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Posted in Broadway Lucille Lortel Awards Musicals Not-London Suzan-Lori Parks Theatre Theatre awards

Winners of 2016 Lucille Lortel Awards

Outstanding Play The Christians Produced by Playwrights Horizons and Center Theatre Group. Written by Lucas Hnath Eclipsed…

Posted in Ancient Greeks Caroline Bird Chris Thorpe Gate Theatre Lulu Raczka Suhayla El-Bushra Theatre

Review: The Iphigenia Quartet, Gate Theatre

“We all make – sacrifices” And still the Greeks come. The Gate Theatre have taken Euripides’ Iphigenia…

Posted in Bruce Norris Richmond Theatre Theatre

Review: Clybourne Park, Richmond Theatre

“Some would say change is inevitable” It was fascinating to go back to Bruce Norris’ multi-award-winning play…

Posted in Andrew Lloyd Webber Annie Baker Broadway Drama Desk Awards Ivo van Hove Lucas Hnath Michael John LaChiusa Mike Bartlett Musicals Not-London Pasek + Paul Sara Bareilles Stephen Karam Theatre Theatre awards

Nominations for the 2016 Drama Desk Awards

Outstanding Play: The Christians, Playwrights Horizons The Humans, Roundabout Theatre Company John, Signature Theatre King Charles III…

Posted in Donmar Warehouse Nick Payne Theatre

Review: Elegy, Donmar Warehouse

“What would you choose?” Irene Cara once declared she was going to live forever. But as advances…

Posted in Christopher Marlowe Jamie Lloyd Theatre West End

Review: Doctor Faustus, Duke of York’s Theatre

“The hot whore of celebrity” Jon Snow is dead. Isn’t he? I suspect there’ll be a twist…

Posted in Film John Logan Shakespeare

Film Review: Coriolanus (2011)

“What would you have, you curs that like nor peace nor war?” Ralph Fiennes and Vanessa Redgrave…

Posted in Annie Baker National Theatre Theatre

Review: The Flick, National Theatre

“Sometimes I worry that there’s something really, really wrong with me but that I’ll never know exactly…

Posted in Arthur Miller Broadway Ivo van Hove Not-London Theatre

Review: The Crucible, Walter Kerr Theatre

“I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder  I heard the phrase avant-garde mentioned several times in…