“Rock Follies” at Chichester Minerva Theatre
Simon Jenner in West Sussex 1 August 2023 Some have waited 46 years. Dominic Cooke brings back Howard Schuman and
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Simon Jenner in West Sussex 1 August 2023 Some have waited 46 years. Dominic Cooke brings back Howard Schuman and
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Jeremy Malies in east London 27 July 2023 Imagine one of Iain Sinclair’s psychogeography books about London in a skilful
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Neil Dowden in west London 19 July 2023 Michael Wynne’s new play Cuckoo – his eighth for the Royal Court
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Mark Shenton in West Sussex 18 July 2023 Early on in The Sound of Music, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s final musical
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Jeremy Malies in the West End 13 July 2023 “Observe first, interpret later.” This is the advice of nineteenth-century physician
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Simon Jenner in West Sussex 8 July 2023 At the end of his life Wagner announced he’d revise his early
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Jeremy Malies on the South Bank 7 July 2023 Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park shows a character arriving on stage 15
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Mark Shenton in the West End 7 July 2023 “Toto, we’re not in Kansas anymore,” Dorothy tells her dog, after
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Hans-Jürgen Bartsch in Berlin Five years ago, the Komödie was compelled to go into temporary exile when wrecking balls started
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Mark Shenton in the West End 4 July 2023 When Crazy for You originally premiered on Broadway in 1992, Frank
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Mark Shenton in south London 3 July 2023 A truly sublime musical version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Curious Case of
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Mark Shenton in central London 3 July 2023 After Groundhog Day, a musical about a man trapped in a recurring
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Neil Dowden in north London 30 June 2023 Shomit Dutta’s debut play Stumped is based on the delightful conceit of
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Neil Dowden in the West End 27 June 2023 With a premiere at the National Theatre starring David Tennant in
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Maggie Rose in Italy 25 June 2023 This year’s 51st Venice Theatre Biennale (15 June to 1 July), directed by
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Neil Dowden on the South Bank 25 June 2023 James Graham has forged a reputation as a political playwright with
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Mark Shenton in the West End 23 June 2023 The original production of Mrs. Doubtfire began previews on 9 March
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Simon Jenner in West Sussex 21 June 2023 “I can’t believe you’re Laurence Olivier!” Thus Adrienne Kennedy addresses the actor
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Simon Thomas in the West Country 21 June 2023 A brand new Cole Porter musical has to be a good
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Dana Rufolo in Vienna 19 June 2023 Vienna’s May-June Wiener Festwochen date back to 1951 when the city decided to
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Neil Dowden in the West End 19 June 2023 Jack Thorne must be one of the busiest dramatists around. While
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Jeremy Malies in north London 16 June 2023 Rebecca Frecknall is too experienced and reflective to be tempted into a
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Mark Shenton in north London 15 June 2023 “Think of musical comedy, the most glorious words in the English language!”
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Jeremy Malies in central London (Notting Hill Gate) 15 June 2023 It will always be a cruel play in which
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My Shakespeare: A Director’s Journey through the First Folio by Greg Doran (Methuen Drama) Book review by Tom Bolton Covid
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Simon Thomas in the South West 11 June 2023 In the 1960s, Bristol Old Vic mounted a very successful production
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Jane Edwardes in west London 11 June 2023 The three monologues or, as he would say, poems that make up
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Simon Jenner in West Sussex 11 June 2023 “Everybody’s got the right to… dream” American. Stephen Sondheim’s 1990 Assassins –
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Mark Shenton on the South Bank 10 June 2023 If I ever found myself paralysed by time into re-living the
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Jeremy Malies in East Sussex 7 June 2023 “Ever and ever, forever and ever you’ll be the one / That shines
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Natalia Isaeva in Paris 15 December 2016 In 1965 Marguerite Duras created her La Musica initially as a radio play
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Neil Dowden in north London 2 June 2023 Neil LaBute 2001’s romantic comedy-drama The Shape of Things is his most
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Maggie Rose in Lombardy 31 May 2023 The Pathological Theatre’s Medea, directed and adapted by Dario D’Ambrosi, has been performed
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“Rose” at Ambassadors Theatre Neil Dowden in the West End 29 May 2023 Martin Sherman – best known for his
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Mark Shenton in the West End 26 May 2023 Aspects of Love, originally premiered in the West End in 1989,
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Maggie Rose in Milan 25 May 2023 The tenth anniversary of Franca Rame’s death (29 May 2013) has been
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Jeremy Malies on the Southbank 24 May 2023 On her own website, Pentabus Theatre artistic director Elle While is quick
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Mark Shenton in north London 25 May 2023 I recently attended a gala at New York’s Classic Stage Company off-Broadway
