Friday, May 17, 2013
Chariots 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…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:42AMFriday, May 10, 2013
Trafalgar Studios, London: The idea that Harold Pinter developed his beliefs about the horror of unchecked state power later in his career can be swept away by this 1958 work (which premiere…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:03AMFriday, April 26, 2013
Donmar Warehouse, London: Finbar (Risteard Cooper), the big fish entrepreneur, had a lot going for him when he swaggered into the small pond of his local village pub when this play premiered…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:27AMWednesday, April 17, 2013
Lyttelton, National Theatre, London: Director Howard Davies and translator Andrew Upton who (among other successful collaborations) brought Bulgakov's The White Guard to vivid and scint…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:03AMWednesday, April 3, 2013
Duchess, London: A double bill of Alan Bennett reflections couldn't have been more at home at the National Theatre. But what about this transfer to the commercial bear pit of the West E…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMActor Alex Jennings stopped the curtain call applause at the Duchess Theatre last night to recall his old friend and colleague Richard Griffiths and ask the audience to applaud him. Deliveri…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:52AMTuesday, April 2, 2013
Almeida, London: Full marks to the Almeida for reviving this brilliantly modulated 1949 play, based on Maugham's 1926 story about a widow returning from Africa and intent on marrying be…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:04AMMonday, March 25, 2013
Garrick Theatre, London: That this short, two-man parody of all seven Harry Potter books has been touring successfully for seven years is down to many things - though not perhaps to the orig…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:17AMWednesday, March 6, 2013
Gielgud Theatre, London: Oscar-nominated writer Peter Morgan clearly has a thing for the Queen. His hit 2006 film portrayed a royal family at a time of crisis, when the death of Diana threat…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:29AMThursday, February 28, 2013
Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court, London: Young writer Anna Wakulik's new play shows too often its roots in a 2011 Royal Court workshop on the Polish experience, with all the theme…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:53AMMonday, February 18, 2013
He played Tom in BBC comedy and also starred in shows such as Ever Decreasing Circles and Monarch Of The Glen
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AMThursday, February 14, 2013
Actor Arsher Ali has declined offers of work since the summer partly because he is “sick” of being offered scripts which typecast Asians as terrorists. Ali, who plays a suspected terrori…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:44AMThursday, February 7, 2013
Vaudeville Theatre, London: In this stage re-imagining of Dickens' classic, all the action takes place with Miss Havisham's dusty living room as the backdrop - an eerie, ghostlike …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AMTuesday, January 15, 2013
Trafalgar Studios, London: "I annihilate you," observes Leo Bill's faltering German officer Werner to the old man who has been forced to take him in to his cottage during the …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:41AMThursday, January 10, 2013
Judi Dench lobbied unsuccessfully to persuade former BBC director general Mark Thompson to abandon the practice of squeezing programme credits more than five years ago, The Stage can reveal.…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMFriday, December 21, 2012
Hampstead, London: The influx of so many Poles to Britain in recent years was bound to be felt in theatreland sooner or later and it is welcome to have this particular immigrant experience e…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01AMMonday, December 10, 2012
Ambassadors Theatre, London: Last Christmas this venue played host to a rather flat kid's show about Father Christmas. This year's effort is more successful, assured and thought ou…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:34AMFriday, December 7, 2012
Tricycle Theatre, London: This production of Mary Zimmerman's 1994 take on the wonderful fables from the Islamic Golden Age is not the first Arabian Nights I have seen staged. But it is…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06AMMonday, December 3, 2012
Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London: First performed in 2008 and now debuting in the West End, this is another successful Tall Stories bid to negotiate the tricky task of being creativ…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:21AMMonday, November 26, 2012
Leicester Square Theatre, London: Returning to the West End for a short Christmas run, this is a delightful, simply-staged show for young children.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:42AMWednesday, November 21, 2012
Royal Albert Hall, London: Rod Stewart, Neil Diamond, One Direction, Girls Aloud, Kylie Minogue, Robbie Williams, Andrea Bocelli, Alicia Keys, Placido Domingo and comedians Rhod Gilbert and …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:41AMTuesday, November 20, 2012
Royal Albert Hall, London: Rod Stewart, Neil Diamond, One Direction, Girls Aloud, Kylie Minogue, Robbie Williams, Andrea Bocelli, Alicia Keys, Placido Domingo and comedians Rhod Gilbert and …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:37AMMonday, November 19, 2012
Apollo Theatre, London: This all-male production was always going to be notable for the addition of a superstar Malvolio - and Stephen Fry's first performance before London's theat…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:08AMApollo, London: Director Tim Carroll's sensitivity to Shakespeare's preoccupation with the theatricality of his work helps treat West End audiences to a beautifully nuanced, poigna…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:46AMThursday, October 25, 2012
Hampstead Theatre, London: Whenever one thinks of the parliamentarians who waged Civil War against their king, one never imagines them in 1940s get-up, tapping on typewriters and flicking in…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:33AMFriday, October 5, 2012
Lyttelton, National, London: Howard Barker's 1984 radio play (also revived to some acclaim at the Hackney Empire five years ago) may have been beset by technical difficulties on press n…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:38AMFriday, September 14, 2012
Young Vic, London: There are dramatic updates and there are dramatic updates. Controversial Australian director and writer Benedict Andrews effectively punches Chekhov's play full in th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:56AMThursday, September 13, 2012
Hampstead, London: Rupert Everett is an interesting and ultimately successful choice to play Oscar Wilde in this revival of David Hare's 1998 imagining of the great Irish playwright and…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AMMonday, September 3, 2012
Apollo, London: Hola, los Amigos. Yes, it was only a matter of time before this smash kids TV hit followed all the other smash TV kids hits to the stage. Fortunately there's a real colo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:56AMMonday, August 20, 2012
Vaudeville, London: Volcano is something of a dirty secret - the gossipy tale of the love affairs of Noel Coward's bored, listless and over-privileged Jamaica neighbours, written in exi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:32AMWednesday, August 1, 2012
Harold Pinter theatre, London: Befitting its bijou new home, this is a neater, less sprawling Spamalot than the one that opened in Broadway in 2005. It is shorter, has a tighter script (with…
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