Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Soho theatre, LondonMax Eisenstein and Martin Schulse are German art dealers who have built up a successful business in San Francisco, selling paintings to rich Jewish matrons. But the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:40PMTuesday, June 25, 2013
It isn't always about the quality of the show – as The Book of Mormon proves. What are your ingredients for a fine night out?I was lucky enough to see The Book of Mormon again last week. I…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:14PMIt isn't always about the quality of the show – as The Book of Mormon proves. What are your ingredients for a fine night out?I was lucky enough to see The Book of Mormon again last week. I…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:14PMFriday, June 21, 2013
Theatre Royal, BathAfter a whirlwind romance, Nigel, Earl of Marshwood, plans to marry. But upstairs and downstairs at Marshwood House are both in turmoil because His Lordship's intended is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:14PMThe river Tyne is celebrated at Live in Newcastle, Headlong's revival of The Seagull finishes its tour in Derby, and the brilliant Greenwich and Docklands festival is a whale of a time for a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:55PMThursday, June 20, 2013
Two Degrees festival, LondonWhen the Canadian prime minister, Stephen Harper, visited London last week, he faced activists protesting against tar sands, the world's largest energy project, w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:41PMWe no longer accept white actors blacking up – yet the able-bodied Daniel Radcliffe is playing a physically disabled character in the West End. How come?As I've written here recently, it's…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:59AMWednesday, June 19, 2013
Finborough, LondonNot for nothing has playwright David Storey been described as an English Chekhov. This sliver of a play, small in construction but big in heart, transposes some of the poet…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:23PMMonday, June 17, 2013
Am-dram is often used as a term of abuse, yet the boundary between the professional and amateur is increasingly blurredI recently picked up a theatre brochure. The shows being staged over an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:35AMFriday, June 14, 2013
Park theatre, LondonDeborah Warner's startlingly modern 2011 Barbican revival of Sheridan's comedy certainly put the cat among the critical pigeons, but normal service resumes in Finsbury Pa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:23PMTim Firth's This Is My Family starts in Sheffield, Natalie McGrath's Oxygen celebrates the centenary of the 1913 suffrage pilgrimage from Land's End, and Punchdrunk's The Drowned Man opens i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMThursday, June 13, 2013
Rufus Norris, director of the NT's all-black revival of The Amen Corner, has spoken out about the lack of opportunities in the UK for black actors. Why is there still such a long way to go?A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:46AMWednesday, June 12, 2013
Ever been to a show where the cast outnumbered the audience? Or the performer was paralysed by stage fright? Tell allOn the Danny Baker Show on Radio 5 Live last week, there was a discussion…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00AMTuesday, June 11, 2013
AldeburghPunchdrunk's gift has always been the ability to make it feel as if you've been plunged into a parallel universe. The spooky beauty of this latest work is that they achieve it, not …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:45PMMonday, June 10, 2013
National, LondonA fine reason to make theatre is to probe who we are, and what our place is in the world. Since 2004, New York company the Team have been doing just that, with theatrically d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:04PMSunday, June 9, 2013
Gate, LondonEdgar, an army captain, and former actress Alice reside alone in a fortified tower on an island. They have been married for almost 30 years and are imprisoned in a relationship h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:58PMFriday, June 7, 2013
Udderbelly festival, LondonAs young company Pirates of the Carabina's name suggests, there's something larky about this circus show, in which a woman performs an aerial duet with an ironing …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:40PMThe Royal Court's new season kicks off in London, raves and revolutions combine in Manchester, and Frank Cottrell Boyce presents an outdoor spectacle in DerryScotland and Northern IrelandLet…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMThursday, June 6, 2013
London WondergroundA man in a bear suit attempts to climb a Chinese pole, sliding away before skill finally triumphs over absurdity. Two women wearing outsize white rabbit heads wi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PMThe fringe is back. And the theatre programme is bigger than ever. From David Greig to Summerhall, here are some of bestA record number of shows may have gone on sale before the 2013 fringe …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMWednesday, June 5, 2013
The power of theatre to take you unawares can often be lost – which is why a new Royal Court initiative with Caryl Churchill is welcomeThe box-office appeal of novel and film adaptations …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMTuesday, June 4, 2013
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe landscape is quiet and peaceful. Birds swoop across the sky; bees buzz dozily amid the flowers. In a field, a strange creature that looks a little like a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42PMRoyal and Derngate, NorthamptonAn unremarkable, middle-aged man addresses the audience from a farmhouse kitchen nestling in a grassy glade: "When I cast my mind back to the summer of 1936 �…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:11AMMonday, June 3, 2013
Ustinov, BathNew Yorkers Janine and Adam appear to be successful and happy, living in a tasteful apartment and with a son at private school. He's an architect; she's running her own startup.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:45PMFriday, May 31, 2013
Vampires in Dundee, Pinter's The Birthday Party revived in Manchester, great circus in London – it's a good week for theatre in all its many manifestationsScotlandThe big news this week is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PMRecent productions have shown what British East Asian actors are capable of – is it a turning point?I asked earlier this year why East Asian actors and playwrights didn't have a larger pre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:45AMThursday, May 30, 2013
This enjoyable comedy confronts a taboo, that not every woman is in love with her baby, and that work can beat motherhoodThere is a moment towards the end of Hannah Patterson's enjoyable and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:35AMWednesday, May 29, 2013
Park theatre, LondonThe under-representation of east Asian actors on British stages received overdue attention late last year after criticism of the RSC's casting of the Chinese play, T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:41PMSpectator reviewer Lloyd Evans says his colleagues do theatre a disservice by raving about mediocre shows. Do you agree?I think it might have been Alan Bennett who once charmingly referred t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:57AMTuesday, May 28, 2013
Open Air theatre, LondonHarper's Lee novel, set in Alabama during a Depression when poverty and racism walk hand in hand, is one of the great stories about growing up. For many of us, the ta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMMonday, May 27, 2013
Norwich Playhouse"Can you tell me your life story?" The question has been asked before in theatre, not least in Improbable's improvised show, Lifegame. But it's never been asked and staged i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:39PM 
