Thursday, April 4, 2013
Queuing for theatre tickets, or day seats for sold-out shows, doesn't have to be a chore. Some people actually enjoy itI'd rather stab myself in the eye than queue outside a shop for the Box…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:31AMTuesday, April 2, 2013
Finborough, LondonMartha (Jenny Lee) is elderly, arthritic and lives with only her budgie for company in a damp Glasgow tenement. In the next-door flat, Amie (Eileen Nicholas), is equally al…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:45AMMonday, April 1, 2013
Arcola theatre, LondonThe accused are innocent until proven guilty, though the dead can't defend themselves. But who would blame security forces for foiling a terrorist attack by shooting th…
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:34AMA new book attempts to bury the endless disputes over who he really was. But surely it's the plays, not their author, which deserve attention?Phew, what a relief. It seems that the Royal Sha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:23AMSunday, March 31, 2013
Unicorn, LondonEating children is wrong, but the attempt turns out to be gloriously ghoulish fun in Christopher William Hill's mouthwatering fantasy for the over-eights. It's a feverish stew…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:46PMFriday, March 29, 2013
Simon Callow plays Jesus in Belfast, the National Theatre of Scotland's Black Watch marches back to Glasgow, and the Spill festival makes a splash in LondonScotland and Northern IrelandThe B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:09PMMuch as we loved his Uncles Vernon and Monty, the actor shone brightest on stage, where he infused his roles with intelligence and witThe BBC chose to announce the death of Richard Griffiths…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:45AMMercury, ColchesterHoward Goodall and Melvyn Bragg's musical about Cumbrian working life premiered at the Nuffield in Southampton, but failed to find favour in its 1984 debut in a West End a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMWednesday, March 27, 2013
Steinway Hall, LondonLundahl & Seitl are a remarkable company whose work explores the relationship between the physical world and our consciousness of it. Can an imagined space ever seem as …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:25PMThe musical's success owes as much its clever use of Twitter and Facebook as anything that happens on stageThe news that The Book of Mormon set a record on Friday for the biggest single day …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:55PMTuesday, March 26, 2013
Camden People's Theatre, LondonThe pain of exile versus the relief of having got away – both emotions run through J Fergus Evans' solo show, which tells the story of the performer's own up…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:19PMSunday, March 24, 2013
Corinthea Hotel, LondonThe title of this one-on-one promenade show from Look Left, Look Right is deceptive. It refers to the requirement that the staff of a luxury hotel always go "above and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:16PMFriday, March 22, 2013
Nuffield, SouthamptonHow does it feel to say goodbye to your children, not knowing if you'll ever see them again? To arrive in a country where you're seen as an alien? To find yourself …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:31PMThe American Plan comes to Bath, Hugh Walpole's Rogue Herries is adapted for stage in Keswick, and The Hired Man is back in business in ColchesterSouthGlenn Waldron's Forever House, about a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:46PMThursday, March 21, 2013
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonLondon theatre has a thing about prime numbers at the moment. They feature prominently in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, and they also pop…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03PMCinema screenings aimed at parents with babies and toddlers have proved a huge hit. Isn't it time theatres did the same?I'm sitting in the auditorium at Camden People's theatre in central Lo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:21AMWednesday, March 20, 2013
Camden People's theatre, LondonIn Greek mythology, Nereus is known as the Old Man of the Sea, a divinity who helps sailors in distress. In this latest piece from Laura Mugridge – who once …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:33PMMonday, March 18, 2013
How can the performing arts compete against technology? And does creativity always lead to anguish? Just a few of the subjects raised in these talks from TED and beyondReading on a mobile? C…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:25AMFriday, March 15, 2013
Young Vic, LondonIn Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, the local doctor, Astrov, charts the decline of the forests. "Almost everything has been destroyed now, and nothing has yet been created in its pla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33PMDominic Cooke makes his swansong at the Royal Court with The Low Road, Will Adamsdale's The Victorian in the Wall opens in Bristol, and the brilliant Takeover festival takes off in YorkCentr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:55PMThursday, March 14, 2013
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonIt's done with sound rather than smoke and mirrors. But the result is certainly unsettling in David Rosenberg and Glen Neath's 50-minute piece, played out in pit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:49PMA new campaign, My Theatre Matters, is looking to audiences to speak out – get involved!We haven't always been as good as we might be at arguing for continued investment in theatre, and ab…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AMWednesday, March 13, 2013
It doesn't matter if a participatory show has fine ideals or is brilliant behind-the-scenes. What counts is the workI can only ever review what I see. I can't review intent, and I can't revi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:28PMApollo, LondonSimon Stephens' clever adaptation of Mark Haddon's bestselling novel about a teenage boy with Asperger's syndrome is like a cute dog that leaps up and wants to lick you all ove…
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:17AMMonday, March 11, 2013
The scene-stealing corgis in The Audience are a reminder that while audiences love a star, they love a cute animal even moreThe Audience has had mixed reviews, but Helen Mirren and the corgi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMFriday, March 8, 2013
Ibsen's Hedda Gabler changes her name and moves to Edgbaston, Brighton is all about the Bard, and Judi Dench brings fairytale magic to LondonScotland and Northern IrelandThis week at the Tra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:56AMBristol Old VicShakespeare with puppets? Of course it's been done before, but not with some of the same team behind the National Theatre's mega-hit, War Horse. But, although puppets of many …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:04AMThursday, March 7, 2013
Soho theatre, LondonThe year is 1982 and the place is Deptford, London. Relations between black and white communities are tainted with suspicion and hostility in the wake of the Brixton riot…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMAn event at the Young Vic examined the urgent need for people of East Asian heritage to become more visible in UK theatreWhen I started out as a theatre critic in the early 1980s, there were…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:56AM 
