The Long Beach Playhouse’s production of Joe Orton’s “Loot” is a delightfully lascivious romp through the absurdities of British society in the swinging 1960s. Directed by Alan Sewell, this rendition ...

Tickets are now available for Desert Ensemble Theatre’s (DET) production of Loot, by Joe Orton (1965). The genre-changing black comedy runs from November 15–24 In Theatre 3 at the Palm Springs ...

When Hal and Dennis, a couple of young bank robbers, look for the perfect place to hide the “loot,” they figured no one would look inside the coffin of Hal’s recently departed mother, which sits in ...

Humor was dark and dangerous in Orton’s hands, and not much was sacred when the late playwright put pen to page. “Loot” hit the London stage in 1965 and immediately caused a stir. Outraged audiences ...

As one audience member who fell asleep remarked, “Farce is hard”. That gave the opening to this review. Farce IS hard if you don’t understand how it is to be directed so that it works effectively.

There will be mixed reactions to playwright Joe Orton's "Loot," which recently opened at the Westport Country Playhouse, as there were in its first and second iterations in London almost half a ...

The Tricycle theatre revival of Joe Orton’s 1965 black comedy Loot opened last night (15 December 2008, previews from 11 December), the play’s first major London outing for a decade (See News, 15 Oct ...