Review: The Father, Tricycle Theatre
"I feel as if I’m losing all of my leaves… I don’t understand what’s happening any more". The Tricycle Theatre is a converted music and dance hall, with a big cinema and …
"I feel as if I’m losing all of my leaves… I don’t understand what’s happening any more". The Tricycle Theatre is a converted music and dance hall, with a big cinema and …
Ms. Green on the challenges of updating the work of one of Broadway's most famous writing teams, Comden and Green. Adolph Green was her father.
If Florian Zeller's The Father was just a realistic play about a man with Alzheimer's, it would be well worth seeing for that alone. But there are several other elements in this production a…
If you're planning to see The Father - and read no further for assurance, you really should - come back to the reviews afterwards. The play creates a fruitful disorientation it's better not …
Kenneth Cranham and Claire Skinner star in this transfer from the Theatre Royal Bath
André is losing time. It's not just his perennially mislaid watch, but whole hours, weeks, years. Is he still living in his Paris flat, or did he move in with his daughter Anne? Is she marr…
Awards were presented to more than 25 outstanding actors, directors, designers and ensembles tonight by The Boston Theater Critics Association BTCA, at the 33nd Annual Elliot Norton Awards c…
THE DARKNESS OF DEMENTIA Devastating. No other word for it. Without sentimentality, in Christopher Hampton’s powerfully simple translation, the French playwright Florian Zeller l…
Sir Elton tells how Billy Elliot's father did what his never could on the anniversary of the musical adaption of the show
Jack Scott has been dressing Tony nominee Brian d’Arcy James since the summer of 2006, when they did Dirty Rotten Scoundrels together. Since then they have teamed up on two o…
It may be the heart of Tony Season, but we have also reached that time of the year where we pay tribute to those who gave us life by celebrating Mother's and Father's Day. Playbill.c…
At one crucial moment in playwright Warren Leight's "Side Man," a deeply affectionate tribute to the journeyman jazzman and the price he pays for his passion, we see a musician watching Elvi…
As AMC's "Mad Men" approaches its final three episodes, it's already clear that the series auteur Matthew Weiner is honing in on the anguish of, and the anguish caused by, absent parents.
Fun Home is, yes, a musical about a lesbian cartoonist whose closeted father killed himself, but it is also about how we try to figure out the puzzle of our parents; about how we reassemble …
The Daily Mail writes that West End and Broadway vet Rafe Spall is in final talks to join his father, Timothy Spall, in Harold Pinter's THE CARETAKER, directed by Matthew Warchus at the Old …
Samuel French playwrights Suzan-Lori Parks and Jordan Harrison were both recognized as Finalists for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The post Suzan-Lori Parks’ FATHER COMES HOMER…
In this solo show at 59E59 Theaters, Matthew Zajac returns to Poland to spool back the lost threads of his father's life.
All good things must come to an end. Last night was the third and final post-show panel discussion in the series that I’ve programmed and hosted around Jagged Fence’s new product…
Image by Simon Annand The Father is a powerfully dark story about a couple at loggerheads over the future of their child. As Laura plants a seed of doubt to their daughter's paternity,…
I'm still reeling after the thrillingly heated and thought-provoking panel discussion I hosted last night at Trafalgar Studios 2. This was the second in a series of post-show events I've pro…
How far have we come with feminism since August Strindberg was writing in the 1880s? "About halfway," said Polly Toynbee on Monday night at Trafalgar Studios, in the first of a series of pos…
I had a curious but highly enjoyable afternoon this past Friday, when I dropped in on lovely chappies Tim McArthur and Nathan Matthews, presenters of the weekly Curtain Up show on London rad…
Broadway.com talks to the stars and creators of the new Broadway musical Fun Home, based on the acclaimed graphic novel.
I've always had a soft spot for Trafalgar Studios 2. It feels like a tight fit, forgotten spot but it's slap bang in the middle of the West End. Almost like a secret that makes you feel like…
This 1887 domestic drama by August Strindberg is rarely seen in London, and Abbey Wright's new production of Laurie Slade's new version might have seized the opportunity to give this gristly…