The Somme battlefield in France will host Frank McGuinness’ celebrated play Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme on the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:48AMSt James Theatre, London: Well done Tall Stories for providing another cracking seasonal treat for kids - and coping with adversity. Louise Mai Newberry, the female star of this three-hander…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:15AMOlivier, National, London: David Hare delivers an impressive dramatic reconstruction of Katherine Boo's painstakingly detailed account of life in a Mumbai slum where hordes of families …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:51AMLeicester Square Theatre, London: Returning to the West End for a Christmas run, this charming rendition of the Axel Scheffler and Julia Donaldson (of Gruffalo fame) classic continues to enc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:50AMSam Wanamaker Playhouse, London: The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse again comes into its own with John Ford's brooding, blood-washed tale of incest from the 1630s to open its second season. Re…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:40AMHampstead Theatre, London: Writing about writing is a risky venture, but Theresa Rebeck's 2011 Broadway hit casts off any shackles of self-indulgence to build its own quiet power. Read …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:15AMWyndham's Theatre: Bill Nighy's lolloping, rangy form first played Tom Sergeant in the cast change of Richard Eyre's original 1995 production of David Hare's play, taking over…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:41AMOld Vic, London: Kevin Spacey, whose artistic directorship of the Old Vic comes to an end next year, clearly wants to end on a high. Before handing to Matthew Warchus next year, he is hoping…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:29AMPlayhouse Theatre, London: An Almeida transfer, this may not be the most tourist-friendly production for W1, but the power of Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan's spellbinding reimagining…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:54AMLyttelton, National, London: Sean O'Casey's dream-like, disjointed 1928 anti-war play was rejected by Yeats' Abbey Theatre and has rarely been performed since, and on tonight&…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:19AMHarold Pinter Theatre, London: Fresh from its success in Bath, Trevor Nunn's lavish and tourist-friendly production of Coward's crowd-pleaser ought to find a successful second leas…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:42AMBrian Attwood, who has been at the actors' newspaper since 1986, to pursue work on the issue of special needs in adulthoodThe curtain is falling on a 20-year era at actor's bible The Stage n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMOlivier Theatre, National, London: King Lear is not, let's be honest, a small play and director Sam Mendes uses the full majesty of the Olivier's grand stage to give us an appropri…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:40AMHampstead Theatre, London: Gwen and Don are a small town couple whose on-the-rocks marriage is further tested when his ex - Emilia Fox's single and sassy cultural studies academic Cathe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:38AMDuchess Theatre, London: It's hard to imagine a more genial and appropriate guide to the much-loved bucolic adventures of Ratty, Mole, Badger and of course Mr Toad than Tony Robinson. …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01AMDonmar Warehouse, London: This is a taut, tense, intimate Coriolanus. Like the man himself, director Josie Rourke does not stand on ceremony, presenting a pared-down bloody, brutal and ruthl…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AMHampstead Theatre, London: As Indian independence loomed in 1947, Britain's Labour prime minister Clement Attlee sent over a judge called Cyril Radcliffe (who had never been to India an…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:09AMLyric Hammersmith Studio, London: Returning to the Lyric Studio, Pins and Needles' beautifully judged production brings Raymond Briggs' classic storybook about a grumpy but kindly …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:03AMHarold Pinter Theatre, London: Marketed with super cool black and white photos of Brylcreemed 1950s rock'n'roll Soho, Mojo comes from the pen of Jez Butterworth, garlanded author o…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:02AMHampstead Theatre, London: Billed as a modern take on parenting there's an old fashioned feel to this debut play by established actor Simon Paisley Day. But that's not necessarily …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AMAlmeida Theatre, London: Taut, tight, emotionally draining, this is a memorable Ghosts, the 1881 tragedy of marital suppression Ibsen says he had to write after Nora's triumphant emanci…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:48AMSt James Theatre, London: Delayed by a week because of illness to the male lead, director Trevor Nunn wasn't going to let this obvious passion project, a distilled stage version of Ingm…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:40AMHampstead, London: It's fitting that this impressive Theatre Royal, Bath production of Terry Johnson's play now comes to this part of north west London. Read the full review
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:53AMOlivier, National Theatre, London: Christopher Marlowe's story of one of medieval England's most disastrous and profligate monarchs brought down by his obsession with his male favo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:33AMLyric Theatre, London: Loved as it is, Michael Rosen's story of a Dad and his kids and their sheepdog going on a bear hunt through squelchy squerchy mud and much else besides isn't…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:05AMGielgud Theatre, London: Noel Coward's 1930 comedy sweeps into the West End on a wave of love for Jonathan Kent's fresh and zesty Chichester revival from last autumn- and you can s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:51AMDonmar Warehouse, London: Following the Donmar's highly praised revival of Conor McPherson's 1997 play The Weir, the writer brings his own directorial skills to his latest work, a …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:44AMActor, comedian, novelist, playwright, journalist and singer; the multi-talented Meera Syal talks to Ben Dowell
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:24PMHampstead, London: Bagging the UK premiere of a new David Mamet play represents a coup for Edward Hall's Hampstead Theatre even if liberal-minded theatregoers will always be divided by …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:27AMRegent's Park Open Air Theatre, London: From the outset of this lively and intelligent production, Harper Lee's world bursts into life on the bare stage when the cast draw in chalk an o…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:53AMChariots of Fire star Ben Cross, now playing the mysterious Rabbit in HBO’s TV series Banshee, talks to Ben Dowell about his habit of playing bad guys and how his work has led to a life ou…
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