Sunday, August 4, 2013
Underbelly, EdinburghWhen Jamie was little, he and his single mum, Maggie, would look down on London from their Chalk Farm tower block and imagine they were keeping watch over…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:20AMFar from celebrating a world without subsidy, the playwright was reminding us of the uncomfortable fact that artists need to make their own future rather than looking to the pastMark Ravenhi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:59AMFriday, August 2, 2013
The Edinburgh fringe is underway, spooky headphones show Ring will frighten the life out of you in Oxford, and the Young Vic's brilliant A Doll's House goes into the West EndScotlandBy the t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:33PMThere is nothing more infuriating than going to the theatre and finding you can't hear the actors. But are fears that standards of enunciation are dropping really founded?It's been a few wee…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:40AMThursday, August 1, 2013
Southwark Playhouse, LondonNo, not a stage version of the James Cameron blockbuster with Celine Dion warbling My Heart Will Go On. Maury Yeston and Peter Stone's musical docked on Broadway b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PMWednesday, July 31, 2013
Southwark PlayhouseThe nautical Herman Melville is popping up repeatedly on theatrical radars this year. Moby-Dick was produced at the Arcola in April, and now Secret/Heart adapts this unfin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMTuesday, July 30, 2013
A new report says small London theatres face tough times. It has good ideas, but doesn't go far enough in looking to the futureThe Centre Stage report published last week focused on the diff…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:59AMMonday, July 29, 2013
Shed, LondonFull of light, colour, movement and music, Ben Power's cut-down National theatre version of the tale of star-crossed lovers adds to a growing trend in taking Shakespeare for chil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:03PMSaturday, July 27, 2013
It's one of the quieter weeks of the year, but the Stockton international riverside festival has a terrific lineup of outdoor shows, The Legend of King Arthur starts in York and the Camden F…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:34AMIt's one of the quieter weeks of the year, but the Stockton international riverside festival has a terrific lineup of outdoor shows, The Legend of King Arthur starts in York and the Camden F…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:34AMThursday, July 25, 2013
Charing Cross Theatre, LondonSadly, not as the title might suggest, a new musical about our happy canine friends, but a vacuous trawl through the shopping habits of footballers' wives and gi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:10PMCharing Cross theatre, LondonSadly, not as the title might suggest, a new musical about our happy canine friends, but a vacuous trawl through the shopping habits of footballers' wives and gi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:10PMThe case of a disgruntled Australian playwright throws up the fascinating question of who's really in charge of a show Last week I went to a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at London…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:43AMThe case of a disgruntled Australian playwright throws up the fascinating question of who's really in charge of a show Last week I went to a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at London…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:43AMWednesday, July 24, 2013
Bristol Old VicIf you don't know the name Sally Cookson yet, you will. Any unfamiliarity is almost certainly due to the fact that this gloriously inventive director creates theatre for child…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:26PMWhen temperatures go up, audiences either melt or sit shivering in chilly auditoriums. Just how do you handle the heat?I asked a keen theatregoing friend if she wanted to accompany me to see…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01AMWhen temperatures go up, audiences either melt or sit shivering in chilly auditoriums. Just how do you handle the heat?I asked a keen theatregoing friend if she wanted to accompany me to see…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01AMTuesday, July 23, 2013
National Theatre, LondonWe talk about going to "see a show." But theatre-makers from Melanie Wilson and Jo Bannon to David Rosenberg are increasingly investigating the possibilities of sound…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMMonday, July 22, 2013
Park, LondonBrutality and tenderness are strange but seductive bedfellows in Gary Henderson's two-hander, which evokes a loamy sense of place – New Zealand's Canterbury plains and surround…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:49PMSunday, July 21, 2013
St James, LondonTwenty years ago, it wasn't hard to find lunchtime theatre. But while the Play, a Pie and a Pint seasons at Oran Mor in Glasgow have become a real creative force for new writ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PMFriday, July 19, 2013
Cush Jumbo, Oliver Cotton and Rory Kinnear are the latest in a long line of actors to employ their stagecraft as writers tooPlaywrights don't always take kindly to being told by an actor tha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:56PMA French company walks on water at Salford Quays, King Arthur and his knights are in York, and there's spectacular circus in NorfolkScotlandIt's still very quiet before Edinburgh fringe show…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMA French company walks on water at Salford Quays, King Arthur and his knights are in York, and there's spectacular circus in NorfolkScotlandIt's still very quiet before Edinburgh fringe show…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMReaction is divided to The Drowned Man, Punchdrunk's vast Hollywood promenade show. Has it been overhyped? Or should audiences go prepared to dig deeper for their experience?The reviews are …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMReaction is divided to The Drowned Man, Punchdrunk's vast Hollywood promenade show. Has it been overhyped? Or should audiences go prepared to dig deeper for their experience?The reviews are …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMThursday, July 18, 2013
Royal Exchange, ManchesterSergei Eisenstein's famed 1923 staging of Aleksandr Ostrovsky's satire featured clowning, performers swinging on ropes and acrobatics. Paul Hunter's revival, which …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:53PMWednesday, July 17, 2013
Finborough, London"My loves, what are we to do? We won't do as they want any more, and they hate it." So runs the famous final line of Pam Gems's 1976 play, set in a London flat shared by fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:07PMTuesday, July 16, 2013
London Welsh CentreIt is said that on midwinter's eve the devil holds a ceilidh, and at midnight the past and present kiss. This is the moment when unsuspecting revellers might be snared by …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:25PMDerby PlayhouseWe all want to do the right thing; we all want to go to the top of the class, and get the praise we feel is our due. Toot's slick, clever little show plays astutely on that de…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:39AM20th Century Fox plans to turn some of its movies into stage musicals. But Porky's 11, Die Hard and Avatar are unlikely to be on a stage near you soon. Or will they?Dirty Dancing is back in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:51AM20th Century Fox plans to turn some of its movies into stage musicals. But Porky's 11, Die Hard and Avatar are unlikely to be on a stage near you soon. Or will they?Dirty Dancing is back in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:51AM 
