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December 21, 2016

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

October 25, 2016

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

October 23, 2016

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

August 5, 2016

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, News

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...

Glass reviews Richard III at the Almeida Theatre, London

June 27, 2016

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...

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

May 18, 2016

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

April 20, 2016

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...

Glass reviews the play X at The Royal Court Theatre

April 13, 2016

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

March 9, 2016

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

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

February 10, 2016

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

Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature, Television

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

January 6, 2016

“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

December 24, 2015

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

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...

Glass speaks with heart-throb Juan Pablo Raba on the release of The 33

Emily Rae Pellerin

December 11, 2015

Culture, Don't Miss: Film, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature, Glass Talents, Television

Writhing, screaming, violently rocking. A petulant alcoholic trapped for over a week underground in a partially collapsed mine, for whom withdrawal has become all-consuming. In one of the most powerfully emo...

Glass interviews British actor Alex Hassell

December 9, 2015

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature, Glass Talents

“You can’t win them all,” says Alex Hassell – Glass talks to British actor and co-founder of The Factory theatre company, Alex Hassell British actor, Alex Hassell is known for both his stage and screen rol...

An actor on the rise – Alex Lawther

Tara Wheeler

November 24, 2015

Don't Miss: Film, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

Glass talks to actor Alex Lawther about his sterling ascent on stage and screen Alex Lawther began swapping school plays for professional acting roles at just 16, when – having never attended drama school – ...

Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape, at The Old Vic, London reviewed