Thursday, November 3, 2011
New artistic director's 2012 line-up will include Restoration comedy, European satire and contemporary British dramaJosie Rourke has announced her first season as artistic director of the Do…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:23AMHarry Potter actor set to dazzle New York alongside celebs of stage and song – and Sesame Street – in spectacle's 85th yearDaniel Radcliffe will swap Broadway for Sixth Avenue when he ta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:16AMWednesday, November 2, 2011
Laying an Egg, new play about middle-aged woman's efforts to conceive, will not now be seen at the city's Signature Centre in FebruaryThe world premiere of Edward Albee's new play has been i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:13PMTuesday, November 1, 2011
Studio award goes to London Bridge-based theatre, only weeks after its future is securedWithin a month of securing its future following the prospect of homelessness, Southwark Playhouse has …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:11PMRob Brydon and Katherine Parkinson also among performers for theatre's celebrity-studded overnight playwriting fundraiserMackenzie Crook, Lily Cole and Katherine Parkinson are among those ta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:22AMMonday, October 31, 2011
Derek Jacobi, Mike Bartlett and Peter Hall are also among the winners at Theatre Awards UKMichael Sheen, Derek Jacobi and Mike Bartlett are among the winners at this year's Theatre Awards UK…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:29AMFriday, October 28, 2011
The Old Vic's challenge to write and stage a play in 24 hours leads to an inspirational show of talent by young producers, directors, producers and actorsIt's 11pm and what looks like a chil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:00PMTwo brilliantly common-sense pieces stormed the world of theatre blogs this week by laying out completely oppositional stalls on the issue of making theatre more commercialIf Noises off read…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:15AMThursday, October 27, 2011
Performing arts institutions can now apply for exemption from government plans to make universities compete over students with the highest A-level gradesDrama schools could be made exempt fr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:14AMJukebox musical's premiere in the Australian city is postponed indefinitely due to the 'current economic environment'Rock of Ages has cancelled its proposed Sydney premiere following poor ti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:19AMWednesday, October 26, 2011
Grammy-winner emerges from audience of British theatre company's Sleep No More to sing duet with cast memberImmersive theatre company Punchdrunk are renowned for treating intrepid audiences …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:49AMTuesday, October 25, 2011
Italian theatre director accused of 'Christianophobia' defends freedom of expressionItalian theatre director Romeo Castellucci has responded to Christian protests against his work by offerin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:46AMRobin Norton-Hale's update of The Taming of the Shrew cuts out key elements of Shakespeare's original. Should some texts remain sacred or is it wrong to shackle directors?You'd think that th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:45AMMonday, October 24, 2011
Stoppard, who co-wrote the award-winning 1998 film, will adapt script for London theatre show with help of Disney, according to reportsTom Stoppard is adapting Shakespeare in Love for the st…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:25AMScenes of 'filth and depravity' in Anthony Neilson's revival of notorious 60s play provoke mass exitsThe Royal Shakespeare Company's 50th anniversary revival of Marat/Sade in Stratford-upon…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:44AMFriday, October 21, 2011
This week's roundup of the theatrical blogosphere is brought to you by the letter R, as writers around the world get stuck into questions of relevance, reflexivity and revoltA fortnight ago,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMThursday, October 20, 2011
Early 2013 premiere scheduled for King Kong: Live on Stage, with animatronics by team behind Walking with DinosaursAfter the Green Goblin's attempts to genetically modify the city's inhabita…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:20AMThe Light Princess, the centrepiece of the National's 2012 spring season, has been postponed indefinitely, the Guardian can revealA keenly anticipated new musical by Tori Amos, scheduled to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:58AMWednesday, October 19, 2011
Days after Katori Hall's The Mountaintop receives Broadway premiere, off-Broadway Kraine theatre hosts musical MartinA new musical about the life of Martin Luther King opens in New York toni…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:28AMGroup of Connecticut students objected to two male actors kissing on stage during visiting production of Zanna, Don't!A musical shown in Connecticut high schools as part of an anti-bullying …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:17AMTheatres up and down the land are eager to celebrate 400 years of the King James Bible. So why does the word of God work so well on stage?We all know by now that the King James Bible is 400 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:21AMTuesday, October 18, 2011
Rediscovered text of Exorcism, a one-act play drawing on O'Neill's suicide attempt aged 24, appears in New YorkerA lost play by Eugene O'Neill, arguably America's greatest dramatist, has bee…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:20AMFormer X-Files star will be joined by Oscar-winner Helen Hunt in Relative Insanity, a big-screen update that will see the Russian play relocated to present-day New YorkDavid Duchovny and Hel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:43AMMonday, October 17, 2011
Stage adaptation of Donn Pearce's novel, starring Hustle actor Marc Warren, is to finish next month after only 67 performancesTwo weeks after opening in the West End, the stage adaptation of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:02PMOn Sunday the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical will begin its first theatrical run in the Austrian city where it is setOver half a century after its Broadway premiere, The Sound of Music…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:53AMMonday, October 10, 2011
Choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker claims Beyoncé borrowed her routines in the video for new single CountdownA leading choreographer has accused Beyoncé of "stealing" dance moves, af…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:31AMTuesday, August 30, 2011
Members of the public have been invited to allow their phones to be 'hacked', forming the basis of six new plays on the scandalA London theatre is to "hack" the voicemails of members of the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMMonday, August 15, 2011
We cram too many shows into our busy festival schedules. Longer, more challenging performances are paying the priceThere's a strange symptom among Edinburgh festival audiences called the 50-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMMonday, August 1, 2011
A late-night bus tour through London's streets, as part of the InTransit festival, opened my eyes and ears to how far audio-based theatre has travelledSat on the N11 night bus between London…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMThursday, July 21, 2011
Katie Mitchell's new video installation at the V&A refracts Ophelia's death scene into five 20th-century dramatic stylesWho would win in a fight between the greatest theatre theorists of the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:35AMKatie Mitchell's new video installation at the V&A refracts Ophelia's death scene into five 20th-century dramatic stylesWho would win in a fight between the greatest theatre theorists of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:35AM 
