39 stories by "Gerald Berkowitz"
Tristan Bates, London: Nirjay Mahindru's new play is made up of two separate but complementary monologues illustrating the experiences of Indian immigrants in Britain a century or more …
Southwark Playhouse, London: Once past the initial small shock of seeing Masha as a goth, Anya Reiss's updating of Chekhov to the era of laptops and Ipods, and Russell Bolam's stag…
Grange Holborn Hotel: Three short, late plays by Tennessee Williams add little to his reputation but offer small sidelights on his other work.
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Young Vic, London: On one level a metaphor for the raging hormones and uncontrollable emotions of adolescence, on another a warning of how actual madness can be mistaken for adolescent hormo…
The Print Room, London: The seemingly disjointed but precisely constructed ramblings of a man overcome by emotion, Will Eno's one-hour monologue is delivered by John Light with more of …
Tabard Theatre, London: A murder on the moon, a second murder among acrobatic philosophers celebrating a political coup, a former musical star who can't sing June Moon songs any more an…
Edinburgh International Festival: In this Polish production, set in something like the Iraq war, Macbeth is an air force major who leads a commando raid on a mosque, assassinating the enemy …
Jermyn Street, London: Though it contains elements of social and political satire, Ibsen's 1853 play is at heart a magical comic romance in the spirit of A Midsummer Night's Dream.…
Young Vic, London: As part of World Stages London, the Young Vic hosts Peter Brook and Marie-Helene Estienne's reworking of a company classic, previously seen at the Young Vic in 2003 a…
Southwark Playhouse, London: Inventive and fast-moving direction meets most of the challenges of Eugene O'Neill's talky and partly expressionistic 1922 drama, making for an always …
Duchess Theatre: Inspired by a 2008 Royal Shakespeare Company conference on the King James Bible, David Edgar's play contrasts the relatively trivial political and doctrinal horse-tradi…
Finborough, London: Arthur Miller's 1980 drama, here in a 1986 version, is a collage of snapshots of the American experience of the 1929 stock market crash and the decade of Depression …
St. Leonard's Church, Shoreditch, London: A church is an appropriate setting for David Edgar's 1995 drama about the discovery of a medieval fresco that threatens to rewrite both art and…
Jermyn Street Theatre: One pianist-comedian's tribute to another, Rainer Hersch's show is almost as much about himself as it is a biography and imitation of his Danish predecessor.…
