Hamlet by William Shakespeare. National Theatre production at the Barbican, London, 2015.
It’s known as the Cumberbatch Hamlet because the movie star’s appearance in the title role is causing sold-out houses and enthusiastic audience response. But the performance is much more than that.
This is the fastest-moving Hamlet production and the most …
Bullets Over Broadway, by Woody Allen. Susan Stroman directed. National tour, 2015
Woody Allen wrote and directed the 1994 movie of the same name that spoofed 1920s gangster dramas. In 2014 he worked with choreographer and stage director Susan Stroman and turned his idea into a Broadway tunester.
The result is no Annie Hall. The characters are stereotypes, …