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Review of ‘Archduke’: “Regicidal comedy doesn’t seize the crown”
Someone’s plotting murder on the Royal Court stage this month. And someone has got away with it. So far, nobody’s been killed. But something has — repeatedly. Those who have sat through this tongue-in-cheek political drama dealing with the assassination of Austrian royalty, Franz Ferdinand, might have already guessed what I’m talking about. And chances…
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Review of ‘Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo’: “Roaring premise delivers a scaredy-cat narrative”
London’s Young Vic welcomes the UK premiere of Rajiv Joseph’s play about the Iraq War. Guillermo Nazara shares his views to let us know if this fierce breed of a show earns its stripes onstage. I must applaud Kathryn Hunter for stepping into a lead role overnight and performing it semi-off-book. She was reading the…
