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Three plays consider the divisions wrought by Brexit, Britain’s surveillance state and the terror of the news cycle, with varying levels of success.
By Matt Wolf
A London production of “The Night of the Iguana” starring Clive Owen asks for the audience’s patience, and rewards it.
Three new theater productions in London explore questions of race and skin color in different ways.
Productions in London of classic plays — from Chekhov to Cy Coleman — feature strong female performances.
Maggie Smith tackles an impressive one-woman show at the Bridge Theater, and a British classic of the 1980s gets a new lease on life at the National.
A revelatory new production of “Betrayal” starring Tom Hiddleston comes after a season of the playwright’s one-act plays.
Productions of Molière’s “Tartuffe,” Peter Shaffer’s “Equus” and Martin Sherman’s “Gently Down the Stream” all find something new.
“When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other” opened at London’s National Theater on a wave of controversy and hype. But it’s pretty boring, our critic writes.
There’s new writing, Shakespeare and a classic musical on offer. And the tone of them all is bleak.
Three productions in London look at pairings (romantic and otherwise) that come to grief, including a retelling of the myth of Orpheus in the underworld.
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