Monday, May 25, 2015
Plenty of businesses are buzzing on a Sunday. So why do so few theatres open their doors on a day that would suit most normal people?
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMThough often our eyes are on the top of the theatrical ecosystem, what happens lower down is every bit as important - and it's up to all of us to pay attention
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMAward-winning shows like You Me Bum Bum Train don't arrive fully formed, but require time and money to develop
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMFrom regional theatres bravely choosing new work and taking their audiences with them to some welcome razzle-dazzle in musicals, there's been plenty to enjoy. Perhaps not a blistering year -…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMMost of us don't notice the loss of childhood. Adulthood creeps up on us. Gradually, the imaginary friend is no longer conjured; the wardrobe that we thought contained Narnia is left shut. B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMProfessional reviewers are rightly banned from experimental or developing shows, but it's always open season for citizen reviewers
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMA high court ruling that London Councils failed to consider the full effects of cuts has delayed belt-tightening in the capital - and could prompt challenges nationwideLast Friday, courtesy …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMEnvironmental themes are hitting the stage in plays left, right and centre, but artists must strive to be more than just advocatesWhen
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMEnvironmental themes are hitting the stage in plays left, right and centre, but artists must strive to be more than just advocates
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMYouth unemployment and cuts to the arts risk making theatre more of a closed shop than ever - but it cannot afford to shut out the next generation of artistsLast week I spent a happy afterno…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMYouth unemployment and cuts to the arts risk making theatre more of a closed shop than ever - but it cannot afford to shut out the next generation of artists
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMShakespeare’s Globe, LondonThe sombre and the comic collide in Blanche McIntyre’s big, skittish production“I like this place. And willingly could waste my time in it,” says Celia on …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:37AMHaruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore is staged at the Barbican, the Place takes over BAC and the candlelit King John is at Salisbury CathedralNikolai Foster’s fine revival of Jonathan Ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMFriday, May 22, 2015
Home, ManchesterYou can almost smell the candyfloss and chip fat in this atmospheric version of Kasimir and Karoline, updated by Simon StephensThe lights go down. The band plays. The fairy l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:04AMThursday, May 21, 2015
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonThe story of the 2002 siege at the Church of the Nativity is retold with unashamedly partisan passion by a West Bank theatre company Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:15AMWednesday, May 20, 2015
Young Vic, LondonAudience members are cast as owners of clothing factories in China and presented with binary choices in a breakneck, thought-provoking pieceIn Metis’s previous piece, 3rd …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMMonday, May 18, 2015
Freedom Theatre’s The Siege is at London’s BAC, Don Quijote is torn apart in Sheffield, a man balances rocks in Brighton, and a 100-year-old granny who eats everything in her way is let …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMSunday, May 17, 2015
Local and national theatres are asking big questions about devolution and independence, our past and our future – who we are and who we want to beWhat does the nation’s theatre look like…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:56PMTuesday, May 12, 2015
Tight budgets can lead to ‘safe’ programmes. Daniel Evans of Sheffield Theatres and Elizabeth Newman at the Octagon in Bolton have the right approach“Audiences crave a challenge,” sa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:59AMMonday, May 11, 2015
Manchester’s new arts centre Home offers all the fun of the fair in the latest from Simon Stephens, Bristol celebrates Mayfest and there’s stunning theatre for youngsters at Imaginate in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMSunday, May 10, 2015
Southbank Centre, LondonFuel Theatre’s touring show about British basketball players living and striving in the shadow of their footballing peers is charming and unexpectedly moving Contin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:21AMFriday, May 8, 2015
Theatre Royal, BrightonMabou Mines’s piece about James Joyce’s daughter – who was locked in a mental institution for 47 years – melds biography with snippets of Finnegans Wake and th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:55AMThursday, May 7, 2015
Excluding reviewers betrays the unhealthy, unworkable and increasing desire of producers and their PR agencies to ensure sympathetic press coverageWhen, back in 1969, the Royal Court announc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:14AMExcluding reviewers betrays the unhealthy, unworkable and increasing desire of producers and their PR agencies to ensure sympathetic press coverageWhen, back in 1969, the Royal Court announc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:14AMSouthwark Playhouse, LondonA mesmerising performance by Evelyn Hoskins as the flame-haired teenage avenger fires this revival of the RSC’s slaughterhouse Cinderella Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05AMWednesday, May 6, 2015
Screenings from the National Theatre and RSC serve a vast nationwide audience – but what is their effect on regional and touring productions?The audience for a single live broadcast of a S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:01AM 
