Thursday, April 5, 2012
It's not enough for theatres to rely on the same old programming, even the same old buildings. Which is why what's happening at Exeter is so exciting"We're stuck with them," said a leading i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:41AMMonday, April 2, 2012
Is it time to end all-male Shakespeare, should children's theatre take more risks, and are ticket touts targeting theatre?Cross with cross-dressingIs it time to call a halt to all-male Shake…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:38AMFriday, March 30, 2012
Lots to catch this week, with the RSC season getting into gear and Saturday Night and Sunday morning playing in ManchesterCentral and EastI'll be hitting Birmingham tonight for Mette Edvards…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:04PMThursday, March 29, 2012
Every year someone suggests the West End is on its last legs, but at a panel to discuss its future we agreed that change is what keeps theatre evolving and thrivingWhat should we believe abo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMMonday, March 26, 2012
Lyn Gardner rounds up the latest stage news, from a shocking departure from Arts Council England to a debate about verbatim theatre at the Guardian's Open WeekendArt not just money"We don't …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33PMJacksons Lane, LondonThe expectation is rising. This is the comeback gig to end all comeback gigs – although there is something a tad tawdry about the stage, and the crowd is more than a l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:08PMFriday, March 23, 2012
West Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsThe daughter of the feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft and the radical philosopher William Godwin, Mary Shelley was brought up in a free-thinking household of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48PMDavid Suchet's turn in Long Day's Journey and Chris Goode's wonderful storytelling show The Adventures of Wound Man and Shirley are just two of this week's theatre highlightsNorthThere was p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:01PMThursday, March 22, 2012
Young Vic, LondonLike the Donmar, the Young Vic's Maria is a space in which there is nowhere for the actors to hide, and which requires absolute truthfulness. The only lies exposed in Natali…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:15PMMonday, March 19, 2012
Paul Kerryson's musical wins rave reviews and there's a Julian Fellowes film in the wings for Barbra Streisand. Plus, a producer gives me the thumbs down over fellow critic Michael Billingto…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:47AMFriday, March 16, 2012
She dreamed the dream – and now the Susan Boyle musical opens in Newcastle. Plus: Eve Best plays the Duchess of Malfi at the Old Vic in LondonScotlandThe Steamie, Tony Roper's tales of wa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32AMWednesday, March 14, 2012
BAC, LondonJess and Chris want us to be happy. They want to be happy, too, even though everyone is off somewhere else "getting wasted". I wish they hadn't told us that, because it raises the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:56PMThe 'world's leading classical theatre company' seems incapable of making Shakespeare feel innovative or relevant. Things have to changeAt Devoted and Disgruntled a few weeks back there was …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:01PMFriday, March 9, 2012
Hot tickets this week include the start of the Buzzcut festival in Glasgow, the Sprint festival in London, and the premiere of Helen Edmundson's Mary Shelley in LeedsScotlandLots of great st…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:59AMThursday, March 8, 2012
Hull TruckThere is less social mobility in the UK in 2012 than there was in the 1960s and 70s, so John Godber's 1997 play about Martin, a teacher turned would-be writer, who realises the gul…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PMWednesday, March 7, 2012
BAC, LondonOn May Day 2004, Tristan Sturrock fell drunkenly off a wall in Padstow and broke his neck. He was paralysed from the neck down. His choice: 18 months in a neck brace, or radical s…
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:11PMThe four London theatres collaborating with Wildworks on Babel will have to find new ways to tour internationallyOn Monday I wrote about Babel, the huge participatory London-wide project tha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:41AMTuesday, March 6, 2012
Gate, LondonGoldilocks and the Three Bears is the unlikely inspiration for this comedy thriller devised by Perrier winner Will Adamsdale, Neil Haigh, Matthew Steer and director John Wright. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PMMonday, March 5, 2012
Southwark Playhouse, LondonThe story of the 33 trapped Chilean miners gripped the world for weeks during 2010, but over 80 years previously, and many miles away in Kentucky another story of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PMWhen is kids' theatre not kids' theatre? Plus, the etiquette of booing and snoozing in Lyn Gardner's Monday roundup of theatre news and gossipBig plans for small peoplePurni Morell, the new …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:09PMSunday, March 4, 2012
How do you unite a modern metropolis? With 500 people and a song called Ah Poor BirdThe human urge to build cities with tall buildings is an ancient one. In the Book of Genesis, the generati…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:01PMFriday, March 2, 2012
Two festivals start in Glasgow this week, Behaviour and Buzzcut, plus a feast of work at Sprint in London – there's plenty to see all over the countryScotland and Northern IrelandIn Northe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:30AMThursday, March 1, 2012
Drum, PlymouthVirgil has spent 10 years in a mental asylum being treated by Dr Levine for delusions about Sally's bottom. Now, clutching his certificate of sanity, he is returning home to hi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PMThe Edinburgh fringe has taken steps to ensure the festival doesn't suffer after London theatre producers have said audiences may stay away during the GamesIt's that time of year if you are …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:59AMWednesday, February 29, 2012
Arcola, LondonIt is the early 1990s, Estonia is at last independent and Aliide (Illona Linthwaite) is old and living alone in the cottage in the Estonian forest where her parents once farmed…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:29PMTuesday, February 28, 2012
Oval House, LondonChris Goode didn't believe in God. Then, one day last April, he was walking home from the supermarket when he had a powerful sense that he was in God's presence. God/Head i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:46AMMonday, February 27, 2012
Garrick, LondonNot since Propeller's Rose Rage cleaved cabbages to signify murder, execution and the mayhem of lots of people losing their heads has the West End had quite such a g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PMChris Goode follows his own path to a thoughtful new show, while Devoted and Disgruntled got everybody debating. Lyn Gardner rounds up the weekend's stage businessPlaces for experimentI'm a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:44PMGreenwich Playhouse, LondonGreenwich Playhouse is a neighbourhood pub theatre that for more than 20 years has produced an eclectic mix of mostly classic plays, from Shakespeare to Ibsen. If …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:27AMSunday, February 26, 2012
I've been asked to write a play. What a dreadful idea'Critics," said the Irish writer Brendan Behan, "are like eunuchs in a harem. They know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, bu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30PM 
