Shaw Shorts: Orange Tree Theatre
John Russell Taylor at Shaw Shorts (Orange Tree Theatre) The other day I was watching one of those Rediscovering programmes
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Cruise: Duchess Theatre
Jef Hall-Flavin at Cruise With the recent success of The Inheritance in the West End and on Broadway, the blockbuster
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Shakespeare’s Globe
Julie Sorokurs at A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Shakespeare’s Globe A revival of Sean Holmes’s carnivalesque 2019 production of A Midsummer
Sydney round-up: Margaret Leaske
Margaret Leask in Sydney Billed as “an epic new Australian story about love, refuge and reconciliation”, Counting and Cracking by
“Aristocrats”: Brian Friel, Donmar Warehouse
Jo Briggs reviews Aristocrats at the Donmar Warehouse. The only son among the last of the O’Donnells of Ballybeg Hall
“Translations”: Brian Friel, National Theatre
Jeremy Malies at Translations Orson Welles said that writers hit peak popularity two or three years after their death. It’s
“Dark Star: A Biography of Vivien Leigh”
Dark Star: A Biography of Vivien Leigh by Alan Strachan Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Reviewed by Jeremy Malies Alan Strachan is
“Henry IV” Part 1 & 2 and Henry V
Eva de Valk at Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 and Henry V Shakespeare’s Globe A leader struggles to legitimize
“The Cane”: Mark Ravenhill
Jo Briggs at The Cane. I am old enough to remember a cane at my village primary school in southern
“Downstate” at National Theatre Dorfman
Jo Briggs at Downstate Ten minutes before this play begins, we have the opportunity to investigate a set, designed by