Lesley Manville is up for a supporting actress Oscar this year for her superb performance as Daniel Day-Lewis’s severe-seeming sister in Phantom Thread and is combining the o…
Yen is the latest guest on the artists’ podcast The Compass, hosted by Leah Walsh.
Take the story of Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart. Make it relevant to a 21st Century audience. Flip a coin every night to decide who plays who. Currently at the Duke of York's theatre, Robe…
Historian and broadcaster Mary Beard is to take over presenting BBC2’s Front Row when it returns for a second season as a
In Mary Stuart, at the Duke of York's Theatre, Robert Icke has created an extraordinary retelling of a pivotal moment in British history, making it current and engaging, to an audience hundr…
Playwrights Horizons has a real winner with the first entry in its new Redux Series bringing back worthy Off Off Broadway plays for a longer run Off Broadway. First up is "Miles for Mary," a…
Chicago Shakespeare Theater presents 'Mary Stuart,' Peter Oswald's new take on the bitter rivalry between Mary, Queen of Scots, and her cousin Elizabeth I, Queen of England.
Mary Stuart is an imaginative interpretation of her and Queen Elizabeth 1’s lives using a stripped back set and contemporary 21st-century clothing. The addition of spinning a coin at t…
A new play examines the 1918 lynchings of Mary Turner and her husband---A hundred years ago in Valdosta, Georgia, at least a dozen African Americans were lynched within a few days of one ano…
Plays and playwrights for the 2018 season have been announced.
Acclaimed actors Mary-Louise Parker, Carmen Cusack and Steven Pasquale and creatives Douglas Carter Beane, Rachel Chavkin, Adam Rapp and David Cromer are among the talents newly announc…
Following its hugely successful run at the Almeida in 2016/17, Mary Stuart has returned to the Duke of York's Theatre. The Islington venue is the gift that keeps on giving, delivering hit af…
The pull of blood: Maud Dromgoole's play explores the lives shaped by a very prolific sperm donor. The post Review: Mary’s Babies at Vault Festival appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.
This is sounding like a history lesson: Rob Icke's Almeida production offers contemporary parallels galore. The post Review: Mary Stuart at Duke of York’s Theatre appeared first on Exe…
With the past year bringing in a new administration with a new Secretary of Education, the national awareness of how overworked, undercompensated and financially burdened America's public sc…
The Almeida Theatre’s hypnotic revival of Friedrich Schiller’s Mary Stuart finds the mighty Lia Williams and Juliet Stevenson tossing a coin each performance to see who…
Another week has been added to this revival of the latest show from the Mad Ones.
The acclaimed comedic show from The Mad Ones returned to the New York stage earlier this year.
Robert Icke's production of this Schiller classic takes up residence at the West End's Duke of York's Theatre, following on from another Almeida Theatre production Ink. Juliet Stevenson and …
TWO QUEENS, TWO FATES Who shall be whom? In Robert Icke's arresting adaptation of Schiller's play, the scene opens with a sober-suited group of men watching two women in identical bla…
It doesn't hit the bull's eye on the target, but it's only one mere circle away from it. MILES FOR...Continue Reading The post MILES FOR MARY: Much Less Than a Mile Away from Success appeare…
It's natural that your reactions to shows are filtered through the prism of the current social and political climate. And savvy theatres, of course, seek to judge the mood and programme acco…
Lia Williams and Juliet Stevenson are both extraordinary in Mary Stuart at the Duke of York's Theatre, but the level of sexualisation, sexual violence and assault in the depiction of these t…
Sovereignty unites family history with an overlooked piece of America's past.
Mary Katharine Harris is an actress, singer, dancer and native New Yorker. Credits include; Rosemary and Time (Paradise Factory Theater), I Create (Kenan Fellow Performance, L…