Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Is Patrick Marber the busiest man in theatre at the moment? His National Theatre adaptation of Hedda Gabler has just closed (but will reappear
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:49AMTuesday, March 28, 2017
This kaleidoscopic new three-hander by poet and playwright Sabrina Mahfouz and poet Hollie McNish, tells the story of Mickey and Keeley, two female footballers and
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Like Sarah Kane, Nina Segal has the ability to see the tree that grows from the seed, the civil war from the
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An American in Paris in London. That’s the situation at the Dominion Theatre for the time being, as Christopher Wheeldon’s acclaimed musical, having played
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:41AMFriday, March 17, 2017
It’s a filthy business, building up a family firm from scratch in a foreign country. Spanning decades and delving deep into the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:05AMWednesday, March 15, 2017
There’s timely productions, and then there’s Abbey Wright’s colour-blind adaptation of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. A looming technological threat, hundreds
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:10AMTuesday, March 14, 2017
“Free” appears to be the operative word in Sean Foley and Phil Porter’s “free adaptation” of Moliere’s classic farce The Miser. After brief stints in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:15PMEdward Albee, who died in September last year, was an undisputed giant of the American stage. A hugely influential dramatist who penned
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Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is the ultimate fringe success story: a student production of an unknown play, abused by all but
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:24PMTuesday, March 7, 2017
Marx said that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, a popular uprising fuelled by
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Hull is UK City of Culture 2017. Which means that this year the city will play host to a jam-packed catalogue of cultural events,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:14PMFriday, March 3, 2017
A terminally ill journalist. A naive young girl. A hotel room. A violent soldier. A rape. A dead baby. Ali Pidsley’s production marks the opening salvo in Rift’s mini-season …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:50AMThursday, March 2, 2017
David Tennant has had a go. Benedict Cumberbatch has taken a stab at it. And now fellow star of BBC Steven Moffat
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:22PMMonday, February 27, 2017
Glenda Jackson as King Lear? Harriet Walter as Prospero? Michelle Terry as Henry V? And now Tamsin Greig as Malvolio? It’s almost
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It may be the nation’s favourite Shakespeare, but when you stop and think about it, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is pretty damn problematic: a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:55PMGary Barlow is taking over the world, one step at a time. He’s already dominated the small screen as a judge on BBC
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:18AMWednesday, February 22, 2017
An epistolary tale documenting the global diaspora of one Italian family. A heated discussion stripping away layers of latent prejudice in a
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Inspired by a desire to understand the rage that fuelled riots across England in 2011, Arinze Kene’s Good Dog is an ambitious, sprawling
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In 2000, two infamous cyclists – Lance Armstrong and Marco “the Pirate” Pantani – fought out a thrilling contest during Stage 12 of
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For the first 55 minutes of its one hour running time, Lucy Burke’s Glitter Punch is little more than a sweet, cringingly adolescent story
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Zoe Mills’ Killing Time presents us with a mother daughter relationship, not in the play, but in the cast. Still Open All
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:44AMTuesday, February 7, 2017
Good Will Hunting. Dead Poets Society. The History Boys. Dramas about teaching tend to follow a pattern (and tend to star Robin Williams).
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Run the Beast Down, the debut play from writer, director and musician Titas Halder, is a bewildering, kaleidoscopic tale of an impressionable young man gradually losing his
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:45AMFriday, February 3, 2017
"Olivier, Hall, and Nunn had it easy. Norris has it all to do." As Rufus Norris comes under attack, Fergus Morgan explores the troublesome business of theatre and nation building.
The post T…
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Ted Hughes’ classic 1968 children’s novel The Iron Man should be compulsory reading. It’s a heartwarming modern-day myth about improbable allies that celebrates
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:41AMThursday, January 19, 2017
‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, a fascist went raving, spewing out essentialist propaganda within earshot of his
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2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Soviet Russia and, at the Arcola Theatre, revolution is in the air with
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:25AMMonday, January 16, 2017
Welcome to Lacy’s, a dusty, unkempt Massachusetts general store with no customers, few prospects, and an awful lot of debt. Proprietor Gene
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:16AMWednesday, January 11, 2017
The four friends that depart for the Western Front at the end of Christopher Luscombe’s Edwardian reimagining of Love’s Labour’s Lost for the RSC, return in his twin production of Much…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:48AMThe RSC’s twin productions of Love’s Labour’s Lost and Much Ado About Nothing have enjoyed a sparkling few years, first playing to acclaim in Stratford-upon-Avon in 2014, before being …
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It’s been 35 years since Tom Eyen and Henry Krieger’s Dreamgirls opened on Broadway, and although it won six Tony awards, has
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