Performing History: Theatrical Representations of the Past in Contempoary Theatre (Studies in Theatre, History & Culture) (Studies in Theatre History and Culture)
Whatsonstage.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Would you go to the theatre alone? This week Jake at A Younger Theatre embarked on a challenge of seeing seven shows in seven days - and every single one of them on his own. During the process Jake reassessed his own theatre-going habits and c...
Whatsonstage.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Line 2 for 1 offer at Arcola Theatre. 2 for 1 tickets for The Line from Friday 20 – Saturday 28 November, 8pm (excluding Monday 23 November.)
New York Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Alert the authorities. Shocking sexual acts are taking place in this inspired new comedy by Sarah Ruhl.
Daily Express (Free subscription) | yesterday
THE opening of a new play by Alan Bennett is, theatrically speaking, a national event.
Daily Express (Free subscription) | yesterday
LIVING in a country where Gordon Brown has made dithering a political art form, a play involving vacillation strikes a familiar chord.
Daily Express (Free subscription) | yesterday
A CHRISTMAS CAROL has been a staple of NBT's festive season since 1992 and working in perfect harmony with the breakaway walls and atmospheric backdrops of Lez Brotherston's cunning set, Christopher Gable and Carl Davis's trim dance version is perfect Christmas entertainment.
Unca Darrell (Free subscription) | yesterday
OUR GANG enters the reception room at a fancy radio station. The boys have come for a live, on-air talent competition. STYMIE [matter-of-factly]: Well, here we are, lady. SECRETARY [stunned by their ragged appearance]: Who are you? STYMIE [proudly]: The...
New York Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Selective listings from theater critics of The New York Times.
So anyway, (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
For the third time in as many months, a show that takes place at least partly in a Northern working men's club; they've all been revivals as well. Clearly there's a theme going on. I never saw the original production, or subsequent film of Jim Cartwright's The Rise and Fall of Little Voice , but I had heard many times that a revival was all-but-impossible because nobody could match the required talents...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
“The Habit of Art,” the Alan Bennett play, has at its complexly poignant core W.H. Auden and Benjamin Britten.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
A compellingly still center lurks within the farcical storm of “My Wonderful Day,” the charming, rueful new comedy written and directed by Alan Ayckbourn.
I'll think of something later (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Very sad to learn that another of our greatest singing actresses, Elisabeth Soderstrom, has followed Behrens to the grave. She had more of an innings than I realised, reaching the relatively grand age of 82, and yet it seems like only yesterday I caught some of her later performances. I came to Strauss's marital semi-comedy Intermezzo through hearing her termagent Christine Storch (aka Pauline Strauss)...
Philosophers' Playground (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
My Fellow Comedists, Good brother Ron asks, "What is the unfunniest day on the calendar? Is it December 7, a day that will live in infamy? Sept. 11? Aug 6 (Hiroshima)? That list seems distinctly American, but I'm having trouble thinking of others. The Jewish calendar has Tisha B'av, a day to remember the destruction of the Temple. Other historical Jewish catastrophes (the Nuremberg Laws, etc.)...
The Mechanical Blog (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
A round of applause as this evening we complete the first quarter of the ‘Magic of Cabaret’. Push the button and the Applause Machine claps it’s hands for you. Perfect to celebrate all your daily achievements. Martin Smith and the team at Laikingland have introduced some new colours to the Applause Machine range. We thought that the [...]
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Like a live wire that throws off sparks wherever it wills, the Sacramento Opera's production of Donizetti's "Elixir of Love," sizzles. And it does so with potent singing and crisp, smart direction. The result was the delivery, on Friday evening at the Community Center Theater, of the best production this company has staged in recent memory. Directed by up-and-comer Jose Maria Condemi, this...
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