Review: Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812
Josh Groban as Pierre (photo by Sara Krulwich / The New York Times) Performance Date: 21 February 2017 Venue: Imperial Theatre, New York Performance Run: Opened November 14 2016, closed September 3 2017 As taste of Moscow in New York City, surely not? Walking in to the auditorium of the Imperial Theatre, New York that houses […]
Review: The Present – Cate Blanchett’s Broadway debut in Chekhov’s most perplexing play
Cate Blanchett as Anna Petrovna and Richard Roxburgh as Mikhail Platonov (Photo by Joan Marcus) Performance Date: 19 February 2017 Venue: Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York Performance Run: Opened 08 January 2017, closed 19 March 2017 Presenting a heavy going Anton Chekhov play to a New York audience was always going to be a risk and […]
Review: Lazarus – Bowie’s parting gift
Michael C Hall as Newton and Sophia Anne Caruso as Girl (photo by Johan Persson) Performance Date: 1st January 2017 Venue: London’s King’s Cross Theatre Approaching the first anniversary of the death of David Bowie, his home town plays host to his parting gift. The poignancy further heightened by the fact that the grief is […]