“The Tempest” National Theatre (“Ivan Vazov”), Bulgaria
Sasho Ognenovski in Sofia 19 January 2023 “Woven From Dreams or Prospero’s Twisted Mind” With his treatment of The
Sasho Ognenovski in Sofia 19 January 2023 “Woven From Dreams or Prospero’s Twisted Mind” With his treatment of The
Dana Rufolo in Luxembourg 17 January 2023 Tom doesn’t mind the gaps in his memory; The Nature of Forgetting,
Jeremy Malies in north London 16 January 2023 “I don’t want realism. I want magic!” These are the words
Book Review by Dana Rufolo 12 January 2023 As in many of the recently-authored Romanian plays staged at Romanian theatre
Neil Dowden in the West End 14 January 2023 American playwright, screenwriter, memoirist, and activist Lillian Hellman is probably
Ludovico Lucchesi Palli in Vienna 10 January 2023 Following the success of Gott ist nicht schüchtern, director Susanne Draxler
Robert Schneider in East Haddam, Connecticut 9th January 2023 The book writers of the new musical Christmas in Connecticut
Robert Schneider in New Haven, Connecticut 9 January 2023 From her poignant family drama God Said This, winner of
Robert Schneider 24th December 2022 Remember Pearl Harbor! The injunction that screamed from recruiting posters during WWII still brings
Maggie Rose in Lombardy 23 December 2022 In late November, Shakespeare and the Law. Romeo, Mercutio, Juliet and Tybalt
Simon Jenner on the South Bank 23rd December 2022 Be careful what you call a musical, particularly would-be-catchy one-word
Annie Loui in California 20th December 2022 The iconoclastic director Peter Sellars, and the pioneer video artist Bill Viola
Glenda Frank on Broadway 20th December 2022 August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson opens with Boy Willie’s noisy arrival up
Neil Dowden in the West End 19th December 2022 The first in-house production @sohoplace is an engaging, innovative, and
Dana Rufolo 18 December 2022 The eighth edition of the International Theatre Festival “Interferences” took place under the aegis of
Maggie Rose in Lombardy 18th December 2022 Milan’s Carcano Theatre (founded 1803), has, for the first time, two women
Jeremy Malies on the South Bank 13th December 2022 I could tell from seeing three-quarters of the capacity audience
Jeremy Malies in the West End 9 December 2022 Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel has struck adaptors as potentially genre
Simon Jenner on the South Bank 9th December 2022 In April De Angelis’s new play, Kerry Jackson, opening at
Hans-Jürgen Bartsch in Germany 22 October 2022 Had they not been compelled to go into a (temporary) exile four
Maggie Rose in Lombardy 2nd December 2022 Theatre Protons’s Winterreise is being performed at the Triennale theatre’s small studio
Maggie Rose in Lombardy 2 December 2022 In November I caught Shakespeare’s The Tempest at Milan’s Piccolo Teatro, in
Simon Jenner on the South Bank 1st December 2022 “Where should Othello go?” One of the lines cut from
Jeremy Malies on the South Bank 1st December 2022 Adaptor Jack Thorne, quite rightly, impresses upon us that this
Shakespeare’s Globe and Headlong with Leeds Playhouse and Royal & Derngate, Northampton Jeremy Malies on the South Bank 28 November
Simon Jenner in south-west London 25 November 2022 Talk about art aspiring to the condition of music. Shaw the
Simon Jenner in the West End 27th November 2022 “Congratulations! Your pain is commercially viable.” Jasmine Naziha Jones’ Baghdaddy
Tom Bolton in north London 24th November 2022 A middle-aged man steps up to a spot-lit microphone on a
Jeremy Malies in east London 23 November 2022 Frank McGuinness’s new play is inspired by the unlikely but real-life
Neil Dowden in south London 22 November 2022 The Menier Chocolate Factory has reopened after a six-month refurbishment with
Simon Thomas in the south-west 18th November 2022 A tour that takes in Bath, Richmond, Chichester, Guildford, and Cheltenham
Glenda Frank on Broadway 6 October 2022 Some directors take a minute or two but from the first, Diane
Tom Bolton in west London 11 November 2022 Not Now is the third new David Ireland play staged at
Jeremy Malies in Dorset 10th November 2022 In August I reported on the wonderful character actor Pip Utton being
Maggie Rose in Lombardy 9 November 2022 Erba is one of the few contemporary playwrights in Italy to have
Ludovico Lucchesi Palli in Vienna [8th November 2022] We know her as an actress, singer, talent agent and activist.
