Wednesday, June 4, 2008

ATW NewsClips - London

The Indpendent

Roger Allam: how I learnt my early lessons from Olivier

Preview: Reading Room, Southbank Centre, London
Review: Vic and Bob, Soho Revue Bar, London

Financial Times

Review: Kiss me, Kate, Komische Oper, Berlin
Sequins, dancing cowboys and drag queens abound in Barrie Kosky’s shamelessly entertaining outing of Cole Porter’s Shakespeare revision, writes Shirley Apthorp

Review: Saved, Playwrights Horizons, New York
This musical’s producers have taken a risk of biblical proportions: they have plopped their efforts in the lap of a demographic filled with nonbelievers, writes Brendan Lemon

The Times UK

Review: The Revenger’s Tragedy, Royal Exchange, Manchester
Jonathan Moore's production rarely feels connected with the dark heart of a drama that features multiple murder and rape

Review: Topless Mum, Tricycle, London
Ron Hutchinson’s somewhat dark plot fails to carry the audience, and the behaviour of some of the characters is embarrassing

Acting for good: human rights and Tyranny
Human rights are bound up in my identity, says Sir Antony Sher, who grew up Jewish and gay in South Africa during apartheid

The Guardian

Review: Love - the Musical, Lyric Hammersmith, London
A show about passion and sex for the over-70s is as baggy as an old man's trousers, writes Michael Billington

Review: Compagnie Philippe Saire, The Place, London
A self-conscious show lacks the pizzazz to deliver its simple message, writes Sanjoy Roy

The Guardian - Performing Arts Blog

Peter Kirwan: Middleton, our other Shakespeare

Daily Telegraph

What a lark in the dark
Charles Spencer reviews Black Comedy at the The Bowmans Watermill Theatre, Newbury.

Whatsonstage.com

Cooper Directs Cinderella at Leicester's New Curve

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