... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... Dukes has launched its new season with a revival of American writer Alfred Uhry's stage and screen award-winning work. Set in America s Deep boutn between 1948 and 1972, its plot centres on feisty Jewish septua genarian Daisy's relationship with her black ...

... her memory, run away or been murdered by her husband? Or, as its title suggests, has she been recruited by NASA to become America's first person in space, sent into orbit months before Yuri Gagarin's historic flight? Part of the London New Play Festival ...

... the Irish potato famine. Brighde Mullms' play pulls in many directions at once. It shifts between a starving Ireland and an America of pot-bellied excess and bet ween two resolutely incongruous narrative strands. Like a painter's palette with the colours ...

... Paul Bunyan Sadler's Wells Auden's libretto for Britten's ballad opera Paul Bunyan chronicles the burgeoning of America from the clearance of virgin forests to the settlement and cultivation of the land. The legendary logger Paul Bunyan (He was as tall ...

... Achebe's award-winning novel, lovingly adapted for the stage by Biyi Bandele. Straight from Africa, via a successful stay in America, this play, filled with music and dance, opened at the Library theatre at the start of a nationwide tour. Niki Turner has ...

... in more than ten years, the Mercury Studio chose Manuel Puig's prison cell drama inspired by the 'disappeared' of Latin America. Locked up together are two men. One is young, macho and Marxist, and sees nobility in his imprisonment on behalf of a noble ...

... of the disappeared, which is Christopher Bruce's poignant tribute to the innocent victims of political oppression in South America, set to voice and pan-pipes. But here the strongest impression came from the three Andean ghosts in skull masks, led with ...

... freedom. Thom Dibdin Picture: Marilyn Kingwill A compelling panorama--Stephen Docherty (left) and Danny Edwards in Angels in America at the Crucible, Sheffield. ...

... Ballet: Programme 2 There is something resoundingly joyous about this, the confusingly titled second programme presented by America's oldest professional ballet company as part of its current British visit. It is a mouthwatering mix of American choreography ...

... Disturbing and unforgettable Sheffield Angels in America This is quite possibly the bravest play the Crucible has staged in the past decade--and it is almost certainly the best. You could call it epic theatre, but that barely captures the strength of ...