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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 

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: 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 

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 

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 

EDINBURGH' 97 Review: Arj Barker's Letter to America

... Arj Barker's Letter to America Pleasance In his Edinburgh solo debut, San Franciscan An Barker is honest enough to admit that he is here learning his trade but it is fun to watch him learn. When he first visited these shores a couple of I years back, ...

Published: Thursday 28 August 1997
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 177 | Page: 23 | Tags: theatre review 

SHOW PEOPLE: GLITTERING CAREER FOR A VERY SAXY GUY

... you know, the salsa star. We toured around South America Brazil. Chile, Argentina. And I played in lots of different kinds of bands in Spain. Eventually, Fermin would like to go and play in America, the home of jazz. I just like performing for peo ...

Published: Thursday 28 November 1996
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 345 | Page: 10 | Tags: theatre review 

THEATRE REVIEW: Greater Tuna

... Theatre Company, directed by Michael Dyer, bring us the British premiere of this mildly satirical piece, long popular in America, written by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears and Ed Howard. It transports us to hicksville (Greater Tuna) in deepest Texas, where ...

Published: Thursday 02 July 1998
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 232 | Page: 13 | Tags: theatre review 

Theatre Reviews: The Price

... plays. As director, Sargent brings an intelligent mix of clarity and sensi tivity to Miller's multi-layered parable of how America coped with the aftermath of the Depression, benefiting hugely from a splendid quartet of play ers. Clive Mantle (Victor) and ...

Published: Thursday 25 March 1999
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 260 | Page: 16 | Tags: theatre review