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Saturday, May 18, 2013

Sherlock Holmes, The History Boys, Race: what to see at the theatre this week by Mark Cook, Lyn Gardner

Sherlock Holmes: The Best Kept Secret | Race | The History Boys | Chimerica | Life And Times | Far AwaySherlock Holmes: The Best Kept Secret, LeedsThe TV series starring Benedict Cumberbatch…

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Saturday, May 4, 2013

Brighton festival, Public Enemy, A Doll's House: what to see at the theatre this week by Mark Cook, Lyn Gardner

Public Enemy | Brighton festival | A Doll's House | The Hothouse | Ours Was The Fen Country | Norfolk And Norwich FestivalPublic Enemy, LondonA production from director Richard Jones is neve…

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Saturday, April 27, 2013

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook, Lyn Gardner

Travels With My Aunt | Praxis Makes Perfect | Something Very Far Away | Love, Billy | Pastoral | HighTide FestivalTravels With My Aunt, LondonCross-dressing and quick changes will be the ord…

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Saturday, April 13, 2013

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook, Lyn Gardner

Beautiful Thing | Tranform: My Leeds, My City | Doktor Glas | Sons Without Fathers | Queen Of The Nile | Ti Sir GârBeautiful Thing, LondonIt's 20 years since Jonathan Harvey's Beautiful Thi…

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Saturday, April 6, 2013

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook, Lyn Gardner

Mess | Children Of The Sun | The Miser | #aiww: The Arrest Of Ai Weiwei | The Empress | The SeagullMess, Cheltenham, Chipping Norton & BathCaroline Horton has just received an Olivier award …

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Saturday, March 9, 2013

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook, Lyn Gardner

Peter And Alice | The Long Life & Great Good Fortune Of John Clare | Paper Dolls | Curiosity Shop | Refugee Boy | Heather GardnerPeter And Alice, LondonMichael Grandage's West End season ope…

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Saturday, February 9, 2013

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook, Lyn Gardner

Rutherford & Son | The Audience | I Was A Rat! | Dancing Around Duchamp season | In Between Time | The MisanthropeRutherford & Son, HalifaxGitha Sowerby's great 1912 play was first produced …

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Saturday, February 2, 2013

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook, Lyn Gardner

Playing Cards 1: SPADES | Sexual Perversity In Chicago | Dear World | The Full Monty | A Life Of Galileo | One For The RoadPlaying Cards 1: SPADES, LondonA new production by Canada's Robert …

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Friday, December 28, 2012

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook, Lyn Gardner

The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner | The Railway Children | The Borrowers | Spread A Little HappinessThe Rime Of The Ancient Mariner, LondonAfter the over-indulgence of the past few weeks, ther…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PM
Friday, December 21, 2012

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook, Lyn Gardner

A Christmas Carol | Robin Hood And The Babes In The Wood | Sleeping Beauty | Theatre round-upA Christmas Carol, Newcastle-under-LymeDickens's classic tale has a natural drama, and has been s…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PM
Friday, December 14, 2012

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook, Lyn Gardner

Heidi – A Goat's Tale | Cinderellas | Arabian Nights | Pantos for adults | The Importance Of Being Earnest | The Last MarchHeidi - A Goat's Tale, BathDirector Lee Lyford always delivers a …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM
Friday, November 9, 2012

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook, Lyn Gardner

The Magistrate | L.O.V.E. | All That Is Wrong | Hoke's Bluff | Donmar Trafalgar Season | Boris GodunovThe Magistrate, LondonIt's not often that American stars appear at the National – they…

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Friday, August 5, 2011

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook, Lyn Gardner

Don Giovanni, LondonOperaUpClose's 2010 production of La Bohème at the Soho Theatre was a breath of fresh air that made opera accessible and fun with its young cast. Having started and sold…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:09PM
Friday, July 22, 2011

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook, Lyn Gardner

Betwixt! LondonA US star of stage and screen returns to the West End this week. Ellen Greene, who was the original Audrey in Little Shop Of Horrors on Broadway, in the West End and in the Ho…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:08PM
Friday, July 8, 2011