Neil Dowden in north London 6 November 2022 Rona Munro had a big success with her 2014 trilogy The
Glenda Frank on Broadway 31 October 2022 Death of a Salesman, directed by Miranda Cromwell, meets all the criteria
Jeremy Malies in south-east London 30 October 2022 A seldom-performed Shakespeare play by a newish company at a new
Simon Jenner in north London 29 October 2022 Tammy Faye: A New Musical – making its world premiere at
Neil Dowden in the West End 27 October 2022 @sohoplace is the first new, purpose-built theatre in the West
Tom Bolton in north London 27th October 2022 Performed on a bare stage that contains only a trunk and
Robert Schneider in Connecticut 24 October 2022 With 70 years of practice, reviewers have learned how to write about
Robert Schneider in Connecticut 24 October 2022 Skylar Lynn Matthews holds her arms out, banking left and right like
Simon Jenner on the South Bank 23 October 2022 Pearl Cleage’s 1995 play Blues for an Alabama Sky is
Simon Thomas in Bristol 23 October 2022 As the UK’s oldest continually working theatre, Bristol Old Vic can boast
Neil Dowden in the West End 20 October 2022 Twice delayed by Covid, Dominic Cooke’s revival of C.P. Taylor’s
Maggie Rose in Lombardy 19 October 2022 One of the best definitions of a classic has to be that
Jean Rogers on the birth of the National Theatre. Actor and activist, Jean Rogers is famed for her long-running role
Robert Schneider in Connecticut 18th October 2022 Like many people who work in higher education, I’m trained every year
Ludovico Lucchesi Palli in Austria [18th October 2022] Following the success of JA EH! – Beisl, Bier und Bachmannpreis
Simon Jenner in west Sussex 18th October 2022 Happer, the comet-gazing CEO of Knox Oil (played by Jay Villiers)
Simon Jenner on the South Bank 14 October 2022 Cramped in car boots, in hidden lorry compartments, not breathing.
Jeremy Malies in south-west London 14 October 2022 This is a play that shows two competing groups trying to
Glenda Frank on Broadway 12 October 2022 Leopoldstadt by Tom Stoppard, now at the Longacre Theatre, is a sprawling Chekhovian
Dana Rufolo in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. 11th International Meetings at the National Theatre (Teatrul National). 28 September through 2 October 2022
Neil Dowden in the West End 12th October 2022 Created by Robert Icke, The Doctor (loosely based on Arthur Schnitzler’s
Jeremy Malies in west London 10th October 2022 Another play about altruism. In his The Hard Problem, Tom Stoppard
Simon Jenner in the West End 8 October 2022 “This happened not too long ago. You probably won’t have
Neil Dowden on the South Bank 5 October 2022 Ibsen certainly lives up to his reputation for gloominess in
Neil Dowden on the Southbank 2 October 2022 The trials in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692–3 which led to 19
Simon Jenner in west Sussex 29 September 2022 “Squeezy.. squeezy… Score grounds appeal cumquat doggy Martha hat sick on the
Neil Dowden in east London 28th September 2022 Anthony Neilson’s The Wonderful World of Dissocia is very much a play
Ludovico Lucchesi Palli in Austria 28 September 2022 Werk X-Petersplatz have kicked off the new season with the world premiere
Simon Jenner in Waterloo 25 September 2022 Something about the fall of 2017 seems to haunt American playwriting just now.
