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Review: HAMLET, starring Giles Terera, Chichester Festival Theatre
by Gary Naylor - Sep 19, 2025

A Hamlet shorn of gimmicks allows its power to come through

Ncuti Gatwa and Edward Bluemel Will Lead BORN WITH TEETH at Wyndham's Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Apr 11, 2025

Born With Teeth will make its West End premiere, featuring Ncuti Gatwa as Christopher Marlowe and Edward Bluemel as William Shakespeare. Learn more about the show here!

Review: GOD OF CARNAGE, Lyric Hammersmith Theatre
by Cindy Marcolina - Sep 7, 2023

It’s good fun, but the last half hour of the 90 interval-less minutes drags. The dissection of their personalities and attitudes towards society doesn’t really go anywhere, but it’s an amusing, hyperbolic, melodramatic cut-out of a pretentious dispute between well-off fantoccini made to detonate in a controlled environment.

Photos: First Look at GOD OF CARNAGE at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Sep 6, 2023

Production photos have been released for God of Carnage. The production is currently playing at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre until 30 September 2023. Check out the photos here!

Photos: Inside Rehearsal For GOD OF CARNAGE at the Lyric Hammersmith
by Stephi Wild - Aug 11, 2023

Step inside the rehearsal room for God of Carnage and take a first look at Yasmina Reza’s Olivier and Tony Award-winning dark comedy, translated by Academy Award-winning Christopher Hampton (The Father). Directed by Lyric Associate Director Nicholai La Barrie, this fresh revival pokes fun at wealth, power and greed, and is the unmissable darkly funny roller-coaster you won’t want to end.

Cast Revealed For GOD OF CARNAGE at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Jun 23, 2023

The Lyric Hammersmith Theatre has announced full casting for the revival of Yasmina Reza’s savagely dark comedy God of Carnage, in a translation by Christopher Hampton, which won both the Tony and Olivier Award for Best Comedy in 2009, as well as picking up Tony Awards for Best Play and Best Actress for Marcia Gay Harden.

Young Vic's Online Premiere of Three Short Films This Thursday Concludes TWENTY TWENTY Project
by Stephi Wild - Jan 26, 2021

Young Vic Taking Part has announced the conclusion of TWENTY TWENTY – their year-long in-depth creative enrichment project within their local community – with the online premiere of three short films starring the members of their TWENTY TWENTY community company.

HBO & BBC One Renew HIS DARK MATERIALS, Starring Lin-Manuel Miranda, For A Third Season
by Sarah Jae Leiber - Dec 22, 2020

HBO and BBC One have renewed the drama series HIS DARK MATERIALS for a third season, it was announced today by Francesca Orsi, Executive Vice President, HBO Programming. Production on the eight-episode third season is slated to begin in Cardiff in 2021.

Wake Up With BWW 7/24: West End SLEEPLESS Will Use Quick COVID-19 Test Backstage, and More!
by Stephi Wild - Jul 24, 2020

Today's top stories: the West End production of Sleepless will use a quick COVID-19 on its cast, crew, and staff!

HIS DARK MATERIALS to Debut This Fall Exclusively On HBO
by Kaitlin Milligan - Jul 25, 2019

Adapting Philip Pullman's award-winning trilogy of the same name, which is considered a modern masterpiece of imaginative fiction, HIS DARK MATERIALS will debut this fall.  The series follows Lyra (Dafne Keen), a seemingly ordinary but brave young woman from another world.  Her search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children and becomes a quest to understand a mysterious phenomenon called Dust. 

HBO, BBC, Bad Wolf, and New Line Partner on HIS DARK MATERIALS
by Kaitlin Milligan - Sep 13, 2018

HBO partners with BBC, Bad Wolf, and New Line Cinema in a co-prodution of 'His Dark Materials.' HBO co-production of 8-episode drama series currently set for 2 seasons. HBO secures worldwide rights to the series (excluding the UK).

BWW Review: A LESSON FROM ALOES at Hartford Stage
by Joseph Harrison - May 27, 2018

There are few things that can impact relationships, families and communities as significantly as politics. Often one of the topics many consider off-limits for casual gatherings, political discourse has a tendency to divide groups along ideological lines and can make for a tense discussion. And in today's world of political extremes, this reality is as evident as ever. It is along these lines that these realities come to life in vivid tableau in Athol Fugard's A LESSON FROM ALOES, the closing production of Hartford Stage's 2017-18 season.