, an absorbing, sit…

Available onlineDarkfield's eerie two-person sound experience is a gothic horror that ingeniously overcomes the usual pitfalls of online theatre 'This is supposed to be a controlled space, a safe space," says C…

Simon McBurney performs this stupendous and extraordinary solo show from Complicite. Gareth Fry and Pete Malkin's soundscape is nothing short of a triumph.

In this dazzling one-person show, Simon McBurney tells a series of nested stories about a wild ride into the depths of the Amazon.

Below are eight "theater openings"* today, including acclaimed plays from Broadway (Simon McBurney's The Encounter), Off-Broadway (Dominique Morisseau's Pipeline),  Off-Off Broadway (Mabou Mines) and, yes, o…

From a much-traveled one-man play to a continent-spanning National Theatre premiere, the theatrical week offers plenty so savour No one can accuse the gods of streaming of failing to cast a wide net. That's ev…

As Complicité's The Encounter goes online, its creator discusses the need to rebuild British culture 'from the ground up' The best arts and entertainment during self-isolation The best theatre and dance to wa…

The Brooklyn theatre has partnered with Complicité to make the theatrical experience, seen on Broadway, available online free of charge.

Simon McBurney has a lot to answer for. Ever since his smash-hit solo show The Encounter premiered in 2015, theatremakers have been

"The encounter between the powerful and the powerless, and being faced with having to do all sorts of things in order to survive " this is universal." Playwright James Martin Charlton tells us about his new his…

York Theatre RoyalA stunning cast and unshowy direction do full justice to Bennett's far-reaching play imagining a meeting between Auden and BrittenIt's 1972. To the Oxford college rooms of the poet WH Auden co…

Watch the two-time Tony winner do her best Cher impression to recreate the encounter.

By Ed MalinNylon Fusion is celebrating many years of its intriguing This Round's On Us festivals of short plays.  Their current The Best Of programs A and B at the Medicine Show Theatre bring together 14 q…

A story, Simon Mcburney explains, as the lights of the theatre come up and the lights of the Barbican Centre The post Review: The Encounter, The Barbican appeared first on A Younger Theatre.

I've seen it five times... Ava Davies reviews the return of Simon McBurney's The Encounter to the Barbican The post Review: The Encounter at the Barbican appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.

In To Celebrate Lar Lubovitch Dance Co's 50th Anniversary, Luminous Artist, Peggy Baker Reflects on Dancing with Lubovitch, Baker says, of her early career, "... the encounter with Lar's dances smashed my world…

Complicité programme for 2018 will include a reimagined version of Bryony Kimmings' musical A Pacificist's Guide to the War on Cancer and the return of the company's multi award-winning one-man show The Encoun…

Stage and screen star Kevin Spacey came out as gay just hours after Rent icon Anthony Rapp accused the Tony- and Oscar-winning actor of making a sexual advance towards him when Rapp was 14, Spacey was…

After decades of silence, stage and screen star Kevin Spacey has come out as gay, posting a statement on his Twitter account. The announcement came just hours after Broadway star Anthony Rapp accused the Tony- …

Complicité's The Encounter also returns in their new season

Name: James GodwinHometown: Dallas, PAEducation: BFA fine arts Columbus College of Art and Design.Favorite Credits: I sell the dead, stake land, Big Big World Chappell's show. David Bowie's unseen video.Why the…

Big winner of the Annency Festival 2017, Masaaki Yuasa's Lou and the island of sirens presented by the Eurozoom distributor, specializing in Japanese animation, dives in the teenage psychedelic dreams.The …

A filmed version of Simon McBurney's immersive one-personplay, THE ENCOUNTER, is now available to view in full. Check it out below

Put on your headphones and watch—and hear—Simon McBurney’s sonically immersive play.

The Musical revival Hello, Dolly!, starring Bette Midler and the feel-good musical Come From Away top the list of winners for the Outer Critics Circle with five awards each.The Little Foxes, The Band's Visit an…

Gareth Fry and Pete Malkin will receive honorary awards at the June 11 ceremony.

These groundbreakers of the theatre community will be honored for their contribution to continually enhancing the live theatrical experience through their outstanding Sound Design on "The Encounter."

At the last ceremony before the return of the two sound design awards next year, Gareth Fry and Pete Malkin will receive special recognition for their work on the play.read more

The Tony Awards administration committee has announced that Gareth Fry and Pete Malkin will be presented a Special Tony Award for their outstanding sound design in the recent Broadway play The Encounter. …

The Tony Awards Administration Committee has announced thatGareth FryandPete Malkin will be presented a Special Tony Award for their outstanding Sound Design onThe Encounter.