Neil Dowden in north London 20 September 2022 The timing of this revival by the Kiln Theatre of Moira Buffini’s
Jeremy Malies in east London 20 September 2022 It’s every sound engineer’s nightmare. How do you create the sound of
Neil Dowden in north London 19 September 2022 Richard Eyre has had a distinguished career as a director of plays,
Simon Jenner in north London 15 September 2022 Six into five won’t go. When overworked British-Nigerian junior doctor Ore (Gloria
Neil Dowden in central London 14 September 2022 Inua Ellams is a British-Nigerian playwright, poet, and performer best known for
Jeremy Malies at Greenside @ Infirmary Street 12 September 2022 The Glass Imaginary by a company called The Improvised Play
Jeremy Malies on the South Bank 12 September 2022 Who Killed My Father – the absence of a question mark
Jeremy Malies at Pleasance Courtyard 9 September 2022 This is a school play-within-a-play with a difference and not just because
Ludovico Lucchesi Palli in Austria 9 September 2022 After a last-minute cancellation last June due to illness, the highly awaited
Jeremy Malies at Gilded Balloon Teviot 7 September 2022 Was this the Henry Naylor who has previously enthused the part
Jeremy Malies at Paradise in Augustines 5 September 2022 “A rock concert in a courtroom” was the tagline. This was
Jeremy Malies at Army @ The Fringe – Drill Hall 3 September 2022 It’s 1994 and the Bosnian War is
Simon Jenner in West Sussex 4 September 2022 Harry Lloyd’s Jim stands on the abyss of his smartphone downstage
Nora and Jem Jem Al Mazrouei at Pleasance at EICC (Lennox Theatre) 31 August 2022 [Children’s Shows (family theatre)]
Nora Al Mazrouei at Assembly George Square Gardens (Piccolo) 31 August 2022 [Children’s Shows (family)] [Group: The Highland Joker]
Latifa and Jem Jem Al Mazrouei at Pleasance Courtyard (Cabaret Bar) 31 August 2022 [Children’s Shows (magic comedy)] [Group:
Latifa, Nora and Jem Jem Al Mazrouei at Pleasance Courtyard (Forth) 31 August 2022 [Children’s Shows (hip hop/breakin’, music]
Simon Thomas in Somerset 26 August 2022 Eleven years ago former Monty Python Terry Gilliam made his operatic debut
Jeremy Malies at Pleasance Courtyard 26 August 2022 They say only organists go to organ recitals. So were we all
Margaret Rose at Summerhall 19 August 2022 Manic Street Creature, gig theatre at its finest (see my review of Bloody
Margaret Rose in George Square 19 August 2022 Mrs Roosevelt Flies to London is a woman’s story, written and performed
Margaret Rose at Summerhall 19 August 2022 Home is Not the Place sees writer and performer Annie George telling her own
Margaret Rose at Greenside 17 August 2022 The early Italian Commedia dell’arte troupes played to queens, kings and ordinary folk
Glenda Frank on Broadway 14 August 2022 The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini’s first novel (2003) was on The New York
Maggie Rose in Edinburgh 14 August 2022 Motherload at the major (curated) venue Summerhall has been devised by the London
Maggie Rose in Edinburgh 14 August 2022 Silkworm, playing at Assembly’s Roxy venue, was a recipient of the Assembly’s ART
Maggie Rose in Edinburgh 14 August 2022 Assembly is back in its stride post lockdown with the major venues in
Maggie Rose in Edinburgh 12 August 2022 The Scottish Storytelling Centre showcases Scottish culture year round, inviting, as the programme
Jeremy Malies in north London 12 August 2022 Sustained applause in the middle of a show is rarely the will
Maggie Rose in Edinburgh 8 August 2022 For four decades, international artist and celebrity Alan Cumming has successfully turned his
Glenda Frank in Manhattan 28 July 2022 Murder is how the characters in Robert Icke’s rewriting of Aeschylus’ Oresteia
Maggie Rose at the Edinburgh Fringe 7 July 2022 After a three-year absence, I’m back at the Edinburgh Fringe eager
Neil Dowden on the South Bank 4 August 2022 Shakespeare’s last solo play The Tempest – with Prospero’s renunciation of
Simon Jenner in West Sussex 1 August 2022 How times have changed. When Roy Williams’ Sing Yer Heart Out For
Crysse Morrison in the West Country 31 July 2022 Remember reading Treasure Island as a child or quite possibly as
Dana Rufolo on the Tagus River 31 July 2022 The 39th edition of the Almada, Portugal Theater Festival which began
Neil Dowden in west London 26 July 2022 Patrick Marber’s play Closer became a big hit when first produced at
Jeremy Malies in Surrey 26 July 2022 It’s a magical conclusion to Shakespeare’s career as a writer of plays on
Neil Dowden on the South Bank 24 July 2022 Hot on the heels of revivals of Much Ado About Nothing
