A Royal Shakespeare Company adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s hit novel gives voice and agency to a historical character we know little about.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32AMThe British designer, whose new installation will be unveiled at Tate Modern this week, made her name in theater. These days, you’re as likely to find her work in art galleries, stadium gi…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:03AMDawn King’s new play at the Donmar imagines a reckoning for environmental chaos, presided over by the kids who inherit the mess. We join the writer and cast, including stars of Heartstoppe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMRestlessly creative, the great director – who has died aged 97 – had an unparalleled ability to conjure a gleaming theatrical image Peter Brook: the great seeker of British theatre Never…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMThe Polish countertenor Jakub Jozef Orlinski has the credits you’d expect for a fast-rising classical music star, and some others you might not.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AMThe Interactive Storytelling Studio at the National Theater in London is using technology to bring a miniature musical to viewers’ homes. It’s one of several high-tech British projects p…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:18AMShe grew up in an artistic dynasty and was once rejected for a part by her dad. Now the director is turning her life into an epic new project. She reflects on Chekhov, Shakespeare and Iggy P…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMThe groundbreaking director’s new project, Arcadia, fills tents with poetry and music in Manchester. She talks about Covid and Brexit, becoming a mother and taking over Bath’s Ustinov A …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24AMBedevilled by lockdowns and brain-bending Covid protocols, the Shakespeare play about isolation, grief and fresh starts is finally being staged and emotions are running high. We join the dre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMAfter a tough year for theatre, our chief critic celebrates the joy of the Christmas show, while five festive performers reveal how it feels to be waiting in the wings Remember your first ev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMWith auditions on Zoom, social distancing on stage and scenes that can be cut if an actor tests positive, Nine Lessons and Carols is a play for Covid times In the near-empty Almeida theatre …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PMPestilence was rife in the Bard’s time, closing theatres and ravaging life. Did he write his bleak, desperate drama while self-isolating? We sift the evidence While those of us stuck in s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMHe’s played everything from an elf in Harry Potter to Truman Capote and a harassed coach driver. Now, Jones is taking on Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. Just don’t call it the role of a lifetim…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMThey defied the Stasi and sparked a revolution. Our writer reveals the pivotal role East Germany’s dynamic theatre culture played in the fall of the GDR – and the collapse of European co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24PMThe RSC has finally turned its back on BP funding after actor Mark Rylance said it is what the Bard would have wanted. But as Simon Callow points out – the playwright was hardly a model of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AMTo mark the Stratford playwright’s birthday, Ophelia Lovibond, Paapa Essiedu, Jade Anouka, Roger Allam and John Kani discuss the roles they love best The great thing about Shakespeare is t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMKenneth Branagh graduates from player to playwright this week for All is True, in which he plays an ailing Bard. But which big-screen Shakey is the greatest?Despite its hey-nonny-nonny reput…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMCate Blanchett has played queens, vagabonds and Bob Dylan. Now the double Oscar-winner is hitting the London stage in an avant garde work about sexual domination – and hinting at a farewel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMWhen Indhu Rubasingham turned the Tricycle theatre into the Kiln earlier this year, there were protests and passionate defences. Vicky Featherstone, Richard Eyre and Charles Saumarez Smith d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04AMA new work by Jeanie O’Hare distils four Shakespeare plays to retell the story of the Wars of the Roses, focusing on Margaret of Anjou, the formidable wife of Henry VIThe unmissable theatr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMTobacco Factory, BristolWardrobe Ensemble’s western pastiche is a diverting gallop through fake blood, feminist twists and Bristolian in-jokesIn 2015, boutique, Bristol-based collective th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMEnglish, created by National Theatre Wales and Quarantine, is a brainstorm about language and identity On either side of the stage, screens flash up words and phrases. “Accident of birth�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AMShakespeare's Globe, LondonA gaunt and arthritic king totters on stage, his head a thatch of matted white hair – then, grinning, he springs up like a jack-in-the-box and whisks off the wig…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMFrom his birth in Stratford-upon-Avon to family tragedy, friendship with the monarch and success at the Globe, explore the twists and turns in Shakespeare’s own storyOn 26 April, Stratford…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48PMOne director said “the canon is wide open” for this young British actor, who is onstage at BAM this month and at the Kennedy Center in May.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:31PMRupert Goold was left an out-of-date bottle of cassis. Josie Rourke received wisdom – and a warning. Jackie Wylie banned talk of Black Watch. Three ADs on taking over the top jobThe Britis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:10AMNeil Gaiman’s “Coraline” has been transformed into an opera in London, with music by Mark-Anthony Turnage. It goes to some genuinely disturbing places.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AMWith Christopher Eccleston and Rory Kinnear taking a stab at Shakespeare’s thane, we look at the trouble with one of its most famous – and weirdest – momentsMacbeth is full of things t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:21AMHer sharp and funny plays have feted female friendship. As Elinor Cook takes Ibsen to the Caribbean with her version of The Lady from the Sea, she talks about fighting against the industry�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PMThe experimental troupe are giving the UK city of culture a glimpse of what it might look like in 80 years’ time – and it isn’t pretty. Our writer travels to Denmark to meet the team b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42PMHis bold take on Shakespeare’s tragedy features kabuki witches, Buddhist chants and a cello-playing Lady Macbeth. As it returns, Yukio Ninagawa’s collaborators remember how he enthralled…
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