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Mark Shenton in south London 24 May 2023 Frank Loesser’s timeless 1950 masterpiece Guys and Dolls is currently receiving an
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Mark Shenton in the West End 23 May 2023 Director Jonathan Butterell and composer Dan Gillespie Sells, two of the
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Simon Jenner on the Southbank 23 May 2023 With both this production of The Comedy of Errors, directed by Sean
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Dana Rufolo in Luxembourg 12 May 2023 Complicité is a member of the UK Touring Theatre Companies and Drive Your
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Simon Jenner in East Sussex 15 May 2023 If someone prophesied that John Lyly’s 1583 Galatea would be the most
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Simon Jenner in West Sussex 12 May 2023 As in the plot of the play, waves of past calamity are
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Mark Shenton at the Brighton Festival 9 May 2023 Premiered at the Brighton Festival which is curated this year by
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Jane Edwardes in west London 7 May 2023 Lenny Henry here exhibits his many talents with his first stage play,
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Mark Shenton in West Sussex 5 May 2023 Hot on the heels of the scintillating revival of Noël Coward’s Private
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Neil Dowden on the South Bank 5 May 2023 Jack Thorne’s entertaining new play The Motive and the Cue puts
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Glenda Frank in New York 4 May 2023 They’re back – the Mischief Production zannis who last brought us the
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Robert Schneider in Connecticut 3 May 2023 I write in order to describe taking a trip to theatrical Never-Never land,
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Jeremy Malies in Kingston, London 2 May 2023 This is a concept production based on a pretext that soon runs
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An interview with company founder Luisella Suberni Piccoli by Dana Rufolo Photo courtesy Teatrolingua. As readers know, Plays International &
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Mark Shenton in north London 28 April 2023 Composer Duncan Sheik wrote the music for Spring Awakening, one of the
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Mark Shenton in north London 28 April 2023 Ryan Calais Cameron is currently represented in the West End by the
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Simon Jenner on the South Bank 26 April 2023 Though Mary’s family want to stage a small surprise reception for
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Neil Dowden in west London 22 April 2023 First staged 80 years ago, Bertolt Brecht’s The Good Person of Szechwan
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Jeremy Malies on the South Bank 22 April 2022 It’s August 1936 in Ballybeg (literally “Little Town” in Gaelic), the
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Neil Dowden in the West End 19 April 2023 Noël Coward’s masterly comedy of manners Private Lives has rarely been
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Hans-Jürgen Bartsch in Berlin 18th April 2023 Chekhov’s dramatic work features regularly in the repertoire of Berlin’s theatres, particularly the
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Dana Rufolo in Luxembourg 18 April 2023 The Writer by Ella Hickson was staged under the auspices of Les Théâtres
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Sasho Ognenovski in Sofia 17th April 2023 Nora (often used as an alternative title for A Doll’s House) is Ibsen’s
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Sasho Ognenovski in Belgrade 17 April 2023 This sharp and observant play speaks of an inherited and politically instinctive “tyranny”,
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Ken Edwards in the West End 17 April 2023 Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600–81) was one of the
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Mark Shenton in the West End 6 April 2023 There’s nothing little about the huge emotional intensity of Ivo van
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Mark Shenton in the West End 3 April 2023 David Hare recently wrote a diary column for The Spectator (https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/musicals-are-killing-theatre/)
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Jeremy Malies in East Sussex 1 April 2023 “Lady (Hear Me Tonight)” by Modjo is hardwired into me now such
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Robert Schneider 29 March 2023 The difficulty in adapting Medea for modern audiences is clear: we must be horrified
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Annie Loui in Los Angeles 28 March 2023 Anna Deavere Smith’s iconic play about the LA riots of 1992 has a
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Glenda Frank in New York 28 March 2023 Like Shakespeare, Chekhov and Miller, Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett wrote plays
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Neil Dowden in west London 28 March 2023 Actor and activist Danny Lee Wynter’s first work as a playwright –
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Neil Dowden in west London 21 March 2023 Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist may have premiered in Italy
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Neil Dowden in South London 19 March 2023 The Menier Chocolate Factory deserve much credit for staging the UK premiere
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Simon Jenner in south London 19 March 2023 Slow-burn seems an inevitable phrase for Zinnie Harris’s second (1999) play Further
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Tom Bolton in south London 18 March 2023 It is an unusual Macbeth that comes to life with the Porter’s
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Glenda Frank on the Upper East Side 18 March 2023 At first the title Love seems bizarre, misleading, even ironic
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Axel Hörhager in Austria 18 March 2023 Only Thomas Bernhard, with his acerbic and typically Austrian wit, could have commented
