Thursday, April 4, 2024
The Norwegian theatremaker talks about succeeding Ivo van Hove as artistic director of one of the influential Internationaal Theater Amsterdam and staging classic plays as rock concerts
When…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMTuesday, March 5, 2024
Audiences are finding sharp resonance and emotional comfort in Patrik Lazić’s moving and funny play Our Son, about topics still sensitive in the Balkans
The hurling of a salad bowl to the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48AMWednesday, September 20, 2023
Aimée Kelly will star in adaptation of the 2020 novel about an artist who takes explicit photographs of young men
Eliza Clark’s 2020 debut novel Boy Parts, a brutal artworld satire-cum-th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:25AMMonday, August 21, 2023
Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s uncouth one-woman show is seen as the epitome of festival success. But 10 years on, we speak to three fringe performers battling to escape its long shadow
Ten years …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:07PMMonday, May 15, 2023
A new theatre show by Helgard Haug weaves together the tragedy of the 2014 flight disaster with the slow decline of her parent. She explains how the two stories came together
On 8 March 2014…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMTuesday, April 18, 2023
Her military painting was such a sensation that it was bought by Queen Victoria. A new play explores Elizabeth Southerden Thompson’s trailblazing art, her privilege – and the prejudice s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMMonday, April 17, 2023
The New Diorama in London is placing bets on small troupes, inviting them onto its stage and giving them help to thrive. With two shows now in the West End, its gambles are paying off.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:32AMTuesday, February 21, 2023
Using local creatives and actors, director Katie Mitchell’s A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction is a narrative response to the climate crisis and an experiment in sustainability
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:45AMMonday, November 21, 2022
SpitLip’s award-winning show, based on an audacious episode of wartime espionage, takes over from The Woman in Black at the Fortune theatre
‘It feels completely unbelievable. And, also, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32AMMonday, September 12, 2022
It was her breakout role – and now the actor is starring once more in Gary Owen’s Iphigenia in Splott, a play that resonates with her personally and politically
‘It feels even more urg…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:25AMTuesday, August 16, 2022
Making his fringe debut with a show about a troubled standup, the actor explains why he loves solo performance, his issues with The History Boys, and why this government’s days are numbere…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AMMonday, May 9, 2022
Virtual reality and live performance combine in a show that asks audiences to consider if political violence is ever justifiable
In a series of vaults adjacent to the Tower of London that us…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMSunday, April 24, 2022
Founded in 2015, Theatre Arts Group (TAG) is an independent theatre company in Romania that trains and supports emerging artists. Artistic director Gabriela Dumitru talks about international…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:28AMSaturday, March 5, 2022
Teatri Oda, Prishtina (part of the Kosovo Theatre Showcase) There are more people in the world who are either functionally bilingual or multilingual than those who are monolingual. While man…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:42AMMonday, February 21, 2022
It was a play that gave us the word “robot” – and now an android is the performer in a groundbreaking new production. But can it make us laugh – and cry?
A figure sits alone on sta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:03AMTuesday, January 11, 2022
He’s written horrors, thrillers and sci-fi odysseys. As his new play about Victorian spiritualism opens, the dramatist explains why no territory is out of bounds for theatre, not even Plut…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMTuesday, November 2, 2021
Playwright Al Smith discusses his continent-hopping new work about the climate crisis, inspired by rusting locomotives and the Lithium Triangle in the Andes
There was a worry that when theat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AMMonday, October 4, 2021
Igor Memic’s award-winning drama Old Bridge, staged at the Bush theatre in London, charts teenage romance at a time ‘when the world stopped spinning’
The bridge in the middle of Mostar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMTuesday, July 6, 2021
After lockdown made collective mourning impossible, two new productions are remembering lost loved ones – and making a case for theatre’s social use
One of the many things that lockdown …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMTuesday, June 1, 2021
Journalist turned playwright Joseph Charlton on how the Anna Sorokin case inspired his play about identity and power, starring Emma Corrin
One night, while out with friends in London and loo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48PMFaced with indoor restrictions, theatres are venturing outside, and creating thrilling work in the process. Brollies at the ready!
Modern Toss on the summer of culture to come
This summer, w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33AMWednesday, December 30, 2020
While many writers have created troubling dystopian visions, few plays have imagined better futures. But the act of theatre itself can embrace utopianism
When the UK entered its first lockdo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AMSaturday, November 7, 2020
Undeterred by Covid, theatre-makers are beaming innovative plays into people’s homes via Zoom, WhatsApp and Minecraft
Since mid-March, theatre-makers have been faced with a dilemma: how d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:32AMTuesday, April 21, 2020
Natalia Kaliada and Nikolai Khalezin explain how political exile prepared them for lockdown and why their latest project is about fairytales
The coronavirus outbreak has forced theatre-maker…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32AMMonday, March 30, 2020
Theatre is an art form of proximity. A roomful of people all focused on the same thing. This is true even in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PMHampstead Theatre has announced that, in collaboration with the Guardian, it will re-release the live-stream recordings of three past productions, including Mike
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:19AMSunday, March 29, 2020
Under the artistic directorship of Chris Sonnex, the Bunker – winner of fringe theatre of the year at The Stage Awards –
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:22AMFriday, March 27, 2020
Pentabus Theatre has announced it will release recordings of past shows on its website and social media channels for free, in response
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:18PMChichester Festival Theatre has launched a number of online projects designed to support the local community during the coronavirus crisis, including a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:12PMThursday, March 26, 2020
The National Student Drama Festival has relaunched as a virtual festival, following the closure of theatres due to the coronavirus outbreak. The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:12PMWhile people remain isolated during the coronavirus crisis, European theatres have been mining their archives and making them available online. Natasha Tripney
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:53AM 
