Chanticleer to Debut WITHOUT A SONG Program In 2024-25 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Aug 19, 2024
Multiple Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble Chanticleer will kick off its new season of performances at home in the Bay Area and on tour across the U.S. with the new “Without a Song” program. Learn more!
Chaucer's THE CANTERBURY TALES Comes To Life On Stage This Spring!
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 8, 2024
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales comes to life on stage this Spring! Half Cut Theatre Company announces their Spring 2024 Tour, bringing one of the seminal works of English Literature, Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, to FOUR London venues. Don't miss this brand new adaptation!
Review: RENT Rocks At Baltimore's Theatre Project AND M & T Bank Exchange
by Cybele Pomeroy - Jan 30, 2024
RENT is an assemblage of romantic tragedy interspersed with moments that touch your heart, rattle your nerves or tickle your funny bone, set in the gritty underbelly of New York at the height of the AIDS epidemic. The show is a tribute to the spirit of people undaunted by poverty, addiction and illness in the face of a very bleak reality.
John-Luke Roberts Brings Two Shows To Adelaide Festival
by Stephi Wild - Jan 26, 2023
One of UK comedy's left-field geniuses is making his Adelaide debut. John-Luke Roberts arrives in South Australia, carrying a selection of props whose transportation costs almost guarantee and overall loss. With not one, but two huge, critically-acclaimed shows in his back pocket. And, not to alarm you, but he's about to move them to his front pocket and then get them out of his pocket altogether.
EDINBURGH 2022: Horseplay Q&A
by Natalie O'Donoghue - Jul 13, 2022
BWW catches up with Horseplay to chat about bringing Bareback to the 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Bristol Riverside Theatre to Present A FEW GOOD MEN
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 10, 2022
Bristol Riverside Theatre will close its season with a chance to see Hollywood notable Aaron Sorkin’s groundbreaking debut that tells the story of a group of military lawyers assigned to defend two Marines in Guantanamo Bay.
BWW Review: THE WIFE OF WILLESDEN, Kiln Theatre
by Debbie Gilpin - Nov 18, 2021
“All were worthy men in their degree.” The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer in 1392, all linked by the central narrative of a pilgrimage from the Tabard Inn in Southwark to Thomas A Beckett's shrine in Canterbury Cathedral; it features characters such as the Knight, Pardoner, Miller, and Merchant – though Zadie Smith has chosen to base her new play on one of the few female characters. The Wife of Bath becomes the Wife of Willesden.
BWW Review: Will on the Hill and Far Away at Shakespeare Theatre Company
by Timothy Treanor - Jun 9, 2021
“What’s past is prologue” Prospero says in The Tempest, but when the present passes into the past what’s left is Will on the Hill and Far Away, the earnest and frequently successful effort by Congressmen to do Shakespeare funny. In this annual exercise, designed to raise funds for arts education, members of both Houses, as well as various other political luminaries (Washington is crawling with them), put themselves in preposterous situations which magically turn out well, just as characters in the Bard’s plays often do.
John Caird Directs Concert KNIGHTS' TALE Featuring Tokyo Phil
by Stephi Wild - Sep 3, 2020
The 2018 critically acclaimed stage musical A Knights' Tale - written and directed by John Caird (LES MISERABLES, Jane Eyre, Nicholas Nickleby, Daddy Long Legs), music and lyrics by Paul Gordon (Jane Eyre, Sense and Sensibility, Daddy Long Legs), Japanese translation by Maoko Imai Caird, and music supervision, orchestrations and arrangements by Brad Haak.
Kiln Theatre Announces Programme As Part Of Brent London Borough Of Culture 2020
by Stephi Wild - Nov 12, 2019
Kiln Theatre today announces their programme as part of Sadiq Khan's wider Brent London Borough of Culture 2020. The programme includes the world première of Zadie Smith's The Wife of Willesden directed by Artistic Director Indhu Rubasingham, renewing their collaboration following the acclaimed world première stage adaptation of Smith's White Teeth in 2018, Footholds: NW Stories; a trilogy of short plays by Moira Buffini, Suhayla El-Bushra and Roy Williams, and the fourth annual Mapping Brent project, supported by the Brent 2020 Culture Fund. Kiln Theatre will also lead The Agency, a programme for young people in Brent to workshop and pitch unique business and social enterprise ideas for funding and support.
BWW Review: TOP GIRLS at Commonwealth Theatre Center
by Keith Waits - Oct 16, 2019
Caryl Churchill's 1982 play Top Girls has so much to say about women that it is staggering to realize that it is no less relevant thirty-seven years later. However it speaks to today, it does so from within an elliptical, non-linear narrative structure emblematic of the time of its creation.