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The Independent

Online theatre: All the web's a stage
Fancy a night in with the games console? Or is seeing a play a more appealing option? Rob Sharp reports on the theatre company that lets you do both – at the same time

Hare lampoons Blair years
Alice Jones reviews Gethsemane at the National Theatre

The Times UK

State of Emergency, The Gate, London
There's undoubted skill in the way Richter builds a picture of life both outside the electric fencing and inside it

Dear Heart, King's Head, London
The playwright has created a vivid narrative from letters filled with passion, hope and occasional rage

Gethsemane, National, London
Where, I wonder, did David Hare find the raw material for his irritating but engrossing new play?

A Streetcar Named Desire, Perth Theatre
Among the show's virtues is Amanda Beveridge's Blanche, who comes across as vulnerable, hurt and damaged

Financial Times

Private View/Protest, Orange Tree, London
In reviving Václav Havel’s ‘Private View’ and ‘Protest’ the Orange Tree whisks us back to 1970s Czechoslovakia but the productions offer more than just historical insight, writes Sarah Hemming

Othello, Lyric Hammersmith, London
Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett have taken Shakespeare’s text and given it a workover, relocating it to 21st-century Britain and a downbeat northern town. Not for those who like their Shakespeare straight, then, writes Sarah Hemming

The Guardian

Gethsemane, National, London
David Hare's despair over Labour's socialist ideal makes for a rich piece of theatre, writes Michael Billington

Any Which Way, Only Connect Studio, London
There are moments of quiet poetry in this play about knife crime, writes Lyn Gardner

The Guardian Performing Arts Blog

Chris Wilkinson: Noises off: What Brand and Ross can learn from classic theatrical fops
This week, bloggers have been discussing the sartorial heritage of the scandal-hit broadcasters, and why laptops could wreck stage performances

Daily Telegraph

Gesthemane by David Hare - review
Charles Spencer finds that a once political hot potato now feels decidedly lukewarm.

Whatsonstage.com

Buddy Announces West End Closing Notices, 7 Feb
Buddy - which returned to the West End last year after a five-year absence (See News::E8821178037562, 2 May 2007) – has posted closing notices at the Duchess Theatre. It opened there on 7 August 2007 (previews from 3 August) and, after numerous...

Gossip: Pennington Brings Harwood Double to Town???
Apparently, Ronald Harwood plays are like buses: you wait for ages and then two come along at once. The two – so we hear – are a revival of 1995’s Taking Sides..

Review: Gethsemane
David Hare’s new play is one of his very best and easily the best play of the year. It draws on aspects of contemporary public life – and characters – to weave a beautifully plotted drama of lost idealism, hypocrisy in journalism (“mockery oils the w...

Review: State of Emergency
The basic idea underpinning Falk Richter’s State of Emergency (here translated by David Tushingham) is that when the haves and the have-nots become too polarised, as symbolised by the utopian gated community in which the central characters live, ...

Whatsonstage.com - Off-West End & Fringe

In the Balance, New End Theatre
This ingenious political farce by English writers Ray Kilby and John Steinberg is set in Florida some time in the near future and deals with the rather topical subject of the election of a US President. Because in the past there has been a ...