Q: Who are your North Sails team for the Zhik Nationals? ND: We have Michael Coxon, Vince Brun and Paul Westlake on Menace, Billy Sykes on Hydrotherapy, Richard Allanson on Southern Light, Matthew Rhys-Jones on Fantazia, Andrew Coates on Odyssey and...

Gold's rendition has its quirks and its limitations, but the reasons for the shortfall in response lie deeper, both in Osborne's work and in the difference between our two English-speaking cultures. Sarah Goldberg and Matthew Rhys do the U.K. Osborne's...

It’s an egotistical production whose stylization promotes the director at the expense of the play. Gold has denuded the play of any semblance of Englishness and class, an issue that should be central to the argument between the bullying, blue-collar...

English stage. Audiences accustomed to the wink-wink discretion of Coward and Rattigan were suddenly faced with a story about naked class rage, Kowalskian male energy, and exploding social mores in the winter of Britain's fifties discontent. What would...

The play is set in the small, squalid attic apartment of Jimmy (Matthew Rhys), a violent and resentful young man, and his sweet wife Alison (Sarah Goldberg), who came from a wealthy family. After reading the Sunday paper with his pal Cliff (Adam...

The 1956 drama of hard realities follows the raging and abusive, working-class Jimmy Porter (Matthew Rhys) and the toll he exacts on himself and three people he holds in thrall. Gold’s vision bathes the stage in a glaringly bright light that seeps out...