Critic's Notebook: London stage revivals this summer: Breathing new life into old plays
London's stages are filled with revivals of long-ago plays, including those by Friedrich Schiller, Henrik Ibsen and Carlo Goldoni. The well-performed works are surprisingly relevant to today's audiences.— Something extraordinary is happening on the London stage this summer. A few of the most resonant new plays to come around in quite a while also happen to be antiques.