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Text of the Day: The Night of the Iguana

In Features, London theatre, Opinion, Plays by Aleks Sierz10th August 2019Leave a Comment

Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk…

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‘Disappointingly middle of the road’: THREE SISTERS – Almeida Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz20th April 2019Leave a Comment

Chekhov classic from the team behind the West End hit Summer and Smoke is too middle of the road

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‘Seems strangely prophetic in Brexit Britain’: EAST – King’s Head Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz20th January 2018Leave a Comment

This lively revival of Steven Berkoff’s 1975 modern classic is energetically sweaty, if a bit messy as well.

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‘Pinter’s most canonical drama still works’: THE BIRTHDAY PARTY – West End

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz20th January 2018Leave a Comment

With its episode of a game of blind man’s bluff being both very funny and rather horrible, this is a Birthday Party for a generation brought up on The League of Gentlemen.

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GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS – West End

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz16th November 2017Leave a Comment

From its haunting title, to its moments of explosive dialogue, this is a modern classic, which when it was first staged won Mamet the Pulitzer Prize. Set in Chicago, it shows a group of slick hustlers who have to sell tracts of indifferent Florida real estate.

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ROAD – Royal Court Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz8th September 2017Leave a Comment

Powerful revival of Jim Cartwright’s 1986 modern classic comes alive in all its noisy, vulgar and transcendent glory.

LOOT – Park Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz27th August 2017Leave a Comment

Anniversary revival of Joe Orton’s black farce about money and death is a delight from start to finish.

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KNIVES IN HENS – Donmar Warehouse

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews, Sticky by Aleks Sierz25th August 2017Leave a Comment

Star director Yael Farber’s revival of a 1990s classic is surely atmospheric, but it lacks symbolic weight.

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WOYZECK – Old Vic

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz25th May 2017Leave a Comment

It’s a radical rewrite. Gone is a lot of the mystery and the poetry of the original. In their place is a contemporary, accessible version which emphasises realistic psychology (a lot of backstory detail) and social realism (a lot of childcare detail).

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Text of the Day: The Treatment

In Features, London theatre, Native, Plays by Aleks Sierz7th May 2017Leave a Comment

Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.

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NUCLEAR WAR – Royal Court Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz24th April 2017Leave a Comment

Text can sometimes be a prison. At its best, postwar British theatre is a writer’s theatre, with the great pensmiths — from Samuel Beckett, John Osborne and Harold Pinter to Caryl Churchill, Martin Crimp and Sarah Kane — carving out visions of everyday humanity in all our agonies and glee.

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THE PITCHFORK DISNEY – Shoreditch Town Hall

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz6th February 2017Leave a Comment

Jamie Lloyd tackles Philip Ridley’s 1991 modern classic — with terrifically immersive results.

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THE LOWER DEPTHS – Arcola Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz31st January 2017Leave a Comment

The enterprising Arcola Theatre in East London has chosen to start its Revolution Season with a revival of Maxim Gorky’s The Lower Depths (1902), which has opened a couple of months short of the 100th anniversary of the February Revolution that toppled the Tsar and began the process that led to the triumph of the Bolsheviks in October.

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THE LOWER DEPTHS – Arcola Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz26th January 2017Leave a Comment

The Lower Depths is a rarely performed large-cast play that offers a panorama of poverty in the last years of Tsarist Russia. Its portrait of human degradation in a doss-house somewhere on the Volga, far from the great urban centers, was originally staged by Konstantin Stanislavsky at the Moscow Arts Theatre.

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SAINT JOAN – Donmar Warehouse

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz23rd December 2016Leave a Comment

Modern-dress revival of wordy George Bernard Shaw classic is a tour de force for Gemma Arterton.

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Text of the Day: Hedda Gabler

In Features, London theatre, Opinion, Plays by Aleks Sierz18th December 2016Leave a Comment

Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.

Text of the Day: Hedda Gabler

In Features, London theatre, Opinion, Plays by Aleks Sierz18th December 2016Leave a Comment

Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.

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HEDDA GABLER – National Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz14th December 2016Leave a Comment

Top director Ivo van Hove makes an uneven Southbank debut, preferring visual beauty to emotional connection.

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MAGNIFICENCE – Finborough Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz31st October 2016Leave a Comment

Overdue revival of Howard Brenton’s mixed-up 1973 play is too messy and incoherent<.

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Text of the Day: Travesties

In Features, London theatre, Opinion, Plays by Aleks Sierz26th October 2016Leave a Comment

Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.

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Opinion: Broadway Shows We Would Love to See

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As much as we love London, Broadway has plenty of shows we would love to see – so here’s five that we have on our list….

