Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Old Red Lion, LondonThe wealthy Snelgraves, shut up in their house in a plague-ravaged London in 1665, have only hours left of a 28-day quarantine when their home is invaded by a sailor, Bun…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:58PMFriday, April 1, 2011
BAC, LondonBattersea Arts Centre's One-on-One festival offers bite-sized adventures and surprising encounters all across a building that feels like a giant dressed set waiting for something …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00PMTuesday, March 29, 2011
Riverside Studios, LondonNot so much six characters in search of an author as many more characters in search of the meaning of life (and several sons in search of their fathers), this ambiti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:57PMThe BAC One-on-One festival's 'men only' menu may seem extreme – but all theatre is constantly pre-selecting its pool of audience membersLast week, searching the programme of the upcoming …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:39AMMonday, March 28, 2011
Jermyn Street, LondonAn unknown 17-year-old schoolgirl called Sheridan Smith was the hit of Howard Goodall and Charles Hart's musical The Kissing Dance, based on Goldsmith's She Stoops …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:45PMSunday, March 27, 2011
Unicorn, LondonThere's much to admire in Trestle's staging of Oscar Wilde's story about the Spanish princess who is only allowed to mix with other children on her birthday, and who, on the d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00PMFriday, March 25, 2011
Crucible, SheffieldClearly not director Erica Whyman. She growls with real conviction at Edward Albee's great bloody beast of a play set on a New England college campus in the early 60s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:30PMThursday, March 24, 2011
Venues across BirminghamAt Birmingham's Moor Street station, the wonders of karaoke currently allow you to sing a duet with a soldier serving in the British army. I enter a small wooden boot…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30PMThere are bigger, showier festivals but Fierce understands it's not just the party that matters, but the traces it leaves"A poet's hope: to be like some valley cheese, local but prized elsew…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:17AMWednesday, March 23, 2011
Langham Community Centre, EssexThirty years ago, a lifeboat went out from a small Suffolk town one night to help the people on board a Danish coaster struggling in a storm. Only one man came…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:41PMTuesday, March 22, 2011
Programming Barrie, Coward or Du Maurier is understandable when times are tough. But if regional theatre wants to safeguard its future, it must look beyond plays of the pastA couple of years…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:57AMMonday, March 21, 2011
Shaw, LondonHas there ever been a time in the 2,500 years since their composition that Euripides's great anti-war plays, The Trojan Women and Hecuba, have not been topical? When audienc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:29PMSunday, March 20, 2011
Watford PalaceSpanning 40 years from first glance in 1967 to reunion in 2011 to the strains of the Beatles' famous song, Mike Bartlett's play focuses on Kenneth and Sandra, two baby boomers …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PMFriday, March 18, 2011
Swan, Stratford-upon-Avon"This island's mine," declares Caliban, and you can't help agreeing in this delightful adaptation, a collaboration between the RSC and the Little Angel theatre aimed…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00PMThe start of the Fierce festival means the spotlight is trained squarely on the West Midlands this weekThe big news this week is the Fierce festival in Birmingham, which kicks off on Tuesday…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48PMThursday, March 17, 2011
Southwark Playhouse, LondonThe human cost of the banking crisis and the spending cuts are explored in Theatre Uncut, an evening of eight short plays by leading writers including Mark Ravenhi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:58PMWednesday, March 16, 2011
Richmond, LondonRC Sherriff's account of life in the trenches shortly before a German offensive could be a creaky old war horse of a drama, with its talk of decent public school types, and t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:15PMTuesday, March 15, 2011
Royal & Derngate, NorthamptonIn the age of the blogger, we are all potential Mr Pooters, the dull Victorian bank clerk whose everyday doings in Holloway are chronicled in George and Weedon G…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:23PMWith the outcome of funding applications imminent, let's hope the Arts Council has tackled inequalities across the countryOn 30 March the Arts Council will announce the outcome of national p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:49PMWith the outcome of funding applications imminent, let's hope the Arts Council has tackled inequalities across the countryOn 30 March the Arts Council will announce the outcome of national p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:49PMMonday, March 14, 2011
AE Harris Factory, BirminghamShe is the woman you never really notice, like the maiden aunt whose name everyone has forgotten, lurking at the edge of an old photograph of a family wedding. B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:28PMSunday, March 13, 2011
Watford PalaceTanika Gupta's stage adaptation transposes Dickens's story of Pip, whose childhood encounter on the marshes with an escaped convict leads to future riches, to India in the mid-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:58AMFriday, March 11, 2011
Mac, BirminghamPhilosophy Rainbow, otherwise known as Sophie, is 13, and she's dying from bone cancer. But she's coping with her own mortality rather better than her sister, Peace …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00PMAberystwyth Arts CentreHow often have you visited a town and thought how nice it would be to be shown around by a local who could do more than catalogue the historical sites of interest…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:45PMPlaywrights join forces in Southwark against the cuts – and exciting shows around the UK prove they are right to fightIt's not often you get the chance to see new plays by Mark Ravenhill, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:35PMThursday, March 10, 2011
Cock Tavern, LondonThe world premiere of this play is a centenary gift for its writer, Tennessee Williams, and has received plenty of publicity. But whether it serves Williams's best interes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:39PMWednesday, March 9, 2011
Finborough, LondonCaryl Churchill's 1982 play, Top Girls, ends with a child crying a single word: "Frightening." She has woken from a terrifying vision of a future of limited prospects for a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:01PMTuesday, March 8, 2011
Royal Exchange, ManchesterNoël Coward's 1930 play is not quite the sleek comedy that it appears. Of course it is very funny, in its brittle, spiky way, as the characters hurl witty dialogue…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PMMonday, March 7, 2011
Barbican, LondonTony Briggs is an indigenous Australian playwright, and it is his mum Laurel's sense of adventure that is celebrated in this genuine, heartfelt but unconvincing compilation m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:29PMSymposium explored the importance of live performance in disability art practiceIt's the art and artists who tend to be marginalised at so many conferences, but on Saturday they took centre …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:34PMFriday, March 4, 2011
Shakespeare – and in particular the long-awaited reopening of the RSC's Stratford theatre – takes centre stage this weekAfter the Queen (such a celebrated theatregoer) opens the building…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:07PM 
