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A Very Very Very Dark Matter, Bridge Theatre
Hot off award-winning film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, and reunited with Matthew Dunster, who directed his hit Hangmen, Martin McDonagh brings his latest to the Bridge – quite a coup for Nick Hytner. Yet this provocative take on Hans Christian Andersen, and on the nature … Continue reading
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Company leads October’s Top 10 new London shows
From gender-flipped Sondheim to David Hare and Martin McDonagh. Read my full BroadwayWorld article here
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The Lehman Trilogy leads July’s Top 10 new London shows
From a new theatrical epic to Shakespeare and musical spoof. Read my full BroadwayWorld article here
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Andreas Gurky, Three Billboards, Pinter and mermaids
On my (new and improved!) February MoveTo Town and Country Arts page: Exhibition The Hayward Gallery reopens in style with a retrospective of Andreas Gurky Film Frances McDormand is riveting as the foul-mouthed avenging angel in Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Theatre Sixty years on, Harold Pinter’s The … Continue reading
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BWW Interview: Nicholas Hytner
The former Artistic Director of the National Theatre discusses memoir Balancing Acts, and his new Bridge Theatre. Read my full BroadwayWorld interview here
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Hangmen, Wyndham’s Theatre
Just what constitutes reasonable behaviour in an enlightened society? Not long ago, the death penalty fell under that umbrella in Britain, and state-sanctioned killing as punishment for the crime of, well, killing is just the kind of twisted irony that … Continue reading
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Pick of the Week
This week on theartsdesk, a feast of theatrical openings, from Martin McDonagh’s Hangmen to an epic Jane Eyre, plus Ai Weiwei, Courtney Pine, and a TV costume drama battle royale. Read my full theartsdesk newsletter here
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