Saturday, May 7, 2022
Rodgers and Hammerstein revival goes to the dark heart of the story
No surreys, fringes or corny chap-slapping: the Rodgers and Hammerstein revival that has arrived at the Young Vic from New…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 01:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 14, 2022
Ché Walker directs his savage play, with a stellar turn from Clare Latham
Ché Walker claims he wrote Wolf Cub, now in the Hampstead Downstairs studio space, in a two-day blitz prompted …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:06AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 26, 2022
The 2010 satire about race and the realities of real estate remains blistering
Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park arrived at London's Royal Court like a blazing comet in 2010, a bold kind of sati…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:36AM[SHARE]Friday, March 11, 2022
An epic undertaking about British teenage life, beautifully performed
Do you happily binge four hours of mind-candy TV in one sitting? Alecky Blythe's latest verbatim play, Our Generation " …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 22, 2022
Carey Crim's play leaves the issues it raises sadly undramatic
Carey Crim's 2017 play arrives from the US at north London's Park Theatre trailing a feminist playwriting award for its dissect…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 16, 2022
The author of 'The Father' plays unsatisfying games with the audience
If Florian Zeller isn't a Wordle fan, I'd be very surprised. As with the hit online game, the French playwright likes t…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 01:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 6, 2022
Nell Leyshon's play-with-music asks questions of a legacy
Cecil Sharp, heritage hero or imperialist appropriator? If you attended school in the first half of the 19th century, you would have…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:18AM[SHARE]Monday, December 20, 2021
A triumphant musical about teenage angst
When Berliners sat down to watch Franz Wedekind's debut play Fruhlings Erwachen " Spring Awakening " in 1906, they had little inkling of the kind of…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 01:06PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 18, 2021
Has director Patrick Marber boobed this time?
In his 1973 play Habeas Corpus, now revived at the Menier Chocolate Factory under the direction of Patrick Marber, Alan Bennett had his way with…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 18, 2021
Hilarious and probing satire from Young Jean Lee
The Korean-American writer Young Jean Lee's Straight White Men, currently enjoying its UK debut at Southwark Playhouse, is presented wi…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:54AM[SHARE]Monday, November 15, 2021
Katie Mitchell hits a new career high
Katie Mitchell's desire to bust the boundaries of theatre has taken a brilliant turn. Over her long and distinguished career as a director she has been…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 01:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 3, 2021
The Menier opens its new second stage with this podcast-turned-play
What counts as offensive in these days of cancel culture? Ham-fisted pronoun usage? Culturally appropriated hairstyles? To…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:24AM[SHARE]Monday, October 18, 2021
Martin McDonagh's breakthrough play dazzles anew
"You can't kick a cow in Leenane without some bastard holding a grudge for 20 years," sighs Pato Dooley (Adam Best) prophetically; he has alr…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:12AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 3, 2021
Can a runaway slave help a black actress love the theatre more?
Jasmine Lee-Jones has a hard act to follow - namely, herself. Her award-winning 2019 debut play, seven methods of killing kyli…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 11:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 22, 2021
Debut work from Benedict Lombe is a red-hot poem of protest
What's in a name? In Benedict Lombe's incendiary debut play at the Bush Theatre, the answer to this question encompasses a whol…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:32AM[SHARE]Monday, June 14, 2021
Intriguing, inventive play from Jack Thorne and Headlong
Limbo, in Jack Thorne's latest play, is a room lined ceiling-high with drawers, a sort of morgue rebooted as a vast filing system. It…
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