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The death and funeral of a family patriarch would seem to be a dark subject for comedy, but *Dearly Departed* manages to be both lighthearted and moving, as well as extremely funny. What a S…
Creditors owed thousands of pounds after London theatre shop Dress Circle went into liquidation have expressed anger that the store has begun operating again under a new name.
After six years Caryl Churchill is back with a new play. Love and Information is a ‘fast-moving kaleidoscope’ featuring fifty scenes and over a hundred characters. It explores ou…
David Hare's The Judas Kiss, starring Rupert Everett and Freddie Fox, opened to press this week (12 September 2012, previews from 6 September) at Hampstead Theatre.The revival of Hare’…
Tarell Alvin McCraney's Choir Boy opened to press last
night (10 September 2012) at the Royal Court Theatre.Choir Boy, a new play set in an all boys, all black, American prep school scores …
TORONTO (Reuters) - Funnyman Bill Murray long ago mastered the ability to wring laughs by saying absurd things in a matter-of-fact tone, but even he was caught off guard when first approache…
Anticipating Sheridan Smith's Hedda Gabler at the Old Vic this week, Paul Taylor wrote an interesting survey of other Heddas in The Independent yesterday, though he was too late to include t…
Time Out's recent coverage of a show produced by its 'event-producing arm' prompts the question: can a publication offer independent critical opinion when it is also behind a production?Ther…
On March 1, 1984 director James Furlong moderated a panel of theater critics featuring Theater Editor for Village Voice Erika Munk, Theater Critic for WNEW-TV Stewart Klein, and Theater Crit…
Proposals to convert a former north London cinema into a live entertainment venue have been spurred on after the local council rejected a rival group's plans to change the building into a ch…
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…
