Tag Archives: ian mckellen

Book review: Dramatic Exchanges, ed. Daniel Rosenthal

Posted on November 26, 2018 by mkmswain

This fascinating tome offers an insider’s history of the National Theatre, via some 800 letters exchanged between Artistic Directors, actors, directors, playwrights, politicians, agents, critics and more. From arcane trivia through to vigorous words on the very nature and purpose … Continue reading →

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The Lehman Trilogy leads July’s Top 10 new London shows

Posted on July 5, 2018 by mkmswain

From a new theatrical epic to Shakespeare and musical spoof. Read my full BroadwayWorld article here

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No Man’s Land, Wyndham’s Theatre

Posted on September 20, 2016 by mkmswain

We are lost in the wood. In the limbo state between dream and reality, memory and present, youth and age, companionship and seclusion, life and death, struggle and success, fame and obscurity. Pinter often visits that place of in between, … Continue reading →

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No Man’s Land Leads September’s Top 10 New London Shows

Posted on August 31, 2016 by mkmswain

From two theatrical titans taking on Pinter to the RSC in London and an unusual dining experience. Read my full BroadwayWorld article here

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A poignant take on a post-apocalytic world

Posted on June 12, 2015 by mkmswain

The Sydney Theatre Company team had an appropriately Beckettian experience while mounting this new production: the first few weeks of rehearsal were spent waiting for a director who never appeared. Company director Andrew Upton eventually took over from absent Tamás … Continue reading →

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Waiting for Godot, Barbican

Posted on June 7, 2015 by mkmswain

In a peculiarly Beckettian development, the creative team of this Sydney Theatre Company production spent several weeks of rehearsal waiting not for Godot, but for their director. Tamás Ascher – who spotted the casting potential of Uncle Vanya co-stars Hugo … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: ian mckellen

Book review: Dramatic Exchanges, ed. Daniel Rosenthal

The Lehman Trilogy leads July’s Top 10 new London shows

No Man’s Land, Wyndham’s Theatre

A poignant take on a post-apocalytic world

Waiting for Godot, Barbican

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