Donkey Punch, at Lower Manhattan’s SoHo Playhouse, positions itself as a statement play about the modern relationship. It’s fun – but it’s also curiously regressive, says Tara Isabella Burton.
Play/Date, a collection of 25 short plays performed across the three levels of a bar and nightclub, could so easily have been a mess. Instead, says Tara Isabella Burton, it’s ...
“I left my books and my husband and the well-dug roots of my domesticity and we set off to Kalaki on the evening train.”
On seeing their uncategorisable Sleep No More for the eleventh time, Tara Isabella Burton reflects on what Punchdrunk, the pioneering immersive theatre company, means to her.
Alan Cumming is so pitch-perfect in this revival of Sam Mendes’s version of Cabaret that it almost, counterintuitively, feels like he’s playing it safe. Tara Isabella Burton reviews a stunning, ...
Brecht and Weill’s Threepenny Opera teems with theatrical energy. Tara Isabella Burton finds a revival, on Off-Broadway’s Linda Gross Theater, a little too sedate…
A few months ago, Tara Isabella Burton watched the 1989 classic Heathers for the tenth or eleventh time and was struck by how hard it would be to tell that ...
Half the wonder of And Then There Were None, an immersive adaptation of Agatha Christie’s novel, is getting to its top-secret location. But, finds Tara Isabella Burton, it’s worth the ...
Ahead of Secret Cinema’s immersive Grand Budapest Hotel experience, Tara Isabella Burton was asked, among other things, to don 1930s attire, learn the waltz and bring a “gift”. Was the ...
Dave Malloy and Eliza Bent’s Blue Wizard/Black Wizard, the latest show by the mischievous, pop culture-literate duo at St Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery in Manhattan, is an electropop musical about disaffected ...
Tara Isabella Burton couldn’t have had two more contrasting experiences at Edinburgh’s Assembly Rooms. One show, Omega, was one of the worst she’d seen; the other, Melmoth The Wanderer, was ...
To seek out the Georgian Theatre Festival, Tara Isabella Burton found herself in a world of sparse information, misadvertised shows and, in one case, a set held up by customs. ...
David Greig’s The Events, currently at the Traverse Theatre, is inspired by the Anders Breivik shootings. For all its theatrical brio, argues Tara Isabella Burton, it suffers from a disjuncture ...
Tara Isabella Burton is a devotee of immersive theatre: when Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More was in New York, she saw it nine times. So how did their latest show, at ...
It was four in the morning; she was not with him. The subway rumbled beneath his feet, and once when Ivan was six he told his mother that the steam ...
Tara Isabella Burton on her search for a sense for belonging and an elegy for a rapidly disappearing city: “One of Saakashvili’s new visa schemes attracts Iranian tourists, enticing them ...
