Under Matthew Dunster's keen direction, the members of the cast uniformly deliver stunningly authentic performances that honor Martin McDonagh's rich, dark approach to disturbingly significa…
At the beginning of Martin McDonagh's "Hangmen," stout, bow-tied executioner Harry Wade is about to hang an unhappy man " unhappy not just because he's innocent, but because he'll be killed …
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A couple of weeks ago, a friend remarked that most of my recent reviews have been negative. "Haven't you liked anything you've seen," she asked. Well, yes I have. But since starting the Stag…
As BroadwayWorld previously reported, Oscar nominee Martin McDonagh's play Hangmen has been eying a Broadway transfer, but the move is not to be, according to the New York Post. Michael Ried…
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Who's the only playwright capable of dreaming up this scenario? A convicted man is about to face the noose. He...Continue Reading The post HANGMEN: Another Thrilling Martin McDonagh Thriller…
By: Paulanne Simmons If Alfred Hitchcock had been Irish, and if he'd possessed a rascally sense of humor, he might have produced Hangmen. In the event, the play, now onstage at Atlantic The…
Martin McDonagh’s acclaimed dark comedy will now play through March 25 at Atlantic Theater Company.
Atlantic Theater Company Neil Pepe, Artistic Director Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director announces a three-week extension of the sold-out US premiere of the Olivier Award-winning Royal Court …
It isn’t hard to imagine that somewhere in Martin McDonagh's attic there is an appallingly bad script with putrefied pages, because thus far, even his flawed work is compelling when co…
You might want to see this Royal Court Theatre production of HANGMEN more than once at the Atlantic Theater Company on West 20th Street. Â And not because it is written by Martin McDonagh.…
One or two phrases understood here and there make it almost impossible to follow the bumpy McDonagh road of which "hangman" is better with all its underlying complications.
Hilton Als writes that in the playwright's latest work, his slick cynicism threatens to overtake his real gifts.Â
The sense of good, old-fashioned suspense is heightened by director Matthew Dunster, who also helps delineate the spot-on performances by the four remaining cast members--and regulars at Har…
In his small pub in a north English town, Harry is something of a local celebrity. But what's the second-best hangman in England to do on the day they've abolished hanging?
By: David Sheward Martin McDonagh takes the phrase "gallows humor" a bit too literally in his new play Hangmen now at the Atlantic Theater Company after hit London runs at the Royal Court…
By Shari Lifland (@shariontheaisle) Martin McDonagh's darkly comic, terrific new play Hangmen (recently opened at Atlantic Theater's Linda Gross Theater) gives new meaning to the term "gallo…
It might be easier to pity the hardworking gentleman at the core of Martin McDonagh's new darkly comic drama, who loses his job when his employer eliminates his position, if it weren't for t…
by Michael Bracken Nobody likes to be Number 2. Just ask Harry (Mark Addy), the self-satisfied pub owner and barkeep at the center of Hangmen, at the Atlantic Theater Compa…
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri scribe Martin McDonagh will suit up for the Academy Awards on March 4, and according to The New York Post, he just may also have a play bowing on th…
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri scribe Martin McDonagh will suit up for the Academy Awards on March 4, and according to The New York Post, he just may also have a play bowing on th…