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On Twitter Watch, Anthony Rapp wrote I honestly didn't expect such an amazing response to Without You here I thought UK folks might not like emotional shows. Thx all 4 yr msgs.Ouch. A UK blo…
After the curtain came down on London's Dress Circle on 15 August 2012, the showbiz shop is making a short but much-anticipated comeback.
Though the shop closed less than a month ago, an ann…
Three things Seattle Times writers love this week: the droll yet trenchant "Footnote," a 2012 Oscar finalist for best foreign-language film, now on DVD; the Great Performances documentary 'P…
April De Angelis' Jumpy opened to press last night (28 August 2012) at the Duke of York's Theatre, having transferred from the Royal Court where it premiered last year.
Starring Tamsin Grei…
*Marvin's Room* is an ambitious production, but Circle Theatre's interpretation leaves you scratching your head. The story plods through what should be important moments without ever reachi…
RECOMMENDED It is said that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, but unfortunately that isn’t always true. This unsettling subject matter is at the center of Circle Theatre’…
According to The New York Times' Arts Beat blog, Off-Broadway's Soul Doctor is in negotiations to move to Broadway's Circle in the Square Theater or to another Off-Broadway venue at New Worl…
After a run at New York Theatre Workshop earlier this summer, the Shlomo Carlebach bio-musical Soul Doctor is eyeing a run at either Broadway's Circle in the Square Theatre or off-Broadw…
A HEARTBREAKING, FUNNY, AND COMPASSIONATE TALE FROM A PLAYWRIGHT WHO IS SORELY MISSED The audience never sees Marvin, the title character in Marvin's Room. He's an old man ravaged by cancer …
Rodgers and Hammerstein's "golden age" musical Carousel opened to press last week (17 August) at the Barbican Theatre. The musical, delivered in operatic style, tells the story of pensive mi…
"New York Times" Book Critic Dwight Garner makes salient points about the need for incisive criticism, claiming that too much happy talk denies common sense and undercuts credibility. But th…
Volcano, a lost Noel Coward play, made its West End premiere at the Vaudeville Theatre last week on 16 August (previews from 14 August). Written in 1956, the play examines the love lives and…
This week's theater openings:
Some of it is pretty mundane stuff; playwright Baker manages to flesh out the characters without providing us with huge conflict or the need to explain every bit of back story.

Last week I held a seminar for The Stage Events for those interested in careers in arts journalism, in which I began by pointing out the obvious " that critics are everywhere in Edinb…
Groundlings gathered in Dupont Circle Saturday night to watch Empty Chair Theatre Company juggle skulls and, eventually, die all over the fountain’s north steps in a swashbuckling and …
At once the antithesis of drama (nothing's happening!) and a complete exposure of the theater's guts and bones, Annie Baker's has a particular genius for creating simplicity of the most comp…
THE TRUE AMERICAN DREAM: KILL A PRESIDENT The cast is terrific in the Coeurage Theatre Company's revival of Assassins at the Actors Circle Theatre"and it is their commitment to the material …
"Mark O'Donnell was very kind and unassuming when he came to visit the theater where he got his start," said Beck Center for the Arts artistic director Scott Spence, who directed O…
People who are unsympathetic to The Hub Review often collar me with questions like "Who are you to say what is art? And what is art, anyway? Can't anything be art?" Now these are valuable …
Mike Tyson is back in the ring -- this time battling Broadway critics. The former heavyweight champ's one-man confessional, “Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth,” opened at the Longacre…
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, an adaptation of Mark Haddon's 2003 hit novel, opened at the National Theatre last night (02 August 2012, previews from 24 July). The adapt…
I can remember only too well the day I stood in Tower Records, a block from Lincoln Center on New York's Upper West Side, and turned to my friend Barry Kleinbort (a New York director and wri…
Philadelphia, Here I Come opened at the Donmar Warehouse this week (31 July 2012, previews from 26 July), directed by Lyndsey Turner. Starring Rory Keenan and Paul Reid, the production featu…
IRREVERENT IN TRANSLATION In the same way that many really awful movies are actually good in the sense of being funny to laugh at (rather than laugh with), so the screenplays chosen by the M…
