One Thousand Nights and One Day continues at A.R.T./New York Theatres, New York, until 29 April. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ As the title suggests, One Thousand Nights and One Day, an impressive if overloaded Off-Broadway musical, has a lot to do with the Arabian Nights. Along with some serious storytelling, […]
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Interview – Noah Brody on bringing Fiasco Theater’s Into The Woods to London
NOAH BRODY is co-artistic director with Ben Steinfeld of Fiasco Theater – a US-based actor-run ensemble that until recently specialised in workshopping and presenting small-scale productions of Shakespeare. That changed in 2013 when the group tackled their first full-scale musical: Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s fairytale mash-up Into the Woods. Fiasco’s much-reduced production ran for […]
Into the Woods – Menier Chocolate Factory
Into the Woods continues at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London until 17 September. Rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I long ago lost count of how many times I’ve seen Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s twisted fairytale mash-up. I never tire of its jaunty, clip-cloppy theme (‘Teddy Bears’ Picnic’ meets ‘We’re Off to See […]
Into the Woods – Roundabout Theatre Company, New York
Into the Woods continues at Roundabout Theatre Company’s Laura Pels Theatre, New York until 22 March. Star rating: 5 stars ***** A fresh breeze is blowing through Into the Woods. It’s not that anything ever seems stale about this enduring and always-compelling masterwork by James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim. But as re-envisioned by the prodigiously imaginative […]
