Monday, February 24, 2020
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – Tobacco Factory Theatres, Bristol David Mercatali – a director who’s something of an expert in intensity
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Terry Downes was a world middleweight boxing champion known in his day as the “Paddington Express”. James McNicholas, the sports writer, comedian
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Written in 2002, A Number is often described as Caryl Churchill’s ‘cloning’ play, but it’s so much more than that. It’s as
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:14PMAt last week’s Critics Circle Awards, Juliet Stevenson, receiving an award for her performance in Robert Icke’s production of The Doctor, argued
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I Think We Are Alone – King’s Theatre, Edinburgh Scott Graham and Kathy Burke co-direct Frantic Assembly’s touring production of a new
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It’s the time of year when a large section of London’s theatre community relocates underground to the dank caverns and pungent tunnels
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Caryl Churchill’s Far Away is a short play, but it’s not a small play: it’s global in scope, untethered by time, part
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In her fresh take on Ibsen’s 1879 play about a woman trapped in a stifling marriage, Stef Smith splits Nora’s story into
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Nora: A Doll’s House – Young Vic, London Stef Smith’s re-imagining of Ibsen’s play visits three Noras – played by Amaka Okafor,
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Fifteen young, Brazilian performers are at the heart of a show at Battersea Arts Centre, which charts the movement that swept through
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Ask Me Anything – Live Theatre, Newcastle-upon-Tyne The Paper Birds’ gently immersive new show takes its inspiration from the agony aunts of
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Spawning numerous sequels, remakes and homages, George A Romero’s micro-budget 1968 movie changed the horror genre forever. His vision of a relentless
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Faustus has been cast as a woman before – at Shakespeare’s Globe in 2018 – but Chris Bush’s idea-stuffed reimagining of the
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The Sugar Syndrome – Orange Tree Theatre, London Following the acclaimed production of Lucy Prebble’s A Very Expensive Poison, Oscar Toeman directs
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Uncle Vanya feels like such a natural fit for Toby Jones that it’s a wonder he hasn’t played the role before now.
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Lucy Kirkwood is a writer who continually tests and stretches herself, shifting from workplace satire to butcher-shop dystopia to an intense promenade
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New year. New class. Dan Gillespie Sells and Tom MacRae’s uplifting musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie enters its third year in the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:27AMFor many people, no matter how deep their love of theatre, the phrase “90 minutes, no interval” is still one of the
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Scenes With Girls – Royal Court, London The Royal Court starts the year with a new play by Miriam Battye about female
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Chaplin Chapin and Stan Laurel arrived in the United States on the same ship. They’d both honed their slapstick skills as part
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London’s subterranean arts festival gets bigger every year. Occupying a series of tunnels under Waterloo Station and increasingly spilling out into the
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Scrounger – Finborough Theatre, London Athena Stevens stars in her new play about the realities of living as a disabled person in
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The potential for things going wrong is a fundamental part of any magic act. The best magicians use it to their advantage;
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“I’m sorry. How much?” I asked, assuming I must have misheard, but no. £20 for two normal sized, in no way remarkable
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Operation Mincemeat – Southwark Playhouse, London Spitlip’s dizzyingly inventive musical based on a fascinating true story from the Second World War was
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Black Beauty – Southbank Centre, London Created by Andy Manley, Andy Cannon and Shona Reppe, this show for ages five and over
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“Together, we remake things.” This is said towards the end of Ella Hickson’s Swive [Elizabeth] at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. Hickson’s witty
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Snowflake – Kiln Theatre, London Mike Bartlett (Cock, Bull, Albion) brings his play about a complicated father-daughter relationship, which premiered last year
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“How can I be a head of a country and yet subject to a husband?” A reasonable question posed by Queen Elizabeth
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Australian actor Daniel Monks has realised a dream of playing both Joseph Merrick and Richard III. As Teenage Dick, an adaptation of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:46AMHaving worked wonders on Tennessee Williams’ under-appreciated and pretty flawed play Summer and Smoke, director Rebecca Frecknall works a similar magic on
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