Review

Jeremy Malies in west London   Race runs through each of a trio of monologue plays by leading writers commissioned

Neil Dowden at Happy Days (Riverside Studios)   Happy days are here again with Trevor Nunn’s sixtieth anniversary production of

Jay Paul Skelton Sonia Friedman, the well-known British producer, has not only led the charge as theatres cautiously reopen here

Hans-Jürgen Bartsch in Berlin The Vaganten Bühne, an intimate hundred-seat theatre tucked away at the end of an alleyway underneath

Jeremy Malies at the Hampstead Theatre   Alfred Fagon’s rarely staged 1975 play The Death of a Black Man is

Margaret Rose in Milan As I write this report in early June [2021], lockdown is gradually easing. Some Milanese theatres

How a Fringe Performance Led to the Trial of the Decade No theatrical event has been more discussed or has

Ludovico Lucchesi Palli at Werk X   Even though all of Vienna’s theatres are currently shut, the Werk X —

Natalia Isaeva in Paris   7 Deaths of Maria Callas is a co-production with the Bayerischen Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper Berlin,

Roxana Silbert, artistic director of Hampstead Theatre, has found a lovely way to burnish the reputation of this venerable playhouse

The Kreation Kollektiv’s Recherche Show (Research Show), a co-production with the Vienna Volkstheater and Theater im Bahnhof, Graz, premiered in

Jay Paul Skelton at The Bridge Theatre Alan Bennett’s celebrated Talking Heads monologues were first broadcast by the BBC in

Jeremy Malies at Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads: The Bridge Theatre Has Alan Bennett’s A Lady of Letters fared well since

Jeremy Malies at Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads: The Bridge Theatre As with the other pair of plays I review from

Prospero’s epilogue in The Tempest in which he renounces his magic — “Now my charms are all o’erthrown  … Let

Reviewed by Neil Dowden During six decades as a playwright, Caryl Churchill has not only continually innovated with form but

It may be a signature throughout Anton Chekhov that his characters should be starved of love, but I’ve rarely seen

I’ve long been an admirer of the Italian film director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s work but always steered clear of his

Neil Dowden at the Garrick Theatre There was much hype ahead of the world premiere of David Mamet’s Bitter Wheat

Mohammad Reza Aliakbari Life in the metropolis of Tehran is characterized by a combination of overcrowding, rushing, pollution, and general

I am immediately surrounded by mystical, seemly unearthly sounds that make me feel suspended in space when I enter the

Jo Briggs at Downstate Ten minutes before this play begins, we have the opportunity to investigate a set, designed by

Eva de Valk at Our Town The characteristically to-the-point announcement: “This play is called Our Town” is how Thornton Wilder’s

Iranshahr Theatre is one of the oldest and most popular theatres in Tehran. From its two well-equipped stages and good

At most productions of Chekhov’s Three Sisters I end up longing for the train to Moscow just as much as

Jo Briggs at The Royal Court I am old enough to remember a cane at my village primary school in

Jeremy Malies at A Very Very Very Dark Matter (Bridge Theatre) Martin McDonagh’s new play A Very Very Very Dark

There is theatre critic equivalent of locker room gossip suggesting that director Lyndsey Turner has a good channel of communication

Neil Dowden sees two productions of Richard II  at the Almeida Theatre and Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. This winter, London has

Michael Ajzenstadt in Tel Aviv In the autumn of 1993, the newest play of the time by Hanoch Levin, The

Jeremy Malies at Chichester The best theoretical physicists, notably Lawrence Krauss and the late Stephen Hawking, have become our new

Jo Briggs reviews Aristocrats at the Donmar Warehouse. The only son among the last of the O’Donnells of Ballybeg Hall

Jeremy Malies at Translations Orson Welles said that writers hit peak popularity two or three years after their death. It’s

Dana Rufolo in Constance In 1776, Adam Smith wrote An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of

Hans-Jürgen Bartsch in Berlin Last November, the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, one of Berlin’s oldest playhouses in the historic city centre,

Robert Schneider in Connecticut Nick Payne’s two-hander Constellations at Hartford Theatre Works is an invitation to imagine the multiverse as

Observing the substantial number of school children at the Chichester Festival Theatre for a matinée performance of The Winslow Boy,

Jeremy Malies at the National Theatre Pulitzer Prize-winning Annie Baker has seen her 2015 play John premiered in the UK

Rival meteorologists squabble for 72 hours over the most important weather forecast in history. Forget amphibious landings from the Trojan

Glenda Frank in New York What kind of stories do theatre artists choose to dramatize: stories about themselves or about

David Cowan in Paris Provincial life features on the main stage of the Comédie Française in Le Petit-Maître corrigé by

Doron Elia in Jerusalem The ruler of the underworld Samedi says, “Only here in the theatre, every evening after the

Jeremy Malies at a neglected Tennessee Williams masterpiece   Writers from Virgil through to Sylvia Plath have obsessed about the

David Cowan in Paris Jean-Luc Lagarce’s play J’étais dans ma maison et j’attendais que la pluie vienne, (I Was In

Margaret Leask in Sydney The Bell Shakespeare Company’s production of The Merchant of Venice, directed by Anne-Louise Sarks, was in

Christine Eccles at Road Royal Court Theatre Wow! This is a fantastic and very well-timed revival of Jim Cartwright’s ground-breaking