Wednesday, July 22, 2015
The victim of the 2005 Stockwell shooting has inspired several similar works of theatre – it's time politically engaged dramatists branched outLast week This Much is True, a new verbatim p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:37AMMonday, February 24, 2014
The Lion and Unicorn Theatre, London: With plenty of purple velvet, strobe lighting, smoke and a pre-recorded soundtrack accompanying every scene, it's as if director Simon James Collie…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:17AMMonday, January 20, 2014
Riverside Studios, London: This production, by new company Orangutan, drags the Bard into the modern era by pairing the original text with a film noir-style backdrop. The story of jealousy, …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:18AMMonday, December 2, 2013
Drayton Arms, London: Marc Camoletti's most famous French farce was his 1962 hit Boeing Boeing. Changing Rooms is more obscure but its mixture of faux salacious sex, partner swapping an…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AMWednesday, November 20, 2013
Theatre 503, London: Mae is a difficult person to like - she has a laugh that's just a bit too loud and an uneasy, flitting energy. It feels as though she's a rubber band poised to…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMFriday, October 4, 2013
The Rose, Bankside, London: Shakespeare's crowd-pleasing romantic comedy is given a darker twist by director Jessica Ruano in this new adaptation. The partly excavated Rose Theatre'…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:45AMWednesday, June 19, 2013
Theatre503, London: The characters in this brooding exploration of parental love, romance and bereavement are permanently on edge - pent-up, sweating and ready to snap. Catching their breath…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:49AMWednesday, June 5, 2013
Charing Cross, London: "You may be romanced," the programme for Blind Date not so much tempts as threatens. Increasingly, interactive shows seem to culminate with a hapless audienc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:33AMWednesday, April 17, 2013
Theatre 503, London: In the same year as Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting was published (1993), Simon Donald's The Life of Stuff won an Evening Standard award, and so began a trend for…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:35AMThursday, March 28, 2013
Bridewell Theatre, London: Some performers meet at drama school, but double act Lily Lowe-Myers and Robyn Cooper have been friends since they were three and benefit from the easy, amiable ch…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:07AMMonday, January 7, 2013
Richmond Theatre, London: Like a good, old-fashioned brass lamp, the Richmond Theatre's Aladdin is made of solid, sparkly and familiar stuff. Former Hear'Say member and Dancing on …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:11AMTuesday, December 18, 2012
The Drayton Theatre, London: It's hard to know which is more painful in this Christmas-themed burlesque show - the half-hearted faux sexiness or the forced audience participation.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:58AMMonday, November 5, 2012
Drayton Arms, London: These days there must be few well-to-do women holidaying in Italy who are forced to consider selling their bodies between tennis and dinner, but for Fraulein Else this …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:48AMMonday, October 29, 2012
New Diorama Theatre, London: The badgers may be winning at Westminster, but in Kieran Lynn's smart little allegory it's bunny rabbits that are facing a farmer's shotgun - and …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:15AMThursday, October 18, 2012
Marylebone Gardens, London: Whether or not the abandoned BBC London Studios building is an apt place to explore the 'meaninglessness of life' depends upon your perspective, but whe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:59AMFriday, September 7, 2012
Theatre 503, London: Butterflies, blind dates and birthdays are some of the recurring themes connecting these self-contained interwoven new relationship plays. The authors have each worked w…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:49AMFriday, June 22, 2012
Brockley Jack Theatre, London: It's not often that you get to see the original non-musical version of Spring Awakening. When the songs from the 2006 Broadway hit are perhaps better know…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:57PMMonday, May 28, 2012
Blue Elephant Theatre, London: This charmingly offbeat new play is so well suited to being performed in the middle of a council estate that it would almost seem a shame to see it leave Cambe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:54AMMonday, May 21, 2012
Oval House Theatre, London: Like an assertiveness training session for women, the first show of Oval House's OUTLAWS season suggests getting in touch with your inner pirate in order to …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:33AMMonday, May 14, 2012
Rose Theatre, London: This refreshingly playful version of George Bernard Shaw's tale of Joan of Arc is made all the more thrilling by taking place in a theatre that defies the odds by …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:15AMTuesday, May 8, 2012
The Place, London: With the words "I'm fine, really, I'm fine," Georgina Roberts manages to convey more in a few moments than lesser performers do in an entire play. As L…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:29AMFriday, April 13, 2012
New Diorama Theatre, London: Like a Jack-in-a-black-box set, this punchy new play springs from the dark, creating both surprise and amusement. Inspired by Brecht's The Resistible Rise o…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:12AMMonday, November 30, 2009
It's meant to be an antidote to our youth-obsessed attitude to women. So why cast a 30-year-old ex-model in this West End show? Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:01PM 
