Category: Shakespeare

Posted in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Broadway Jason Robert Brown Jeanine Tesori John Cameron Mitchell John Patrick Shanley Kander + Ebb Martin McDonagh Musicals Not-London Outer Critics Circle Awards Shakespeare Tennessee Williams Terence Rattigan Theatre Theatre awards

Nominations for 2013-2014 Outer Critics Circle Awards

John Gassner Playwriting Award Scott Z. Burns, The Library Eric Dufault, Year of the Rooster Madeleine George,…

Posted in Shakespeare Theatre

Review: The Merchant of Venice, St Leonard’s Church

“For in converting Jews to Christians you raise the price of pork!” Though it is a play…

Posted in Blue Elephant Theatre Shakespeare Theatre

Review: Richard III, Blue Elephant Theatre

“Now is the winter of our discontent” Lazarus Theatre’s reimagining of Shakespeare’s Richard III starts off in…

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2014 Laurence Olivier Awards nominations

Best New Play  Chimerica by Lucy Kirkwood – Almeida / Harold Pinter 1984 by George Orwell, adapted…

Posted in Shakespeare Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

Review: Ellen Terry with Eileen Atkins, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

“If”once I part from any man I meet, I am never found again” Having decided not to…

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(P)review: King Lear, National Theatre

“We cry that we are come to this great stage of fools”  One of the hottest tickets…

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Review: Hamlet, New Diorama

“What a piece of work is a man” The Faction’s annual rep seasons at the New Diorama…

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Review: Coriolanus, Donmar Warehouse

“Most dangerously you have with him prevailed” This is truly a Coriolanus for our times. Josie Rourke’s…

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Review: Richard II, Barbican

“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me” I am aware that I’m flying in the…