Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Doctor Who looms large as usual and elsewhere 'tis the season to be morbid - even granny has become a gangster. At least this year Downton might spread a little sunshine...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:59AMFriday, November 8, 2013
Old Red Lion, London: Set in a flat above a disused fur factory in a gothic East End, Ridley's antihero, Cougar Glass, is every bit the grotesque and spotlessly narcissistic fiend that …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:31AMTuesday, October 29, 2013
Arcola Theatre, London: "I have come to see it as a kaleidoscope," director Amelia Sears confesses in her note to David Storey's Home, which is rather fitting considering the …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:44PMThursday, October 24, 2013
Courtyard Theatre, London: Perhaps it's the number of antique doors encircling Franciso Rodriguez-Wile's attractive set that prompts director Bronagh Lagan to cross so many dramati…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:41AMThursday, September 19, 2013
Arcola, London: Bertold Brecht suggested that this play was an alienating beast, only suitable for courageous theatres. Nazi supporters threw stink bombs during an early staging in the 1920s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:35AMWednesday, September 4, 2013
During a recent commentating slog on BBC 5 Live’s Test Match Special, former England captain Michael Vaughan bemoaned the loss of now-defunct gameshows, in particular Jim Bowen’s Bullsey…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMFriday, April 5, 2013
The Rose Lipman Building, London: Part II of Retz theatre company's reimagining of Franz Kafka's The Trial in London's East End has each person in the audience implicated for …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:46AMFriday, March 8, 2013
Shoreditch Town Hall, London: A poker-faced receptionist tells everyone to sit down in the grand entrance of Shoreditch Town Hall. She reads the names out, one by one, and you are led into a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMFriday, March 1, 2013
Finborough Theatre, London: After helping the Finborough on its way to The Stage's fringe award in 2011 with And I And Silence, Caitlin McLeod is back with a belter of politically charg…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:57AMWednesday, January 16, 2013
Arts Theatre, London: It's easy to see the influence of Richard Vergette's career as a drama teacher on his writing. Here is a play about the American penal system that tests the a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:33AMWednesday, January 9, 2013
In the build-up to Christmas, Selfridges spent buckets on ‘glitz’ for its flagship store on Oxford Street. It deployed 50 ‘elfridges’ to tell us what to buy, hired an 80-strong flash…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:07AMTuesday, December 25, 2012
Jonathan Watson talks to Warwick Davis about sharing the stage with Priscilla Presley in this year's panto at Wimbledon New Theatre
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMSunday, December 2, 2012
Jonathan Watson talks to John Lithgow about The Magistrate, his theories on acting and roles from Shakespeare to TV serial killers
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMMonday, November 19, 2012
Courtyard, London: Solaris is a Stanislaw Lem novel from 1961, one that helped invent sci fi. It then spawned two circuitous, mind-bending sci fi films, both delicious eye candy for their ti…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AMTuesday, October 30, 2012
Soho Theatre Upstairs, London: Young Man, Man and Old Man pick up tools and start digging at a mound of rubble in the middle of the stage. As they lift the tools above their heads in symphon…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:19AMThursday, October 25, 2012
White Rabbit Cocktail Bar, London: It's safe to say Andy McQuade now reigns as Stoke Newington's resident theatrical sadomasochist.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:30AMMonday, October 8, 2012
St Leonard's Church, London: In Jill Paton Walsh's Booker prize-nominated novel Knowledge of Angels, the author asks whether any of us would come to know God if we'd grown up witho…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:14PMThursday, October 4, 2012
Old Red Lion, London: According to the Mental Health Foundation, one in four people in the UK will suffer from a psychological condition in the course of a year.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:24AMMonday, September 17, 2012
Southwark Playhouse, London: Joanna Lumley once told an interviewer that the best actors take "bloody good care to breathe into every corner they find in their character". She has …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:06AMTuesday, July 24, 2012
Finborough, London: Olivia and Arthur go to the park on a sunny afternoon to hold hands by the pond and feed the ducks. Then, border policeman Reiver appears out of nowhere and, with all the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:02AMWednesday, July 11, 2012
Vibe Bar, London: When it comes to interviewing, I guess there are two ways of getting exactly what you want out of your subject. There's the John Humphrys way, where you pull informati…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:51AMTuesday, May 15, 2012
Arcola Tent, London: I'm torn by Ade Solanke's new play. It's firecracker theatre that, in places, is as touching as is it hilarious. Setting such a provocative story in the A…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:20AMWednesday, May 9, 2012
White Bear, London: John Osborne's autobiographical plays are all self-destructive thrillers of sorts. Look Back in Anger centres on the catastrophic downfall of his first marriage. Ina…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:51AMMonday, April 30, 2012
Finborough, London: Before there's any action on the stage at the Finborough, we get an apology. The original actor playing the lead was struck down with illness only two weeks ago, and…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:44AMFriday, April 27, 2012
Rosemary Branch Theatre, London: Peter Nichols has said, in no uncertain terms, that the theatre community has been shunning him for decades. After seeing Creative Cow's gem at the Rose…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:56AMWednesday, March 28, 2012
Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London: Criticising any artistic endeavour that commemorates a tragedy can be a thankless task. Only two weeks ago, one columnist was lambasted for calling Julian …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:54AMWednesday, March 14, 2012
Etcetera, London: In writer Francis Beckett's vision of the future, one of the most important areas for culture in Britain is doomed. An American tourist comes to experience 'real&…
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