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Mark Shenton on the South Bank 17 March 2023 In Nicholas Hytner’s fully immersive production of Frank Loesser’s Guys &
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Jeremy Malies in Barcelona 16 March 2023 “An opera project” is how the official blurb describes this, so I don’t
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Mark Shenton in the West End 13 March 2023 Broadway composer Frank Wildhorn has lost more money for theatre producers
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Axel Hörhager in Austria 12 March 2023 The advance publicity by the Burgtheater, suggesting that their version of Friedrich Schiller’s
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Tom Bolton in south London 3 March 2023 For Tim Crouch, challenge is inherent to performance. Walking onto a stage
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Neil Dowden in the West End 3 March 2023 Willy Russell’s 1986 monodrama Shirley Valentine may seem a bit dated
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Dana Rufolo at the Grand Théâtre 1 March 2023 Who else but the Berliner Ensemble, Bertolt Brecht’s own theatre company
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Neil Dowden in South London 1 March 2023 It seems highly appropriate for Enda Walsh’s The Walworth Farce to
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Mark Shenton in the West End 1 March 2023 “And when we say; Ee-ee-ow! A-yip-i-o-ee-ay! We’re only sayin’, You’re doin’
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Maggie Rose in Lombardy 26 February 2023 Caryl Churchill’s work is enjoying unprecedented success in Italy. After many decades when
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Maggie Rose in Lombardy 26 February 2023 Milan’s Franco Parenti Theatre is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this year, with a
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Jeremy Malies in North London 26 February 2023 Lulu Raczka’s first play Nothing, a set of interconnected monologues about sexual
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Neil Dowden on the South Bank 26 February 2023 Shakespeare’s Globe’s new production of The Winter’s Tale marks the start of
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Mark Shenton on the South Bank 23 February 2023 On consecutive nights this week, theatre travellers have been summonsed
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Jeremy Malies in the West End 23 February 2023 Worst mother in Greek tragedy? It’s a competitive field but Medea
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Mark Shenton in the West End 21 February 2023 A personal note to begin: I first met playwright Diana Nneka
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Neil Dowden in south London 19 February 2023 Tom Kempinksi’s 1980 drama Duet for One is an intense two-hander revolving
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Mark Shenton on the South Bank 14 February 2023 After producing one of the biggest musical misfires of the last
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Neil Dowden on the South Bank 14 February 2023 Simon Stone has made an international reputation as a writer-director in
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Neil Dowden in the West End 13 February 2023 Stefano Massini’s epic three-act play The Lehman Trilogy adapted by Ben
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Book review by Dana Rufolo (The book has been translated into English by John Freedman, Natalia Bratus, John Farndon, and
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Jeremy Malies in Surrey 10 February 2023 “There’s no way back / Move right outta here baby!” Perhaps Liz Truss
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Mark Shenton in the West End 7 February 2023 Words matter, in reviews as in life. But life is more
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Tom Bolton in south London 3 February 2023 Jude Christian’s new production of Shakespeare’s least respected play, Titus Andronicus, has
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Hans-Jürgen Bartsch in Berlin 31 January 2023 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s play Minna von Barnhelm was premiered in 1767 at a
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Dana Rufolo in Luxembourg 31 January 2023 Songes d’une nuit…, an interpretation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, developed as a
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Neil Dowden in the West End 29 January 2023 Michael Frayn’s perennially popular 1982 meta-comedy Noises Off deconstructs farce while
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Jeremy Malies in west London 29 January 2023 Frantic Assembly’s version of Othello, previously staged in 2008 and 2014, has
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Jeremy Malies in West Sussex 26 January 2023 Girl from the North Country is a play by Conor McPherson with
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Tom Bolton in north London 23 January 2023 Chloe Rice and Natasha Roland are New York-based performers, a two-person company
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Simon Thomas in Somerset 20 January 2023 Starry casts are not commonplace in venues with a capacity of just over
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Tom Bolton in south London 19 January 2023 Lazarus Theatre, and their artistic director Ricky Dukes, specialize in introducing classic
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Sasho Ognenovski in Sofia 19 January 2023 “Woven From Dreams or Prospero’s Twisted Mind” With his treatment of The Tempest,
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Dana Rufolo in Luxembourg 17 January 2023 Tom doesn’t mind the gaps in his memory; The Nature of Forgetting, a
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Jeremy Malies in north London 16 January 2023 “I don’t want realism. I want magic!” These are the words of
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Book Review by Dana Rufolo 12 January 2023 As in many of the recently-authored Romanian plays staged at Romanian theatre festivals
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Neil Dowden in the West End 14 January 2023 American playwright, screenwriter, memoirist, and activist Lillian Hellman is probably best
