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By Miriam Gibson Friday, January 13 2023, 12:39
Do you enjoy the following: puns, parodies, pop music, noise, neon, shiny stuff, shrieking audiences. If you answered no, then SIX isn't for you.
If you answered yes, then you're probably already familiar with the show, which went from Edinburgh Fringe to the Tony Awards in only five years.
By Stuart King Tuesday, December 13 2022, 13:42
Making its European premiere following a Pulitzer nomination, Stephen Karam's Sons Of The Prophet opened this week at Hampstead Theatre. For a comedy play which literally starts with a deer-in-the-headlights moment, its strength lies in the instantaneous relatability of the many middle-America characters who by the end have each experienced or conveyed their own darkly comic emotional crossroads.
Sons of the Prophet at Hampstead Theatre
By Stuart King Monday, December 12 2022, 13:06
If ever there were a man worthy of an heroic musical treatment of his life, then surely Nelson Mandela would automatically qualify as a case for treatment. With music and lyrics by Greg Dean Borowsky, Shaun Borowsky and a book by Laiona Michelle, the Young Vic plays host to Mandela. Directed by Schele Williams, choreographed by Gregory Maqoma and proudly proclaiming the production's close associations with the Mandela family.
Mandela at the Young Vic
By Stuart King Wednesday, December 7 2022, 15:34
After considerable initial anticipation, (mired by a spate of unfortunate Covid cancellations), Rufus Norris announced the postponement of HEX’s original National Theatre opening nearly 12 months ago. This week, assembling at the Olivier a year on, press night attendees, (many of whom were earnestly hoping for an end to the disquieting run of mediocre offerings from that period of the National’s recent past), finally got to assess for themselves the work on which so many reputations seemed to depend just a short while ago.
Hex at The National Theatre
By Miriam Gibson Monday, December 5 2022, 11:33
“There are two things I shall no longer be turning down,” announces Gore Vidal, played by a sardonic Zachary Quinto in Best of Enemies, “Sex, and television appearances".
It’s the late 1960s and TV is a new and exciting business in the USA. News needn’t just be “What happened?” any longer, it can be “What do you think?”. That’s what the ABC executives reckon at least, worried that their network is becoming the least-watched channel as they enter an election year.
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