Billy Barrett

Feature: How to Describe a Plague: Dan Phillips on directing Safe Sex and On Tidy Endings

Billy BarrettApril 10, 2014

The weekend of our first same-sex weddings, Dan Phillips started rehearsals for the UK premier of Safe Sex and On Tidy Endings. Harvey Fierstein's 1987 play...

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Review: The Little Foxes, Les Gémeaux, Paris

Billy BarrettApril 6, 2014

The plot of Lillian Hellman's 1939 play The Little Foxes (given the French title La Vipère here) is pure soap. Foxes or vipers, the Hubbards are not a family ...

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Review: Hamlet, Les Gémeaux, Paris

Billy BarrettMarch 10, 2014

David Bobee's Russian Hamlet is, among other things, a strong argument for age-appropriate casting. While in Britain we like our Princes of Denmark to be 'acc...

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Feature: Call for Action – IdeasTap Inspires

Billy BarrettMarch 5, 2014

"We've built a site that manages calls for action," says Amanda White, Strategic Partnerships Director for IdeasTap. The charity maintains a database of more th...

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Review: The Raven, Bouffes du Nord

Billy BarrettFebruary 14, 2014

Bouffes du Nord's The Raven is like a bad acid trip in suburbia. A sky-blue flat with a window onto a residential street sits in the theatre's crumbling pro...

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Review: La Maison de Bernarda Alba, Bouffes du Nord, Paris

Billy BarrettFebruary 10, 2014

Sparing us the po-faced shroud that tends to fall over stagings of Lorca's rural tragedy, Bouffes du Nord's The House of Bernarda Alba liberates the text wi...

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