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Ludovico Lucchesi Palli in Vienna 10 January 2023 Following the success of Gott ist nicht schüchtern, director Susanne Draxler returns
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Robert Schneider in East Haddam, Connecticut 9th January 2023 The book writers of the new musical Christmas in Connecticut say
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Robert Schneider in New Haven, Connecticut 9 January 2023 From her poignant family drama God Said This, winner of the
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Robert Schneider 24 December 2022 Remember Pearl Harbor! The injunction that screamed from recruiting posters during WWII still brings together
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Maggie Rose in Lombardy 23 December 2022 In late November, Shakespeare and the Law. Romeo, Mercutio, Juliet and Tybalt on
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Simon Jenner on the South Bank 23rd December 2022 Be careful what you call a musical, particularly would-be-catchy one-word titles
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Annie Loui in California 20th December 2022 The iconoclastic director Peter Sellars, and the pioneer video artist Bill Viola met
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Glenda Frank on Broadway 20th December 2022 August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson opens with Boy Willie’s noisy arrival up North
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Neil Dowden in the West End 19th December 2022 The first in-house production @sohoplace is an engaging, innovative, and inclusive
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Dana Rufolo 18 December 2022 The eighth edition of the International Theatre Festival “Interferences” took place under the aegis of
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Maggie Rose in Lombardy 18th December 2022 Milan’s Carcano Theatre (founded 1803), has, for the first time, two women artistic
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Jeremy Malies on the South Bank 13th December 2022 I could tell from seeing three-quarters of the capacity audience take
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Jeremy Malies in the West End 9 December 2022 Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel has struck adaptors as potentially genre as
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Simon Jenner on the South Bank 9th December 2022 In April De Angelis’s new play, Kerry Jackson, opening at the
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Hans-Jürgen Bartsch in Germany 22 October 2022 Had they not been compelled to go into a (temporary) exile four years
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Maggie Rose in Lombardy 2nd December 2022 Theatre Protons’s Winterreise is being performed at the Triennale theatre’s small studio space.
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Maggie Rose in Lombardy 2 December 2022 In November I caught Shakespeare’s The Tempest at Milan’s Piccolo Teatro, in a
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Simon Jenner on the South Bank 1st December 2022 “Where should Othello go?” One of the lines cut from Othello‘s
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Jeremy Malies on the South Bank 1st December 2022 Adaptor Jack Thorne, quite rightly, impresses upon us that this is
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Shakespeare’s Globe and Headlong with Leeds Playhouse and Royal & Derngate, Northampton Jeremy Malies on the South Bank 28 November
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Simon Jenner in south-west London 25 November 2022 Talk about art aspiring to the condition of music. Shaw the music
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Simon Jenner in the West End 27th November 2022 “Congratulations! Your pain is commercially viable.” Jasmine Naziha Jones’ Baghdaddy premiering
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Tom Bolton in north London 24th November 2022 A middle-aged man steps up to a spot-lit microphone on a dark
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Jeremy Malies in east London 23 November 2022 Frank McGuinness’s new play is inspired by the unlikely but real-life meeting
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Neil Dowden in south London 22 November 2022 The Menier Chocolate Factory has reopened after a six-month refurbishment with Terry
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Simon Thomas in the south-west 18 November 2022 A tour that takes in Bath, Richmond, Chichester, Guildford, and Cheltenham may
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Glenda Frank on Broadway 6 October 2022 Some directors take a minute or two but from the first, Diane Paulus
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Tom Bolton in west London 11 November 2022 Not Now is the third new David Ireland play staged at the
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Jeremy Malies in Dorset 10 November 2022 In August I reported on the wonderful character actor Pip Utton being Bob
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Maggie Rose in Lombardy 9 November 2022 Erba is one of the few contemporary playwrights in Italy to have enjoyed
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Ludovico Lucchesi Palli in Vienna 8 November 2022 We know her as an actress, singer, talent agent and activist. In
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Neil Dowden in north London 6 November 2022 Rona Munro had a big success with her 2014 trilogy The James
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Glenda Frank on Broadway 31 October 2022 Death of a Salesman, directed by Miranda Cromwell, meets all the criteria for
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Jeremy Malies in south-east London 30 October 2022 A seldom-performed Shakespeare play by a newish company at a new venue
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Simon Jenner in north London 29 October 2022 Tammy Faye: A New Musical – making its world premiere at the
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Neil Dowden in the West End 27 October 2022 @sohoplace is the first new, purpose-built theatre in the West End
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Tom Bolton in north London 27 October 2022 Performed on a bare stage that contains only a trunk and a
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Robert Schneider in Connecticut 24 October 2022 With 70 years of practice, reviewers have learned how to write about The
