London 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 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 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: ‘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 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: ‘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 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 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 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 ArticleLondon 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...
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