Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Comedy writing duo Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong share an impressive CV – sketch writers for Mitchell and Webb, co-creators of the
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There are misjudged artistic decisions and then there’s this. The inaugural production of Latimer Road’s new Playground Theatre is an outrageously sexist,
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Stewart Pringle’s Papatango prize-winning two-hander is the sort of play you want to take your gran to: a modest not-quite-love story brimming with gentle humour
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There’s one big problem with reworking The Invisible Man for the theatre. See if you can spot it. No, it’s him. Over
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Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr, who together ran the National Theatre for 12 years and oversaw some of the biggest theatrical smash-hits
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He considered himself impervious to stage horror, but after taking part in a research project monitoring audience’s heart-rate activity while watching live
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Good state-of-the-nation stuff: Fergus Morgan reviews Mike Bartlett's new play at the Almeida.
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In the late 1970s, punk band Oxy and the Morons nearly made it, coming within a pen-stroke of signing with record label EMI, before
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:16AMWhat an awful moment for Venus in Fur to arrive in the West End. With stories of Hollywood’s deep-seated misogyny dominating the
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The lights come up. A woman in a giant mouse costume is furiously riding a prostrate man. They climax, then, in thick Belfast accents, have an
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:15AMA sledgehammer made of metaphor: Fergus Morgan reviews Rory Mullarkey allegorical play about the history of Britain.
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Dublin Theatre Festival turns 60 this year, not that artistic director Willie White is particularly focused on commemorating such longevity, announcing that “Anniversaries are a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:08PMTalk about reanimating the dead. US comedy legend Mel Brooks’ classic 1974 spoof film Young Frankenstein had been gathering dust for 33
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:14AMIf there was an Olivier for most intimidating play title, Simon Stephens’ new two-hander would be a shoo-in. Fret not, as Heisenberg: The Uncertainty
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Does James Graham ever take a break? Not content with two West End runs already in 2017 – This House, which finished its long-overdue transfer back
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David Farr’s hectic 1996 football comedy Elton John’s Glasses – here given its first UK revival by Psyche Stott – is a
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We’ve already had one Take That jukebox musical: in 2008, the ill-fated Never Forget had a brief West End run before sinking
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Originally a classic Ealing comedy starring Alec Guinness, then an under-par Coen brothers rehash with Tom Hanks, and finally a West End play
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Yep, you read that right. Yet another Hamlet, starring yet another white British man who either has, or probably will at some
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After a torrid few months hosting Yael Farber’s Salome and DC Moore’s Common, the Olivier is crying out for a hit. Its autumn offerings start with a bang, with
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Alan Harris’ one-man play Sugar Baby is a great laugh, a chaotic comedy caper set on the streets of Cardiff with a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:48PMLast year, Phosphoros Theatre’s Dear Home Office turned heads with its bold, brutal evocation of life as an unaccompanied child refugee. Dear
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:13PMWritten by Ontroerend Goed’s Joeri Smet, directed by Warts and All Theatre’s Christopher Elmer-Gorry and performed by members of the Almeida Theatre Young Company, From the …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:54AMIn November 1919, Franz Kafka wrote a 50-page letter to his father, in which he articulated in minute detail the emotional abuse
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:08AMPub Corner Poets’ first show, Angry, divided audiences. It won author Josh Overton the Sunday Times Playwriting Award at the National Student
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Theatremakers in Hull are hailing the birth of “something special” in the city’s performing arts scene, as demonstrated by a particularly strong
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:20AMTransgender stories have featured high on the agenda at this Edinburgh Fringe. At Pleasance Courtyard, trans theatremaker Kit Redstone and physical theatre
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Kiwi physical comedians Trygve Wakenshaw and Barnie Duncan welcome you to Rucks’s World of Leather Interiors (“Imagine a room made of skin”),
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:26AMOh, it’s horrible. It’s so horrible. It’s so grimly, wincingly, cringingly, stomach-churningly, infuriatingly, terrifyingly horrible. Galvanised by Donald Trump’s inf…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:03AMAdapted by Anders Lustgarten from David Peace’s 2006 stream-of-consciousness novel, Red Ladder Theatre’s The Damned United tells the story of Brian Clough’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:09AMThere’s the germ of a decent comedy-drama in Archie Thomson’s Radio, but that’s all there is. The rest is weak, derivative, inconclusive
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