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Glass meets West End and Broadway star Joe Aaron Reid

April 25, 2017

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

“DREAMGIRLS is kind of a hot ticket at the moment,” says Joe Aaron Reid, stating the obvious. The West End show recently sizzled at this year’s Olivier Awards – it was nominated for five awards, including Best ...

Glass meets young actor on the rise – Orlando James

Thomas Marrington

April 18, 2017

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WHEN Glass meets Orlando James at the Barbican Centre, it’s his wide-reaching smile that greets us first. Having taken his role as Leontes in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale around the world, the young East Sus...

Glass reviews … Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Harold Pinter Theatre

Heather Doughty

March 17, 2017

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EDWARD Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf is a play that takes no prisoners. Making an absolute racket is the very point of Albee’s piece. Whether you’ve heard about its iconic characters, studied it at sc...

Glass reviews In Other Words at The Hope Theatre, Islington, London

Heather Doughty

March 7, 2017

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THE power of music, or one particular song in this case, to transport someone back to a different time, alleviate their anxiety and trigger memories that their nearest and dearest thought they had completely fo...

Glass reviews The Glass Menagerie at the Duke of York’s Theatre, London

Heather Doughty

February 27, 2017

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IT is always so delightful when a script from over 50 years ago still stands up incredibly well in today’s fast-moving and ever changing culture and climate. Tennessee Williams’ 1944 play, The Glass Menagerie i...

Glass reviews Saint Joan at the Donmar Warehouse

Heather Doughty

January 10, 2017

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OLIVIER award-winning director Josie Rourke certainly has a job on her hands bringing George Bernard Shaw’s 1923 tragedy, Saint Joan into not only the contemporary theatre space but also the current cultural an...

Glass reviews Hedda Gabler at National Theatre

Glass reviews Hedda Gabler at the National Theatre

Heather Doughty

December 21, 2016

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HENRIK Ibsen’s 1891 play, Hedda Gabler is without doubt one of the greatest and potentially the first portrayals of a female neurotic lead in the history of theatre. The highly-acclaimed Ruth Wilson certainly l...

Front Cover. Amanda Hadingue and the company in A Pacifist's Guide To The War On Cancer. Photo by Mark Douet

Glass reviews A Pacifist’s Guide to the War on Cancer at the National Theatre, London

Heather Doughty

October 25, 2016

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A MUSICAL about cancer is never going to be an easy watch and the latest offering from Complicite Theatre and performance artist, Bryony Kimmings is certainly bold and brash, yet still sensitive and profound. A...

Front Cover. HOPE DAVIS ( Ingrid Dodd), NIGEL WHITMEY (Ray Sanders), ANNA SKELLERN (Patricia Ashbridge)

Glass reviews The Red Barn at the National Theatre, London

Heather Doughty

October 23, 2016

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DAVID Hare’s thrilling new play, The Red Barn, based on the 1968 novel La Main by Georges Simenon is a charmingly dark exploration of corruption, lust and jealousy. Set in small town Connecticut in 1969, The Re...

Newton Faulker (Johnny) and cast - American Idiot UK Tour - Photo by Darren Bell (288)

Glass reviews American Idiot at the Arts Theatre, London

Gabriella Crewe-Read

August 5, 2016

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TO call Green Day’s staged version of their 2004 concert album American Idiot a musical might be a little misleading. It’s more like a couple of hours of a concept album brought to life and its best e...

Richard III Review. Credit Marc Brenner

Glass reviews Richard III at the Almeida Theatre, London

Heather Doughty

June 27, 2016

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IN a part-traditional, part-contemporary gritty production, director Rupert Goold opens his Richard III in a Leicester car park, of all places, during the excavation of Richard’s supposed remains. This dramatic...

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Glass reviews I Have Been Here Before by JB Priestley at Jermyn Street Theatre, London

Gabriella Crewe-Read

May 18, 2016

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ANTHONY Biggs production of I Have Been Here Before feels a little like the black and white movie that you start watching at home on a rainy afternoon because you suddenly find yourself with nothing else to do....

Gemma Arterton (Nell Gwynn) in Nell Gwynn at the Apollo Theatre. Photo credit Tristram Kenton

Glass reviews Nell Gwynn at the Apollo Theatre

Heather Doughty

April 20, 2016

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TRANSFERRING a play from the intimate and active Shakespeare’s Globe to the formalities of the West End is never easy, but Jessica Swale’s comedic and poignantly political tale of Nell Gywnn manages to do so pr...

X at the Royal Court Theatre

Glass reviews the play X at The Royal Court Theatre

Gabriella Crewe-Read

April 13, 2016

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X IS A rare thing – a genuinely scary play. Not in a slow-drip psychological torture kind of way, but in a haunted house, ghost train, pitch black, scary music, I have just grabbed-the-hand-of-the-stranger besi...

Glass reviews Waste at the National Theatre

Heather Doughty

March 9, 2016

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HARLEY Granville Barker’s 1906 play, Waste was initially refused a license by the Lord Chamberlain and had to be performed privately by the Stage Society in 1906. The play’s bad luck continued when on the first...

Glass reviews Complicite’s The Encounter at The Barbican, London

Tristram Fane Saunders

February 19, 2016

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A few minutes into The Encounter, you will feel a man breathing against the back of your neck. Resist the urge to turn around. It’s not an overeager theatre-goer, but Complicite’s artistic director Simon McBurn...

Glass reviews Escaped Alone at the Royal Court Theatre, London

Heather Doughty

February 10, 2016

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As the beloved Royal Court celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, what better way to kick-start the season than with an intriguing and sinister new work by Sloane Square veteran, Caryl Churchill? Aged 77, C...

From Lloyd Webber to War and Peace: Jessie Buckley speaks to Glass

Stephanie Clair

January 19, 2016

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Growing up in a musical family, there’s no surprise that Jessie Buckley started acting at an early age. Recently finishing two stage productions running simultaneously, Irish-born Buckley had a busy 2015. With ...

Glass reviews wonder.land at the National Theatre, London

Heather Doughty

January 6, 2016

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“Who are you…?” This familiar question is at the centre of the most recent and profound musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s much-loved tale, Alice in Wonderland. Created by Damon Albarn, Moira Buffini and Ruf...

Glass reviews As You Like It at the National Theatre, London

Heather Doughty

December 24, 2015

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Often referred to as one of the first ever sketch-show plays, it is understandable that some directors may feel hesitant about taking on the challenge of Shakespeare’s pastoral comedy, As You Like It. However, ...

Glass reviews Henry V by The Royal Shakespeare Company, Barbican Theatre

Heather Doughty

December 17, 2015

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There’s nothing like an epic Shakespeare play performed skilfully in a stunning venue to warm your bones and heart on a chilly evening in December. Part of the King and Country cycle, director Gregory Doran’s s...