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Robert Schneider in Connecticut 24 October 2022 Skylar Lynn Matthews holds her arms out, banking left and right like a
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Simon Jenner on the South Bank 23 October 2022 Pearl Cleage’s 1995 play Blues for an Alabama Sky is set
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Simon Thomas in Bristol 23 October 2022 As the UK’s oldest continually working theatre, Bristol Old Vic can boast a
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Neil Dowden in the West End 20 October 2022 Twice delayed by Covid, Dominic Cooke’s revival of C.P. Taylor’s 1981
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Maggie Rose in Lombardy 19 October 2022 One of the best definitions of a classic has to be that is
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Jean Rogers on the birth of the National Theatre. Actor and activist, Jean Rogers is famed for her long-running role
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Robert Schneider in Connecticut 18 October 2022 Like many people who work in higher education, I’m trained every year on
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Ludovico Lucchesi Palli in Austria 18 October 2022 Following the success of JA EH! – Beisl, Bier und Bachmannpreis in
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Simon Jenner in west Sussex 18th October 2022 Happer, the comet-gazing CEO of Knox Oil (played by Jay Villiers) sends
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Simon Jenner on the South Bank 14 October 2022 Cramped in car boots, in hidden lorry compartments, not breathing. How
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Jeremy Malies in south-west London 14 October 2022 This is a play that shows two competing groups trying to wrest
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Glenda Frank on Broadway 12 October 2022 Leopoldstadt by Tom Stoppard, now at the Longacre Theatre, is a sprawling Chekhovian
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Dana Rufolo in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. 11th International Meetings at the National Theatre (Teatrul National). 28 September through 2 October 2022
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Neil Dowden in the West End 12th October 2022 Created by Robert Icke, The Doctor (loosely based on Arthur Schnitzler’s
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Jeremy Malies in west London 10th October 2022 Another play about altruism. In his The Hard Problem, Tom Stoppard discusses
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Simon Jenner in the West End 8 October 2022 “This happened not too long ago. You probably won’t have heard
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Neil Dowden on the South Bank 5 October 2022 Ibsen certainly lives up to his reputation for gloominess in his
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Neil Dowden on the Southbank 2 October 2022 The trials in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692–3 which led to 19 people
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Simon Jenner in west Sussex 29 September 2022 “Squeezy.. squeezy… Score grounds appeal cumquat doggy Martha hat sick on the
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Neil Dowden in east London 28th September 2022 Anthony Neilson’s The Wonderful World of Dissocia is very much a play
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Ludovico Lucchesi Palli in Austria 28 September 2022 Werk X-Petersplatz have kicked off the new season with the world premiere
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Simon Jenner in Waterloo 25 September 2022 Something about the fall of 2017 seems to haunt American playwriting just now.
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Neil Dowden in north London 20 September 2022 The timing of this revival by the Kiln Theatre of Moira Buffini’s
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Jeremy Malies in east London 20 September 2022 It’s every sound engineer’s nightmare. How do you create the sound of
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Neil Dowden in north London 19 September 2022 Richard Eyre has had a distinguished career as a director of plays,
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Simon Jenner in north London 15 September 2022 Six into five won’t go. When overworked British-Nigerian junior doctor Ore (Gloria
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Neil Dowden in central London 14 September 2022 Inua Ellams is a British-Nigerian playwright, poet, and performer best known for
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Jeremy Malies at Greenside @ Infirmary Street 12 September 2022 The Glass Imaginary by a company called The Improvised Play
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Jeremy Malies on the South Bank 12 September 2022 Who Killed My Father – the absence of a question mark
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Jeremy Malies at Pleasance Courtyard 9 September 2022 This is a school play-within-a-play with a difference and not just because
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Ludovico Lucchesi Palli in Austria 9 September 2022 After a last-minute cancellation last June due to illness, the highly awaited
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Jeremy Malies at Gilded Balloon Teviot 7 September 2022 Was this the Henry Naylor who has previously enthused the part
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Jeremy Malies at Paradise in Augustines 5 September 2022 “A rock concert in a courtroom” was the tagline. This was
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Jeremy Malies at Army @ The Fringe – Drill Hall 3 September 2022 It’s 1994 and the Bosnian War is
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Simon Jenner in West Sussex 4 September 2022 Harry Lloyd’s Jim stands on the abyss of his smartphone downstage on
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Nora and Jem Jem Al Mazrouei at Pleasance at EICC (Lennox Theatre) 31 August 2022 [Children’s Shows (family theatre)] [Group:
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Nora Al Mazrouei at Assembly George Square Gardens (Piccolo) 31 August 2022 [Children’s Shows (family)] [Group: The Highland Joker] [Suitability:
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Latifa and Jem Jem Al Mazrouei at Pleasance Courtyard (Cabaret Bar) 31 August 2022 [Children’s Shows (magic comedy)] [Group: Gareth
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Latifa, Nora and Jem Jem Al Mazrouei at Pleasance Courtyard (Forth) 31 August 2022 [Children’s Shows (hip hop/breakin’, music] [Group:
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Simon Thomas in Somerset 26 August 2022 Eleven years ago former Monty Python Terry Gilliam made his operatic debut with
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Jeremy Malies at Pleasance Courtyard 26 August 2022 They say only organists go to organ recitals. So were we all
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Margaret Rose at Summerhall 19 August 2022 Manic Street Creature, gig theatre at its finest (see my review of Bloody
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Margaret Rose in George Square 19 August 2022 Mrs Roosevelt Flies to London is a woman’s story, written and performed
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Margaret Rose at Summerhall 19 August 2022 Home is Not the Place sees writer and performer Annie George telling her own
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Margaret Rose at Greenside 17 August 2022 The early Italian Commedia dell’arte troupes played to queens, kings and ordinary folk
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Glenda Frank on Broadway 14 August 2022 The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini’s first novel (2003) was on The New York
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Maggie Rose in Edinburgh 14 August 2022 Motherload at the major (curated) venue Summerhall has been devised by the London
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Maggie Rose in Edinburgh 14 August 2022 Silkworm, playing at Assembly’s Roxy venue, was a recipient of the Assembly’s ART
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Maggie Rose in Edinburgh 14 August 2022 Assembly is back in its stride post lockdown with the major venues in
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Maggie Rose in Edinburgh 12 August 2022 The Scottish Storytelling Centre showcases Scottish culture year round, inviting, as the programme
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Jeremy Malies in north London 12 August 2022 Sustained applause in the middle of a show is rarely the will
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Maggie Rose in Edinburgh 8 August 2022 For four decades, international artist and celebrity Alan Cumming has successfully turned his
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Glenda Frank in Manhattan 28 July 2022 Murder is how the characters in Robert Icke’s rewriting of Aeschylus’ Oresteia attempt
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Maggie Rose at the Edinburgh Fringe 7 July 2022 After a three-year absence, I’m back at the Edinburgh Fringe eager
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Neil Dowden on the South Bank 4 August 2022 Shakespeare’s last solo play The Tempest – with Prospero’s renunciation of
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Simon Jenner in West Sussex 1 August 2022 How times have changed. When Roy Williams’ Sing Yer Heart Out For
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Crysse Morrison in the West Country 31 July 2022 Remember reading Treasure Island as a child or quite possibly as
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Dana Rufolo on the Tagus River 31 July 2022 The 39th edition of the Almada, Portugal Theater Festival which began
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Neil Dowden in west London 26 July 2022 Patrick Marber’s play Closer became a big hit when first produced at
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Jeremy Malies in Surrey 26 July 2022 It’s a magical conclusion to Shakespeare’s career as a writer of plays on
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Neil Dowden on the South Bank 24 July 2022 Hot on the heels of revivals of Much Ado About Nothing
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Hans-Jürgen Bartsch in Berlin 23 July 2022 The musical comedy Happy End , which Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill opened
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Jeremy Malies in West Sussex 23 July 2022 “With love to lead the way, I’ve found more clouds of gray
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Simon Thomas in Somerset 20 July 2022 Coming just days after the death of Peter Brook, the opening of Deborah
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Crysse Morrison in Somerset 20 July 2022 Back in the 1970s, in an era of exuberance unrecognisable to most in
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Jeremy Malies on the South Bank 18 July 2022 There are three time periods in this reworking of Sheridan’s The
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Neil Dowden in north London 18 July 2022 Peter Morgan has made a successful career of imagining what went on
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Maggie Rose’s festival diary 15 July 2022 Reflecting on their second year at the helm of the Venice Theatre Biennale,
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Annie Loui in Perugia 11 July 2022 History of Violence directed by Thomas Ostermeier, artistic director of the Schaubühne Theater
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Dana Rufolo in north London 9 July 2022 Experiencing the vitality and emotional intensity of black British playwright Roy Williams’
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Hans-Jürgen Bartsch at the Berlin Theatertreffen festival 6 July 2022 In 2020 and 2021, the annual Theatertreffen festival had fallen
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Tom Bolton in south London 5 July 2022 It says something about national cultures that the French equivalent of The
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Annie Loui in Perugia 5 July 2022 The Belgian-based choreography WEG by Ayelin Parolin comes to this Umbria festival framed by
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Annie Loui in Perugia 22 July 2022 In the atmospheric Piazza del Duomo in Spoleto, a thousand Italians and visitors
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Neil Dowden on the South Bank 26 June 2022 Kathryn Hunter played King Lear in a landmark production directed by