Hans-Jürgen Bartsch in Berlin 23 July 2022 The musical comedy Happy End , which Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill opened
Jeremy Malies in West Sussex 23 July 2022 “With love to lead the way, I’ve found more clouds of gray
Simon Thomas in Somerset 20 July 2022 Coming just days after the death of Peter Brook, the opening of Deborah
Crysse Morrison in Somerset 20 July 2022 Back in the 1970s, in an era of exuberance unrecognisable to most in
Jeremy Malies on the South Bank 18 July 2022 There are three time periods in this reworking of Sheridan’s The
Neil Dowden in north London 18 July 2022 Peter Morgan has made a successful career of imagining what went on
Maggie Rose’s festival diary 15 July 2022 Reflecting on their second year at the helm of the Venice Theatre Biennale,
Annie Loui in Perugia 11 July 2022 History of Violence directed by Thomas Ostermeier, artistic director of the Schaubühne Theater
Dana Rufolo in north London 9 July 2022 Experiencing the vitality and emotional intensity of black British playwright Roy Williams’
Hans-Jürgen Bartsch at the Berlin Theatertreffen festival 6 July 2022 In 2020 and 2021, the annual Theatertreffen festival had
Tom Bolton in south London 5 July 2022 It says something about national cultures that the French equivalent of
Annie Loui in Perugia 5 July 2022 The Belgian-based choreography WEG by Ayelin Parolin comes to this Umbria festival framed by
Annie Loui in Perugia 22 July 2022 In the atmospheric Piazza del Duomo in Spoleto, a thousand Italians and visitors
Neil Dowden on the South Bank 26 June 2022 Kathryn Hunter played King Lear in a landmark production directed by
Neil Dowden on the South Bank 23 June 2022 Jitney is August Wilson’s first work in his epic Pittsburgh or
Neil Dowden in Richmond 21 June 2022 The Orange Tree Theatre’s latest show in their adventurous mix of old
Crysse Morrison in the south-west 20 June 2022 August Strindberg considered this his best play, and the vicious marital hostility
Jeremy Malies in the West End 20 June 2022 As we take our seats for James Macdonald’s production with
Ludovico Lucchesi Palli in Vienna 16 June 2022 One of the highlights of this year’s Theater im Park, which is
Simon Jenner in Brighton 15 June 2022 “Where nothing happens. Twice.” Thus Vivian Mercier at this work’s Irish premiere
Reviewed by Simon Jenner 14 June 2022 Michael Billington is right. This is an absolutely necessary theatre book. Indeed
Neil Dowden in west London 8 June 2022 Jean Racine’s tightly structured neoclassical plays – obeying the unities of
Maggie Rose in Milan 7 June 2022 Present Indicative was a month long international festival celebrating the hundredth anniversary
Neil Dowden in the West End 7 June 2022 Tennessee Williams famously described The Glass Menagerie – which made
Crysse Morrison 5 June 2022 Theatre in the south-west has never limited its role to accommodating and promoting touring shows:
Neil Dowden in north London 3 June 2022 Girl on an Altar is Irish playwright Marina Carr’s powerful new take
Ludovico Lucchesi Palli in Vienna After two cancellations in April 2020 and March 2021, the long-awaited Vienna premiere of Gruber
Jeremy Malies on the South Bank 31 May 2022 You don’t see a version of the life story of Mahatma
Neil Dowden in east London 29 May 2022 The Arcola has finally reopened its indoor theatre – having previously staged
Jeremy Malies in the West End 23 May 2022 The action of Lerner and Loewe’s My Fair Lady begins
Neil Dowden in north London Beth Steel writes big, bold, ambitious dramas in which individuals are caught up in a
Neil Dowden in north London 16 May 2022 Although based in the UK for many years, Naomi Wallace returns to
16 May 2022 Jeremy Malies on the South Bank “O, that a man might know / The end of this
Tom Bolton on the South Bank 13 May 2022 The memory of repeated lockdowns may be fading now, but the
Jeremy Malies on the South Bank 12 May 2022 An unusual Skidmore Ranch this one; Jud Fry not only looks
Jeremy Malies in the West End 10 May 2022 It’s St George’s Day in an unspecified year at the village
Neil Dowden on the South Bank 27 April 2022 The Welsh playwright Emlyn Williams had a number of his plays
Tom Bolton in Notting Hill, London 26 April 2022 Irish company Gare St Lazare were booked to perform at the
Neil Dowden in west London 23 April 2022 Mike Bartlett has become one of the few contemporary living playwrights to
22 April 2022 Das Zigarettenreich (Jeder Traum hat ein Ende), Werk X- Petersplatz Ludovico Lucchesi Palli in Vienna. The
21 April 2022 Ben Brooker at the Festival Theatre and Dunstan Playhouse. Wudjang: Not the Past Bangarra Dance Theatre and
Glenda Frank in New York City Birthday Candles, a play by Noah Haidle, produced by Roundabout Theatre follows Ernestine from
