Twelfth Night, available to stream via Zoom until 14 June 2020. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Adam Nichols’ bijou take on Shakespeare’s most silvery, summery, musical play is quirky and fun. We’re on a cruise liner, the SS Illyria, captained by Orsino. At the beginning it picks up the survivors of SS […]
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Maltings’ Twelfth Night to be streamed live online
St Albans-based fringe venue The Maltings Theatre will premiere an online version of its modern music-flavoured re-working of Twelfth Night online via Zoom on 12, 13 and 14 June 2020 at 8pm. Set on a cruise liner at the height of the roaring twenties, ten actors will welcome their Zoom audience on board for a […]
Southwark Playhouse announces new free streaming service
Southwark Playhouse has launched a new free online streaming service offering shows and exclusive video content. Aimed at keeping lockdown audiences entertained until the popular South London venue can re-open its doors #SouthwarkStayhouse is now streaming the venue’s world premiere production of the rock musical Wasted, last year’s production of Twelfth Night and 2011’s Bound. […]
National Theatre to launch programme of free streamed shows
The National Theatre is joining the efforts to help the nation cope with life on lockdown during the current crisis by providing access to home-viewing content. With people around the world confined to their homes, the NT is launching a new initiative National Theatre at Home – a programme of NT Live productions which will […]
Musical Theatre Review 2018 – Five-Star Show Round-Up
Musical Theatre Review reflects on another stunning and diverse year of theatre. Here is a round-up of five-star reviews from 2018 productions in the West End, on the London Fringe, in the regions and on tour (plus a sprinkling of Broadway openings too). With thanks to all our awesome contributors. JANUARY Six – Arts Theatre, London […]
Twelfth Night – Young Vic
Twelfth Night continues at the Young Vic Theatre, London until 17 November 2018. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Shakespeare has never been so accessible. This sparkling revamp of Twelfth Night fizzes away like a Berocca and injects vitality and much-needed zazz into the Bard’s ridiculous tale of gender-swapping, mistaken identity, and social […]
Twelfth Night – Delacorte Theater, Central Park, New York
Twelfth Night continues at the Delacorte Theater, Central Park, New York until 19 August 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Up-and-coming songwriter-performer Shaina Taub has transformed Twelfth Night into a Broadway-worthy musical comedy. It’s not transcendent Shakespeare but it’s a sturdy chunk of entertainment. And as produced by The Public Theater’s Public Works programme as […]
Young Vic’s Twelfth Night – full cast revealed
Full casting has been revealed for award-winning director and playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah and Shaina Taub’s acclaimed re-working of Twelfth Night which will be set in London’s Notting Hill for its Young Vic run. Already tipped as one of the highlights of his first season as artistic director of the Young Vic, the show has been […]
Musical reworking of Twelfth Night opens Kwame Kwei-Armah’s first season at Young Vic
Award-winning director and playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah’s acclaimed re-working of Twelfth Night will be one of the highlights of his first season as artistic director of the Young Vic. Originally performed at The Public Theater in New York in 2016 and revisited this summer as part of the free Shakespeare in the Park Delacorte season, the […]
