Stage Door Elsewhere Archive
London, GBR: Soho Cinders
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music by George Stiles, lyrics by Anthony Drewe, book by Anthony Drewe & Elliot Davis, directed by Will Keith
Will Keith for Theatre Syndicate London & Starting Over Theatricals Ltd., Charing Cross Theatre, London, GBR
October 28, booking...
London, GBR: Vassa
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by Maxim Gorky, adapted by Mike Bartlett, directed by Tinuke Craig
Almeida Theatre, London, GBR
October 16-November 23, 2019
Vassa: “Everyone’s out for themselves. They always are”
When people speak of seeing Russian drama in North...
Tel Aviv, ISR: Manon
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by Jules Massenet, directed by Vincent Boussard
Israeli Opera, Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center, Tel Aviv, ISR
November 7-18, 2019
Manon: “Que tous nos désirs
Soient pour les plaisirs!”
Israeli Opera has opened its 2019/20 season...
Stratford-upon-Avon, GBR: Venice Preserved
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by Thomas Otway, directed by Prasanna Puwanarajah
Royal Shakespeare Company, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
May 30-September 7, 2019
Pierre: “Curse on the common good that’s so protected,
Where every slave, that heaps up wealth...
Glyndebourne, GBR: La Damnation de Faust
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by Hector Berlioz, directed by Richard Jones
Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Glyndebourne Opera House, Glyndebourne, GBR
May 18-July 10, 2019
Quelques Voix: “Un mystère d’horreur s’accomplit”
Musically, the Glyndebourne Festival Opera’s...
London, GBR: Donnerstag aus Licht
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by Karlheinz Stockhausen, directed by Benjamin Lazar
Opéra-Comique, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London
May 21-22, 2019
Michael: “Um Himmelsmusik den Menschen
und Menschenmusik den Himmlischen zu bringen”
It’s quite...
Stratford-upon-Avon, GBR: The Provoked Wife
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by John Vanbrugh, directed by Phillip Breen
Royal Shakespeare Company, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, GBR
May 9-September 7, 2019
Prologue: “All’s one, an Ox, a Poet, or a Crown;
Old England’s Play was always knocking down”
John...
London, GBR: Akhnaten
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by Philip Glass, directed by Phelim McDermott
• English National Opera & Improbable, The Coliseum, London
February 11-March 7, 2019;
• Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center, New York*
November 8-December 7, 2019
Scribe: “Open are...
London, GBR: Agnes Colander: An Attempt at Life
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by Harley Granville Barker, revised by Richard Nelson, directed by Trevor Nunn
David Adkin in association with Adam Roebuck and Panorama, Jermyn Street Theatre, London
February 15-March 16, 2019
Agnes: “We should all have been taught...
London, GBR: All About Eve
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by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, adapted & directed by Ivo van Hove
Sonia Friedman Productions & Fox Stage Productions, Noel Coward Theatre, London
February 12-May 11, 2019
Karen: “Nothing is forever in the Theatre. Whatever it is, it’s here,...
London, GBR: Edward II
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by Christopher Marlowe, directed by Nick Bagnall
Shakespeare’s Globe, Wanamaker Playhouse, London
February 22-April 20, 2019
Mortimer Junior: “Base Fortune, now I see, that in thy wheel
There is a point, to which when men aspire,
They...
London, GBR: Berberian Sound Studio
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by Joel Horwood, directed by Tom Scutt
Donmar Warehouse, London, GBR
February 14-March 30, 2019
Sylvia: “Silence is the sound of real fear”
Berberian Sound Studio, currently playing at the Donmar Warehouse, is an exceedingly unusual...
London, GBR: I Wish I Was a Mountain
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by Toby Thompson, directed by Lee Lyford
the egg, Theatre Royal Bath & Travelling Light Theatre, Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London
February 22-23, 2019
☛ Touring the UK until May 30, 2019 – see below
“There were all sorts of...
Elsewhere Reviews from 2000-2018
For an archive of reviews of productions seen outside of Ontario during the years 2000-2018 please open this post and then click here.