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Angels in America

... Angels in America Manchester As the millennium approaches, the messages in Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic are still frighteningly relevant. This play, performed to critical acclaim by the National Theatre a few years ago, was a brave choice ...

Published: Thursday 07 October 1999
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 214 | Page: 14 | Tags: theatre review 

'VALMOUTH' TO BE SEEN IN AMERICA?

... 'VALMOUTH' TO BE SEEN IN AMERICA? SANDY WILSON has gone to New York to negotiate for an American production of his new musical. Valmouth, now at the Lyric. Hammersmith.. The run of the production at Hammersmith will continue until December 13. but must ...

Published: Thursday 30 October 1958
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 64 | Page: 1 | Tags: theatre review 

Theatre Reviews: Angels in America

... Angels in America Glasgow/Touring Tony Kushner's epic play Angels in America -- Part One, The Millennium Approaches, with its clutch of awards, was premiered by the 7:84 Theatre Company at the Tron under the highly skilled direction of lain Reekie. It ...

Published: Thursday 02 May 1996
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 361 | Page: 14 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: Drinking in America

... Drinking in America NEW YORK ERIC BOGOSIAN, who has been doing his one-man shows in Greenwich Village for several years, and who has been seen at the Edinburgh Festival and the ICA in London, has now arrived. Drinking in America his latest programme, ...

Published: Thursday 06 February 1986
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 293 | Page: 11 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: Angels In America

... Angels In America COTTESLOE THE most interesting aspect of Tony Kushner's sprawling gay fantasia on national themes, three and a half hours long and with Part Two in development, is its examination of the personality of the late Roy Cohn, the most ...

Published: Thursday 30 January 1992
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 522 | Page: 13 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: Grace in America

... Grace in America EDINBURGH AMERICA has been the promised land for generations of Irish peo ple, a country which holds out the hope of wealth, security and con sumer durables. But for the Irish- American emigrants it is the old land that takes on a fairytale ...

Published: Thursday 16 June 1994
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 259 | Page: 11 | Tags: theatre review 

Theatre Reviews: The General from America

... The General from America The Pit Another transatlantic play by Richard Nelson, the RSC's American house dramatist, this is a potted history of the War of Independence told with the cutting edge of irony. Howard Davies' bustling production, transferred ...

Published: Thursday 27 February 1997
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 312 | Page: 13 | Tags: theatre review 

THEATRE REVIEW: The General from America

... The General from America Stratford-upon-Avon Richard Nelson's absorbing new play, premiered at the RSC's Swan Theatre, uses events during the American War of Independence to explore themes of personal integrity, and finds that glorious causes have little ...

Published: Thursday 01 August 1996
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 340 | Page: 13 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES: SOLO DANCER FROM AMERICA

... SOLO DANCER FROM AMERICA ETLEANOR KING, from America, whose solo recital was presented at the Theatre d'Institut Francais, London, by the organisers of Contemporary Dance Theatre last Thursday, is representative of the stripes rather than the stars of ...

Published: Thursday 01 September 1955
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 204 | Page: 9 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: The Man Who Lost America

... The Man Who Lost America LATCHMERE SAVING the best till last, Michael BuirelPs season of plays at the Latch- mere ends with a two hander set during the American War of Independence. In a barn near Saratoga a young soldier is rudely awakened by the presence ...

Published: Thursday 21 June 1990
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 293 | Page: 13 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES: IMPRESSIVE 'RICHARD II' FOR AMERICA

... IMPRESSIVE 'RICHARD II' FOR AMERICA John Neville's Portrayal at the Old Vic MICHAEL BENTHALL'S Old Vic production of Richard II, being seen 18 months ago, is being briefly revived this week and next as a preliminary to the company's American tour. It ...

Published: Thursday 05 July 1956
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 649 | Page: 9 | Tags: theatre review 

Theatre Reviews: The Complete History of America (Abridged)

... The Complete History of America (Abridged) Criterion Once again, the Reduced Shakespeare Company brings its manic mix of vomiting, water and wit to London with its B-side show The Complete History of America (Abridged). Showing only on Tuesdays, when ...

Published: Thursday 04 April 1996
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 234 | Page: 12 | Tags: theatre review