Monday, December 10, 2012
Lyric HammersmithIn recent years Hammersmith's Lyric has become a panto hotspot to rival Hackney, York and Nottingham – and this year it delivers a top-quality production, directed wi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:51AMSunday, December 9, 2012
Panto isn't proper theatre? Oh yes it is!At this time of year I'm on full-time panto patrol, pretty much, reviewing the festive family shows that fill British theatres, and which are so cruc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:15PMFriday, December 7, 2012
A Christmas Fair | Shows for children | Robin Hood And His Merry Mam! | Family-friendly theatre | The Greatest Story Never Told | My Fair LadyA Christmas Fair, MaltonJim Cartwright, who wrot…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSoho, LondonThe bathroom is the place where we are most vulnerable and exposed, a space in which we are mostly alone; where we do the things that we don't want anyone else to see. But, in th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:56PMThere's a brand new Jim Cartwright play in the middle of north Yorkshire – while Dominic West stars in My Fair Lady at the Sheffield Crucible and Kneehigh's Midnight's Pumpkin opens at BAC…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:26PMThursday, December 6, 2012
Curve, LeicesterSome people paint, others sew; Dolly Levi is a woman who meddles. She does it in pursuit of pleasure and profit, and her greatest delight is in matchmaking. She has the perfe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:37PMWednesday, December 5, 2012
Panto season sees JM Barrie's Peter Pan flying into theatres this week, with new versions at Bristol Old Vic and Cardiff's Sherman Cymru. What better reason to dig out the Pans of yore?"Oh, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMPanto season sees JM Barrie's Peter Pan flying into theatres this week, with new versions at Bristol Old Vic and Cardiff's Sherman Cymru. What better reason to dig out the Pans of yore? Cont…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMBiscuit Factory, LondonWe are on the cruise of a lifetime. In the bar, the band are playing, just as the band played on when the Titanic went down. There is something bovine in our midst. W…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:11AMVanessa Redgrave, 75, and James Earl Jones, 81, are to play the sharp-tongued lovers in an Old Vic production of Shakespeare's comedy. Does age matter on stageVanessa Redgrave is 75 and Jame…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:49AMMonday, December 3, 2012
Some of the best immersive theatre experiences around are off-limits to grownups, proving it's never too early to be inspiredOddly, perhaps, I can't remember my first theatre visit, although…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:09AMSunday, December 2, 2012
From a Blairite Emperor's New Clothes to a Moors murders-inspired Pied Piper, poet Carol Ann Duffy and director Melly Still's fairytale stagings have pushed the boundaries. What's in store t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PMThe Pit, LondonThe title provides a clue in this latest show from Hugh Hughes, a Welsh artist who has emerged over the last seven years with shows such as Floating, and the tale of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:46PMFriday, November 30, 2012
A Christmas Carol | Old Money | The Woods/The Wake | Privates On Parade | The Arthur Conan Doyle Appreciation Society | Bryony Kimmings: The DIY NativityA Christmas Carol, KirkcaldyThe hotte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMErica Whyman directs The Borrowers at Northern Stage in Newcastle, Peeplykus send up the creator of Sherlock Holmes at the Traverse in Edinburgh and Bryony Kimmings invites you to The DIY Na…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:35PMRoyal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon"Where are we, Daddy?" "What are we, Daddy"? Those two questions set the tone for Tamsin Oglesby's adaptation of Russell Hoban's dark, serious y…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:38AMThursday, November 29, 2012
Old Vic, LondonIt would be nice to report that Trevor Nunn's revival of the classic 1948 musical is too darn hot, but it arrives in London from the Chichester festival in a lukewarm state. T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PMWednesday, November 28, 2012
Bush, LondonLewis and Morgan are married and appear settled. True, the tiny studio flat they bought at the height of the property boom is now in negative equity, though lack of space won't s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AMTuesday, November 27, 2012
Kean, Siddons, Evans, Ashcroft, Gielgud, McKellen and Dench are all names to conjure. But there are plenty of rising thespians with the talent to join the list of the British stage's previou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMFriday, November 23, 2012
It's a great week for kids – with Punchdrunk's winter wonderland in Stratford, pantos aplenty and Carol Ann Duffy weaving folksy magic in ManchesterSouth and WalesThe touring production of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:10AMTheatre 503, LondonCare worker Mike says he wants the best for 12-year-old Shaun, who is living in a children's home. But he has a funny way of showing it. True, it appears he is attempting …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMNewcastle is the latest council to propose a 100% cut to its arts and theatre budget – a move which would deepen the divide between London and the rest of the countryIf there is one city i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMThursday, November 22, 2012
Soho theatre, LondonPlenty have come a cropper trying to transpose Anthony Burgess's 1962 novella to the stage. But director Alexandra Spencer-Jones and her all-male cast get the closest I'v…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:44PMTuesday, November 20, 2012
Are the arts only for those who are rich, privileged and living in London? BBC Radio 4's Today programme seems to think so, but the arts are reaching out to communities all over the countryI…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:20PMIan McKellen has voiced concern that the disappearance of repertory theatre means that the UK will never produce another Sir Ian or Dame Judi Dench. But is he right to be worried?Over the la…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:25AMMonday, November 19, 2012
Print Room, LondonWhy did Lot's wife look back as she and her family hurried out of Sodom, and thus become transformed – so the Bible tells us – into a pillar of salt? Was it an act of r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:57AMSunday, November 18, 2012
Duke of York's, LondonThe stars shine brightly in Nick Payne's metaphysical love story, and I'm not just talking about the bewitching performances of Sally Hawkins and Rafe Spall. Hawkins pl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:00PMFriday, November 16, 2012
Hen and Chickens, LondonHow do we remake the world? What if we think we are doing one thing when we are really doing another? It's a question at the heart of Sarah Robertson's striking if so…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:01PMBring your mobile (or borrow one) for You With Me, a playful adventure in Exeter, recharge in Glasgow at Fuelfest, or scurry to Stratford, where the RSC previews The Mouse and his ChildSout…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMThursday, November 15, 2012
Arcola, LondonJJ Hunsecker is the closest thing New York has to God. He's the man with the poisoned pen. His daily gossip column delivers venom and rightwing propaganda to millions in early …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:51PMWednesday, November 14, 2012
Young Vic, LondonTheatre Uncut isn't just a performance, it's an idea: that theatre can be immediately responsive to world events, engender discussion and effect change. Founded in response …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:25PM 
