Friday, April 25, 2025

Theatre news:

“How to Fight Loneliness” at Park Theatre
“Ghosts” at the Lyric Hammersmith
“Romeo + Julia”, Operaballet Vlaanderen
“Shanghai Dolls” at Kiln Theatre
“Manhunt” at Royal Court Theatre Downstairs

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“The Piano Lesson”, Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York

August Wilson, Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Glenda Frank, John David Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, The Piano Lesson

Glenda Frank on Broadway 20th December 2022 August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson opens with Boy Willie’s noisy arrival up

Milan round-up
Northern theatre round-up
Dublin and Galway theatre round-up

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“Romeo + Julia”, Operaballet Vlaanderen

Dana Rufolo in Antwerp 15 April 2025 I saw the dramatic ballet (or “drambalet” as Prokofiev called it), Romeo +

“The Merchant of Venice”, Ivan Vazov National Theatre, Sofia

“Macbeth”, Lyric Hammersmith

“The Winter’s Tale” at Tobacco Factory, Bristol

Book reviewsSEE ALL

“John Macfarlane Theatre Design and Studio”

Simon Jenner reviews this Graffeg publication 18 November 2024 I Open this book and it is not words that strike

“What Was Shakespeare Really Like?” by Stanley Wells

“Theatre Spaces 1920-2020” by Iain Mackintosh

“My Shakespeare” by Greg Doran

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“1978”, Csiky Gergely Hungarian State Theatre, Timișoara

Jeremy Malies in Romania 3 February 2025 January 4th, 1978. An almost certainly rigged process in Chile sees voters supposedly

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