322 stories by "Nicole Serratore"
Diana Oh makes an unapologetic call to arms to queer the world. Nicole Serratore reviews.
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Boom Bat Gesture's 'Do Your Worst' series asks artists to create deliberate flops. Nicole Serratore asks them about failure, DIY theatre, and Spiderman.
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JB Priestley's between-the-wars drama, Time and the Conways bears the hallmarks of a well-made play of the period. It's suffused with class
John Doyle's Off-Broadway production of Shakespeare's As You Like It is a mild-mannered affair " a passable production of limited enchantments. It's
Preserving performance is a challenge. How do you document multi-faceted work that involves sound, light, text, bodies, and music? Video may take images of it but rarely captures it. For Ann…
New York collaborative theatre heroes The TEAM are staging 'Primer for a Failed Superpower', a multi-generational pop concert of protest songs. Nicole Serratore sits in on rehearsals.
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Theatre productions beamed into the cinema act as soft diplomacy for the industry. It expands access beyond physical theatres and national boundaries,
Andrew Garfield in Angels in America (Photo: Helen Maybanks)Sometimes a show is a time capsule to another part of your life. I saw Tony Kushner's Angels in America on Broadway just after I m…
Photo: Play Co.Guillermo Calderón's play Villa is about three women asked to resolve the impossible--how should they treat the remains of General Pinochet's demolished Villa Grimaldi…
(Photo: Johan Persson)Can a play be both rich and slight? Jez Butterworth's The Ferryman makes me believe so. Set in Armagh, Northern Ireland in 1981, it is inevitable that The Fe…
When it opened Off Broadway in 1991, Scott McPherson's Marvin’s Room was viewed through the lens of the Aids crisis " the
We ended up not doing this piece for Exeunt...but I had these fake Obie awards that I wanted to give out for work in 2016 so I thought I would share. Best Play About Economic AnxietyDominque…
In Simon Godwin’s taut production of Measure for Measure the audience enters the theatre via the back entrance through Mistress Overdone's brothel. Greeted by
Sales of George Orwell's novel, 1984, have skyrocketed since the inauguration of Donald Trump. It’s an apt moment for Robert Icke and
Activism, terrorism, and Turkish politics shape this Performative Essay starring two tortoises
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The first rule of Derren Brown: Secret is you need to keep it secret. Magician and mentalist Brown is making his American
Laura Linney and Cynthia Nixon give strong voices to the complex women in Lillian Hellman's play The Little Foxes
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Screen addiction threatens to steal all the attention in Broadway's Anastasia.
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Mega-musical Miss Saigon is back on Broadway. But despite the presence of its trademark helicopter the thrills are limited in Laurence Connor's
With contrived accents and mannered performances, Terry Kinney’s production of Arthur Miller’s The Price lacks genuine dramatic punch. The tension in this
Joan of Arc: Into the Fire (Photo: Tammy Shell)When your show involves two virgin checks on your leading lady, you may want to rethink everything you did to get yourself there. E-v-e-r-y-t-h…
Jake Gyllenhaal has proven in plays, on and off Broadway (Constellations, If There is I Haven't Found It Yet), that he is an
A New York Times review sparked fury for critiquing Mark Twain's racial politics. Here, Nicole Serratore steps into the critical dispute over Big River and representation in theatre.
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Those clamouring for Glenn Close's musical return to Broadway won't be disappointed. She gives a suitably grandiose performance as the reclusive screen
Honour, family, lost promise, and legacy are the broad themes that August Wilson hones in Jitney, his tale of a motley crew
