If British theatre design is in rude health – striking visual gestures, reconfigured spaces, images begging for interpretation – Jeremy Herbert isn’t
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMSoft power has become part of the arts funding lexicon: culture as integral to Britain’s international standing. Counter-intuitive though it may seem,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMJames Fritz explores modern love through multiple references to the US sitcom in his dark play which is about to open off-Broadway and embark on a UK tourRoss & Rachel. You know the ones…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMAre critics an obstacle to new audiences? As theatre looks to broaden its appeal, to diversify not just itself but its audience,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMArchaeologists unearth enormous 2,000-year-old auditorium – the first of its kind in UK – in hillside near FavershamRemains of a huge, 2,000-year-old Roman theatre, thought to be the fir…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:56PMWatching Sunset Boulevard last week, it took me half an hour to clock it. Was there really only one BAME actor on
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThe King's Head in Islington is to stage unproduced version of The Wesker Trilogy and new stagings of Denial and CaritasArnold Wesker, arguably the angriest of the Angry Young Men that shape…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:46PMTaking ‘artist in residence’ to the next level, Battersea Arts Centre is offering live-work spaces designed like 3D paintings‘Artist in residence’ is a phrase that gets bandied about…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:55AMAwards are easy to moan about, easier to dismiss outright. Trust me, I’m usually the one doing the moaning. I’ve complained about
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMWhen I was just out of university, wondering what the hell I wanted to do with my life, I got a two-week
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMThe show, which has played for seven years on the West End, has changed the National Theater and perhaps the industry.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:03PMSarah Kane’s ultra-violent Cleansed left them reeling in the stalls at the National Theatre last week. Was that a rare exception on an otherwise tame British stage?Has British theatre shie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMWithin a year, we’ll have had a Malvolia and a Queen Lear to add to the female Hamlets, Julius Caesars and Henry
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMIt’s a strong word, exile. It comes with connotations: hardship, criminality, rejection, regret. You get forced into exile, either by others or
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMShe was a last-minute lead in the three-hour Linda and will play JK Rowling’s grown-up Hermione Granger in the West End. Now Noma Dumezweni is making her directorial debut with a South Afr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:13AMStep backstage at a West End theatre and you cross a threshold: all the gold gilt grandeur at the front just ends.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:06AMActor cancels UK theatre tour of A Passionate Woman in order to receive treatmentActor Lynda Bellingham has been diagnosed with cancer, and will cancel a nationwide theatre tour to fight the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:28PMJames says sorry for criticising New York production of Sondheim musical Into the Woods, following outcry from fellow performersA Broadway actor has apologised for "trashing" a hig…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54PMIt’s July 2012 and I’m in Avignon – along with loads of other Brits. Complicite is headlining the international festival and The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMIn My Stories, Your Emails, Ursula Martinez has recieved criticism for using ostensibly private correspondance for a public show. Does she really need to ask permission?From behind a lectern…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:35PMThe oversharing cabaret star is back with a new solo show that takes in online privacy, feminism, anal hygiene – and onstage masonryUrsula Martinez has paraded her nudist parents on stage,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:26AMOwen’s retelling of a Greek myth in Cardiff earned rave reviews for its moral indignation. As it comes to the National, the playwright talks about his cri de coeur against austerityBefore …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AMHe has built an igloo out of Kendal Mint Cake, reshot The Matrix and launched a crocheted currency. Now, Richard DeDomenici is organising a funeral procession to mark the death of social hou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:19AMThere’s little in life as ambiguous as ‘creative differences’ – PR-speak for ‘don’t ask’. There are ‘X isn’t up to the job’
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThe four decades of storytelling through physical theater have had an impact on mainstream productions in Britain.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:26AMSeeing Linda at the Royal Court and Waste at the National, first during previews and then again three weeks later, revealed that both got better. But how?Can a piece of theatre ever be finis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AMComedian says offensive behaviour law is 'an attack on freedom of speech', and makes a joke at the expense of the McCannsOutspoken comedian Frankie Boyle has condemned new laws designed to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:29AMThe musical had a difficult birth, but Damon Runyon’s romanticised stories of gambling gangsters and sinning spinsters found their ultimate expression in Frank Loesser’s wonderful score.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:34AMThe company's general manager denies claims by a former ballerina that dancers were made to sleep with powerful patrons Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:44AMComedian's alma mater to offer BA in comedy practices that will cover performance, writing and the industryWhatever you do, don't dismiss Salford University's new degree in comedy as a joke.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:13PMThe Welsh singer-songwriter has turned his 2007 solo album Candylion into a colourful Christmas kids’ show … with a dose of political theatreWhen Gruff Rhys started gigging his second so…
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