Review: 4.48 PSYCHOSIS, Royal Ballet & Opera
The idea that “art is not a mirror but a hammer” has been attributed to Bertolt Brecht, deployed by Leon Trotsky and could serve as the epitaph for Sarah Kane’s repertoire, not least her final work.
Date of Death: February 20, 1999
The idea that “art is not a mirror but a hammer” has been attributed to Bertolt Brecht, deployed by Leon Trotsky and could serve as the epitaph for Sarah Kane’s repertoire, not least her final work.
Whether intentionally or not, London’s opera houses have leaned hard into the Halloween season with an unspoken theme of “go bleak or go home”.
Those worrying that Tilda Swinton — the patron saint of Sunday afternoon arthouse movies and performance art best experienced through reviews — has gone mainstream should make themselves a cup of chamomile tea and relax.
Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is July 31, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.
Few plays unite cast and audience in mutual struggle like Sarah Kane's Cleansed.
Writer and performer Tobias Graham guest blogs for BWW about bringing Slugs to the 2026 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Contrary to the place critics occupy in the cultural imagination, I dread the prospect of an artist reading a negative review I have written.
Stairwell Theater announced it will stage a free production of THE COMEDY OF ERRORS at the ShowBox Stage in Battery Park, supported by an LMCC Manhattan Arts Grant, featuring 16 performers and a live jazz band.
The Almeida Theatre announced the full cast for CLEANSED, Sarah Kane's play directed by Olivier Award-winner Rebecca Frecknall, featuring Leo Bill, Pearl Chanda, and others.
Royal Ballet and Opera announced its 2026/27 Season, featuring 10 new opera productions including PARSIFAL, GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG, and LA GIOCONDA, plus ballet masterworks and Wayne McGregor's 20th anniversary.
Phaedra is a difficult tragedy to stage with a straight face.
Second Stage Theater has revealed the complete cast for its upcoming production of Adam Bock’s dark comedy, The Receptionist, directed by Sarah Benson.
Looking back over 2025, it appears I sat in a dark room and wrote barely legible thoughts into a notebook on about 150-odd occasions.
BroadwayWorld spoke with Brendan Healy about Canadian Stage's production of A Doll's House.
Burning Coal Theatre Company will present Here in America (US Premiere), directed by Jerome Davis.
This fall, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot is once again drawing audiences to Broadway, with its enigmatic blend of humor, hopelessness, and haunting stillness.
Noctis Theatre Company will present their new play God Is Dead, written and directed by Matthias Moret and Fanny Le Pironnec at Theatro Technis in Camden, as part of the Voilà Festival 2025.
Director Jonathan Munby's spectacular production of Wendy & Peter Pan will play the Barbican Theatre this autumn.