Glenda Frank on Broadway 17 April 2022 Take Me Out, a locker room dramedy by Richard Greenberg, now at the
Neil Dowden in the West End 11 April 2022 Harper Lee’s classic 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird has been
Jeremy Malies in Waterloo 11 April 2022 The near future in vaguely Shakespearian blank verse appears to have plenty
Crysse Morrison in south-west England 8 April 2022 When Liam leaves his best friend Fletch on an upwardly mobile
Glenda Frank in New York 7 April 2022 Has Sarah Jessica Parker been miscast all these years? Yes, she
Crysse Morrison in Somerset 7 April 2022 “Never boring for a split second” was Noël Coward’s verdict on the
Neil Dowden on the South Bank 30 March 2022 David Hare’s new play Straight Line Crazy at the Bridge
25 March 2022 Even as you read these words, the Worldwide Readings Project is actively encouraging theatres, acting companies,
Jeremy Malies in north London 25 March 2022 Ethnicity and land grab. Reduce things down to how people really
Neil Dowden in the West End 24 March 2022 Jean Cocteau’s 1930 monodrama The Human Voice about a woman’s
Alex Borovenskiy talks to Jeremy Malies from a city under siege. 8 April 2022 Alex Borovenskiy. Photo credit: Stanislava
Dramatic Theatre Photography: Marc Brenner interviewed by Dana Rufolo. Marc Brenner peruses Plays International & Europe during this interview
Dana Rufolo in Germany 18 March 2022 It is a relief that Franziska Autzen, the director of Katharina Blum
Neil Dowden in the West End 18 March 2022 Mike Bartlett made his name with the Olivier Award-winning Cock at
At the Heart of London Theatre Photography. [This interview was conducted in spring 2018 while Plays International & Europe was
Ludovico Lucchesi Palli in Vienna 14 March 2022 Vienna’s Theater Nestroyhof Hamakom has joined forces with the acclaimed stage
Crysse Morrison in Bristol 14 March 2022 ‘A vision for the future of theatre’ is how director Tom Morris sees
Crysse Morrison in Bristol Written by David Lane and directed by Sita Calvert-Ennals, this poignant two-hander follows an imagined reunion
Tom Bolton in London Borough of Newham 11 March 2022 Dennis Kelly’s 2005 play After the End is set inside
Tom Bolton on the South Bank 10 March 2022 The Merchant of Venice is seen as a problematic play but,
Tom Bolton in Notting Hill Gate 4 March 2022 Jonathan Kent opened his tenure as Artistic Director of the
Maggie Rose in Milan 7 October 2022 M. Il figlio del secolo is a literary adaptation, based on Antonio Scurati’s
Maggie Rose in Milan 21 September 2022 Milan’s Franco Parenti theatre has hosted La vita davanti a sé (The
Neil Dowden on the South Bank 8 March 2022 Last staged in London 26 years ago, David Mamet’s 1977
Neil Dowden on the South Bank 25 February 2022 Anthony McCarten’s new play focuses on a fascinating true episode
Ludovico Lucchesi Palli at the Bronski & Grünberg Theater, Vienna Bronski & Grünberg Theater is a popular venue in
An Exhibit in the Berlin Museum of Photography. Dana Rufolo reflects. I am grateful to Dr Ludger Derenthal, head
Glenda Frank in New York City2 February 2022 Prayer for the French Republic, Joshua Harmon’s (Significant Other) new play,
Neil Dowden in north London15 February 2022 Over the last decade French playwright Florian Zeller has had a series of
Ludovico Lucchesi Palli in Vienna 30 September 2021 Kaja Dymnicki and Alexander Pschill are founding members of Vienna’s Bronski & Grünberg
Neil Dowden in north London17 February 2022 The slippery ambivalence of absurdist playwright Eugène Ionesco’s works makes them tricky to
Tom Bolton on the South Bank4 February 2022 Sean Holmes’ production of Hamlet in the Globe’s indoor space opens
Jeremy Malies in Surrey11 February 2022 A boozy Elsinore this – any critic (and we’re not noted for sobriety) playing
Jeremy Malies in Canterbury10 February 2022 “Hate the critics? I have nothing but compassion for them. How can one hate
Neil Dowden on the South Bank11 February 2022 Bristol-based company Wise Children’s touring production of Wuthering Heights now blusters into
Crysse Morrison in Bristol27 January 2022 Bristol Old Vic director Tom Morris pulled off what many will consider a coup when
„Der Herr Rudi“ in Georg Danzers „ Sauna G’schichten“ Reviewed by Ludovico Lucchesi Palli in Vienna.7 February 2022 Following
Jeremy Malies at the Old Vic2 February 2022 Caryl Churchill’s A Number is about cloning though the word is never
Neil Dowden in Sloane Square, London.28 January 2022 Alistair McDowall’s new play The Glow is a strange brew. The first
Robert Williams Cohen examines xxxxx in his play Half Life.
