625 results for ""Punch""
London Evening Standard 08/15/12
Punch and Judy is making a comeback - but without the violence or dropped baby.
Controversial 1985 AIDS drama forcefully explores origins of epidemic.
"My Children! My Africa!" opened in December 1989, two months before Nelson Mandela was freed from prison. I remember marveling how Athol Fugard's deceptively simple three-character powerhou…
It’s been said that English plays are all about class, while American plays are about property. Well, that’s certainly the case in Patrick Marber’s 1995 play After Miss Jul…
Yahoo (AFP) 05/13/12
The Unicorn Theatre scores with a well-executed production of "Time Stands Still," an absorbing drama by Donald Margulies that takes a hard look at fundamental questions about the nature of …
Jack Davenport hasn't been based on UK shores in a while. That is because, for the last few years, the actor has been living in the US, after he went there ten years ago to film what he refe…
Sucker Punch, Roy Williams’ drama about two young men coming to adulthood in 1980′s London, has been given a one week extension, Studio Theatre announced Friday. The play will no…
Sophie Shorland explores the depths of the Warwick Arts Centre and finds out more about the ever-changing genius of innovative theatre company Gecko.
Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! on March 22 to dish about her first ever North American concert tour and new ABC comedy series GCB, which host Jimmy Kimmel …
Let's get this out of the way at the top. Philip Seymour Hoffman is too young and soft to be the standard-issue iconic Willy Loman chiseled on the Mount Rushmore of American drama. Andrew Ga…
Should you want to see a musical theater phenomenon, look no further than Broadway Sacramento's current presentation of "Mamma Mia!"
The cast of the North American tour of "Mamma Mia!…
The stage version of Ken Kesey's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," like the novel, celebrates the chaos of freedom, glorifying the individual in his eternal battle against dehumanizing bure…
It would take an ambitious, forward-thinking theatre to capture British playwright Roy Williams' unique blend of kitchen-sink drama and urban patois. Fortunately for all of us, the play foun…
a knockout of a play. . .
When the blows start flying in Studio Theatre's "Sucker Punch," it's the audience that sees stars. In this case, that means the powerhouse visages of Emmanuel Brown and, even more electrifyi…
What's my name? What's my name, sucker? Â In Houston, forty-five years ago last month, Muhammad Ali was carving up hapless, helpless Ernie Terrell, a heavyweight pretender who had insisted…
he Studio Theatre in Washington is introducing U.S. audiences to the crackling voice of British playwright Roy Williams with its production of Sucker Punch, an incisive consideration of econ…
The moment Barack Obama locked up the Democratic nomination during the 2008 presidential campaign, British playwright Roy Williams " long acclaimed in the U.K. for his streetwise dramas of e…
Barbican, LondonOne murder, according to the puppet-master Mr Harvey in this gleefully nasty piece of work from Improbable, is committed every 1.56 seconds. To help us understand this ghastl…
A large clock projects on to the front curtain at the start of Absent Friends, its second hand spinning.
Barbican, LondonPunch and Judy are 350 years old this year " their first recorded performance in England dates from 1662 " and Improbable celebrate in style with Julian Crouch's down-at-heel…
INTERVIEW: JULIAN CROUCH The director, designer and writer talks to Diana Damian about his Improbable show The Devil and Mr Punch, currently at the Barbican Pit, and about sending Punch to h…
Amid the flood of current anniversaries, Improbable are throwing one more into the mix - the 350th birthday of Punch, the club-wielding puppet synonymous with pier ends and gratuitous violen…
