Friday, December 16, 2016
It’s been 35 years since Tom Eyen and Henry Krieger’s Dreamgirls opened on Broadway, and although it won six Tony awards, has
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:12PMIt’s that time of year. Oxford Street is rammed, there are fewer than choccies left in your advent calendar, and you’ve already
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:23AMWas there ever a more spine-chilling, heart-warming, consistently inspiring festive tale than A Christmas Carol? And was there ever a more perfectly
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:19AMWednesday, December 14, 2016
After what only feels like minutes since his Off-Broadway production of Lazarus fell to Earth in King’s Cross, the sizzlingly hot Belgian
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:38PMFriday, December 9, 2016
There is something quite wonderful about stripping a Disneyfied fairytale back to its roots, something joyous about dispensing with all the corporate
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:23AMThursday, December 8, 2016
Imagine it’s Christmas Eve. Imagine you’ve just been dumped by your boyfriend. Imagine that you’ve not slept in 36 hours. And imagine
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:35AMTuesday, December 6, 2016
What drives a son to kill his father? That’s the question at the heart of Sergio Blanco’s Thebes Land, a dark, slippery Latin American import about
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:14AMMonday, December 5, 2016
At a time when the British press discusses America more than it does Britain, along comes this autumn’s second West End Sam
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:39AMWednesday, November 30, 2016
The New Wolsey Theatre’s annual pantomime ian’t just your regular, run-of-the-mill, f-list celebrity-filled affair. It’s a Christmas show with a difference: a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:51AMTuesday, November 29, 2016
He’s back. After an Oscar-winning excursion into Hollywood, Mark Rylance bestrides the London stage once again in Nice Fish, an enigmatic tragi-comedy
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:02AMMonday, November 21, 2016
Colin Milburn was a bombastic first class cricketer, who lit up the County Championship with his box-office batting in the late 1960s.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:54AMWednesday, November 16, 2016
Like AC/DC, Andrew Lloyd Webber is back in black, returning to the West End with a new musical all about the liberating
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:43AMSaturday, November 12, 2016
Another week, another earnest play addressing the refugee crisis. Except Removal Men is different. Co-written by MJ Harding and Jay Miller, it’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:21AMThursday, November 10, 2016
Since David Bowie died in January – an early sign of 2016’s relentless cruelty – his star has, if possible, risen even
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:25AMTuesday, November 8, 2016
At a time when American foreign policy is pretty high on the world’s agenda, along comes a play that tackles its most
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:42AMMonday, November 7, 2016
If you thought 2016 was bad for celebrity deaths, try April 1992, when two of Britain’s most cherished funnymen – Benny Hill
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:41AMIn one of the biggest theatrical events of the year, Glenda Jackson has returned to the stage after a 25-year hiatus in
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“Does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body?” wails Morrissey in The Smiths’ Still Ill, a song
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:38AMFriday, November 4, 2016
Most productions profess to be timely in some way, but in the case of Deny Deny Deny, Jonathan Maitland’s five-handed drama about
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:15AMWednesday, November 2, 2016
It’s 2020. Theresa May has just won a second term, taking the reins of a Tory-Ukip coalition with Nigel Farage as her
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:17AMMonday, October 31, 2016
It’s not difficult to see why the Finborough has programmed a revival of Howard Brenton’s Magnificence. Written in 1973 during a time of financial crisis, IRA terrorism, and an emergent …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:36AMFriday, October 28, 2016
It’s one of the National’s greatest success stories. Amadeus, Peter Shaffer’s dramatic fictionalisation of the intertwined lives of Antonio Salieri and Mozart,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:51AMThursday, October 20, 2016
It’s probably a good idea to have a coffee or three before seeing David Mercatali’s revival of Blue Heart, Caryl Churchill’s 1997 double-bill of tongue-twisting, head-spinning wordplay…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:42AMWednesday, October 19, 2016
Highbury Opera Theatre’s production of Lost In The Stars – Kurt Weill’s last musical-cum-opera – in Islington’s Union Chapel is actually the work’s London premiere, only 67 years…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:51PMMonday, October 17, 2016
Skin A Cat should be compulsory viewing for anyone under 25. Scratch that, it should be compulsory viewing for everyone. A hysterically funny, warm-hearted, autobiographical three-hander abo…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:57AMMonday, August 29, 2016
First a novel, then a film, now a play, Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist’s prolonged shelf life is proof that it is a story for our times. This first ever stage adaptation by …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:47AMSaturday, August 27, 2016
What do you know about the Democratic Republic of the Congo? That it is the seventh poorest country in the world, when its vast mineral reserves should make it one of the richest? That betwe…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:55PMWednesday, August 24, 2016
Emma Rice’s work is theatrical marmite. You either love it or hate it. For some, her productions for Kneehigh were endlessly innovative, relentlessly entertaining breaths of fresh air.…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:23PMWednesday, August 10, 2016
Heart To Heart Theatre’s How We Think We Think begins inauspiciously. Peter Dewhurst as Tom ushers the audience to their seats, then haltingly embarks on a prepared presentation on hum…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:39PMTuesday, August 2, 2016
Noël Coward tends to take a bit of a bashing nowadays. The average Coward production is about as unfashionable as its octogenarian audience is unaware of where they are. But now that Terren…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:36PMWednesday, May 18, 2016
For a while, it was considered unfashionable to be too overtly partisan in political theatre. Undermined, Danny Mellor’s hour-long one-man show about the mining strikes of the mid-eighties…
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