This revival of Harley Granville Barker's Waste wants for precisely nothing, especially from the second act onward. It's scintillating theater as only the British can do it.
A road movie with two super stars turned into a play-without said stars. Impossible! Yet Rain Man somehow works. Credit the compelling nature of the material and the central performances of Josh Hartnett and Adam Godley.
This is a brilliant revival of Chekhov's early play. Michael Grandage has assembled an exceptional cast-did anyone say Kenneth Branagh- and adapter Tom Stoppard has worked his magic, too.
In case one forgot, there's more to Lerner and Loewe than just My Fair Lady and Brigadoon. Take Gigi , for example-here presented in a well-done production at the Open Air.
The pros and cons of feminism are given a too thorough going over in Joanna Murray-Smith's The Female of the Species. There's a strong whiff of desperation as the play plods along.
Rupert Goold has come up witha brilliant take on Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author-true to the spirit of what the Italian master was attempting 87 years ago.
The Revengers Tragedy ( Thomas Middleton's gory Jacobean story) comes across as an extravagantly over-staged production. It operates on the principle that nothing succeeds like excess.
