Just yesterday, the cast of Broadway's Beautiful gathered for apop-up performance of some of Carole King's most famous hits, at a piano designed by the cast to celebrate Carole King's story.…
It was 2012 when King's Players was born. For our first show, we tackled an original piece called In the Company of de Sade. The premise was simple: a director attempts to stage the …
A fragrant physical echo chamber: Anna Winter reviews a mixed bill of works performed by the Richard Alston Dance Company. The post Review: Richard Alston Dance Company at Sadler’s Wel…
IT GETS WORSE TOO Teenage suicide due to cyberbullying deserves its storytelling: In just 70 minutes, Canadian playwright Jordan Tannahill’s Late Company seems to cover the bases…
Delving into classic text with histrionic flair, The Collaborative Theatre Company (TCT) presents The Manhattan Project's version of Lewis Carroll's time-honored 1865 tale, Alice in Wonde…
For Soulpepper Theater Company, putting on 30 productions at home won't do this year. The Toronto troupe is also programming a New York theater center for July.
The production will be directed by Murphy Cross and Paul Kreppel.
Inside this taut and provocative two-character play"which vividly evokes the political tension between the Israeli state and its Palestinian citizens"there is a startling sex scene, one that…
Just last night, the Acting Company held a one-night-only benefit reading of British drama The Chalk Garden by Enid Bagnold, starring Angela Lansbury. Completing the cast were Tedra Millan P…
"Write what you know." Attributed to Mark Twain, this advice is adhered to by many a playwright, including a local one, William Leary. His Forsaken Angels, a joint production of Wolf Pack Th…
Timothy M. Kolman's The Roses in June has a hard time making its author's fascinating life bloom onstage. Mark Cofta reviews.
Richard Alston Dance Company's latest programme sees the return of Alston's 2004 work Gypsy Mixture alongside the recently created Chacony " but
Alston's triple bill includes his newest work 'Chacony' along with the popular 'Gypsy Mixture' and Martin Lawrance's 'Tangent'
Sadler's Wells, LondonAlston's new work, Chacony, is a charged homage to Benjamin Britten's wartime experiences, while Gypsy Mixture succumbs joyfully to its Balkan fusion soundtrack and Tan…
Arts sponsorship has a fresh twist: adopt a character in a play
THE WHITE WHALE RETURNS! You can't keep a good cetacean down. Buoyed by the success of their 2015 inaugural production and national tour, Lookingglass Theatre Company (in association with Th…
Human trafficking is a topic that comes and goes in the media but is nevertheless a prevalent atrocity in our society. William Leary's play “Forsaken Angels” reveals some of t…
Richard Alston'snewest creation comes to Sadler's Wells as part of a triple bill.Chaconyis inspired by the richness and nobility of Henry Purcell's Chaconne, and Britten's tribute to it.
Shakespeare in the park is a long-held American tradition. From venues in places such as New York City's Central Park and Washington, D.C.'s Carter Barron Amphitheater, watching the Bard's w…
Speaking "truth to power" is always a risky proposition and no play defines the perils of altruism more certainly than Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People. Written after the negative criti…
Economic self-interest, an 'inconvenient truth,' a ruthless politician, a whistleblower, 'fake news,' closed-door meetings, a bureaucratic cover-up, the refusal to work together for the comm…
Roundabout Theatre Company Todd Haimes, Artistic DirectorCEO has just announced the 22-minute film A Roundabout Road to Broadway, directed by Andrew Lawton, celebrating the 50th Anniversary …
By Douglas Mayo A new production company called Elliott and Harper Productions has been formed by Marianne Elliott, the Olivier and Tony Award-winning director of the National Theatre's huge…
Seeing The Return, the stunning new play that has just burst upon the stage at Mosaic Theater Company of DC–is like watching fireworks up close. In fact, the heat from this drama is…