Friday, July 21, 2017
James Graham takes on the Sun and Rupert Murdoch, while the great Russian troupe bring Don Quixote and Swan Lake to the Royal Opera House1 The FerrymanNow extended into 2018, Jez Butterworth…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMThursday, July 20, 2017
Blue Room, Royal Festival Hall, London It’s hard to know who is acting and who is oversharing in a show that explores our personal experience of pornography – and tests the limits of the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMWednesday, July 19, 2017
Chichester Festival theatreDirector Daniel Evans draws out the warmth, comedy and emotional honesty of a musical that is often underserved by sentimental productions‘No smash, no blockbust…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMRunning a festival venue is about more than booking acts and selling tickets. From converting lecture rooms to spending £25,000 on Astroturf, we reveal the costs of putting on a showTen yea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMTuesday, July 18, 2017
Maddie Rice performs Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s filthy smash, Stacey Gregg delivers a scorching study of gender fraud and there are life lessons at a wakePauline Goldsmith resurrects her alter…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12AMMonday, July 17, 2017
So, David Mamet doesn’t want any post-show discussions of his plays. Companies staging his work are liable to a $25,000 fine if
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, July 14, 2017
The Wardrobe Ensemble looks back at the sexual fumblings of the baby boomers, while Matthew Bourne, Sisters Grimm and others visit Suffolk’s arts jamboree1 1972: The Future of SexThe Wardr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AMThursday, July 13, 2017
Soho theatre, LondonVicky Jones directs her own cringe-inducing drama of wine, bedsits and Tinder calamities, featuring a delightful lead performance by Amy MorganVicky Jones’s new play is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PMTuesday, July 11, 2017
Upper Campfield Market Hall, ManchesterThe folk songs of Lancashire workers combine with the gospel tunes of black slaves in a show linking the histories of England’s north and America’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24PMEdinburgh fringe was born in 1947 and its spirit is felt at festivals across the world, where talent is spotted and careers are forgedIf you’ve been lamenting that you somehow overlooked I…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36AMMonday, July 10, 2017
This zestfully filthy and vicious story of a destructive relationship makes Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? look sweetPlaywright Vicky Jones's debut is unapologetically brazen. It hooks you …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18PMMuseum of Science and Industry, Manchester In Theatre-Rites’ remarkable, rackety promenade piece, staged in the world’s first railway warehouse, actors tell their own stories of migratio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AM“I know what I like and I like what I know,” goes the old saying. It’s a cliche, but like many cliches
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, July 7, 2017
Revel in the over-the-top wackiness of the new Meat Loaf musical and take in Lucinda Childs’s poetic classic of minimalist dance1 Bat Out of HellRomeo and Juliet meets Peter Pan in this dy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMWednesday, July 5, 2017
Arcola, LondonThis powerful real-life account of life in Jenin in the West Bank, is a raw and sharply comic production, asking if the stage can be as powerful as an AK47Ahmed lives in the Je…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54PMMonday, July 3, 2017
It was right and proper that Arts Council England’s announcement of those who would be getting NPO funding over the four years
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMSunday, July 2, 2017
Centenary Building, Salford This Manchester foray into disaster survival, perhaps tamed by recent events, emphasises fun and craftwork rather than posing serious existential questionsWhat ar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMFriday, June 30, 2017
Richard Bean’s tale of war, loss and reproduction enters its final week, while Sadler’s Wells hosts Sisters Grimm’s river-inspired production1 Kiss MeRichard Bean is best known for the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMWednesday, June 28, 2017
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonThe experimental troupe’s revival of their 1998 show catalogues disasters and failures to probe the ethics of entertainment“Nothing will come of nothing,” …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:04PMTuesday, June 27, 2017
ACE has given a boost to theatres and companies, from the Bush to Talawa, that put diversity at the heart of their artistic policiesA greater emphasis on diversity in its many forms is refle…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMMonday, June 26, 2017
What’s the best way to train actors to give them an opportunity to develop and still serve the needs of audiences in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, June 23, 2017
Race fuels the drama behind the Orange Tree’s latest hit, while Alain Platel of Les Ballets C de la B returns with a darkly surreal performance1 RotterdamAlice has been living in Rotterdam…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:04AMWednesday, June 21, 2017
Bush theatre, LondonGender roles and domestic politics are the targets for fierce satire in this savagely funny drama about a soldier who returns to a broken home A marine returning weary fr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AMMonday, June 19, 2017
Arcola, LondonA satire set in a seedy nightclub turns a revealing spotlight on the evil trickery of the 1970s junta and the scandal of the ‘disappeared’During Argentina’s rightwing dic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM“There is never an easy time to slip away, but I wanted to leave at a time of our greatest strength and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, June 16, 2017
Hull Truck theatreAmanda Whittington pulls no punches with this rousing tale of solidarity that invokes the triumphs of 1950s fighter Barbara ButtrickBarbara Buttrick was a Hull pioneer: a f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMSimon Stephens grew up in Stockport, and couldn’t wait to leave. Now he has built a verbatim show, with Underworld musician Karl Hyde and director Scott Graham, about returning home – an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMJane Austen’s novel is transported to a foam party in Lyme Regis, while the season that celebrates older dancers returns with an ambitious programme1 GolemSly wit and brilliant use of anim…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMThursday, June 15, 2017
Bristol Old VicJulian Glover’s ruler faces down youthful conspirators in a smart staging by Simon Dormandy that brings together veteran and student actorsWith the rise of populist movement…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMWednesday, June 14, 2017
Trafalgar Studios, LondonThe One Man, Two Guvnors playwright has crafted a quietly funny, postwar drama about fertility, sex and survivalThere is the kiss of death and there is the kiss of l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMMonday, June 12, 2017
In early career interviews with the wonderful Juliet Stevenson, the tale was often regurgitated of how she was working with a children’s theatre
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AM 
