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Robert Tanitch
Theatre: Holiday's fall leaves the audience gasping
audra mcdonald won a great many awards in new york for her solo performance in lady day at emerson’s bar & grill – a tribute to the sing...
Theatre: An English historical epic with no character
dc moore’s common at the national theatre is described as an epic tale of england’s lost land. the revolving stage is covered in earth and t...
Theatre: Give this bonkers Cold War Woyzeck a miss
georg büchner wrote woyzeck in 1837, the year he died, aged 23. there was no definitive text, just fragments of paper. it wasn’t performed f...
Theatre: A dreamworld of Jews, Mormons and angels
angels in america , tony kushner’s award-winning epic at national theatre, describes the impact of aids on the gay community in san francisc...
Theatre: Sam Mendes’s IRA drama is a triumph
the moment the royal court announced it was staging jez butterworth’s the ferryman , the whole season sold out and a west end transfer was g...
Theatre: Not even Jude Law can fill a bare stage
ivo van hove, artistic director of tonnelgroep amsterdam, has taken up residency at the barbican. he follows his highly praised productions ...
Theatre: Can musicals help the cash-strapped ENO?
the moment the curtain goes up at drury lane you know 42nd street is going to be a huge popular success. songs by harry warren and al dubin ...
Theatre: Tennant’s Don Juan: resistance is futile
having just seen sean foley’s ghastly sledgehammer approach to molière’s the miser at garrick theatre, it was particularly pleasing to see p...
Theatre: It’s still hard to keep up with Stoppard
fifty years ago the then 29-year-old tom stoppard had a brilliant success with his clever rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead, which has n...
Theatre: Unscripted sex change upstages Shakespeare
shakespeare’s twelfth night is already famous for its gender and sex confusion without malvolio having a sex change. on the national theatre...
Theatre: The gentlest tragedy is more tender than ever
tennessee williams in the glass menagerie remembers a time during the 1930’s depression when he brought home, at the insistence of his mothe...
Theatre: Unnerving prophet of a new world order
roland schimmelpfennig, one of germany’s most prolific playwrights, wrote winter solstice in 2013 in response to the resurgence of the far-r...
Theatre: Ibsen survives a radical reworking
henrik ibsen’s hedda gabler works best in its correct period, the 1890s. but it is still interesting to see ivo van hove’s radical updating ...
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