The Hamilton Complex explores our attitudes towards girls on the cusp of adulthood and uses adolescence as a metaphor for society’s uncertaintyIn 1971, the British photographer David Hamil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:34AMTheatre has found all sorts of lively ways to represent death – it’s been done with butchered cabbages and even bright pink blancmangeBugsy is back in town. I mean Bugsy Malone, Sean Hol…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:10AMThe latest from the brilliant Anthony Neilson opens at the Royal Court, Dundee Rep hosts girls behaving badly, Howard Jacobson relives his Manchester childhood, and the On the Edge festival …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:57AMBarbican, LondonSet amid the Indigenous Australian community, this loose adaptation by Melbourne’s Malthouse Theatre stirs Shakespeare’s text into a rich linguistic stewKing Lear has len…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMOur Ladies Of Perpetual Succour | The Flying Lovers Of Vitebsk | Matilda The Musical | Cuttin’ It | The AlchemistHeading to the National Theatre in August, Lee Hall’s adaptation of Alan …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:14AMThe Pit, LondonThis 45-minute plunge into Japanese celebrity mania is like a cross between reality TV, Les Mis and a toddlers’ food fightWe are often told, “you will never have seen anyt…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:26AMIn getting to parts that other arts don’t reach, outdoor shows attract audiences that genuinely represent the wider population, as a new study findsThe weather may still be a bit iffy, but…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AMWest Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsAlice Nutter’s gripping story of munitions factory workers is full of verve, but veers towards soap operaThe “women behind the guns” were the thousands o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:57AMA critic who tweeted the title of the Lyric's new season sparked outrage – and possibly drove audiences to the theatreI love going to the theatre when I don't know very much about a show, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:40PMShows such as Philip Ridley’s Karagula aim to entice audiences with the promise of a mysterious venue. All too often, this has little relevance to the play itself“Immersive” was once t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:15AMGroundbreaking European theatre arrives in Birmingham, Slung Low commune with the fairy world in Stratford-upon-Avon, and 1984 returns to the West EndThe Offbeat festival starts at the Old F…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:09AMStyx, LondonPhilip Ridley’s three-hours-plus tangle of dystopian fantasies doesn’t lack for imagination, but is undone by its own excessesIn fairytales, communities ensure their continue…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:51AMThe Truth | Bird | The Curious Incident Of The Dog in The Night-Time | Cuttin’ It | Can I Start Again PleaseThe Florian Zeller hit factory just keeps on delivering. First came The Father, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMShows around the UK are underpinned by countless unpaid hours, short-term contracts and decreasing fees. At a time of cuts, artists are afraid to rock the boatThe Office for National Statist…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMThe Pit, LondonA shattered ballroom is the setting for Greek company Blitz’s apocalyptic vision of a lost continent where catastrophe is political and emotionalLondon has gone dark, Paris …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMCircus is a celebration of being alive – so what happens when acrobats perform in a graveyard? Yaron Lifschitz of the Australian ensemble talks about the dusk staging of their eerie new pi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:51AMIt’s the last chance to see many big shows, London and Yorkshire festivals bring drama, dance and and site-specific treats, Chagall’s lovers fly into the Globe, and Timothy West plays Ki…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:28AMUstinov, BathFlorian Zeller’s Molière award-winning play, starring Lia Williams and Kenneth Cranham, takes us into the confused world of an elderly man and his carer daughterThere is usua…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:08PMBugsy Malone | The James Plays | People, Places & Things | The Night Watch | The FlickSplurge guns at the ready! Sean Holmes’s delicious revival of Alan Parker’s New York gangster mu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:22AMThe fringe programme is out today – so here’s a venue-by-venue look at some of this year’s highlights across the Edinburgh festival. Let us know what’s caught your eye Continue readi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:08AMThe omens look good for the first instalment of the two-part play, which previews at the Palace theatre in London tonight – and hardly needs critics’ star ratings to be a successMany are…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24AMPlaywright best known for The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Equus and AmadeusAlthough the playwright Sir Peter Shaffer, who has died aged 90, wrote one of the best farces of postwar British theatre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32PMIn the latest part of her ‘empathy museum’, Clare Patey invites audiences to put on a stranger’s footwear and take a walk while listening to the shoe-owner’s personal story on headph…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PMBristol Old VicEmma Rice’s final Kneehigh show is a love letter to the company she founded as much as a celebration of Marc and Bella Chagall and their lost Russian-Jewish worldThere is a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:15AMIsabelle Huppert plays Phaedra and Mike Bartlett’s new play Wild opens, plus the rest of the week’s unmissable theatreThere are lots of great shows starting in the London international f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:05AMBird | Beyond Caring | Show Boat | People, Places And Things | The FlickLike a fragile bird whose fiercely beating heart can be detected in your cupped hand, Katherine Chandler’s Bruntwood…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AMHackney Empire, LondonThe US drag artist raised the roof on the London international festival of theatre with a raucous opening night of songs, sequins and joyous misgendering“Normally I c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:10AMLong treated as a final flourish, sound design is now sitting at the heart of theatre productions – and new technology means it can make drama more tense and terrifying than ever beforeYae…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:08AMVia bold collaborations with Maxine Peake and a ruthless self-analysis, Frankcom has shrugged off the ‘regional theatre’ tag at Manchester’s Royal Exchange. The argumentative director …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:38AMTheatre Royal, BrightonNeil Bartlett returns to the scandalous story of Ernest Boulton in a piece that doesn’t quite deliver emotionally but has moments when it glows brightlyA loud knock …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:30AMSherman, CardiffPatrick Jones’s play is as messy as life can be, but its honest, unsentimental approach and terrific cast ensure it strikes directly at the heartTo be honest, Patrick Jones…
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