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook, Lyn Gardner

The Life And Death Of Marina Abramovic, SalfordWhat must it be like to appear in a show about your own life? Marina Abramovich will find out this week, just as she previously discovered what…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:09PM
Friday, July 1, 2011

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook, Lyn Gardner

That Day We Sang, ManchesterRegrets? Most of us have a few as the golden promise of youth gives way to middle age, our bodies sag and we realise we haven't pursued our dreams. For Tubby, an …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07PM
Friday, June 24, 2011

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook, Lyn Gardner

Richard III, LondonThe Bridge Project comes into its third and final season at the Old Vic this summer. In the past it's brought together British and US actors performing on both sides of th…

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Friday, June 17, 2011

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook, Lyn Gardner

Lullaby, LondonThose familiar with the work of Duckie and their residency at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern will know their particular brand of alternative cabaret and performance. They go "legit…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM
Friday, June 10, 2011

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook, Lyn Gardner

Pitlochry Festival Theatre summer seasonThere are plenty of UK theatres with a claim to having beautiful settings, but few are as delightful as that enjoyed by the Pitlochry Festival Theatre…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:23PM
Friday, May 20, 2011

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook, Lyn Gardner

Happy Days, SheffieldMarriage seems to be very much back in fashion, so Samuel Beckett's Happy Days provides the perfect antidote with the story of Winnie, a woman buried up to her neck in s…

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Friday, May 13, 2011

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook, Lyn Gardner

Open Air Theatre, LondonUnder Timothy Sheader, the Open Air Theatre season at Regent's Park has moved away from the almost totally Shakespearean repertoire of old. Sheader directs the season…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM
Friday, May 6, 2011

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook, Lyn Gardner

Mayfest, BristolFew festivals sizzle quite so deliciously as Mayfest, which always succeeds in feeling both very local and completely universal. Sylvia Rimat's I Guess If The Stage Exploded …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM
Friday, April 29, 2011

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook, Lyn Gardner

A Delicate Balance, LondonEdward Albee, towering presence of American theatre, is best known for Who's Afraid Of Virgina Woolf? But he won his first Pulitzer when he returned to family value…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PM
Friday, April 22, 2011

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook, Lyn Gardner

The Fat Girl Gets A Haircut And Other Stories, LondonA project for teenagers at London's Roundhouse comes to fruition this week with The Fat Girl Gets A Haircut And Other Stories. The cast o…

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Friday, March 11, 2011

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook, Lyn Gardner

Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? SheffieldTwo mighty regional reps, Sheffield's Crucible and Northern Stage, come together for this co-production of Edward Albee's campus drama, less a play a…

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Friday, February 11, 2011

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook, Lyn Gardner

New Territories 2011, On tourIt's all change for New Territories which, after 30 years, has dropped its National Review of Live Art component yet shows no signs of running out of steam. On t…

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Friday, February 4, 2011

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook, Lyn Gardner

The Constant Wife, SalisburyMaggie Steed deservedly won a TMA award for Best Actress for her role as Judith Bliss in West Yorkshire Playhouse's revival of Hay Fever. She should be good value…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM
Friday, January 21, 2011

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook, Lyn Gardner

The Children's Hour, LondonIt was only last year that Keira Knightley made her stage debut, in The Misanthrope, but now the Hollywood star is back again, this time in Lillian Hellman's hotho…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PM
Friday, January 14, 2011

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook, Lyn Gardner

New Edinburgh Lyceum SeasonThere is plenty of Scottish work upcoming in the new Edinburgh Lyceum season, including the world premiere of Sue Glover's Marilyn, a look into the private life of…

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Friday, January 7, 2011

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook, Lyn Gardner

Translunar Paradise, BathLucinda Coxon's dark, can't-get-it-out-of your-head play, Herding Cats, which played this space just before Christmas, reminded just how far the Ustinov has come as …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PM
Friday, December 10, 2010

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook, Lyn Gardner

Christmas shows, LondonIn this week's search for tinsel and stardust on the stage, we look out for largely more traditional fare. With Cornwall's wonderful Kneehigh Theatre company, you can …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:14PM

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