39 stories by "Gerald Berkowitz"
Wyndham's Theatre, London: The Young Vic's multi award-winning production of Arthur Miller's drama moves to the West End with none of its considerable power dimmed.
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Lost Theatre, London: A young cast delivers a crisp and clear, but far too rarely engaging production of the Scottish play. The few original directorial touches have less re-interpretive eff…
Rose Playhouse, London: Performed on the viewing platform of the archaeological site that is the Rose Theatre, Time Zone's Othello is reduced not only in cast size and running time but …
St James Theatre, London: Seen previously in the West End in 2013 and on tour before, since and hereafter, this salute to Morecambe and Wise follows the formula for such tributes by opening …
Trafalgar Studio 2, London: Written in 1982 and revised for later revivals, with the dialogue constructed largely out of the letters, poems and other writing of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sa…
Southwark Playhouse, London: From the memories and family stories of a company of actors ranging in age from early 60s to late 80s, Sonja Linden has assembled a collage of images and anecdot…
Museum of Comedy, St George's Church, London: One of two identically titled Tommy Cooper salutes that premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe this summer, John Hewer's show breaks with the co…
Young Vic, London: Artistic autobiography, entertaining anecdotes, lashings of well-spoken Shakespeare, meta-theatrical commentary and the opportunity to spend 90 minutes in the company of o…
Finborough Theatre, London: Set in the mid-18th century, <a href="http://www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk/productions/2014/the-flouers-o-edinburgh.php" target=_blank>Robert McLell…
Finborough Theatre, London: This production suggests that 19th century-style melodrama can still carry power if played with full faith in the genre and the emotional reality.
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Young Vic, London: Subjecting a very realistic and time-and-place-bound play to a non-traditional staging proves a successful risk for director Ivo van Hove who, by moving from a Brooklyn ap…
Young Vic, London: Previous actresses have tended to play Beckett's Winnie, buried up to her waist and then her neck in the ground, as an airheaded chatterbox, illustrating a vision of …
Minerva Theatre, Chichester: Warming up for a run at New York's Brooklyn Academy of Music in January, Chichester's King Lear is strikingly free of intrusive directorial concept, as…
Jermyn Street Theatre, London: Inspired by actual events, David Pinner's 1973 drama pictures a string quartet booked at the 1945 Potsdam Conference to play for Churchill, Stalin and Tru…
The Print Room, London: Jamie Glover's production of Pinter's short 1959 two-hander shifts its focus in intriguing ways. The tale, as often funny as eerie, of two gunmen tormented …
The Print Room: Arthur Miller's 1993 four-hander is set in a New England mental hospital, where two women suffering from depression are visited by their husbands and we gain some insigh…
Lyceum Theatre: This Dublin Gate Theatre production of Samuel Beckett's 1965 television play, being performed four times in the Edinburgh International Festival, is the same one that wa…
Park Theatre, London: In 1986 New York an elderly Jewish couple is abruptly visited by the man's brother who they haven't seen in 30 years. He announces that in a Florida hotel he …
Duchess, London: The 1950s chapter in August Wilson's ten-play cycle on the African-American experience of the 20th century, Fences is an intense and moving domestic drama whose power i…
Young Vic Theatre: David Harrower's new version of Ibsen's Enemy Of The People runs barely ninety minutes, the extensive cuts and trims inescapably eliminating texture, complexity …
Drayton Arms, London: An earnest attempt to explore every aspect of a complicated geopolitical issue, Lee Blessing's 1989 drama about terrorist hostage-taking in the Middle East repeate…
Riverside Studios, London: Elizabeth Wright's dramatisation of Susan Sellers' novel about the sisters Bell and Woolf is presented through the prism of Vanessa's memories, from…
Old Vic Theatre, London: Terence Rattigan's tribute to British determination and commitment to justice and honour gets a solid and respectful revival that sometimes seems to sacrifice d…
Tristan Bates, London: Building on the fact that Noel Coward, Agatha Christie and Louis Mountbatten separately stayed at the same Devon hotel, Jeremy Kingston imagines them there together, w…
King's Head, London: Two early plays under 30 minutes long by Thornton Wilder are of great historical interest, both for inventing new theatrical vocabularies and for serving as preliminary …
