Tartuffe in duplicate… and a critical to-and-fro
What happens when a critic not only writes his own version of a Moliere classic — but then reviews a rival version.
The Year in Brief: 2018 in review(s)
Some of the shows I missed in 2018 — and some of the shows I loved.
The week in brief (w/e Aug 19)
News, reviews, controversies and interviews of the week from London to Broadway, by way of Edinburgh, including the ‘banning’ of Mazz Murray from singing a song from Dreamgirls, Edinburgh venue pay rates, & a 70-year-old Broadway understudy getting the lead.
Review: The Hard Problem
Stoppard, now 77, is still spinning the plates of philosophical enquiry and discourse in the world premiere of his latest play, but it presents hard dramatic, as well as intellectual, problems that director Nicholas Hytner’s sparse and elegantly inhabited production can’t fully solve.
