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On the London stage, "Welcome Home, Captain Fox!," "The Maids" and "The Patriotic Traitor."
A decade ago, it was rare to see female performers at the Punch Line and Cobb's Comedy Club, The City's flagship comedy venues. But things are slowly starting to change. »
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G Live, GuildfordThe 'nicest man in comedy' is soft-hearted to a fault, in a set of optimistic but entirely safe and familiar routines Adam Hills is "widely referred to as 'the nicest man in…
Student actors tend to keep their limbs close to the body. When we think about creating physical pictures on stage, one of the easiest ways to present depth is through extension. How can we …
Filed under: Contemporary Variety, PLUGS Tagged: Punch Bowl, Ziegfeld Society
Technically, it's a three-act play. For audiences and actors, though, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" goes all 15 brutal, knock-down rounds. That is emphatically, dramatically and pretty t…
Yesterday, the actress turned to Instagramto beat the paparazzi to punch by posting her own photo of her growing baby bump
If you'd like an alternative to Washington's seasonal shows and big musicals, Baltimore's two most established theaters are keeping the new plays coming. The NFL's concussion crisis is the s…
The stripper whose wildest dream is of marriage. The high-stakes gambler who falls for a missionary. Both live on the sweet, homely Broadway of Damon Runyon, whose short stories about …
From Mitch Albom at the St. Louis County Library to Handel's "Messiah" at Powell Symphony Hall, there's plenty to do this weekend and next week around St. Louis
At a Guardian Live event in Glasgow, actor Brian Blessed recalls a trip to the magnetic north pole where his hair stood on end and he had an unlikely encounter with a polar bear. This clip c…
"Kiss Me, Kate" is a lively, lusty musical comedy, and the Shakespeare Theatre Company's big, new staging takes a very fine straight-arrow approach. Director Alan Paul aims to get out of it …
"Kiss Me, Kate" is a lively, lusty musical comedy, and the Shakespeare Theatre Company's big new staging takes a very fine straight-arrow approach. Director Alan Paul aims to get out of it w…
BREAD AND BOXING Raw as realism requires, good plays about boxing are more than just Rocky slugfests. Like Clifford Odets' seminal Golden Boy, they transform an atavistic popular distraction…
The boxing ring is a very particular kind of stage, and when it is lifted onto the platform of a genuine theater it undergoes a fascinating transformation. Yes, the battle for physical domin…
Victory Gardens puts the audience ringside for the Midwest premiere of Roy Williams' bruising drama.
Dexter Bullard, the director of the Chicago premiere of "Sucker Punch" at the Victory Gardens Theater, made his bones working at the intimate, and now defunct, Next Theatre in Evanston, spec…
Sucker Punch isn't always easy to watch: racism on display stings and cuts to the core. However, Victory Gardens' season opener needs to be watched, talked about and digested. Williams' play…
Are all theatre companies, no matter how experimental, drawn to the Bard? Emma Rice, Simon McBurney, Tim Crouch and others reflect on their approaches to a playwright who 'can take kabuki, p…
La Boite, Brisbane festivalPlaywright Future D Fidel draws on his past as a Congolese refugee in an energetic production let down by less-than-convincing performances As the audience files s…
RECOMMENDED It's a familiar story: an ambitious man – or, far too infrequently, woman – seduced by the allure of success, pursues it with increasingly frantic vigor until they fi…
Victory Gardens Theater opens its 41st season with the Midwest Premiere of Sucker Punch by Roy Williams, directed by Dexter Bullard. Sucker Punch runs September 18 " October 18, 2015 with th…
By Mary Houlihan | For the Sun-Times The 1980s were a defining decade for British ...
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Performances of the Oliver Award-nominated drama start tonight.
Young Vic, LondonIvo van Hove directs this quiet, coolly controlled monologue about a man returning home after the death of his younger brother"We all die interrupted," says Willem, a Dutch …
