4.0
Review: The Visit, National Theatre
Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s tragicomedy retains the dark humour which warrants it part of that genre in Tony Kushner’s adaptation. In New York, the town of Slurry i...
New York
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Review: Street Scene, Opera North
Street Scene is a rollicking, powerful production which kicks off Opera North’s first season of 2020. Kurt Weill’s opera is truly a fusion of genres, and is br...
I sometimes feel that audiences are in a post-exhaust period of jadedness
Gus Mitchell writes about the notion of 'experimental' theatre: Where this idea stands in 2019 and how looking back to 1960s Off-Off Broadway definitely explai...
Review: The Flick, National Theatre
Annie Baker's Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Flick comes to London's National from New York, and it has a lot to say, but perhaps it is taking a bit too long t...
Review: Gatsby, Union Theatre
I’m sitting in the Union Theatre bar with a glass of Merlot, and within a matter of seconds I am transported back to the Roaring Twenties. Members of the ensemb...
Review: Go See, King’s Head Theatre
It’s 1985 and we’re in New York’s red light district. There’s nothing extremely exciting about a dimly lit set which greets the audience, oozing in red paint an...