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Jeremy Malies in north London20 December 2021 Peggy for You, written by Alan Plater in 1999, is the last
Jeremy Malies on the South Bank Best of Enemies by James Graham was always going to be a triumph or
Dana Rufolo on a streamed Romanian theatre festival.13 December 2021 The National Theater of Cluj-Napoca, Romania’s streamed 2021 Theatre Festival
Ludovico Lucchesi Palli in Vienna atEin Sommernachtstraum am Wörthersee – oder Wann ist die Familie Lustig aus Graz verschwunden20 March
Ludovico Lucchesi Palli in Vienna12 January 2022 After the cancellation of the originally scheduled premiere about a year ago, the
Neil Dowden in Southwark14 December 2021 Alan Bennett may be cherished for his subtle melancholic comedy but in 1973 he
Margaret Rose in Milan30 November 2021 Theatreland is once again bustling with companies scrambling to open productions, some of which
Nick Ahad rounds up theatre in the North6 October 2021 Imitating the Dog is a little company in the North
Bill Grantham in Ireland20 October 2021 It’s been two years since there was a Dublin Theatre Festival that occurred in
Jeremy Malies on Leith Waterside There is an element in A Streetcar Named Desire that makes the play an explosive
Dana Rufolo in Constance 2 October 2021 In the Spring 2019 issue of Plays International & Europe, the new artistic
Julie Sorokurs in Covent Garden21 October 2021 Love and Other Acts of Violence serves as the Donmar’s inaugural production after
Ben Brooker at the Bakehouse Theatre11 September 2021 When an actress friend of mine recently asked if I was going
Jeremy Malies in West Sussex14 October 2021 David Storey’s amazing play Home has been produced by the Chichester Festival Theatre
Jeremy Malies at the Brighton Fringe “You have to remember not to remember” is one of the more resonant lines
Neil Dowden in Newham, London.24 September 2021 One of Ireland’s leading playwrights, Conor McPherson is probably best known for The
Neil Dowden on the South Bank1 October 2021 The National Theatre’s revival of Larry Kramer’s groundbreaking 1985 play The Normal
Alice Grahame on the South Bank3 September 2021 Winsome Pinnock’s powerful drama looks at the impact of the unfinished business
Alice Grahame on the South Bank13 October 2021 The American playwright Suzan-Lori Parks has built up an impressive body of
Margaret Rose in Milan20 November 2021 Theatreland is once again bustling with companies scrambling to open productions, some of which
Neil Dowden on the South Bank13 September 2021 Actor turned playwright Ayub Khan Din is best known for his semi-autobiographical
Dana Rufolo in Constance29 October 2021 Extracting a two-hour long play out of a one thousand-page novel is always a
Dale Rooks is the Youth Theatre Director at Chichester Festival Theatre. Her playful spirit first came on my radar sixteen
Neil Dowden in Southwark19 September 2021 The Menier Chocolate Factory finally reopened in September with Paula Vogel’s Indecent, which had
Alice Grahame in north London12 September 2021 At a time when many of us are preoccupied with illness, hospitals and
Tom Bolton in the City of London24 November 2021 Like all theatre companies, the Royal Shakespeare Company has experienced a
Anger … and After?John Russell Taylor reflects on a lifetime of arts writing My first proper book — as opposed
Jeremy Malies in Waterloo 5 October 2021 The Young Vic’s Hamlet starring Cush Jumbo was one of the hottest tickets
Jakob Hingst in Hamburg One of the productions of the Thalia Theater’s new season, which began in August, truly deserves
Neil Dowden on the South Bank 10 December 2021 The African-American actor/playwright/novelist/activist Alice Childress made a significant impact in her
Neil Dowden in north London 14 October 2021 For one of Shakespeare’s shortest plays three hours’ running time may seem
Neil Dowden in outer London3 September 2021 Athol Fugard’s 1972 play Statements after an Arrest under the Immorality Act is
Hans-Jürgen Bartsch in Berlin15 August 2021 The Berliner Ensemble started the new [post-2021 lockdown] season with a revival of
Jeremy Malies in north London 15 September 2021 Kiln Theatre in Kilburn has commissioned and produced NW Trilogy, a set
For the second time since the outbreak of the Corona pandemic, the Theatertreffen festival has fallen victim to an extended
Jeremy Malies in west Sussex 9 September 2021 The cliché is that Martin McDonagh was enthused to write plays