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Neil Dowden on the South Bank 23 June 2022 Jitney is August Wilson’s first work in his epic Pittsburgh or
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Neil Dowden in Richmond 21 June 2022 The Orange Tree Theatre’s latest show in their adventurous mix of old and
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Crysse Morrison in the south-west 20 June 2022 August Strindberg considered this his best play, and the vicious marital hostility
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Jeremy Malies in the West End 20 June 2022 As we take our seats for James Macdonald’s production with design
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Ludovico Lucchesi Palli in Vienna 16 June 2022 One of the highlights of this year’s Theater im Park, which is
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Simon Jenner in Brighton 15 June 2022 “Where nothing happens. Twice.” Thus Vivian Mercier at this work’s Irish premiere in
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Reviewed by Simon Jenner 14 June 2022 Michael Billington is right. This is an absolutely necessary theatre book. Indeed it
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Neil Dowden in west London 8 June 2022 Jean Racine’s tightly structured neoclassical plays – obeying the unities of place,
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Maggie Rose in Milan 7 June 2022 Present Indicative was a month long international festival celebrating the hundredth anniversary of
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Neil Dowden in the West End 7 June 2022 Tennessee Williams famously described The Glass Menagerie – which made his
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Crysse Morrison 5 June 2022 Theatre in the south-west has never limited its role to accommodating and promoting touring shows:
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Neil Dowden in north London 3 June 2022 Girl on an Altar is Irish playwright Marina Carr’s powerful new take
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Ludovico Lucchesi Palli in Vienna After two cancellations in April 2020 and March 2021, the long-awaited Vienna premiere of Gruber
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Jeremy Malies on the South Bank 31 May 2022 You don’t see a version of the life story of Mahatma
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Neil Dowden in east London 29 May 2022 The Arcola has finally reopened its indoor theatre – having previously staged
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Jeremy Malies in the West End 23 May 2022 The action of Lerner and Loewe’s My Fair Lady begins at
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Neil Dowden in north London Beth Steel writes big, bold, ambitious dramas in which individuals are caught up in a
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Neil Dowden in north London 16 May 2022 Although based in the UK for many years, Naomi Wallace returns to
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16 May 2022 Jeremy Malies on the South Bank “O, that a man might know / The end of this
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Tom Bolton on the South Bank 13 May 2022 The memory of repeated lockdowns may be fading now, but the
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Jeremy Malies on the South Bank 12 May 2022 An unusual Skidmore Ranch this one; Jud Fry not only looks
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Jeremy Malies in the West End 10 May 2022 It’s St George’s Day in an unspecified year at the village
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Neil Dowden on the South Bank 27 April 2022 The Welsh playwright Emlyn Williams had a number of his plays
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Tom Bolton in Notting Hill, London 26 April 2022 Irish company Gare St Lazare were booked to perform at the
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Neil Dowden in west London 23 April 2022 Mike Bartlett has become one of the few contemporary living playwrights to
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22 April 2022 Das Zigarettenreich (Jeder Traum hat ein Ende), Werk X- Petersplatz Ludovico Lucchesi Palli in Vienna. The newest
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21 April 2022 Ben Brooker at the Festival Theatre and Dunstan Playhouse. Wudjang: Not the Past Bangarra Dance Theatre and
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Glenda Frank in New York City Birthday Candles, a play by Noah Haidle, produced by Roundabout Theatre follows Ernestine from
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Glenda Frank on Broadway 17 April 2022 Take Me Out, a locker room dramedy by Richard Greenberg, now at the
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Neil Dowden in the West End 11 April 2022 Harper Lee’s classic 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird has been
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Jeremy Malies in Waterloo 11 April 2022 The near future in vaguely Shakespearian blank verse appears to have plenty of
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Crysse Morrison in south-west England 8 April 2022 When Liam leaves his best friend Fletch on an upwardly mobile journey,
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Glenda Frank in New York 7 April 2022 Has Sarah Jessica Parker been miscast all these years? Yes, she was
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Crysse Morrison in Somerset 7 April 2022 “Never boring for a split second” was Noël Coward’s verdict on the plays
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Neil Dowden on the South Bank 30 March 2022 David Hare’s new play Straight Line Crazy at the Bridge Theatre
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25 March 2022 Even as you read these words, the Worldwide Readings Project is actively encouraging theatres, acting companies, and
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Jeremy Malies in north London 25 March 2022 Ethnicity and land grab. Reduce things down to how people really interact,
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Neil Dowden in the West End 24 March 2022 Jean Cocteau’s 1930 monodrama The Human Voice about a woman’s last
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Alex Borovenskiy talks to Jeremy Malies from a city under siege. 8 April 2022 Alex Borovenskiy. Photo credit: Stanislava Ovchinnikova.
