London Theater Journal: Inside, Vodka and Stilettos; Outside, the Revolution
In Abi Morgan's "Splendour" at the Donmar Warehouse, Sinead Cusack plays a dictator's wife who drinks shots with her guests at the palace in a revolution-torn city.
View ArticleLondon Theater Journal: En Travesti, Both Sides Now
David Suchet plays Lady Bracknell in Oscar Wilde's "Importance of Being Earnest" at the Vaudeville Theater and, across the river, Michelle Terry is the cross-dressing heroine of "As You Like It" at...
View ArticleLondon Theater Journal: Make ‘Em Dream
“Bend It Like Beckham: The Musical," with its focus of dreams of the future, has many parallels to "Billy Elliot: The Musical." Then, also in London, there is the Hitler-era “Grand Hotel.”
View ArticleLondon Theater Journal: Discipline, Punish and Put on a Play
Timberlake Wertenbaker’s “Our Country’s Good” has been given a big, handsome and somewhat literal-minded revival at the National Theater.
View ArticleLondon Theater Journal: Rehab and Resistance
A review of Duncan Macmillan's new play "People, Places and Things."
View ArticleLondon Theater Journal: Firebrands
Ben Brantley reviews "The Heresy of Love" and "Jacqueline Wilson's Hetty Feather."
View ArticleLondon Theater Journal: Nowhere Man
Ben Brantley on two plays by Simon Stephens: "Song from Far Away" and "One Minute."
View ArticleLondon Theater Journal: The Greeks All Over Again
Ben Brantley on two versions of "The Oresteia," part of the current fashion for Greek tragedy on London and New York Stages.
View ArticleLondon Theater Journal: Getting Giddy
Ben Brantley reviews "The Beaux' Stratagem" at the National Theater.
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