Monday, September 26, 2011
Point, EastleighWhen Jane and Victoria move into the seaside home on the Norfolk coast they intend to run as a B&B, the sea view is obscured by a row of bungalows. They joke how wonderful it…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:57PMSunday, September 25, 2011
Union, LondonIt's probably not just the English taste for a sliced white loaf over a fresh warm French baguette that accounts for the failure of Stephen Schwartz's West End musical 21 years …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMFriday, September 23, 2011
Tim Pigott-Smith prepares to storm Leeds with King Lear, while Kenneth Branagh and Rob Brydon take over Belfast. Plus there's plenty more besidesAnother rather brilliant seven days ahead ful…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:07PMAs the Bush theatre moves to a new home after 40 years, is it possible to take theatrical magic with you into a new venue?Wandering around the backstage spaces of the Bush theatre earlier th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:29AMThursday, September 22, 2011
King's Head, LondonIt would be lovely to be able to say that this play – billed by the King's Head as an unperformed play by Oscar Wilde – is a lost masterpiece. But if the proof of the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMWednesday, September 21, 2011
Young Vic, LondonKurt Weill's musical snapshot of New York brownstone life is a strange beast, but often a beautiful one, too, full of lush melodies and jazzy skips. Borrowing from Puccini, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:20PMTuesday, September 20, 2011
Trafalgar Studios, LondonPlaywrights, like policemen, are getting younger. Teenage writers are now regularly found at the Royal Court, but when 18-year-old Christopher Hampton wrote this pla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:20PMBush, LondonIt's hard to make that final exit. Particularly after 40 years. That's how long the Bush has been "a tiny box of magic" perched above a pub on Shepherd's Bush Green, west London.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:57AMMonday, September 19, 2011
West Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsThe British musical just got more interesting with the arrival of Richard Taylor and David Wood's exquisitely layered version of LP Hartley's novel about a you…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:10PMSunday, September 18, 2011
Northern Stage, NewcastleThe sports coach is trying to account for his team's poor season. He begins with platitudes, but then veers from the script. The woman he loves has left him, life af…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:01PMFriday, September 16, 2011
Some big-name openings this week, including the new Mike Leigh play Grief, Andrew O'Hagan's The Missing, and The Wire's Dominic West and Clarke Peters reunite in OthelloAnother pretty busy w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:49PMTricycle, LondonBelfast men don't dance. They don't talk much, either. During the 1950s and 60s, they left Belfast in their droves for jobs digging the roads and tunnels of England. They lef…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:07AMThursday, September 15, 2011
Theatre 503, LondonThere are echoes of Chekhov's Three Sisters in Chilean playwright Juan Radrigán's play, inspired by the true story of three Andean sisters whose bodies were found in 1974…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:55PMWednesday, September 14, 2011
Theatre Royal Stratford East, London Where is the theatre responding to the recent riots, asking the hard questions about why so many feel disaffected? It might have been found in Stratford …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:52PMTuesday, September 13, 2011
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonThings are Grimm and then get grimmer for the heroine of this show from Kneehigh, a rackety fairytale shot through with the blues, an insouciant sauciness, and the p…
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:10PMTheatremakers' use of digital technology is prone to malfunction, but without these pioneers, theatre would be a far duller placeWhen theatre performances moved inside buildings during the R…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:51AMArcola, LondonThe cast play cows and pigeons with the same ease with which they tackle humans in this pleasing, often touchingly unadorned show directed by Complicite co-founder Marcello Mag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:29AMMonday, September 12, 2011
Soho, London"We're not stealing," announces Jennifer Pick at the outset of this hour-long piece, created by theatre company Getinthebackofthevan and performed with Lucy McCormack. It's …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:11PMSunday, September 11, 2011
Young Vic, LondonRunt and Pig are out on the razzle in "Pork City", running amok as they play at being Bonnie and Clyde. But in Enda Walsh's explosive two-hander, the self-mythologising Iris…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PMFriday, September 9, 2011
New shows galore from north to south, with Will Eno adding a quirky, human touch and Stephen Poliakoff raising the human spirit with his first new play in 12 yearsThings are hotting up in th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMThursday, September 8, 2011
Tristan Bates, LondonWhen Elisa and Jane were children, they were always on tour with their dad and his magic act. Big sister Elisa wanted to be the one to disappear, but it was Jane, his di…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:07PMWednesday, September 7, 2011
Barbican, LondonGeorg Büchner's soldier returns, but not quite as we know him, in the Handspring Puppet Company's version, which transposes the 19th-century drama of alienation and savage p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:10PMFriday, September 2, 2011
Enjoy a new term of theatre with festivals in Brighton and Bristol, catch The Syndicate in Chichester or head to Nottingham for The AshesEdinburgh is soon to become a dim and distant memory,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:01AMThursday, September 1, 2011
Gate, LondonThe classic American campus drama gets a makeover in David Davalos's spry, old-fashioned comedy, in which the traditional liberal US college is substituted for the Catholic Unive…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:01PMWednesday, August 31, 2011
Union, LondonThis is by no means a travesty of a great drama, but the heartbeat of Federico García Lorca's final play – written shortly before he was shot by the nationalist militia in 19…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:20PMTuesday, August 30, 2011
Southwark Playhouse, LondonJust four years after a superb chamber production at the Donmar Warehouse in London, Jason Robert Brown's unlikely musical gets a deserved revival, and it's a crac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:40PMMonday, August 29, 2011
Riverside Studios, London"This is no time for salad," declares Kazumi, and you can't help feeling that the former high-school counsellor is right. Yet her companions, Masa and Hello Kitty, w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PMSunday, August 28, 2011
Zoo Roxy, EdinburghHuw and his family live on a remote Welsh mountain, ekeing out a living clearing the forest. It is heavy work, and they need help, and it arrives in the form of Yann, a yo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:34AMFriday, August 26, 2011
Royal Botanic Gardens, EdinburghThis is such a lovely idea. It comes from Fuel, a theatre company full of good concepts, who are rethinking where we might find theatre and what it might be.&…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:59PMPleasance CourtyardGo to the theatre and generally you know where to find the show: on the stage. But over the last few years theatre has broken out of the theatres and is running amok on th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:45AM 