Jef Hall-Flavin on the South Bank 10 July 2021 Pandemic life has given us new ways of experiencing drama in
Jeremy Malies in west London 28 June 2021 Race runs through each of a trio of monologue plays by
Jeremy Malies in the London Borough of Havering 8 September 2021 David Eldridge’s Beginning is a play for two
Julie Sorokurs on the South Bank. 10 August 2021 Sean Holmes’ production of Twelfth Night washed up on the shores
Crysse Morrison in the west of England 10 October 2021 Open-air theatre has always formed a strong strand of live
Jeremy Malies in Berkshire14 October 2021 It’s a truism among Anton Chekhov diehards that Firs in The Cherry Orchard should
Loudon Sainthill (1918-1969) was an Australian artist and designer who worked in London from 1949 to 1969. He designed both
Neil Dowden at Happy Days 18 June 2021 Happy days are here again with Trevor Nunn’s sixtieth anniversary production
Robert Schneider on Margaret Holloway. 20 June 2020 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel tells us that certain lives have world-historical importance;
Jay Paul Skelton in the West End 13 December 2020 In the nineteenth century, the Norwegian violinist Ole Bull
Neil Dowden in north London 9 July 2021 Ayad Akhtar is an American writer of Pakistani heritage with his finger
Glenda Frank on Broadway 23 August 2021 Pass Over is perfect for a newly active Broadway. Playwright Antoinette Chinonye
Julie Sorokurs on the South Bank 12 August 2021 Kae Tempest’s Paradise, premiered in the round at the National
Neil Dowden on the South Bank 4 July 2021 The Bridge Theatre — which boldly led the way in
Jeremy Malies in the West End 7 October 2021 The Mirror and the Light is the third of Hilary
Charismatic, brilliant, temperamental, a perfectionist workaholic and a man of impeccable taste, John Truscott occupies a preeminent place in Australian
John Russell Taylor on the South Bank. 23 June 2021 The National Theatre opened its doors to audiences again in
John Russell Taylor in the West End 2 July 2021 Nick Payne’s award-winning two-hander Constellations (starring Rafe Spall and Sally
Jef Hall-Flavin in south London 31 July 2021 Hearing the song “Wrapped Around Your Finger” as I was coming down
Neil Dowden in the London Borough of Newham 5 July 2021 Theatre Royal Stratford East reopened in the early summer
This year’s Venice Theatre Biennale that ran from 2 to 11 July [2021] has two new artistic directors at the
Maggie Rose in Venice 1 August 2021 I was very fortunate to attend nearly all the shows at this year’s
Jeremy Malies in Lambeth, London 1 August 2021 Changing Destiny is the Young Vic’s much-trumpeted post-Covid return to live drama.
Julie Sorokurs in central London. 25 June 2021 Director Kimberley Sykes’ production of Romeo and Juliet premiered at the central
Sylvie Flammang in Portugal 5 August 2021 The Festival de Almada took place in July, smack in the middle of
Jeremy Malies in Midlothian 5 September 2021 Edinburgh has an “after the Lord Mayor’s show” feel to it this year
Jef Hall-Flavin in north London 27 July 2021 If The Two Character Play is one of Tennessee Williams’s problematic plays,
Hans-Jürgen Bartsch in Berlin17 June 2021 Simon McBurney, the co-founder of the British theatre company Complicité and an internationally
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Tom Bolton on the South Bank4 December 2021 For her last production in the Globe’s candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse,
“The Actor Above All Else” Like Johan Persson and Marc Brenner, Laurencine Lot is a name that has often appeared
John Russell Taylor in outer London 22 May 2021 The other day I was watching one of those Rediscovering
Jay Paul Skelton 29 May 2021 Sonia Friedman, the well-known British producer, has not only led the charge as
Hans-Jürgen Bartsch in Berlin 8 April 2021 The Vaganten Bühne, an intimate hundred-seat theatre tucked away at the end
Julie Sorokurs at A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Shakespeare’s Globe 27 May 2021 A revival of Sean Holmes’s carnivalesque 2019
Jeremy Malies at the Hampstead Theatre 4 June 2021 Alfred Fagon’s rarely staged 1975 play The Death of a
Mohammad Reza Aliakbari in Tehran on the State of Theatre in the Nation Evidence from Iranian life shows that professional
Jeremy Malies at the Brighton Fringe 5 June 2021 I once sat with a friend leafing through the Brighton
Jeremy Malies at the Brighton Fringe 29 May 2021 Having decided to put himself on stage in The Lady
Margaret Rose in Milan 5 June 2021 As I write this report in early June [2021], lockdown is gradually
