Monday, September 1, 2014
Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London: The Tree is a love story about a young Muslim girl and her Serbian neighbour set against the backdrop of the Bosnian War. Bernardo Stella has clearly done …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:17AMThursday, April 10, 2014
Leicester Square, London: Grassroots Shakespeare London claims to "revitalise, reimagine and re-examine" the work of the Bard, but nothing so radical is in evidence in this fast-pa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:37AMMonday, February 3, 2014
Finborough Theatre, London: Claire-Louise Cordwell and Jack McMullen give remarkable performances as a young mother, Anne, and her son Tommy whose lives are spent in and out of prison and un…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:29AMWednesday, January 22, 2014
Wyndham's Theatre, London: It is an exciting start to the year for Conor McPherson, with the Donmar's two recent productions of his work running simultaneously in London and New York. W…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:47AMWednesday, January 15, 2014
Arts Theatre, London: When the Swedish author and playwright Ann Henning Jocelyn married an Irish earl and moved to rural Ireland in the 1980s, she was surprised to see how some Irish Protes…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:16AMFriday, September 20, 2013
Lord Stanley, London: The squat space above Camden's Lord Stanley pub is not the most promising venue for an adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's wide-ranging novel - which takes in 19…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:51AMThursday, July 18, 2013
Leicester Square, London: Having now also condensed the history of America, the Bible, the history of Western literature and the history of Hollywood cinema, the Reduced Shakespeare Company …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:14AMThursday, June 20, 2013
Print Room, London: The decision by playwright Gloria Mina to set this piece in pitch dark throughout allows director Ewan Marshall to avoid some awkward staging challenges, but it cannot di…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:50AMThursday, April 18, 2013
Hampstead Theatre, London: The artist Ai Weiwei has become famous for using his work to highlight Chinese state oppression. James MacDonald's production of Howard Brenton's new pie…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:37AMWednesday, April 3, 2013
The Print Room, London: This less well-known piece by Ireland's preeminent living playwright combines a medical case study with a morality tale.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:20AMFriday, February 8, 2013
Trafalgar Studios 2, London: In Fiesta (The Sun Also Rises), writer and director Alex Helfrecht uses live music, dance and a distinctive performance style to portray the debauchery and wild …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:17AMFriday, December 7, 2012
Hackney Empire, London: Expectations are always high when it comes to Hackney Empire's Christmas panto, and the crowds of children and parents (not to mention unaccompanied adults) who …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:19AMTuesday, September 18, 2012
Playhouse, London: Charles Dickens had a lifelong passion for performance and the theatre. At an early age his father encouraged him to recite poetry in a local pub and he retained the abili…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AMMonday, August 20, 2012
Theatre On The Fly, Chichester: For the final production at the temporary Theatre On The Fly venue, which is designed to showcase the work of young directors who have trained at Chichester F…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:18AMWednesday, July 11, 2012
Fortune, London: This adaptation has been running at the Fortune Theatre for 23 years and, following the recent film version starring Daniel Radcliffe, is clearly hoping to find new audience…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:16AMThursday, April 19, 2012
National, London: Cillian Murphy came to prominence when Enda Walsh cast him as the teenage tearaway Pig in his 1996 breakthrough play Disco Pigs. A decade and a half later, Murphy's pe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AMFriday, February 10, 2012
Harold Pinter, London: When it was first performed in 1974, Absent Friends marked an important shift in Alan Ayckbourn's work. In the place of the manic action and big set pieces which …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:47AM 
