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Tag Archives: hampstead theatre
Gloria, Hampstead Theatre
American playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins asserts that the nightmarish workplace depicted in Gloria bears little resemblance to his time at the New Yorker, but that tension between truth and imagination adds a nicely meta layer to this spiky portrait of the … Continue reading
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Tagged brandon jacobs-jenkins, broadwayworld, colin morgan, ellie kendrick, gloria, hampstead theatre, london, magazine, media, office, play, review, theatre, tragedy, work
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Woyzeck leads May’s Top 10 new London shows
From new takes on Brecht and Büchner to Jez Butterworth’s latest and a classic musical. Read my full BroadwayWorld article here
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged best, book tickets, brecht, comedy, danny mac, donmar warehouse, duke of yorks theatre, felicity kendal, hampstead theatre, hitler, jack thorne, jez butterworth, joe wright, john boyega, lee hall, lenny henry, lettice and lovage, life of galileo, london, maureen lipman, may, menier chocolate factory, musical, national theatre, occupational hazards, old vic, on the town, our ladies of perpetual succour, play, regents park, royal court, salome, sam mendes, star wars, the ferryman, the resistible rise of arturo ui, theatre, ticket deal, top 10, trevor nunn, trump, west end, woyzeck, young vic
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Sex with Strangers, Hampstead Theatre
This is pure titular titillation – a strategy that backfires with this dated, laboured and distinctly unsexy piece. “Serious” writer Olivia (Emilia Fox) at one point bemoans the fact that her failed first novel was falsely marketed as a chick-lit … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged author, book, broadwayworld, divergent, emilia fox, hampstead theatre, laura eason, london, love, peter dubois, publishing, review, sex, sex with strangers, theatre, theo james, writer, writing
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The Glass Menagerie leads January’s Top 10 new London shows
From a visionary Tennessee Williams revival to Wayne McGregor and a Dahl musical adaptation. Read my full BroadwayWorld article here
Posted in Dance, Journalism, Theatre
Tagged adelphi theatre, best, billy wilder, book tickets, broadwayworld, burt bacharach, caryl churchill, cherry jones, duke of york's, escaped alone, fantastic mr fox, hampstead theatre, january, john tiffany, london, lyric hammersmith, making a murderer, musical, national theatre, neil simon, new, orange tree theatre, promises promises, roald dahl, royal court, royal opera house, sex with strangers, southwark playhouse, tennesse williams, the apartment, the glass menagerie, the kite runner, top 10, us/them, virginia woolf, wayne mcgregor, west end, winter solstice, woolf works, wyndhams theatre
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The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide…, Hampstead Theatre
It’s not just the title (The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures) that’s daunting in Tony Kushner’s exhaustive three-and-a-half-hour epic, which tackles everything from socialist history, belief systems and family dysfunction to maternity … Continue reading
A financial thriller to get blood pumping
Beth Steel, returning to the Hampstead after 2014’s Wonderland, dips back into history for a resonant financial drama. It’s 1978, and Wall Street is lending staggering sums to developing Latin American countries for infrastructure projects that are never completed – … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged bank, finance, ham and high, hampstead theatre, labyrinth, latin america, play, review, theatre, wall street
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Labyrinth, Hampstead Theatre
Beth Steel, who scored at hit at the Hampstead in 2014 with a play about the 1980s miners’ strike, has dipped back into history to create one with sickening relevance to the current financial crisis. It’s 1978, and Wall Street … Continue reading
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Tagged austerity, bailout, bank, bankrupt, beth steel, broadwayworld, crisis, debt, enron, finance, greece, hampstead theatre, imf, labyrinth, latin america, review, south america, wall street
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Pick of the Week
Poldark, Woody Allen, Proms pleasures and Blackpool illuminations. Read my full theartsdesk newsletter here
Posted in Art, Fiction, Film, Journalism, Theatre, TV
Tagged alvin ailey, anna maxwell martin, art, best, blackpool, cafe society, dance, film, hampstead theatre, labyrinth, motherhood, music, neon, pick of the week, poldark, proms, sadlers wells, sharon horgan, theartsdesk, theatre, tv, victoria, woody allen
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