Saturday, 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 10:20PMActors calls for public debate with RSC to discuss casting concerns in production of so-called Chinese Hamlet Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:16PMThursday, May 28, 2015
Choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker claims Beyoncé borrowed her routines in the video for new single Countdown Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:46AMWednesday, May 27, 2015
With cuts in funding, safer programming, shrinking audiences, new writing is the first casualty in this vicious circle. The Out of Joint founder says something has to change Continue reading…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:15AMMonday, May 25, 2015
Reviewers only give five-star ratings once in a blue moon. So does this mean plays have to be 'life-changing' or 'definitive' to achieve that ultimate accolade?
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMThe London venue's hamfisted handling of a blogger highlights the need for arts companies to rethink their approach to the web
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMThere can't be many theatregoers who haven't slumbered in the stalls. But what if a show consciously sends its audience to sleep?
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMTuesday, May 19, 2015
Having celebrated theatre’s grip on our memories last time out, I want to consider the opposite. What if the past proves a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PMSunday, May 3, 2015
In May 1965, The Times sent a 25 year-old theatre critic to review Saint Joan at the Bristol Old Vic. Half a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMSunday, April 26, 2015
Leo Bill pulls back his sleeve. On his forearm, three weeks old and only just about healed, is a tattoo: CAZALE. “It
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMFriday, April 24, 2015
The Lyric Hammersmith has reopened to the sound of singing and splurge guns. But this streetwise revival of Bugsy Malone is more than a nostalgia tripAs far back as I can remember, I always …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMWednesday, April 22, 2015
The vast majority of British theatre is by middle-class people, for middle-class people and about middle-class life. With their ‘loud’ new play about security guards on a night shift, tw…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMTuesday, April 21, 2015
The other day, a friend mentioned Katie Mitchell’s Women of Troy. It was the first show I wrote up at length and,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PMSunday, April 19, 2015
When Sean Holmes took over the Lyric Hammersmith six years ago, he laid out his ambition to turn it into a kind
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMSunday, April 5, 2015
It takes all of five minutes for Nick Salmon, Matthew Byam Shaw and Nia Janis – the three directors of Playful Productions
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMSaturday, March 28, 2015
Emerging. It sounds like a slow, gradual process, doesn’t it? Tentative. Bit by bit. Step by step. Robert Hastie makes it look like
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMTuesday, March 24, 2015
The West End is working. Thank God for that. News that Oppenheimer, Golem and Farinelli and the King have all found homes
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00PMSunday, March 22, 2015
Around a year and a half ago, Theatre503 nearly closed. An intimate, ramshackle black box space on the first floor of the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMTuesday, March 17, 2015
Marco Ramirez’s hard-hitting ‘play in six rounds’ is inspired by the first African American heavyweight champion of the world Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:52PMSaturday, March 14, 2015
On his very first day in London, Robert Holman went to the theatre. He had come down by bus the day before,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMSaturday, March 7, 2015
Harry Melling is over Harry Potter. “I kind of want to let it go,” he says. “It’s done.” The 27-year-old spent his
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMTuesday, February 17, 2015
Songs of Lear and Verity Standen’s MmmHmmm prove that choral compositions can be emotional, political and dizzyingly intimateA 10-strong choir – five men and five women – are stood in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:30AMFriday, January 16, 2015
Watch out Matilda, Billy and Charlie ... 2015 brings some striking roles for kids. But as The Nether’s director Jeremy Herrin explains, working with young stars can be a high-wire actLondo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:02AMWednesday, January 7, 2015
The backstage antics of Michael Keaton and his Broadway co-stars are the beating heart of this Oscar-tipped film, perfectly portraying the thrills and terrors of live theatre performanceRigg…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMTuesday, November 25, 2014
Madani Younis has inspired record audiences at his London venue. His new season explores central issues for the theatre’s local community – as well as a piece inspired by the US boxing c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:49AMTuesday, November 4, 2014
The story of Amanda Todd, who at 15 killed herself after being blackmailed and harassed online, is evoked in Girls Like That at Londons Unicorn theatre Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMFriday, October 31, 2014
Richard Sheridans grande dame from The Rivals is best known for her flamboyant word-mangling, but what lies behind the desperate desire to impress? Two actors whove played the role doff thei…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:59AMTuesday, October 21, 2014
Falstaff has been played as fool, villain, weakling and liar. Ashley McGuire, who is starring in the Donmars all-female Henry IV, and Joss Ackland, who has played the role twice, explain the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:02AMWednesday, October 8, 2014
Fresh from filming Hilary Mantels Wolf Hall for the BBC, the actor explains why hes adapted the Russian authors scuzzy existentialist novella for the stage Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:59AMTuesday, October 7, 2014
From George Bernard Shaw to Nicholas de Jongh, there is a tradition of reviewers penning their own scripts. So can you learn to write plays by watching them? And does being a playwright make…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:10AMWednesday, September 10, 2014
Alan Ayckbourn's latest work is less than the sum of its parts, says Matt Trueman
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 11:54AM 
