Articles about Downstate
110 articles · page 4 of 5
Pam MacKinnon will direct the Playwrights Horizons production.
The company has announced five works for its 2022-23 lineup, which will include Agnes Borinsky's "The Trees," directed by Tina Satter.
The shortlist of nominees for the 2019 Evening Standard Awards have been announced, and Broadway favorites like Dame Maggie Smith (A German Life), Tom Hiddleston (Betrayal) and K. Todd Freem…
The 51st annual ceremony took place October 21 in the Windy City.
Downstate at the National Theatre is a remarkable thing. An absolute masterpiece of writing, performed so sensitively and with such bravery.
At last, Rufus Norris' National Theatre has come of age. Breathtaking, brave and brilliantly acted, Downstate is a landmark play. It's listed as a 'collaboration' between NT and Steppenwolf,…
BRILLIANT, NECESSARY,   QUESTIONING     If we accept that people are widely diverse, we have to accept that paedophiles are too.  Not all the same identi-monster.…
Love London Love Culture rounds up the reviews for Pam MacKinnon's production of Bruce Norris' new play Downstate at the National Theatre.
American playwright Bruce Norris' 2010 work Clybourne Park was a certified sensation. Written as a sequel to Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In
Review: Downstate, National Theatre5.0starsDownstate, Bruce Norris' new play, takes place in a group home in Illinois. The residents are Fred (Francis Guinan), Dee (K Todd Freeman), Gio (Gle…
Crucible, Sheffield; National Theatre; Alexandra Palace theatre, LondonA new musical with songs by Richard Hawley is rooted in Sheffield but richly resonant for all, while Bruce Norris and J…
Downstate is a challenging, difficult play with humour and wit inflected with wisdom, carefully balancing entertainment without detracting from the seriousness of the subject matter.
In a co-production with Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Pulitzer Prize-winning ensemble member Bruce Norris' fiery, provocative new play Downstate, comes to the NT direct from its debut at Step…
The Bruce Norris play opened in the U.K. March 20 following a world premiere at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company.
The acting is excellent throughout, with K Todd Freeman impressing
Pulitzer-winner Bruce Norris once again challenges audiences with a play built around a difficult topic in this case, asking whether paedophiles are irredeemable, how they should be punished…
By Paul T Davies
Paul T Davies reviews Steppenwolf Theatre Company's production of Bruce Norris's Downstate at the National Theatre.
This post REVIEW: Downstate, The Dorfman, National Theatr…
The performances at London's National Theatre are largely flawless, though the play has its problems
Dorfman, LondonFour sex offenders are confronted by one of their victims in Bruce Norris's viscerally acted drama about punishment
Bruce Norris likes to live dangerously. In Clybourne Park, …
The new play by Pulitzer-winner and liberal-bubble-busting Bruce Norris asks: what should we do with paedophiles? Incarcerate, rehabilitate, or pity them? Care
Bruce Norris's ever-provocative play puts people first, labels second
"Some monsters are real," notes a retribution-minded wife (Matilda Ziegler) early in Downstate, Bruce Norris's beautiful…
Whether rehabilitation is truly possible for such serious crimes committed by sex offenders, Bruce Norris never really decides, leaving only a dramatically engaging but morally troubling out…
In a co-production with Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Pulitzer Prize-winning ensemble member Bruce Norris' fiery, provocative new playDownstate, comes to the NT direct from its debut at Stepp…
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Bruce Norris' ("Clybourne Park," "The Low Road") new play "Downstate," directed by Pam MacKinnon, comes to the National Theatre direct from its premiere at…
Wither forgiveness in a year of constant American division? That question was at the core of many of the best Chicago shows of 2018 as this theater-loving city explored questions of guilt, p…
