Alexander Cohen - Page 7

For an eighty-year-old play about the perils of capitalism and human-nature born kicking and screaming amongst the political turmoil of Weimar Germany, it neither looks nor feels like it has aged a day.

What did our critic think of NO I.D. at Royal Court?

Here it is, opera's answer to A Little Life: Kaija Saariaho's Innocence follows the aftermath of a school shooting and the emotional destruction felt by those connect to the event. An elegant but devastating meditation on the nature of violence and collective guilt.

Katie Mitchell breathes dangerous life into Rebecca Watson's disarmingly experimental novel

A gem of 17th century Spanish theatre gets the David Lynch treatment in Cheek By Jowl's latest show

BroadwayWorld caught up with Joe chatting about everything from Olivier nominations to what the future holds for this up and coming writer. The Olivier-nominated writer talks about the transfer from his play to Hampstead Theatre's main space.

An arduous deep dive into the moral murkiness of alcoholism and grief

Cordelia Lynn’s atmospheric new play treads familiar waters

A jagged knife of a play that could cut deeper. Chronicling Russia's first annexation of Crimea, Pussycat in Memory of Darkness is wielded like a jagged blade goring its victim in a furious trance of savagery. Its prophetic vision of violence as relentless as it is terrifying to watch.

For all the gleeful whimsey and creative flare, this stage adaptation of Olga Tokarczuk’s critically acclaimed eco-thriller lacks bite

Annilese Miskimmon directs an arresting new production of Korngold's cult operatic meditation on melancholy

A boldly inventive but flawed deconstruction of superhero obsession

A heartfelt love letter to ABBA that'll want to make you say thank you for the music.

A parable about the perils of capitalism that prioritises self-aggrandising polemics over dramatic substance

Metaphysical meandering comes at an opportunity cost

Family memory is weaponised in this grime lined new production of Enda Walsh's 2006 black comedy

Tonally bombastic and unapologetically queasy

A fish out of water tale that reflects our uneasy relationship with nature

A luminous production glistening with chutzpah and armed with a fresh new translation.

Sophie Okonedo adds flavour to a strong but otherwise vanilla production of Euripides' tragedy.