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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…

Posted in Anders Lustgarten Arcola Theatre Theatre

Review: The Sugar-Coated Bullets of the Bourgeoisie, Arcola Theatre

“We made the revolution, not Mao” The Sugar-Coated Bullets of the Bourgeoisie is based on more than…

Posted in Christopher Marlowe Jamie Lloyd Theatre West End

(P)review: Doctor Faustus, Duke of York’s Theatre

“Hell is within”  (As are production spoilers)  As Jamie Lloyd’s Doctor Faustus is currently previewing but doesn’t open…

Posted in Arcola Theatre Hannah Khalil Theatre Theatre review Top plays of 2016

Review: Scenes from 68* Years, Arcola Theatre

“We live in a climate of fear – they’ve made that” The asterisk in the title is…