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SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:52PMDirector Jonathan Miller claims he isn't offered directing work because of his advanced years – but is it as simple as that?The Pope may be too frail in body and mind to go on, but not di…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:44AMTuesday, February 12, 2013
Royal and Derngate, NorthamptonLaurie Sansom's tenure at Northampton began with Sondheim's great masterpiece of middle-age regret, Follies. For his leave-taking (Samson is soon off to run th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:38PMMonday, February 11, 2013
The box office power of some movie actors is affecting the types of plays staged on Broadway. Should they hold such sway?When it was announced that David Tennant would be playing Richard II …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMFriday, February 8, 2013
A Fake Moon rises over Bristol at the IBT festival, Philip Pullman's I Was a Rat! scurries into Birmingham, and James McAvoy tackles the Scottish play in LondonNorthThe big opening this week…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMThursday, February 7, 2013
Vaudeville theatre, LondonA young unknown called Alan Cumming played Pip in Jo Clifford's adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel, first produced for Glasgow's wonderful TAG Theatre back in 198…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:35AMWednesday, February 6, 2013
Bush theatre, LondonIt is said that on the day Lehman Brothers collapsed, US treasury secretary Hank Paulson looked out of his office window, saw the future – and threw up. Queenie and Cas…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00PMPerhaps we should start being more honest when something we've paid good money for has bored the pants off usIn an interview in the Observer last weekend, the director Marianne Elliott – w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:52AMMonday, February 4, 2013
A new website aims to rate the comfort of West End theatre seats, Trip Advisor-style. But doesn't that miss the point?Some of my best nights in the theatre have occurred when sitting in the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:59AMFriday, February 1, 2013
Jonathan Miller revives the feminist classic Rutherford & Son, A Chorus Line previews at the London Palladium and The Animals and Children Took to the Streets heads out on tourScotland and N…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:28AMWednesday, January 30, 2013
Being forewarned about plot twists can ruin your enjoyment – but sometimes it adds to the funMany of us know who the culprit is in The Mousetrap. But it would probably take the Spanish Inq…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05AMSunday, January 27, 2013
Gate theatre, London"Does it hurt?" asks eight-year-old Kayleen when she meets classmate, Doug, in the school sick bay. He rode his bike off the school roof and she is suffering from st…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:21PMFriday, January 25, 2013
Lancaster counts down to The Zero Hour, Mare Rider gallops into London and Laurie Sansom bows out of Northampton with One for the RoadNorthImitating the Dog go out on tour with Pete Brooks a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:47AMThursday, January 24, 2013
Barbican, LondonZimmermann & de Perrot's 2010 show Oper Opis was set on a tilting stage in which the performers had to negotiate the ground shifting beneath their feet. The stage was not jus…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:46PMDavid Tennant is preparing to play Richard II for the RSC – but how will he measure up to past kings, from the regal Gielgud to the poignantly unready Eddie Redmayne?Announcing that David …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:23AMWednesday, January 23, 2013
Lyric HammersmithIt's almost seven years since David Farr and Gísli Örn Garðarsson's highly physical version of Kafka's short story premiered at the Lyric, and it returns better than ever…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:01AMFrom Sheridan's Sneer to Stoppard's Birdboot, fictional critics are often portrayed as monsters. We review some of the bestReading on a mobile? Watch hereWho'd be a critic? "Like eunuchs in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AMMonday, January 21, 2013
I love being first to arrive in an echoing auditorium, exploring the eerie twilight world between everyday life and make-believeI love nothing more than a theatre full of people leaning forw…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMSoho, LondonSmall doesn't have to mean insubstantial, and this tabletop puppet show from Invisible Thread, one of the new adult puppet companies to emerge after the demise of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:21PMSunday, January 20, 2013
Soho theatre, LondonBlind Summit are the UK's puppet masters, a company whose shows, such as Low Life and the brilliant The Table, have proved that puppetry doesn't have to come either with …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:34AMFriday, January 18, 2013
Lucy Bailey revives The Winter's Tale in snowbound Stratford, a touring Twelfth Night hits Northampton, and Manchester's fringe is on fine formNorthMy, it's quiet. At the end of the week, Al…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:27AMWednesday, January 16, 2013
Unicorn, LondonA Winter's Tale for two-to-four-year-olds? If you think that sounds impossible, then you probably haven't encountered the work of Oily Cart, a remarkable company which has cre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMA bad production can put you off a play for life – but even the most sublime shows can be a case of once bitten, twice shyAfter a school theatre trip to see King Lear as a teenager, I was …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:04AMThe Print Room, LondonThe intimate new upstairs space at the Print Room is a winner, made all the more cosy by the hot-water bottles handed out to the audience. I wish I could feel as warmly…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMTuesday, January 15, 2013
Roundhouse, LondonReligion and theatre have much in common. Both require their followers to believe what seems to be unbelievable; and Catholicism in particular has truly fantastic cost…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:17PMArcola, LondonGerman playwright Dea Loher's 1992 drama about Olga Benario, the German Jewish communist who was active in Germany and Brazil in the 1930s, is hard on both performers and audie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:34AMSouthbank Centre, LondonThe Mayans got it wrong – the world didn't stop spinning at the end of last year – but circus company My!Laika play out their own distinctly quirky form of catast…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:35AMMonday, January 14, 2013
The movie of Les Misérables puts musical theatre in the spotlight, but why such snobbery? This art form has given us West Side Story and My Fair LadyI won't be seeing the movie version of L…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:25AMFriday, January 11, 2013
The Accrington Pals is revived in Manchester, an all-male The Maids cleans up in Glasgow, and Rupert Everett plays Oscar Wilde in London's West EndNorthHurry along to the Royal Exchange in M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMIn the UK, we work the longest hours in Europe – but curtain-up times are stuck in the past. Would starting shows earlier or later make life easier for today's theatre audiences?As the cl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:13AMUnicorn, LondonMark Twain's historical novel is no longer a staple of modern childhood. But his lively fantasy about two lookalike boys – Prince Edward, son and heir of an ailing Henry VII…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AM 
