London Theater Review: ‘A Very Expensive Poison’
Vladimir Putin owes his power to the stage. The president’s closest advisor trained as a theatre director before applying his art to politics, and ran Russia like a staged reality, spinning so many...
View ArticleWest End Review: ‘The Night of the Iguana’ With Clive Owen
If Tennessee Williams is the poet laureate of lost souls, none of his characters as are off-grid as the restless travelers trying to make it through his little-seen 1961 play, “The Night of the...
View ArticleU.K. Theater Review: ‘Invisible Cities’
“Invisible Cities” ought to be unstageable. Italo Calvino’s extraordinary little book is a fantastical travelogue — a guide to the most incredible metropolises you can imagine. Framed as Marco Polo’s...
View ArticleU.K. Theater Review: ‘Tree’ Co-Created by Idris Elba
People, like plants, have roots that run deep. “Tree” tries to tap into that, and finds that, the further you dig, the more tangled things get. Set in South Africa, where politics are still seen in...
View ArticleLondon Theater Review: ‘Present Laughter’ Starring Andrew Scott
Noel Coward’s plays are coming out of the closet. The ménage-a-trois in “Design for Living” — Gilda, Otto and Leo, the original “thruple” — have long stopped masquerading as the best of friends. Now...
View ArticleWest End Review: John Malkovich in David Mamet’s ‘Bitter Wheat’
How soon is too soon? Hardly a year had passed since allegations against Harvey Weinstein were made public before David Mamet announced that his satire on the subject, “Bitter Wheat,” was set to star...
View ArticleLondon Theater Review: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” can be many things. There are earthy “Dreams,” airy “Dreams,” saucy “Dreams” and sweet “Dreams.” It’s Shakespeare’s most malleable play. Nicholas Hytner’s new staging...
View ArticleWary Theater Rivalry Between London and New York Gives Way to a Boom in...
Give or take a little tectonic shift, the distance between London and New York still stands at 3,465 miles. Arguably, though, the two theater capitals have never been closer. It’s not just the nine...
View ArticleLondon Theater Review: ‘White Pearl’
Playwright Anchuli Felicia King dismantles the Asian market in this misfiring satire at London’s Royal Court Theatre. “White Pearl” makes a case that those seeking to make inroads into the Far East,...
View ArticleLondon Theater Review: ‘Death of a Salesman’
August Wilson famously disavowed the idea of an all-black “Death of a Salesman.” In 1996, he declared any such staging “an assault on our presence and our difficult but honorable history in America.”...
View ArticleWest End Review: ‘Rosmersholm’ With Hayley Atwell
“Rosmersholm” arrives at the end of an era — at least, it does in London. Now playing on the West End, Henrik Ibsen’s dark, dense late play was last seen here back in 2008, as a longstanding left-wing...
View ArticleLondon Theater Review: ‘All My Sons’ With Sally Field, Bill Pullman
If “All My Sons” is showing its age, it sure shows no signs of abating. Just days after a major revival opened on Broadway, moving Annette Bening and Tracy Letts into the Tony zone, up the play pops in...
View ArticleLondon Theater Review: ‘Three Sisters’
Ennui has become exhaustion in playwright Cordelia Lynn’s new version of “Three Sisters.” The word recurs and recurs. Everyone on the Prozorov estate is worn out; too “overworked” to do anything but...
View ArticleLondon Theater Review: Maggie Smith in ‘A German Life’
How helpful are warnings from history? Two years ago, in February 2017, Amazon briefly sold out its entire stock of Hannah Arendt’s 500-page treatise, “The Origins of Totalitarianism.” In it, the...
View ArticleLondon Theater Review: ‘Grief Is the Thing With Feathers’
There is no road map for mourning. Grief gets us all in the end and, when it does, it comes without guidance notes or instructions. Each grieving process takes its own time, each finds its own form....
View ArticleWest End Review: ‘Emilia’
We know next to nothing of the “Dark Lady of the Sonnets” — nothing beyond what Shakespeare tells us in 26 stanzas of overblown verse. Her eyes were nothing like the sun, of course – “raven black,” so...
View ArticleWest End Review: Tom Hiddleston in ‘Betrayal’
It takes three to tango, and Jamie Lloyd’s “Betrayal” completely grasps that. Having made it his mission to modernize the way we stage Harold Pinter’s plays, his chic, stripped-down staging starring...
View ArticleLondon Theater Review: ‘The American Clock’
Time is money. Money is time. Both come unstuck in “The American Clock.” Arthur Miller’s kaleidoscopic account of the Great Depression, part autobiography, part social history, crawls through the...
View ArticleWest End Review: Gillian Anderson and Lily James in ‘All About Eve’
To adapt a crass old adage: it’s “All About Eve,” not “All About Steve.” Stripping Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s sharp-witted screenplay about a waning theater star of its period trappings, Ivo van Hove’s...
View ArticleWest End Review: ‘Pinter Seven’ Starring Martin Freeman
“Pinter at the Pinter” has been an education — a crash course in Britain’s greatest post-war playwright. Director-producer Jamie Lloyd’s star-studded, six-month sprint through Harold Pinter’s short...
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