Monday, December 14, 2015
The 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:57AMThursday, December 3, 2015
Over the summer Elizabeth Newman was running a workshop for young people at the Bolton Octagon. She began by asking the teenage
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:15PMTuesday, November 17, 2015
“All you need is a story.” Those are the words that greet anyone landing on Papatango’s website. It’s the motto of a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:06PMThursday, November 12, 2015
In late 2010, Hampstead Theatre, London, opened a new studio theatre, Hampstead Downstairs. Artistic director Edward Hall had been appointed at the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMSunday, November 8, 2015
The millionaire standup comedian tells those who have sneered at his routines: 'If it's so easy then why don't you do it?'Michael McIntyre's brand of observational comedy has made him comedy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:46AMTuesday, November 3, 2015
I’m in New York, playing the theatre tourist. I’m ducking and weaving through Times Square, past two Buzz Lightyears, three Teenage Mutant
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PMThursday, October 29, 2015
Actor reportedly struck by Kenneth Branagh's sword at St Peter's Church, Manchester is treated by paramedicsMacbeth's reputation as a cursed play was bolstered last week when one of Kennet…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:09AMMore writers are under commission and on development schemes than ever before but the Royal Court receives 3,000 scripts out of the blue each year. Three of its shows this autumn were plucke…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:07AMTuesday, October 27, 2015
The glowing balloons of Constellations, flickering like thunderclouds; the canopy of light bulbs that entangled Maxine Peake’s Hamlet; the blinding white light
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMThursday, October 22, 2015
Experimental US theatre group the TEAM talk about their latest show tackling national – and gender – identity by reinventing cultural icons Beat this for a plot synopsis: the king of ro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:03AMSunday, October 18, 2015
Beat Generation will debut at this year's Jack Kerouac Literary festival in Massachusetts, 55 years after it was writtenJack Kerouac's only full-length play will receive its world premiere t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18PMTuesday, October 6, 2015
Funny things, press nights. Everybody – critics, actors, writers, directors – claims to loathe them. They go up late. They’re rapturously received.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PMMonday, September 28, 2015
Are all theatre companies, no matter how experimental, drawn to the Bard? Emma Rice, Simon McBurney, Tim Crouch and others reflect on their approaches to a playwright who ‘can take kabuki,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AMSunday, September 27, 2015
US standup branded 'a bully with a microphone' after targeting Allison Pearson for her views on assisted suicideAmerican standup comedian Doug Stanhope has faced criticism after a tweet wish…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:21PMTuesday, September 8, 2015
A few years ago, in its old home by Bristo Square, Forest Fringe held a robot disco. It wasn’t a show, but
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PMMonday, September 7, 2015
Agents take a lot of flak. They are easy fall guys – the obvious people to blame when you are not getting
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMThursday, August 20, 2015
Scottish comedian says he 'searched deep' to create taboo-busting material and is not amused by comics who follow suitScottish comedian Jerry Sadowitz has lambasted comedians who toy with ta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:52AMTuesday, August 11, 2015
Edinburgh is for exploring. That’s the fun of the fringe: taking a punt on some oddball show in a damp, disused bank
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PMSaturday, August 8, 2015
If it takes one great performance to notice an actor and one great play to spot a playwright, other creatives can be
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMWednesday, July 22, 2015
Staff from Dunfermline's Alhambra posed with swastika flags from production of The Sound of Music outside Fife council officesFive theatre workers have been detained by police in Fife after …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:21AMTuesday, July 14, 2015
Mrs Bennett is a black woman in a bonnet. Two of her daughters are black, two more are white. The fifth, Elizabeth,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PMMonday, July 13, 2015
She’s the cross-dressing heroine who leaves the court and is set free in the forest of Arden. Ronald Pickup and Michelle Terry, who played Rosalind 40 years apart, explain how they approac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:19AMTuesday, July 7, 2015
As a revival of David Halliwell’s cult comedy about disaffected youth and fascism opens in London, his friend and collaborator Mike Leigh says he should have been up there with Pinter and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:01AMMonday, July 6, 2015
Monday morning at the Riding House Cafe is business breakfast meeting o’clock. As cafes go, it’s very London 2015: Shoreditch chic cleaned
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMTuesday, June 30, 2015
Star ballerina overcomes hardship and injury to become American Ballet Theatre's first black soloist in 20 yearsA ballerina who lived in a single motel room with her mother and five siblings…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:19PMWednesday, June 24, 2015
As Stephen Fry returns to the theatre after fleeing a performance 17 years ago, Salma Hayek, John Simm and Eileen Atkins share their own experiences of 'the actor's nightmare'Stephen Fry cou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:58PMSaturday, June 20, 2015
In the Young Vic’s Clare studio, about 30 women are on stage dancing. None of them are professional performers. They’re carers, all
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:27AMTuesday, June 16, 2015
Six men are dancing with six fencing foils. Blades and limbs swish sharply through the air. Six women in starched black ballgowns
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PMSaturday, June 13, 2015
I’m the playwright without productions,” Elinor Cook laughs, somewhere between a scoff and a giggle. “A lot of people know who I
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMWednesday, June 10, 2015
Miller’s never-before-seen drama, set in the dark, dangerous world of New York’s waterfront, unlocked the playwright’s identity – and sowed the seeds of his marriage to Marilyn Monro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:09AMSaturday, May 30, 2015
RSC criticised for producing The Orphan of Zhao, regarded as Chinese equivalent of Hamlet, with predominantly white cast Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:20PM 
