Hamlet at the Dupont Circle fountain
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 …
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…
West End theater shop Dress Circle has announced it will close on August 15, despite a long-running campaign to save it, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com. The shop, which is loca…
London's Dress Circle, which has long operated under the slogan the longest-running showbusiness and musical theatre shop in the world, will close its doors on August 15.
Dress Circle, the famed London showbiz shop located in Covent Garden, will close its doors Aug. 15.
West End theatre shop Dress Circle is to close after 33 years, with its owner citing the cost of running the Covent Garden premises and the economic downturn for the decision.
West End theatre shop Dress Circle has announced it will close in two weeks’ time, despite a long-running campaign to save it. The store, "the longest-running showbusiness and musical…

As theatrical models go, the example of a New York company called 13P, founded by a group of 13 "midcareer playwrights" seeking to break out of the cycle of "endless readings and new …
Richard III opened at Shakespeare’s Globe last night (25 July 2012, previews from 14 July), directed by Tim Carroll. Starring Mark Rylance, the production is an all-male version of Sha…
The public editor of the New York Times Arthur S Brisbane, who deals with public complaints to the paper, recently wrote about the responses he's had to deal with to the paper's many critics…
HowlRound 07/22/12
During the Critiquing Criticism discussion this March at Humana, (moderated by HowlRound's Polly Carl and live streamed on #New Play TV), I felt a familiar rush of anger. Here were arrayed b…
It would be hard to find a show with a more impressive pedigree than the one for Dogfight, the lovely little musical that opened at Second Stage Theatre on Monday night: 'Its director …
REEFER MADNESS IS SUCH A HIGH THAT YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE STONED TO ENJOY IT In 1936, a church group sponsored a motion picture aimed at warning young people about the dangers of marijuana. Th…
Nicholas Hytner's production of Timon of Athens opened at the NT Olivier Theatre last night (18 July 2012, previews from 10 July). Simon Russell Beale stars as Timon, the noble who lavishes…
The Circle is a walking tour of an area surrounding the Fringe office. You first download an audio file onto your IPOD or other handheld electronic device. Then you get into a group and your…
As a special homage to Theodore Mann, Circle in the Square's co-founder, artistic director, andco-producer who passed away on February 24th of this year, Circle in the Square Theatre School …