'I prefer the critics on Twitter'
The press has made much of audience outrage over the RSC's Marat/Sade. Here the director respondsAmusingly Pythonesque as it is, the outrage expressed over the content of my production …
The press has made much of audience outrage over the RSC's Marat/Sade. Here the director respondsAmusingly Pythonesque as it is, the outrage expressed over the content of my production …
Seattle Repertory Theatre stages the local premiere of Annie Baker's "Circle Mirror Transformation."
People have been walking out of the RSC's risqué new production of Marat/Sade. Are critics ever tempted to follow them? Guardian reviewers reveal the times they just couldn't take any moreA…
Filament Theatre's new work is a beautiful lesson about nature and human nature. Check it out!
Nina ArsenaultFinalists have been announced for the awards handed out by the Association québécoise des critiques de théâtre (AQCT).Though one English-language work is nominated in the…
"Relatively Speaking" -- the new Broadway omnibus production featuring three short plays by Woody Allen, Ethan Coen and Elaine May -- boasts more A-list writing talent per square foot than a…
You'd expect that Mike Daisey's The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs would be controversial for its entirely coincidental timing (in the works for some while, the show had been performed …
Joseph Papp conceived of a marathon at the Public Theater of every one of Shakespeare’s plays, in the order in which they were written. This began under Papp in 1988 and was continued …
At TCG Circle, I ask, "What if . . . theatres played Moneyball?"Then I dig deeper by asking, "What if, instead of relying on gut reactions and chemistry, we figured out a way to describ…
Get ready for the theater with Time Out New York's theater critic David Cote, who shares what he's looking forward to this fall, on and off Broadway.
"The Mountaintop," the new play by Katori Hall starring Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett, opened his week at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre in New York following an acclaimed run in Londo…
Last night, Manhattan Theatre Club's world premiere of WE LIVE HERE by Zoe Kazan, directed by Sam Gold opened to a star-studded crowd at MTC at New York City Center " Stage I (131 West 55th …
Read our top-rated entries to the Guardian's annual competition to find the best young talent in arts writingOVERALL WINNERVisual art, under 14Freddie Holker, 12 " Homage to Lucian Freud, Me…
Our young critics competition turned up some fearless talentWhat makes a great critic? Lots of things: an eye for detail, an instinct for the right adjective, an empathy with audience and ar…
Backbeat, an adaptation of Iain Softley's 1994 film on the birth of The Beatles, opened last night (10 October 2011, previews from 24 September) at the Duke of York's Theatre, marking its We…
Michael Billington: "In so doing, one denies oneself the possibility of a change of heart." (He says he should know.)...
Reviewers who refuse to cover certain kinds of theatre are doing the art a disservice. And I should knowJohn Gielgud once said he sympathised with critics. It must be awful, he felt, to cons…
Abstract: Zhang Ling has been dogged by allegations of plagiarism in her new book out Oct. 8 from Penguin. But she says she's never read the books she's accused of taking ideas from.
A new lunchtime review show kicked off at the Criterion Theatre yesterday, convened by producer Sam Hodges, in association with Whatsonstage.com, and it was a resounding success. Or at leas…
The playbills are folded and the red velvet curtains are poised to go up on Broadway for a new fall theater season. This season includes revivals (and revise-als), of "Porgy and Bess" and "F…
Whatsonstage.com has teamed up with the West End's Criterion Theatre as media partners of their new monthly lunchtime debate, Critics at the Cri, which will see eminent drama critics and c…
Whatsonstage.com has teamed up with the West End's Criterion Theatre as media partners of their new monthly lunchtime debate, Critics at the Cri, which will see eminent drama critics and c…
The Seattle fringe theater Open Circle Theater, closing after two decades, specialized in eclectic, dark-tinged fare.
On Sept. 30, Seattle's Open Circle Theater disbanded. "Choosing to dissolve one of Seattle's longest existing fringe theater companies was difficult, but the organization's financial standin…
A symptom of our times: two books by self-described critics that aren't particularly critical. Informed, lucid, thoughtful, and explanatory, yes "- strongly evaluative, no