Ready for some more Tony handicapping? After yesterday's look at the main show and creative categories, today we dive into the four races for actors in plays. Read on for our picks of the frontrunners, othe…

Everyone on Broadway is talking Tonys. Nominations for this year's Tony Awards are announced on Tuesday, May 2 and everyone has an opinion on which shows and talents will be remembered and honored for their…

Simon McBurney Gears Up Sounds of Amazon Beaming by Irene Nelson We see a man standing on stage in front of us, but through our headphones we actually hear him standing behind us, then to our right, and then to…

How the Complicite auteur follows trains of thought to the stage, then gets whole audiences on board.

Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts presents a play "The Encounter". The play will be staged from April 6 to 16, 2017.The Encounter tells the true story of National Geographic photographer Loren McI…

Into the Woods and The Encounter come to town, and L.A. bids farewell to Fun Home.

Simon McBurney, whose last solo show for Complicite was the astonishing sensory experience of The Encounter, which cocooned each theatregoer in a

More than 12 years in the making, Hollywood mogul Robert Evans might be headed to Broadway, according to The New York Post. The high-profile producer who brought the films Rosemary's Baby, Love Story a…

If Norma Desmond is ready for her Broadway close-up, surely Robert Evans is, too. Hollywood's suntanned, sunglasses-wearing legend is putting the finishing touches on the stage adaptation of "The Kid Stays in t…

Depth of research, technical coordination and creative experimentation help bring Amazon adventure to life"I am in your head," says Richard Katz. His voice is, anyway. It will be there for close to two hours, b…

The Tony Awards Administration Committee met on January 26 for the second time this season and confirmed the eligibility of 13 Broadway productions in the 2016-17 season: The Encounter, Holiday Inn, Oh, Hello, …

The productions discussed were The Encounter Holiday Inn Oh, Hello on Broadway Heisenberg The Cherry Orchard The Front Page Falsettos Les Liaisons Dangereuses Natasha, Pierre amp The Great Comet of 1812 A Bronx…

It's been cold and snowy in New York over the past few days, the kind of weather that makes even a theater lover want to stay home and snuggle up with a book or something on the DVR.The theater world accommodat…

The Tony-winning revival of The Color Purple played its final performance on January 8 to a thunderous house that included the Clintons, Anna Wintour and Leslie Odom Jr. While Cynthia Erivo no longer belts …

Complicite's acclaimed production of The Encounter, conceived, directed and performed by Simon McBurney, begins its final week of performances on Broadway at the John Golden Theatre 252 West 45th Street. The pr…

Christmas week on Broadway and the majority of productions played seven performances; two that did the full eight shows topped the frontrunners by gross—Hamilton, once again breaking the $3 million mark a…

Using technology and storytelling, the new work takes audiences deep into the Amazon.

Hortense Gerardo Hometown: Middleburg Heights, Ohio Current Town: Boston Q:  What are you working on now? A:  I'm working on a coming of age play about an immigrant Filipino girl and her family assim…

Tickets are now available to see Emmy winner and Tony nominee Laurie Metcalf and Oscar winner Chris Cooper in A Doll’s House, Part 2 on Broadway. Lucas Hnath’s revisiting of the Ibsen classic, which…

Complicite's acclaimed production of The Encounter, conceived, directed and performed by Simon McBurney, is now in its final weeks on Broadway at the John Golden Theatre 252 West 45th Street. The production mus…

Winter, spring, summer or fall, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical is a Broadway mainstay, but the winter in particular brings a particular holiday boost. The tuner, which celebrated three years on the Great Wh…

Here's my list of recommended Broadway, off-Broadway, and out-of-town shows, updated weekly. In all cases, I gave these shows favorable reviews (if sometimes qualifiedly so) in The Wall Street Journal when they…

Inspired by real events, The Encounter follows a National Geographic photographer as he finds himself lost in a remote area of Brazil.

There may be a million things he hasn’t done, but Alexander Hamilton can at least cross off making over three million dollars in a single week. The smash hit Hamilton led the box office grosses over Thank…

By Victoria (toy) Deiorio. Sound designer Victoria Deiorio reflects on her experience of Complicite's The Encounter and its ingenious use of sound.

The much-buzzed about Dear Evan Hansen began Broadway previews this week and immediately broke into our top five shows by capacity list. Bringing in a solid $804,291 over seven performances, we’re expecti…

Steven McCasland    Hometown: Dix Hills, New York Current Town: Astoria, New York Q:  What are you working on now? A:  I'm currently in the very early stages on a new musical with compo…

YouTube sensation Todrick Hall is back on Broadway, and he's here to raise the grosses up for the long-running Kinky Boots. In Hall's second week of performances, the Tony-winning musical grosses $888,1…

All about Simon McBurney's Broadway mind trip through the jungle.

The following 18 Broadway shows will close on Election Day, November 8, to encourage people to vote for President (All but one " those with asterisks — are performing on Monday, November 7, instead) * Bea…