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Dramatic Theatre Photography: Marc Brenner interviewed by Dana Rufolo. Marc Brenner peruses Plays International & Europe during this interview at
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Dana Rufolo in Germany 18 March 2022 It is a relief that Franziska Autzen, the director of Katharina Blum oder:
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Neil Dowden in the West End 18 March 2022 Mike Bartlett made his name with the Olivier Award-winning Cock at
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At the Heart of London Theatre Photography. [This interview was conducted in spring 2018 while Plays International & Europe was
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Ludovico Lucchesi Palli in Vienna 14 March 2022 Vienna’s Theater Nestroyhof Hamakom has joined forces with the acclaimed stage and
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Crysse Morrison in Bristol 14 March 2022 ‘A vision for the future of theatre’ is how director Tom Morris sees
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Crysse Morrison in Bristol Written by David Lane and directed by Sita Calvert-Ennals, this poignant two-hander follows an imagined reunion
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Tom Bolton in London Borough of Newham 11 March 2022 Dennis Kelly’s 2005 play After the End is set inside
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Tom Bolton on the South Bank 10 March 2022 The Merchant of Venice is seen as a problematic play but,
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Tom Bolton in Notting Hill Gate 4 March 2022 Jonathan Kent opened his tenure as Artistic Director of the Almeida
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Maggie Rose in Milan 7 October 2022 M. Il figlio del secolo is a literary adaptation, based on Antonio Scurati’s
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Maggie Rose in Milan 21 September 2022 Milan’s Franco Parenti theatre has hosted La vita davanti a sé (The Life
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Neil Dowden on the South Bank 8 March 2022 Last staged in London 26 years ago, David Mamet’s 1977 play
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Neil Dowden on the South Bank 25 February 2022 Anthony McCarten’s new play focuses on a fascinating true episode in
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Ludovico Lucchesi Palli at the Bronski & Grünberg Theater, Vienna Bronski & Grünberg Theater is a popular venue in the
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An Exhibit in the Berlin Museum of Photography. Dana Rufolo reflects. I am grateful to Dr Ludger Derenthal, head of
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Glenda Frank in New York City2 February 2022 Prayer for the French Republic, Joshua Harmon’s (Significant Other) new play, directed
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Neil Dowden in north London15 February 2022 Over the last decade French playwright Florian Zeller has had a series of
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Ludovico Lucchesi Palli in Vienna 30 September 2021 Kaja Dymnicki and Alexander Pschill are founding members of Vienna’s Bronski & Grünberg
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Neil Dowden in north London17 February 2022 The slippery ambivalence of absurdist playwright Eugène Ionesco’s works makes them tricky to
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Tom Bolton on the South Bank4 February 2022 Sean Holmes’ production of Hamlet in the Globe’s indoor space opens with
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Jeremy Malies in Surrey11 February 2022 A boozy Elsinore this – any critic (and we’re not noted for sobriety) playing
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Jeremy Malies in Canterbury10 February 2022 “Hate the critics? I have nothing but compassion for them. How can one hate
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Neil Dowden on the South Bank11 February 2022 Bristol-based company Wise Children’s touring production of Wuthering Heights now blusters into
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Crysse Morrison in Bristol27 January 2022 Bristol Old Vic director Tom Morris pulled off what many will consider a coup when
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Jeremy Malies at the Old Vic2 February 2022 Caryl Churchill’s A Number is about cloning though the word is never
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Neil Dowden in Sloane Square, London.28 January 2022 Alistair McDowall’s new play The Glow is a strange brew. The first
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Jeremy Malies in north London20 December 2021 Peggy for You, written by Alan Plater in 1999, is the last in
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Jeremy Malies on the South Bank10 December 2021 Best of Enemies by James Graham was always going to be a
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Dana Rufolo on a streamed Romanian theatre festival.13 December 2021 The National Theater of Cluj-Napoca, Romania’s streamed 2021 Theatre Festival
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Ludovico Lucchesi Palli in Vienna atEin Sommernachtstraum am Wörthersee – oder Wann ist die Familie Lustig aus Graz verschwunden20 March
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