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An impressive cast – including Greg Germann via video link – deliver a revival of Lucinda Coxon’s jittery examination of intimacy and exploitation

Theatre review: Blindness, Auckland Writers Festival 14 May, 2021 03:15 AM 3 minutes to read By: Ethan Sills When you think of the Aucklands Writers Festival, you probably think of a relaxed day spent listening to authors talk about their work, where the only drama comes when that one person with an essay rather than a question gets their hands on the mic at the Q&A after. Perhaps that relaxed air is what makes the festivals choice of theatrical production this year such an un...

First tickets for UK City of Culture events go on sale Coventry’s year as UK City of Culture 2021 kicks off on May 15 - heres all you need to know about getting tickets Updated UK City of Culture will kick off on May 15, and opening ceremony, Coventry Moves will take place on June 5, The Allesley Silas (July 2021) is a new, site specific largescale outdoor musical theatre production by From the Heart Theatre. Never miss another story from Coventry and Warwickshire by subscribing to our free e...

Lucinda Coxons hit play Herding Cats will return in a hybrid experience that can either be watched online or live at the Soho Theatre with socially distanced audiences. Directed by Anthony Banks, the piece will see two actors perform live in London, with a third actor streamed in real-time from the USA. Spectators can either watch in-situ at the Soho Theatre or via streaming platform Stellar. The piece, playing from 20 to 23 May, follows three people – Justine, Michael and Saddo – grapplin...

Blindness Helen Maybanks The Off-Broadway premiere of Simon Stephens’ Blindness has officially extended performances through September 5. The production is one of the first in-person theatrical offerings to welcome audiences since the coronavirus shutdown. Blindness began performances April 2 at the Daryl Roth Theatre. The piece uses sound and light effects (including binaural headphone technology) in lieu of live performers. The story charts perhaps familiar territory...

POOLES Lighthouse arts centre has confirmed a second season of outdoor shows. The second season of Lighthouse: OUTSIDE, at the amphitheatre to the side of the building, will include entertainment every Saturday from May 29 up until July 24. Also announced, but for an indoor performance scheduled for the summer, is a show by Saving Grace, featuring Led Zeppelin legend Robert Plant. Blindness, the binaural theatrical experience that was a sensation in the West End and Off-Broadway, is als...

Save this story for later. If you want to see “Blindness,” a new show created by Donmar Warehouse and up at the Daryl Roth Theatre— up not on some Web site but in the antediluvian sense: at a place other than your home, scheduled for a non-negotiable time—you’ll have to submit to the weird rigors of COVID screening. If you’ve eaten at a restaurant or gone to the dentist lately, you can probably rattle off the questionnaire by heart: Have you coughed? Are you hot? ...

With ‘Blindness,’ Theater Returns to New York City. And It’s Brilliantly Terrifying. Tim Teeman © Provided by The Daily Beast Helen Maybanks Mayor Bill de Blasio—so tall, really a human redwood—was there, speaking about the moment being a new dawn for theater in New York City. Indeed, theater was “back,” he told the cameras. The line of people he came to greet waiting to see the first performance of Blindness at the Daryl Roth Theatre off Union Square was coll...

April 07, 2021 Blindness isnt like most off-Broadway shows you might have seen in the before times. Reminders of Covid-19 remain throughout this unique audio and lighting installation, originally produced at Londons Donmar Warehouse and now appearing at the Daryl Roth Theatre: Viewers are seated in two-person pods well away from strangers; there are no physical programs or tickets, no live actors, and no bathrooms (best to find a preshow alternative); as with any indoor activity, masks are a mu...

‘Blindness’ Review: Listening to the Sound of Theater Again Stimulating and immersive — yet actor-free — this audio adaptation of the Saramago novel brings the terror of an epidemic into your ears. The audience at the Daryl Roth Theater for a performance of “Blindness,” an audio play by Simon Stephens which is experienced on headphones.Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times April 6, 2021, 3:29 p.m. ET As I sat down in the dark of the Daryl Roth Theater in my oversized...