Review: Little Dancer, Kennedy Center
The world première of Little Dancer, now playing at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., could benefit from more dancing. That’s an odd thing to say about...
International
Review: Madame Butterfly, Opera Australia
An increasingly common phenomenon is the opportunity to watch a recording of a live show within a cinema. This was my first encounter. Viewing a live perform...
Review: The Valley of Astonishment, Bouffes du Nord – Paris
“It could do with a drop of paint,” Kathryn Hunter says as she steps out on the Bouffes du Nord stage in Peter Brook's The Valley of Astonishment. Referring t...
Review: The Little Foxes, Les Gémeaux, Paris
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 ...
Review: So Lonely, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Junges Theater
Back to Gaußstraße, and to the same odd little arts-industrial estate as Thalia Gaußstraße, for a performance by the young people’s theatre of Deutsches Schau...
Review: Hamlet, Les Gémeaux, Paris
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...