Don't Miss: Theatre

Don't Miss: Theatre

The Healing Nature of Theatre: Women Leading Theatre for Change

Felicity Carter

May 9, 2024

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

USING THEATRE as a force of good is the London and Middle East-based arts and education charity, Seenaryo, and it has announced the launch of its guide: Women Leading Theatre for Change. Promoting creativit...

Bottega Veneta unveiled third collaboration with Biennale Danza

August 1, 2023

Don't Miss: Theatre, Fashion, Feature

BOTTEGA VENETA announces it contribution to Biennale Danza, marking the 17th year of International Festival of Contemporary Dance, for a third time as its primary partner. The brand collaborated with Bienn...

The Crucible – Arthur Miller’s Masterpiece comes to the West End

July 5, 2023

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

FOLLOWING a sold-out run at the National Theatre, Arthur Miller’s great witch-hunt drama has now taken up residency in the West End, at the Gielgud Theatre. Exactly seven decades after the play debuted in New ...

Burberry collaborates with The Royal Ballet

April 11, 2023

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Fashion, News

A MESMERISING fusion of fashion and ballet is on the horizon as the British luxury brand Burberry collaborates with The Royal Ballet for an unprecedented, one-act production. Choreographed by Wayne McGregor and...

Glass reviews Women Beware The Devil Feature

Glass reviews Women, Beware the Devil at the Almeida Theatre

March 9, 2023

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

“ENJOY the play – it’s pretty long.” With these words, the Devil (charmingly played by Nathan Armarkwei-Laryea) ends his prologue and opens the action on Women, Beware the Devil, a new play by Lulu Raczka at th...

Ava Wong Davies’ Graceland takes up space without shouting

March 7, 2023

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

Ava Wong Davies’ Graceland at the Royal Court Theatre takes up space without shouting. Tracing a relationship from giddy love-at-first-sight through to its slow unravelling, this production, directed by Anna Hi...

Soho’s Boulevard Theatre debuts Cormac McCarthy play – The Sunset Limited

January 16, 2020

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, News

THE Sunset Limited, running at the Boulevard Theatre in Soho from this week until the end of February, marks the first Cormac McCarthy play to be performed on the London stage. Dealing with the big issues - red...

Glass reviews My Brilliant Friend at the National Theatre

January 15, 2020

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

THE Neapolitan Novels and the mystery that surrounds the identity of the famed author Elena Ferrante has fascinated me, and the many friends I have recommended the books to, for years. When SKY Atlantic release...

Glass checks out the latest on the London stage

December 23, 2019

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

THE neon and colourful billboards decorating the Piccadilly Theatre’s exterior are par for the course in the narrow West End streets that surround it. The classiness that distinguishes the theatre from the neig...

Star Wars: A New Hope in Concert at The Royal Albert Hall

December 3, 2018

Don't Miss: Theatre, News

AS THE lights dimmed in The Royal Albert Hall for the screening of Star Wars: A New Hope, The London Symphony Orchestra began to play the 20th Century Fox theme, and the audience erupted into thunderous applaus...

feauterd-image-Comedie-Francasie

Comédie-Française Electrifies at Park Avenue Armory, New York

September 4, 2018

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

NEW York was recently graced by legendary French theatre company Comédie-Française, which was returning to the city after an absence of over a decade. Having been in the business for more than three centuries, ...

Kinky Boots_London Company 2017-2018_Photo by Matt Crockett

Kinky Boots is the Musical for Generation Drag Race

Thomas Marrington

April 13, 2018

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

IT WAS a particularly interesting experience, sitting in the Adelphi theatre recently, as I looked around at my fellow theatre-goers. For a show that stars not one, not two, but six professional drag queens, pl...

At Home at the Zoo - Homelife & The Zoo Story

Glass is thrilled by the Edward Albee revival at Signature Theatre, New York

April 5, 2018

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

THE great American playwright Edward Albee came to fame at the age of 32 with his first play, The Zoo Story. Opening off-Broadway in 1960, the one-act, two-actor play made Albee something of a household name ov...

'Road' at the Royal Court Main slide

Glass reviews Road at the Royal Court, London

Heather Doughty

August 23, 2017

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

“Why’s the world so tough? It’s like walking through meat in high heels.” IT’S been 31 years since Jim Cartwright’s seminal play, Road, was first staged by Simon Curtis as a promenade production, inviti...

Glass reviews Lead Suspect at the Kings Head Theatre, London

Heather Doughty

July 19, 2017

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

OFF The Middle’s last piece of theatre earlier this year, In Other Words, tackled issues around dementia and the power of music to help sufferers remember. Stephanie Wither’s latest venture, Lead Suspect, is a ...

Glass reviews The Ferryman at the Royal Court Theatre, London

Heather Doughty

May 9, 2017

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

“Vanishing. It’s a powerful word that.” JEZ Butterworth has fast become one of the most influential and ground-breaking British playwrights of the last 20 years and it’s easy to see why. His commentary on ru...

Glass meets West End and Broadway star Joe Aaron Reid

April 25, 2017

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

“DREAMGIRLS is kind of a hot ticket at the moment,” says Joe Aaron Reid, stating the obvious. The West End show recently sizzled at this year’s Olivier Awards – it was nominated for five awards, including Best ...

Glass meets young actor on the rise – Orlando James

Thomas Marrington

April 18, 2017

Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature, Glass Talents

WHEN Glass meets Orlando James at the Barbican Centre, it’s his wide-reaching smile that greets us first. Having taken his role as Leontes in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale around the world, the young East Sus...

Glass reviews … Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Harold Pinter Theatre

Heather Doughty

March 17, 2017

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

EDWARD Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf is a play that takes no prisoners. Making an absolute racket is the very point of Albee’s piece. Whether you’ve heard about its iconic characters, studied it at sc...

Glass reviews In Other Words at The Hope Theatre, Islington, London

Heather Doughty

March 7, 2017

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

THE power of music, or one particular song in this case, to transport someone back to a different time, alleviate their anxiety and trigger memories that their nearest and dearest thought they had completely fo...

Glass reviews The Glass Menagerie at the Duke of York’s Theatre, London

Heather Doughty

February 27, 2017

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

IT is always so delightful when a script from over 50 years ago still stands up incredibly well in today’s fast-moving and ever changing culture and climate. Tennessee Williams’ 1944 play, The Glass Menagerie i...