John Shand Posts

August 31, 2026 / Theatre Reviews

KXT on Broadway, August 26 6/10 “When Equus leaves – if he leaves at all – it will be with your intestines in his teeth,” Dysart tells Alan at the end. Equus the play should have that effect on us, the audience, too. But here there were no gnawed vitals,…

August 13, 2026 / Theatre Reviews

Flight Path Theatre, August 6 6/10 Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, indeed. People Inside Me is the first play I’ve seen set in a crematorium. Plays galore have people dying in them, with the satirically macabre Titus Andronicus serving up 14 of its characters, but few are so specifically…

August 9, 2026 / Theatre Reviews

Theatre Royal, August 5 7/10 Tevye’s is such an indomitable heart as makes him larger than life: a force of nature who wears with all that 1905 Imperial Russia can throw at a poor Jewish dairy farmer. Beyond coping, this champion of tradition even learns to adapt to a changing…