Sunday, February 17, 2019
By Lyn Gardner. Lyn Gardner, theatre critic for the Guardian, looks at how several British theatre companies are redefining their mission and expanding in ways to be of greater benefit to th…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:00AMThursday, February 14, 2019
Lyn Gardner talks to Writing Squad director Steve Dearden and finds out about how the company has helped writers Nick Payne and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:32AMMonday, February 11, 2019
Regular readers know that I love the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Going to Edinburgh feels like restocking the larder. I come away having
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AMTuesday, February 5, 2019
Newlyweds Nir Paldi and George Mann founded theatre company Ad Infinitum more than 10 years ago, but they are facing a new
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMMonday, February 4, 2019
I recall a conversation with a Jewish friend in the late 1970s, when the mini-series Holocaust was shown on British television. She
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, January 28, 2019
The news from the high street and Britain’s town centres is grim. A shopping centre in Scotland is up for sale for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, January 21, 2019
We are what we eat, runs the old cliché. But maybe we are also the sum of our tastes. We often wear
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, January 14, 2019
When I last checked the change.org website, 1,700 people had signed a petition calling for Cameron Mackintosh to retain the original West
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, January 9, 2019
Key industry figures tell Lyn Gardner why nurturing diverse new voices has never been so necessary: to rejuvenate and transform the theatre
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMMonday, January 7, 2019
Being shown around Kilburn’s refurbished Kiln Theatre last year, I was delighted by the new street-facing cafe that makes the entrance so
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThursday, January 3, 2019
If you want a glimpse of the future of British theatre then perhaps the best thing to do with this year’s The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, December 17, 2018
I’m going to say something unpopular, so please bear with me. I think Amanda Spielman may have a point. A couple of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, December 10, 2018
Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse’s request to withdraw from Arts Council England’s national portfolio as it reviews its business model will attract enormous
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, December 5, 2018
Making the decision to cut a favourite part of your creative project, whether for clarity of storytelling, to remove a joke that
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMMonday, December 3, 2018
Well blow me down, it looks as if the ground is starting to shift. The welcome appointment of Matthew Xia to head
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, November 28, 2018
Lyn Gardner writes about Stagedoor, a new app changing the way we access and view theatre, as well as the constant need for fresher critical voices. When I started writing about theatre in t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:36PMMonday, November 26, 2018
Why this play and why now? I often ask myself this question in the auditorium, while watching the action on stage. I
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, November 19, 2018
Last week in the Guardian, journalist Sam Leith wrote in praise of “difficult” novels. The piece was in response to coverage of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, November 12, 2018
On Friday, Mark Shenton drew attention to a string of recent interviews with Sheridan Smith, in which she was startlingly honest about
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, November 6, 2018
Ringing phones? Rustling sweet wrappers? Common complaints of ‘bad behaviour’ from audience members. But the author of a new book tells Lyn
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMMonday, November 5, 2018
A few weeks ago, I was in Athens for the British Council. I had a ticket to see the Greek National Theatre’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, October 29, 2018
Marianne Elliott’s re-imagining and re-gendering of Company is a five-star triumph. It’s not just the way that bachelor Bobby seamlessly becomes Bobbie
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMWednesday, October 24, 2018
Though critics and audiences might often agree when naming their top performers, it can be difficult to define what characterises the very
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMMonday, October 22, 2018
If you wanted a barometer of the rude creative health of regional theatre, then the recent nominees and winners at the UK
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, October 15, 2018
“It’s time to bugger off and let someone else have a go,” said David Jubb last Friday announcing his departure from Battersea
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:15AMEarlier this year, I wrote about artistic failure and what can be learned from making a piece of theatre perceived to be
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, October 8, 2018
At the reopening of the Battersea Arts Centre Grand Hall a few weeks back, artistic director David Jubb talked eloquently about how
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, October 1, 2018
Few working in theatre today, beyond a group of ostriches with their heads firmly buried in the sand, are unaware of the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, September 24, 2018
“You can feel the love,” declared Simon Callow as he stood beaming on the stage of the Questors theatre in Ealing earlier
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, September 19, 2018
The arts sector needs to own up to a pretty fundamental failing, according to veteran arts administrator Anita Clark. “The people who
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:34AMMonday, September 17, 2018
Much to my regret, I didn’t see Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s Emilia at Shakespeare’s Globe. It opened after I had departed for the
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