"If Jesus were alive today," the president of Iran said, almost, "he'd be lobbying in support of Iran's development of nuclear power and regional ambitions to atomise the state of Israel, and supporting our loving execution of deviants, dissidents, adulterers, women and minors. And our righteous struggle against the US in Afghanistan by throwing acid into the faces of girls going to school. ...

26 Dec 2008

"That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard," says Pheonix Vaughan (as the lovestruck princess Psyche) to Michael Maricondi (as Mercury, messenger to the gods of ancient Greece), when informed that the way out of her dire predicament is to break out in song.

19 Dec 2008

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14 Dec 2008

Rebecca Bayla Taichman, known for new works, directs the classic Twelfth Night for Shakespeare Theatre Company.

11 Dec 2008

Michael Grandage 's triumphant advance upon the West End continues with a treasurable Twelfth Night that discovers a renewed sense of comedy in the struggles of Illyria’s would-be lovers and plotters and in Sir Derek Jacobi ’s Malvolio — who is the production’s star attraction, rendered as an exquisite figure of stuffed-up pomp and circumstance.

11 Dec 2008

It's easy to see why anyone would want to make life as unpleasant as possible for Ted van Griethuysen. Stuffed into a form-fitting cutaway and enveloped in an air of utter disdain, he looks in his latest stage transformation like nothing so much as a dyspeptic penguin.

11 Dec 2008