Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Here's a clever invention: a ratnav. This gilded box both susses out vermin and bursts into song at the least hint: say
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:31AM[SHARE]Monday, December 4, 2017
Barrie's grown-up fantasy gets a welcome centenary revivalConfused people, some of whom may have made the wrong choices in life and love, find themselves in an enchanted wood at Midsummer. D…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 10:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 11, 2017
England's patron saint travels through time to demonstrate changing views of heroismBold and fearless are adjectives that might describe playwright Rory Mullarkey as accurately as any chival…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 10:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Ibsen hits the Caribbean in The Lady from the Sea at the Donmar. Its star explainsNikki Amuka-Bird spent the summer in Antigua, swimming and scuba diving and could have claimed to be working…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:33AM[SHARE]Monday, September 11, 2017
You can't go wrong with pirates. All that swash and buckle, big hats and treasure trove provide excellent ingredients for a show
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:54PM[SHARE]Friday, September 8, 2017
When the 24-year-old Peter Hall unleashed the first English language version of Waiting for Godot at this very theatre 62 years ago,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:34AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 31, 2017
The costumes in Colin Falconer's design are paint-box bright " scarlet, lime green and bilious yellow. There should be no room for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:56AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 29, 2017
There are French windows in Alex Marker's splendid set, but they are not the kind through which someone is likely to burst
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:07AM[SHARE]Friday, August 25, 2017
Brassed Off is a heart-warming story with a tough streak, not unlike this production. The first in-house show for almost 40 years
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:57AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 5, 2017
Forget the holiday airport hassle. Instead, take a good-natured trip around the world without leaving Chelsea, or somewhere nearer you on this
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:27AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 5, 2017
Shakespeare's youthful romance acted full-throttle on a balmy summer evening in the flowery surroundings of London's garden squares " what could be
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:53AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 4, 2017
F Murray Abraham crackles as a temperamental playwright German writer Daniel Kehlmann's light-touch 90-minute comedy is a chic satire on the slippery business of making art " and especially …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 10:32PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Emma is a challenge for the Jane Austen adaptor. Capturing the essence of the novels – witty, humorous, a touch acerbic "
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:27AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 24, 2017
This Twelfth Night opens in a jazz-age speakeasy and never really leaves there. Paul Hart's playful production centres on the considerable musical
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Reason versus dogma under the starsNever mind breaking the fourth wall, Joe Wright and the Young Vic have smashed the other three as well. This isn't simply because their engaging production…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 6, 2017
Revival of Edward Albee's gripping late play echoes Greek tragedyAsked in an interview if there remained any taboos in the theatre, Albee answered, "Yes. I don't think you should be all…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:06AM[SHARE]Monday, April 3, 2017
On days when Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are not wandering in confusion among the clouds on their Old Vic set, the stage transforms
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:03PM[SHARE]Friday, March 31, 2017
This one-acter, written quickly by Arthur Miller in 1964 when the ANTA Washington Square Theater in New York City needed another play
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 28, 2017
She's been Sally Bowles, Lady Macbeth and Elizabeth Darcy. Now for a gritty courtroom drama about rapeShe was Lyra in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials at the National, she has shared…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 9, 2017
Humour and vitriol contend in a tightly orchestrated production of Albee's celebrated playMartha is described in the script of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as "a large, boisterous wo…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 1, 2017
On directing Othello at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, and taking over at the GateIn a few days' time, Ellen McDougall will become artistic director of the dynamic little Gate Theatre in Notti…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 21, 2017
So much remains unchanged. While that might be the first reaction to Clare McIntyre’s 1988 play, Low Level Panic, here getting its
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:34AM[SHARE]Monday, February 6, 2017
Old enemies have become allies in this poignant version of Henry V originally performed in 2015 to mark both the 600th anniversary
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:30AM[SHARE]Monday, December 5, 2016
The Attic Theatre Company has been going for over 20 years " its last outing was with Beacons, a new play, at
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:15PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 3, 2016
Sally Cookson brilliantly reinvents a Christmas favourite to hook in all agesThe cry "Let's pretend" must have been heard often when J M Barrie played with the Llewelyn Davies boys in Kensin…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 12:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 1, 2016
What could be more apt during the panto season in this politically farcical year than a play about the House of Commons?
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:04AM[SHARE]Monday, November 14, 2016
The RSC stalwart, Gloucester in Gregory Doran's production of King Lear, talks politics, blinding and cricketDavid Troughton (b.1950), a familiar face on television and a Royal Shakespe…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:54AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 5, 2016
Glenda Jackson returns to the stage as an authoritative Lear, gender irrelevantThe signs were there early in Glenda Jackson's career that she would one day have what it takes to "ascend the …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 12:02AM[SHARE]Friday, November 4, 2016
'I AM DISMAYED BY THE TONE OF THE DEBATE' A member of the Globe's Council sees both sides in the Emma Rice furoreA member of the Globe's Council sees both sides in the Emma Rice furoreT…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 10, 2016
"In such a night as this..." begins Lorenzo's beautiful speech in Act V of The Merchant of Venice. Watching Shakespeare's play in the Campo del Ghetto Nuovo on a balmy evening under a darken…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:27AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 4, 2015
At the press night curtain call for Richard III, about eleven-and-a half hours after the beginning of this anniversary three-play production, Trevor Nunn stepped in front of his impressively…
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