Monday, June 2, 2008

ATW NewsClips - London

The Independent

Great outdoors: this summer's best alfresco productions

Review: Troilus and Cressida, Barbican, London

Financial Times

Fat Pig, Trafalgar Studio 1, London
Neil LaBute offers a protagonist’s awkwardness at falling for a tubby woman and the peer pressure put on him, writes Ian Shuttleworth

Rosmersholm, Almeida, London
Anthony Page’s production plays out nimbly on Hildegard Bechtler’s pale, orderly set, which seems almost to mock its desperate inhabitants, writes Sarah Hemming

The Times UK

How the British have taken Manhattan
This year's Tony awards will have a strong English accent. Key players explain what's gone right with British theatre

Review: Running The Silk Road, Nothern Stage, Newcastle
Unfortunately Paul Sirett's earnest, ambitious production pulls itself in too many directions to ever gel convincingly

The Red Ladies of Clod Ensemble hit Oxford
Our reporter joins a 21-strong modern-day Greek chorus; identically dressed, silent observers of humanity

Rock, at Oval House, SE11
This tale of Rock Hudson is the stuff of film history cliché and offers little fresh perspective

The Guardian

Review: Running the Silk Road, Northern Stage, Newcastle
David Tse Ka-Shing's bilingual production crams Chinese culture into a powerful 90 minutes, writes Alfred Hickling

Review: Little Otik, Citizens, Glasgow
A screen adaptation of a nightmare fairytale film is visually ravishing, writes Mark Fisher

Daily Telegraph

Jude Kelly: Yellow brick road to the South Bank
Artistic director Jude Kelly tells Jasper Rees why she's turning the Festival Hall into a theatre to stage 'The Wizard of Oz'.

Theatre reviews: Absolutely Frank and The Quiz
Charles Spencer finds Absolutely Frank and The Quiz sympathetic and splendidly funny.

Whatsonstage.com

Jodie Prenger Wins Nancy Role via I’d Do Anything

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