Some Like it Hot, Shubert Theatre: as a film, it was one of the very first films from classic Hollywood that I remember watching, so I couldn’t help but feel excited about a musical based on it – particularly when it is directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw (Dreamgirls, Elf the Musical) who always knows how to handle popular stories and bring them to the stage. Take a look at what critics had to say here. From images that I have seen it look as though visually it is as classy as you would hope it would be.

Sweeney Todd, Lunt-Fontanne Theatre: beginning performances on the 26th February, this new Broadway revival is set to star Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford – what is not to love? Plus it has to be said if there is a Stephen Sondheim score I can get on board with it is this one! With songs such as ‘Johanna’ and ‘Pretty Women’ – I find it one of the most interesting musicals that he was involved with. The musical hasn’t been seen on a Broadway stage since 1980 – which means it would be a real experience to see.

New York, New York, St James Theatre: its always exciting when a new musical heads to the stage and when it features music and lyrics by Tony, Emmy & Grammy Award winners and Academy Award nominees John Kander & Fred Ebb (Chicago, Cabaret) as well as additional lyrics by Lin- Manuel Miranda, you know it is going to be edgy and compelling. This on top of the fact that Susan Stroman (Young Frankenstein) is directed and choreographing, there is much to look forward to about this production which begins previews on the 26th March.

A Doll’s House, Hudson Theatre: I’m really saddened that this Jamie Lloyd production is not being seen by audiences in London (it was originally part of a trilogy of plays he was staging at the Playhouse Theatre during 2020…), which is why this production is on my wish list to see. As a director, Jamie Lloyd comes up with creative ways in which to offer a new perspective of a play and I can’s help but wonder what his approach is here. Let’s hope it comes to the UK at some point!

Lerner & Lowe’s Camelot, Lincoln Center Theater: the only time i have experienced this musical is in a concert production a few years ago. The music is wonderful, but I wasn’t overly impressed with the book and plot – however I do feel it does deserve another chance and why I would like to see it on stage if I was in New York! This combined with the fact it is being directed by Bartlett Sher (who did such a wonderful job of Lerner & Lowe’s other famous musical My Fair Lady) gives me a sense that it is going to be spectacular when it takes to the stage from the 9th March.

By Emma Clarendon

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As much as we love London, Broadway has plenty of shows we would love to see – so here’s five that we have on our list….

Some Like it Hot, Shubert Theatre: as a film, it was one of the very first films from classic Hollywood that I remember watching, so I couldn’t help but feel excited about a musical based on it – particularly when it is directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw (Dreamgirls, Elf the Musical) who always knows how to handle popular stories and bring them to the stage. Take a look at what critics had to say here. From images that I have seen it look as though visually it is as classy as you would hope it would be.

Sweeney Todd, Lunt-Fontanne Theatre: beginning performances on the 26th February, this new Broadway revival is set to star Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford – what is not to love? Plus it has to be said if there is a Stephen Sondheim score I can get on board with it is this one! With songs such as ‘Johanna’ and ‘Pretty Women’ – I find it one of the most interesting musicals that he was involved with. The musical hasn’t been seen on a Broadway stage since 1980 – which means it would be a real experience to see.

New York, New York, St James Theatre: its always exciting when a new musical heads to the stage and when it features music and lyrics by Tony, Emmy & Grammy Award winners and Academy Award nominees John Kander & Fred Ebb (Chicago, Cabaret) as well as additional lyrics by Lin- Manuel Miranda, you know it is going to be edgy and compelling. This on top of the fact that Susan Stroman (Young Frankenstein) is directed and choreographing, there is much to look forward to about this production which begins previews on the 26th March.

A Doll’s House, Hudson Theatre: I’m really saddened that this Jamie Lloyd production is not being seen by audiences in London (it was originally part of a trilogy of plays he was staging at the Playhouse Theatre during 2020…), which is why this production is on my wish list to see. As a director, Jamie Lloyd comes up with creative ways in which to offer a new perspective of a play and I can’s help but wonder what his approach is here. Let’s hope it comes to the UK at some point!

Lerner & Lowe’s Camelot, Lincoln Center Theater: the only time i have experienced this musical is in a concert production a few years ago. The music is wonderful, but I wasn’t overly impressed with the book and plot – however I do feel it does deserve another chance and why I would like to see it on stage if I was in New York! This combined with the fact it is being directed by Bartlett Sher (who did such a wonderful job of Lerner & Lowe’s other famous musical My Fair Lady) gives me a sense that it is going to be spectacular when it takes to the stage from the 9th March.

By Emma Clarendon

  • REVIEW: Pretty Woman the Musical, Original Broadway Cast Recording
  • January 15, 2020
  • REVIEW: Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Broadway Cast Recording
  • November 14, 2019
  • NEWS: Natalie Mendoza Joins Broadway Cast of Moulin Rouge
  • August 5, 2021
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