Acclaimed actors Mary-Louise Parker, Carmen Cusack and Steven Pasquale and creatives Douglas Carter Beane, Rachel Chavkin, Adam Rapp and David Cromer are among the talents newly announc…
Following its hugely successful run at the Almeida in 2016/17, Mary Stuart has returned to the Duke of York's Theatre. The Islington venue is the gift that keeps on giving, delivering hit af…
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This is sounding like a history lesson: Rob Icke's Almeida production offers contemporary parallels galore. The post Review: Mary Stuart at Duke of York’s Theatre appeared first on Exe…
With the past year bringing in a new administration with a new Secretary of Education, the national awareness of how overworked, undercompensated and financially burdened America's public sc…
The Almeida Theatre’s hypnotic revival of Friedrich Schiller’s Mary Stuart finds the mighty Lia Williams and Juliet Stevenson tossing a coin each performance to see who…
Another week has been added to this revival of the latest show from the Mad Ones.
The acclaimed comedic show from The Mad Ones returned to the New York stage earlier this year.
Robert Icke's production of this Schiller classic takes up residence at the West End's Duke of York's Theatre, following on from another Almeida Theatre production Ink. Juliet Stevenson and …
TWO QUEENS, TWO FATES Who shall be whom? In Robert Icke's arresting adaptation of Schiller's play, the scene opens with a sober-suited group of men watching two women in identical bla…
It doesn't hit the bull's eye on the target, but it's only one mere circle away from it. MILES FOR...Continue Reading The post MILES FOR MARY: Much Less Than a Mile Away from Success appeare…
It's natural that your reactions to shows are filtered through the prism of the current social and political climate. And savvy theatres, of course, seek to judge the mood and programme acco…
Lia Williams and Juliet Stevenson are both extraordinary in Mary Stuart at the Duke of York's Theatre, but the level of sexualisation, sexual violence and assault in the depiction of these t…
Sovereignty unites family history with an overlooked piece of America's past.
Mary Katharine Harris is an actress, singer, dancer and native New Yorker. Credits include; Rosemary and Time (Paradise Factory Theater), I Create (Kenan Fellow Performance, L…
Fun Home Tony winner Sam Gold will direct.
It's the show that's had West End audiences hooked on the fate of a coin toss each night. But one thing that's for sure: Mary Stuart has once again proven a spectacular London theatre hit…
Ironies and duplicities course through Schiller's great play
Mary Stuart " a new adaptation by Robert Icke Two queens. One in power. One in prison. It's all in the execution. Following a critically acclaimed, sold-out season at the Almeida TheatreÅ
Robert Icke's production sees the two leads flip a coin to decide their roles at each performance
Lia Williams and Juliet Stevenson star as the two leads in Robert Icke's adaptation of this classic play
A high-school telethon prompts administrative overload in this madcap satire
Heads. In a snatched breath, Lia Williams casts her lot to play Elizabeth I for the evening. A coin is tossed, screens around the auditorium zoom in and the audience leans forwar…
'Heads.' One word, and one coin toss, decides which roles Juliet Stevenson and Lia Williams will play on the night the titular Mary, or her rival Elizabeth I. Last night Williams took the la…