Thursday, February 19, 2015
Cockpit Theatre, London: Elsinore is reimagined as a school for spoiled kids in this impressively staged, if conceptually confused, 90-minute Hamlet in which Horatio teaches "modern Dan…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:58AMWednesday, December 17, 2014
Arts Theatre, London: The foyer of the Arts Theatre was filled with kids crossing balloon swords, the assorted ranks making entry to the auditorium quite a challenge. To the testament of the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:46AMThursday, December 11, 2014
Old Red Lion Theatre, London: This pantomime-season parody searches for new ways to mock fairy tales, attempting to flip the stories in the manner of the Shrek films but coming out like a we…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:52AMMonday, December 1, 2014
Drayton Arms Theatre, London: A handful of very fine performances elevate this modern melodrama about the effects a murder has on four Londoners.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:50AMFriday, November 28, 2014
Tristan Bates Theatre, London: Simon Mason was drug dealer to the Britpop stars, an addict who gave away cocaine for free to get into A-list parties. But alongside the highs came the paralys…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:57AMThursday, November 20, 2014
Shoreditch Town Hall, London: The quarterback of the Hoke's Bluff American football team has one shot to seize the day - one more throw of the dice, one more 'play'.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:28AMTuesday, November 11, 2014
St Bartholomew the Great, London: A medieval Pilgrim's Progress-style morality play is a tricky start to Little Spaniel's tenure as the new resident company of the 12th century St …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:02PMFriday, October 31, 2014
Tristan Bates Theatre, London: Actor Max Saunders-Singer's drama of two infantrymen who are unwilling to fight gives voice to the 306 men executed for cowardice during the First World W…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:18AMWednesday, September 24, 2014
Arcola, London: Only five months divide the Arcola Theatre's last Marius von Mayenburg production - his spiky satire Eldorado - with this latest UK premiere at the venue, a dystopian ni…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:11AMTuesday, August 26, 2014
The Lord Stanley, London: Nabokov's 1955 masterpiece finds curious echoes in today's mass media climate of stories of historical sex abuses. But this revival of Victor Sobchak'…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:03AMMonday, April 28, 2014
This year’s Alan Bates Bursary for a graduating actor has been given to Charles Babalola of LAMDA. At a ceremony at the Actors Centre in London, actor Celia Imrie presented the award to Ba…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:08AMFriday, April 25, 2014
Shakespeare’s Globe artistic director Dominic Dromgoole has claimed that other countries have a “great deal more insight” about Shakespeare than the British. In an exclusive interview …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:57AMLaw firm Pinsent Masons has become the principal sponsor of the Menier Chocolate Factory until 2016, in the first major corporate partnership for the theatre. As part of the partnership, the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:47AMThe National Theatre will collaborate with the BBC Proms for the first time as part of a special War Horse Prom, commemorating 100 years since the outbreak of the First World War. Puppets us…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:13AMThursday, April 24, 2014
The Hull Truck Theatre has been handed a £400,000 bail-out in emergency public funding to ensure its financial stability, three years before the city hosts the UK City of Culture celebrat…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:15AMThe Play that Goes Wrong, which originated at fringe venue the Old Red Lion Theatre in north London, is to transfer to the West End this autumn. The Mischief Theatre production is currently …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:52AMFormer soap actors Debra Stephenson and Steven Pinder are to headline Neil Simon’s Last of the Red Hot Lovers at St Helens’ Theatre Royal. Producers Regal Entertainments have adapted the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:35AMThe Vertical Hour by David Hare is to receive its first London revival this autumn at the Park Theatre in Finsbury Park. It will be directed by Nigel Douglas, who returns to the theatre for&…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMWednesday, April 23, 2014
Mark Rylance, Ian McKellen and Michael Grandage are among those British actors and theatre-makers that have been nominated for this year’s Outer Critics Circle Awards, which recognise thea…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:42PMManchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre has revealed its first season under the sole leadership of artistic director Sarah Frankcom, including a revival of Little Shop of Horrors and the premi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:48AMTuesday, April 22, 2014
The first ever UK performance of Noel Coward’s 1920s comedy This Was A Man is to feature as part of the Finborough Theatre’s summer season. Coward’s play – a portrayal of adultery in…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMThursday, April 17, 2014
Production staff working on series such as Silent Witness, Mr Selfridge and Call the Midwife have threatened to disrupt filming through industrial action over pay. Backstage union BECTU is p…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:59PMMichael Sheen, Jonathan Pryce and Griff Rhys Jones will feature alongside singer Tom Jones in a one-off BBC adaptation of Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood, to be broadcast in early May. Celeb…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:38AMBirmingham Stage Company is working with acclaimed children’s playwright David Wood to adapt picture book Dinosaur Roar!,which will tour museums and theatres from next year. The theatre co…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:53AMSwansea’s Palace Theatre, which was last year listed as one of the most endangered buildings in England and Wales, is set for a £75,000 regeneration. Local authority the City and County o…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:48AMAlmost three-quarters of dancers have received a critical comment about their body – primarily from a dance teacher – prompting concern about the negative impact instructors’ comments …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:30AMWednesday, April 16, 2014
Channel 4 is to “supercharge” its arts coverage after receiving a £3 million injection from Arts Council England. The broadcaster will now re-launch its Random Acts strand – showcasin…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:14PMSajid Javid’s appointment as the new culture secretary has received mixed reactions from the arts industry. The MP, who was financial secretary to the Treasury before his promotion to the …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:58AMThe London Symphony Orchestra has dropped an unpaid internship scheme following accusations that the publically-funded organisation could be breaching Arts Council England’s guidelines. It…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:39AMLiz Robertson will bring her one-woman show, Songs From My Trunk, to the Hippodrome Casino in London. Robertson, who has appeared in shows such as The Phantom of the Opera and A Little Night…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:45AMTuesday, April 15, 2014
A new play marking 30 years since the miners’ strike is to premiere at Hampstead Theatre. Wonderland by Beth Steel, which was a finalist for the 2014 Susan Smith Blackburn prize, will be p…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:49AM 
