Robert Icke's updating of The Wild Duck gains in contemporary relevance, but loses a little of its heart en route.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:36AM[SHARE]Quietly gives us two men, deep in middle age, looking back to the irreversible actions they took as 16 year-olds during The Troubles in an electrifying conversation.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:33AM[SHARE]Ross MacGregor's Dracula needs a transfusion of narrative pace if it is to achieve its considerable and laudable ambition.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:05PM[SHARE]The Trench, in trying to do so much, forgets to let us into the lives of the soldiers whose ordeal lies at the heart of the story it tells.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:42AM[SHARE]Solomon provides a transcendent sensory experience and more than a few lessons for todays rulers.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:06AM[SHARE]A tremendous re-imagining of a novel that has not been more relevant at any point in the 82 years since its writing - a wonderfully realised piece of theatre.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:33AM[SHARE]There's much promise in this play that speculates on what Sigmund Freud and Gustav Mahler may have spoken about on a walk they shared, but pedestrian writing and underdeveloped characters sc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:42PM[SHARE]To Have To Shoot Irishmen brings the tragic story of Francis Sheehy Skeffington to the stage, with music and lyricism, a reminder of Ireland's fractured past and a warning about its fragile …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:32AM[SHARE]BWW visits the National Theatre's schools tour of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and speaks to the NT's Paula Hamilton and its writer, Simon Stephens
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:21AM[SHARE]Dance telling the story of how only some stories are told.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:18AM[SHARE]Another scaled down opera, retaining full force singing and emotional clout, from the King's Head, Violetta now a pole dancer in a sleazy Bristol nightclub.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24PM[SHARE]Alice Oswald's epic re-imagining of The Iliad developed into an extraordinary theatrical event that provides intellectual nourishment, but makes great demands on its audience.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:24AM[SHARE]Lifeboat tells the story of two survivors of the wartime sinking of the SS City of Benares, torpedoed en route to Canada, evacuating children from the UK.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:39AM[SHARE]The highlights of Gary Naylor's last 12 months and his nominations for the BroadwayWorld UK Awards 2018
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:12AM[SHARE]If you have never heard of Jacques Brel, this show serves as a useful introduction to his life and work, but it lacks the confident execution his songs demand.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:36AM[SHARE]Lorca's masterpiece transported and updated to present day London, but retaining its power to shock as it lays bare the souls of men and women.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:04AM[SHARE]Moliere's farce updated for the 21st century and set within a family from Birmingham, with Pakistani heritage and plenty of issues.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:18AM[SHARE]BWW talks to Sarah Crabtree and Emma Southworth about the Royal Opera House's Open Up Project and the new season at the Linbury Theatre.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:00AM[SHARE]The Seagull gathers a fine cast, but fails to get to the heart of Chekhov's masterpiece, compromising characters and burying its theatrical elements in intrusive cinematic flourishes.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:05AM[SHARE]A spectacular re-imaging of Shakespeare's tale of mistaken identities, cross-dressing and cruelty time-traveled to a speakeasy populated by extraordinary actor-musicians.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:06AM[SHARE]Sharon Small talks about her role as Alice in Still Alice and its impact on the dementia community and wider audiences.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:42AM[SHARE]This version of the life of Hamilton - not that one, Hamilton Lewis - is a lot of fun for anyone in that crossover in the venn diagram for fans of Formula One and Musical Theatre. And, fortu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:12AM[SHARE]Hobson's Choice is given a late 50s makeover in this fine revival of a play the themes of which remain as relevant today as ever they were.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:18PM[SHARE]A show that bursts with great tunes, witty lyrics and fine singing that puts the six wives of Henry VIII back into the narrative - and about time too.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:11AM[SHARE]Caterpillar takes us to a seaside town guesthouse within which three dysfunctional people circle each other, troubled and needy.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:48AM[SHARE]Come down to the Southbank for a little circus, a little cabaret and a little naughty banter with the singer, the tumblers and the fire breathing woman.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:35AM[SHARE]Pericles shows our nation what our nation is - a tremendous achievement by the National Theatre's Public Acts movement and a gamechanger for the concept of outreach.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:48AM[SHARE]Christopher Marlowe's tale of relentless, ruthless ambition has a Game of Thrones vibe and a distressingly familiar topicality
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:24AM[SHARE]Charity Wakefield, currently appearing in Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's all-female Emilia, is the first woman to play William Shakespeare on the Globe stage.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:42AM[SHARE]What larks Maybe not for the purists nor for anyone looking for a Chekhovian analysis of the human condition, but a guilty pleasure full the laughs.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:02AM[SHARE]BWW talks to Priyanga Burford about The Winter's Tale currently at The Globe, the forthcoming BBC series, Press, and the differences between acting for stage and screen
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