Police Evict Hundreds of Migrants from ‘Occupied’ Theatre in Paris
A few months after hundreds of migrants effectively took over Paris' Thea de la Gaite Reilice, police finally forced them out early Tuesday morning. At about 6am in Paris, anti-Riot CRS police broke through a line of protesters on both sides and the left and right, clearing about 450 immigrants from the historic Teletor de […]
Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors review – batty antics with a Rocky Horror bloodsucker | Theatre
bBefore they took on the role of Bram Stalker's Earl of Vampire, co-writers Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen gave another title to Crime and Punishment: Comedy – speaks itself. Here, Dracula is placed in a humorous squeal, chasing after the necked person and playing Pansexual Blood Soccer. There is a wealth of gender and genre […]
Love’s Labour’s Lost (More or Less) review – lads on tour in Ibiza swear off sex | Theatre
sTundad has declined. He measured it for years when Shakespeare challenged his character in his early comedies. To lead a life of meditative research, the King of Navarre persuades his friends to join the maligned regime of three years, demanding that women be abandoned and cut back on food and sleep. In contrast, playwrights Elizabeth […]
The doctors detained in Gaza: ‘He was dragged from the operating theatre’ – podcast | Israel-Gaza war
The health system has collapsed since the war in Gaza began more than a year ago. The hospital was attacked, disrupted medical supply lines, and many doctors were killed in Israeli artillery fire. Other doctors are in custody. Dr. Khaled Serr I am a surgeon at Nasser Hospital in Gaza. He says his hospital was […]
‘I said there was no reason to make it a musical!’ Mel Brooks on The Producers’ West End transfer | Theatre
Menier Chocolate Factory has announced that production from its acclaimed producers will move to the West End this fall. I will be redirected to the Garlic Theatre after selling out my three-month run at the 180-seat London venue before the first night. But the musical may not have happened at all, according to the original […]
Champion review – Muhammad Ali, the Queen, punk and the National Front make an incendiary mix | Theatre
IT is a reasonable question. Billy announced that Muhammad Ali is on his way to South Shields. His mother, Sheila, said, “Why does he want to come here?” Whether unlikely or not, the world heavyweight champion will actually spend time in town in July 1977. . Sheila is more interested in the Silver Jubilee and […]
Truth review – Julian Assange play is hard going, with flashes of brilliance | Australian theatre
tHe has been in a collaborative creative partnership between playwright Patricia Cornelius and director Susie Dee for decades, producing some of Australia's most burnt and politically provocative works. Masu. You might think that Julian Assange and the new plays about the whims of global geopolitics will inspire them to new heights. But there is a […]
NY accused of ‘political theatre’ by bus companies who ferried migrants from Texas
The Big Apple filed a lawsuit this week over a “political theatre” that it failed to go through a $700 million lawsuit against a bus company to transport immigrants from Texas to New York City. Roadrunner Charters Inc. – one of 17 bus businesses Adams sued for transporting 33,000 immigrants to the Big Apple last […]
National Theatre’s shift from repertory plays risks ‘eroding culture’, says David Hare | National Theatre
National Theatre risks “eroding culture” by wearing “semi-commercials” away from establishment principles. The two-time Olivier Award winner described the playhouse shift from Repertoire Theatre, a system in which resident acting companies rotate plays despite the vision of George Bernard Shaw and Harley Granbil Barker. In 1904, Granville Barker called on the Blue Book to repertoire […]
The week in theatre: Oliver!; The Devil May Care review – consider yourself entertained | Theatre
○Ompapapa! There's plenty of it, with just enough emphasis on Fagin as surrogate dad to suggest puns in this loudest of numbers. Oliver! After all, this is a show about families lost, restored, and invented. However, there is a lot of darkness swirling around there. London fog and rain falling outside the workhouse. The song, […]
