Mary Poppins returns. No, not the Emily Blunt film, rather Cameron Mackintosh’s muddled stage musical, back in the Prince Edward Theatre after
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00PMThe musical theatre star is embracing all things festive and 1950s glamour in White Christmas, which starts its West End run at
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMEugene O’Hare’s debut play The Weatherman prompted mixed reactions when it premiered at London’s Park Theatre earlier this year. His follow-up is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:40AMMarianne Elliott and Miranda Cromwell’s take on Death of a Salesman captures the greatness of Arthur Miller’s play, and at the same
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AMIt’s easy to see why you’d be tempted to turn Nick Hornby’s novel about a miserable guy who works in a record
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:48AMLondon’s latest venue, the Boulevard Theatre, occupies the site of the former Raymond Revuebar. Under the management of Paul Raymond, the ‘King
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:30PMAnnie Baker’s back at the National with a show about stories, and she knows how to tell them: not with heroes and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:45AMThough Britain’s jails are at bursting point, theatremakers are working with current and former prisoners to prepare them to rejoin their communities
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:42AMFrom pub theatre to a global franchise, Mischief Theatre has perfected the art of making things go wrong in the right way.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMFollowing King Charles III and Albion, Mike Bartlett returns to the Almeida Theatre with an adaptation of Maxim Gorky’s play, Vassa Zheleznova.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:12AMIn the queue at IKEA, a young couple discuss whether they should have a baby. From this small seed, Duncan Macmillan’s mighty
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:30AMOne of the most sought-after comedy directors for the stage, Sean Foley is bringing an Ealing comedy to the West End before
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMIn a way, this is a bold move for the consistently exciting Barn Theatre: a little-known musical, based on a little-known novel,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:25PMIf there’s some revelatory ur-production of Assassins that makes sense of its messiness and its flaws, we’re yet to see it. It’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:40AMIan McKellen is an icon, and he knows it. Who else would decide to stage their own autobiography for their 80th birthday?
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00PMIt has been a challenging two years for the award-winning Out of Joint artistic director after company founder Max Stafford-Clark left following
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:42AMAthol Fugard’s 1982 play is based closely on his own life as a boy in Apartheid-era South Africa. As in the play,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:15AMThere’s a charming story behind this musical: 20 years ago singer Barri McPherson stumbled upon Mark Schoenfeld singing on a Brooklyn street
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:57AMBefore writing the screenplay for his landmark film – which carefully explored the complex identities of British Asians, frankly depicted an interracial
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:23AMThe marriage of Yael Farber with Marina Carr should be a transcendent thing – and, mostly, it is. But, like the eponymous
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:45PMWhy does it feel like we’ve been here before? Let me count the ways: the zillionth beloved-film-to-banal-musical adaptation the West End has
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:54AMIt seems as if there’s no blockbuster Disney doesn’t own now that its properties include Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars. It has
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:19AMLike the crash of chords that opens Rachmaninov’s second piano concerto, this piece by Dave Malloy (of Natasha, Pierre and the Great
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMLucy Prebble has turned a very serious story into a very silly play. In 2016, the Guardian’s Luke Harding wrote a book
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:12PMDirector Lysanne van Overbeek muddies things a bit by starting this production of Bellini’s bel canto with Giulietta reading the opening lines
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AMPrisons these days are just like holiday camps, argues Gary Keegan in this piece of documentary theatre from Irish company Brokentalkers. Comedian
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AMAs fringe musicals go, this is proper. It has a complete plot, strong characters, fully orchestrated songs, a nice bit of choreography.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:13AMAfter his friend died from an undiagnosed heart condition aged 24, Tom Machell decided to write this monologue to raise awareness about
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:18AMIt’s not an easy watch, this, especially by the time CCTV footage of Christopher Alder’s death is projected into the room in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:28AMThere’s something reassuringly nostalgic about the panic we felt for the millennium bug. Computers thinking it was 1900 was just such a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:25AMThe two men on stage look identical. Both in police uniforms, with identical moustaches, they stand side by side. The only difference
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