Alison Watts discusses a Japanese adaptation of Othello. Continue Reading AINU OTHELLO: THE STORY OF A PLAY
The number of shows that I’ve been to that sweep you up into a world so complex, so narratively tight and visually arresting and thematically overwhelming…is exactly three. ...
How do women maintain their authority aboard a ship of men unaccustomed to taking orders from the would-be fairer sex – other than, in the evening’s strongest segment, on Mary ...
Its pastiche is as ambitiously diffuse as a night at the Ziegfield Follies itself – and if the production as a whole veers towards the disjointed, its sins are – ...
An executioner is in a bit of a pickle. He can’t seem to match his victims’ bodies to their recently severed heads. Continue Reading Wolf Hall: Bookended
Throughout the play, we see the development of Heidi Holland, an art-historian passionate about ensuring that female as well as male artists are recognized and remembered. Continue ...
As in all of Stephen Adly Guirgis’s plays, Between Riverside and Crazy drops you off at the intersection of absurd, tragic, profane, and sublime. The traffic is coming from all ...
Knowledge may be power. But in Belladonna, a “Rappaccini’s Daughter”-inspired dance piece from Adam Barruch and Chelsea Bonosky, too much power can be toxic. Inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story, ...
What is a black play? Who is a black playwright? These are just some of the difficult questions posed by Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins’s darkly (no pun intended) comedic revision of Dion ...
If Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit is set in hell, then Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh is something more like purgatory, a waystation for people who once lived a meaningful life ...
A wildly exciting musical biopic on America’s master of macabre. Continue Reading The Horror of Edgar Allan Poe: Nevermore
An extraordinary, exciting re-imagining of Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov at the IRT. Continue Reading Dostoevsky, Distilled: Dmitri and the 3000 Kopeks
A starchild searches for a home. A love-lorn woman seeks revenge on the lover (and sister) that wrong her. A father and son duke it out over the dinner table. ...
“C-Section, motherfuckers!” Thus does Macduff, in Drunk Shakespeare’s gleefully anarchic rendition of the Scottish Play, announce to his arch-rival that he is “not of woman born.” It’s hardly the ...
The Bedlam Theatre Company’s lively and innovative adaptations breathe new energy into Austen and Chekov classics. Continue Reading It’s Bedlam: Sense and Sensibility & The Seagull
While Britain’s arts journalists have decamped to Edinburgh, London’s Camden Fringe remains an intriguing alternative. In the first of Litro‘s two reviews from the Camden Fringe, Lochlan Bloom samples Window, ...
Tara Isabella Burton is a devotee of immersive theatre: when Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More was in New York, she saw it nine times. So how did their latest show, at ...
How do you get an audience shivering in their seats when it’s this light outside? It’s a challenge that Josie Rourke and a superb cast of five have taken on ...
As part of The National Theatre’s ongoing Platform season of talks and events, I recently attended a fascinating talk from Neil MacGregor about his latest book Shakespeare’s Restless World. MacGregor’s ...
The Lion and Unicorn theatre is an intimate setting for the domestic turmoil of Othello; a small stage situated above a pub. Upon entering the space of this theatre, you ...
