Monday, February 6, 2012
Lyn Gardner rounds up the weekend's stage business, from a jelly-smeared Changeling to austerity arts funding and snowy tweetsJelly bellyIt is probably too much to hope that when Lindsay Pos…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:21PMFriday, February 3, 2012
It's cold outside but theatre is hotting up this week with family drama The Gatekeeper in Manchester and Sex with a Stranger, starring Jaime Winstone and Russell Tovey, in LondonScotland and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:58PMWednesday, February 1, 2012
The theatre world's London bias particularly affects new writing, which seldom attracts much attention beyond the capitalOne of the best plays I saw last year was Lungs, an off-kilter love s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:46PMFriday, January 27, 2012
With a touring binge-drinking drama and a play about the Champions League final, theatre lets loose as February beginsScotlandThe big news in Scotland is the Manipulate festival, a feast of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:34PMThursday, January 26, 2012
Theatres are keen to advertise their own shows, but not events at other venues. Isn't it time to pool publicity for the benefit of all?There's much talk of collaboration in theatre at the mo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PMThursday, January 19, 2012
Linbury Studio, LondonThere is something rather glorious about having a juggling show at that citadel of high art, the Royal Opera House. Even more so because this hour-long piece from Gandi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:55PMThursday, January 5, 2012
The paper's annual parade of directors and impresarios ignores those waiting in the wings – particularly outside London. Who would you nominate?It's that time of the year when the Stage pr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PMIn difficult times, making an effort with the audience may mean the difference between a theatre's survival and failureThere's something exhilarating about being part of an audience which is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00AMFriday, December 30, 2011
From Mary Shelley in Yorkshire to Patrick Stewart playing Bingo in London, Lyn Gardner charts the country-wide theatrical happenings to take you through to springScotland and Northern Irelan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMFriday, December 16, 2011
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:09PMTuesday, December 13, 2011
Were you transfigured by Michael Sheen's The Passion, blown away by Tender Napalm or tickled by One Man, Two Guvnors? It was a deficit-defying year in theatreTo be honest, I think it's a mit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:57AMWednesday, December 7, 2011
Curve, Leicester"You're going to go out there a youngster, but you've got to come back a star," director Julian Marsh (Tim Flavin) tells young Peggy Sawyer in 42nd Street. And there was high…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PMMonday, December 5, 2011
Crucible, SheffieldBobby is a New Yorker on the eve of his 35th birthday, and a man who thinks that marriage is not just a word but a sentence – a jail sentence.Despite girlfriends who are…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:38PMMonday, November 28, 2011
Instead of closing productions during the 2012 Olympics, Andrew Lloyd Webber and fellow producers should use their entrepreneurial flair to ensure the show does go onIn a business like West …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:44AMSunday, November 27, 2011
I'm know my review may impact on the box office, but I don't think that should influence what I writeOne of the many lovely things about being a theatre critic is that when you turn up at so…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:45PMFriday, November 25, 2011
Christmas season is taking hold but there's plenty of serious stuff too with Michael Grandage's last show starting at the DonmarSouthYou have until tomorrow to catch Chris Goode's Keep Breat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:14AMThursday, November 24, 2011
Cambridge Theatre, LondonThose who think that the West End is always dumbing down and that an intelligent musical is an oxymoron will have to stay behind for detention with the diabolical Mi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:56PMCambridge Theatre, London Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:56PMFriday, November 18, 2011
Propeller take Henry V on tour while Lenny Henry's Comedy of Errors is at the Olivier. Elsewhere, seasonal offerings aboundSouth, south-west and WalesGood shows continue to stack up down sou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:28PMWednesday, November 16, 2011
Soho, LondonPlays with songs, rather than fully fledged musicals, are very much the fashion these days, and Soho played host to a cracker in David Greig and Gordon McIntyre's blissful Scotti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:31PMOnly a few organisations have demonstrated the knack of staying afloat through poverty and plenty. How do they do it?Why do some arts organisations survive and thrive while others wither and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:10AMFriday, November 11, 2011
Be sure to catch taboo tale Blackbird as it swoops into Glasgow, and Ex marks the hotspot in London for a new British musicalScotlandLet's start in the wintry north. Sound and Fury's Going D…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:39AMFriday, November 4, 2011
It's one of the quietest weeks of the year but there's still masses of theatrical treats, from Brighton to Birmingham and beyondIt's one of the quietest weeks of the year in theatre, with ju…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:44PMThursday, November 3, 2011
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonHare can't handle deferred gratification. When the carrots are planted, he wants them to sprout immediately; when he goes fishing, he wants to get a bite at once; an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:51PMWednesday, November 2, 2011
Only Connect, LondonNigerian Eric (Kereem Dauda) is no angel. But he dreams of a new life in England. He makes it to London, but as an illegal immigrant his new life is full of dark shadows …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24PMTuesday, November 1, 2011
Oval House, LondonCan a country – or city – ever really escape its past? The hefty baggage of physical and psychic geographies weigh down the characters in this ambitious play from …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:50PMMonday, October 31, 2011
Union, LondonThe trouble with this 1978 musical about a long-established, much-loved brothel, the Chicken House, facing closure from a Bible-thumping moralist is that it is so full of vices …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PMSunday, October 30, 2011
Theatre Royal Stratford East, LondonGermany in the 1930s and the Jewish Weissmann family are facing increasing hostility. Into their lives comes Ike, a black German, who becomes as much a me…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03PMFriday, October 28, 2011
London waits quietly for the arrival of Michael Sheen's Hamlet, which leaves space for drama lovers to run riot at Halloween – but things are hotting up in the rest of the countryThere are…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:21AMThursday, October 27, 2011
The Pit, LondonIt's not quite magic, but there is a great deal of enchantment in this installation-cum-performance for the over-eights from Danish company Teatret Gruppe 38. The Danes, pione…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMWednesday, October 26, 2011
New Diorama, LondonWhy would a young Swedish woman, Susanne (Jessica Claire), suddenly abandon her husband and one-year-old child, catch a flight to Israel and turn up at the offices of the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:50AM 