Dana Rufolo on anticipation of normalcy Renaissance, the most recent project of the European Theatre Convention, gave participating theatres a
Jeremy Malies at the Brighton Fringe 30 May 2021 Michael Caine once said that the Sixties only happened to
Kwame Kwei-Armah is an actor, playwright, director, broadcaster, musician, and educator. In short, an incredibly multi-talented person. He has been
Lawrence Bommer in Chicago How Lockdown Taught Me How to Talk about Theatre to Extra-terrestrials When they come, we
Julie Sorokurs on London’s South Bank 22 November 2019 Shakespeare’s history play cycles conclude their run at Shakespeare’s Globe
Julie Sorokurs on the South Bank24 November 2021 Moira Buffini’s Manor was initially set to have its premiere in 2020
Site-specific theatre is among the most modish developments in UK drama with numerous companies courting avant-garde audiences among the theatrical
Jeremy Malies on North Bridge, Edinburgh Do the bizarre written requests for food sent down to the cellar in
Perform Europe: A Report by Dana Rufolo The report on the European Theatre Forum in the Winter 2020 issue of
British director Phyllida Lloyd has set three Shakespeare plays in a women’s prison, book-cased another (The Taming of the Shrew)
Ben Brooker at the Adelaide Festival 5 April 2021 Living in Adelaide as I do, it can be easy
How a Fringe Performance Led to the Trial of the Decade 26 August 2022 No theatrical event has been
Daniel Nicolai on English Theatre Frankfurt Daniel Nicolai, Frankfurt-born, studied visual communication and worked for a decade for contemporary ballet
Ludovico Lucchesi Palli at Werk X-Petersplatz 10 January 2023 Even though all of Vienna’s theatres are currently shut, Werk
Natalia Isaeva in Paris 9 January 2021 7 Deaths of Maria Callas is a co-production with the Bayerischen Staatsoper,
Roxana Silbert, artistic director of Hampstead Theatre, has found a lovely way to burnish the reputation of this venerable playhouse
14 February 2021 Dana Rufolo The Kreation Kollektiv’s Recherche Show (Research Show), a co-production with the Vienna Volkstheater and
Featured earlier on this website, the translation by John Freedman of the protest play Insulted. Belarus and an accompanying account
Derrida | Benjamin: Two Plays for the Stage John Schad and Fred Dalmasso Palgrave Macmillan Reviewed by Dana Rufolo I
The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Women on Stage Edited by Jan Sewell and Clare Smout (Palgrave Macmillan) Reviewed
An interview with Josephine Dusol on the day-to-day goals of Perform Europe Dana Rufolo. 30 March 2021 The following
Margaret Rose in Venice at the Biennale di Venezia 27 September 2022 After a full lockdown in Milan from
Claudia Funder on Eyam and what she describes as “the Winter of Our (Australian) Discontent”. A highlight of the
Jay Paul Skelton at Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads: The Bridge Theatre It’s notable how the Bridge Theatre’s production of Talking
Jeremy Malies at the Chichester Festival Theatre (Minerva) 4 November 2020 My trip to Chichester for Sarah Kane’s Crave
A Tale of Two (European Cultural Capital) Cities told by Claudia Woolgar 1 October 2020 Impossible to imagine: you
The making of Insulted. Belarus: John Freedman on How Revolution in Belarus Sparked a New Approach to Political Theatre 23
The European Theatre Forum: A Report by Dana Rufolo 20 November 2020 Under the auspices of the German EU
Shakespeare in a Divided America by James S. Shapiro – book review Reviewed by Jeremy Malies 1 September 2018
Prisons have been the setting for plays by a range of writers with widely contrasting agendas. Few who saw it
Jay Paul Skelton on the South Bank 1 September 2020 Alan Bennett’s celebrated Talking Heads monologues were first broadcast
Jeremy Malies on the South Bank 1 September 2020 Has Alan Bennett’s A Lady of Letters fared well since
During the pandemic, correspondents for Plays international & Europe were obliged to focus on different national reactions to the pandemic-driven
Jeremy Malies on the South Bank 1 September 2020 As with the other pair of plays I review from
Julie Sorokurs on the South Bank 1 September 2020 The Bridge Theatre tentatively opened its doors in late August
The Price of Bread by Crysse Morrison Book review by Dana Rufolo 1 September 2020 The novel The Price
Hans-Jürgen Bartsch at the Berliner Ensemble 1 September 2020 The Berliner Ensemble premiered Gott (God), Ferdinand von Schirach’s latest work