Shortly before his death this year, the iconic Japanese composer worked on mixed-reality concert, Kagami " featuring new music, 48 cameras and magic glasses for the audience Todd Eckert is …
The chewy language, the characters' sad bombast and above all the sense of place: England. This play is a chronicle of us, nowThe Jerusalem we have seen so widely feted " from the West End t…
Ethan Hawke has spent his career cast as the perpetual slacker student. Now, at 38 and part of Sam Mendes's latest theatrical outing, does he finally feel grown up? Laura Barton finds out.T…
Walter Kerr theatre, New YorkThe rock superstar kicks off a four-month residency with two spellbinding hours of stories, reimagined hits and a dissection of his own legendThe audience is in …
As his seminal 1980 play, True West, is revived in London, the influential playwright reflects on the diminishing global role of the US, and the deaths of his friends Philip Seymour Hoffman …
As audience members are escorted from the latest revival of Sarah Kane's play Cleansed in London this week after fainting in the aisles, is there more at play than just weak stomachs?There i…
I have a general unease about musical biopics " there's too often something of the school play about themThe sum of its parts probably would have made it wonderful: a musical biopic of the l…
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As his seminal 1980 play, True West, is revived in London, the influential playwright reflects on the diminishing global role of the US, and the deaths of his friends Philip Seymour Hoffman …
A Northampton DIY clown has caused a social media stir. But what lies beneath the outlandish makeup and enforced fun?In December 1992, the Fox network broadcast a particularly memorable epis…
Zarganar spent years in solitary confinement for standup routines that mocked the authorities. Now Burma's best-known comedian is free " and still laughingAs the rehearsals for the Secret Po…
Radio City Music Hall, New YorkSunday afternoon, Radio City Music Hall, and rehearsals for the Secret Policeman's Ball were in full flow: Russell Brand was stalking the aisles and Eddie Izza…
The chewy language, the characters' sad bombast and above all the sense of place: England. This play is a chronicle of us, nowThe Jerusalem we have seen so widely feted " from the West End t…