Monday, August 13, 2018
Shows don’t come much sweeter than this. The Backpack Ensemble – an emerging company hailing from the University of Lincoln – heaves
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Theatre Temoin has been an Edinburgh Fringe fixture for a while now, and it’s a company unafraid of tackling big issues –
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Poltergeist Theatre – remember the name, because these guys are going places. The Oxford-based collective, one of the New Diorama’s Graduate Emerging
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:08AMThere’s a lot stuffed into Mandi Riggi’s Leviticus. Probably too much, in truth. It’s presented here by Where Are They Going, a
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Gary McNair is having a fantastic fringe. After the Cuts, his play about the dismantlement of the NHS, is darkly witty and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:54AMYes, yes, yes. The Paines Plough Roundabout’s programme this year is exceptional, but there’s nothing better there – maybe nothing better at
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Rylance returns. Sir Mark, the first artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe when it opened its doors in the mid-1990s, is treading the
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Hull-based gig-theatre company Middle Child supplied one of the hits of the fringe last year with the frankly superb All We Ever
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:18AMYikes. Gary McNair’s After the Cuts, one of a few shows about the NHS this Fringe, paints a pretty startling picture of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:26AMThe Debut scheme – a programme of four shows by first-time writers, jointly produced by BBC Arts and Avalon – is the
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Here’s something a little bit special. Charley Miles’ debut play Blackthorn, which premiered at Leeds Playhouse in 2016, weaves together two tales
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Kaisa Lundan’s All the Lights Are On has to be one of the saddest shows at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe. Staged as
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Another festival of failure is upon us: Fergus Morgan is here to get you in the mood for the Edinburgh Fringe with a healthy dose of misery.
The post A Dead-Eyed Cynic’s View of the Ed…
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There’s certainly something poetic about Ian McKellen playing King Lear in the West End. Age 79, he’s joining a small circle of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:45PMSince working on the opening ceremony for the London Olympics, 59 Productions has become the industry leader in projection design for theatre
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:58AMEugene Ionesco, the French-Romanian titan of post-war drama, acclaimed architect of such avant-garde classics as The Killer, The Chairs and Rhinoceros, only
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Allelujah! It’s a new play by Alan Bennett. The nation’s most beloved dramatist is back after a six-year hiatus with a new
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Book, film, play. Like fellow classics of contemporary children’s literature War Horse and Harry Potter before it, Patrick Ness’ A Monster Calls
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On September 15, 2008, the Wall Street giant Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy – the devastating end to a story 158 years
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:19PMLooking back, it was probably inevitable. Latitude – the self-styled “queen of arts festivals”, the family-friendly, gluten-free, Moroccan-topped hummus pot of the
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Hard hats on. Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I, the latest Broadway juggernaut to take a trip across the Atlantic, has
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It’s been a blistering couple of years for the Yard. Jay Miller’s Hackney Wick venue has become one of London’s most exciting
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Connections, the National Theatre’s youth festival, is more important than ever. With drama’s importance in the curriculum dwindling, Connections, now in its
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:48AMLook out. Here comes the next American musical sensation. With Hamilton firmly up and running in the West End, The King And
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Kate Waters – or Kombat Kate – is one of the most respected fight directors in UK theatre. She tells Fergus Morgan
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Miss Julie is always being performed somewhere, in one form or another. Strindberg’s classic 1888 tale of a fatal love affair between
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:14PMSo far, the two Nicks’ flexible Bridge Theatre has hosted a proscenium-arch farce, an immersive Shakespeare, and a thrust-stage Barney Norris play.
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Orlando Bloom hasn’t had the most conventional career. He bagged the life-changing role of Legolas in Lord of the Rings two days
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Cormac’s got the full house: HIV, hepatitis, syphilis, herpes, gonorrhoea. Bingo. And he’s not dealing with it very well. Alan Flanagan’s likeable
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