Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Designer Terry Parsons is back where it all began, at Belgrade Theatre, five decades after getting his first job there. He tells
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Following Bananaman and Eugenius, here’s another in what’s becoming a trend: the comic book-based musical. But while those two shows focused on
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It’s no surprise that the Orpheus and Eurydice myth has so often tempted songwriters. It’s a brilliantly tragic story about the power
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The magician wowed TV audiences with spectacular feats then took to arena tours, before Crohn’s disease laid him low. Now he’s back,
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It’s 12 years since Gavin and Stacey’s Ruth Jones was last on stage. This play by William Gaminara, touring ahead of a
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There must have been a reason why this didn’t open the newly done up Kiln Theatre in September. Parts of Zadie Smith’s
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Like The Pillowman, Martin McDonagh’s supreme 2003 play, his latest work is also about a storyteller – in this case Hans Christian
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The Royal Albert Hall has done musical spectaculars before. The 10th anniversary production of Les Mis, the 25th anniversary of Phantom, the
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Musicals before Company tended to have more of a plot. Maybe someone fell in love with a member of a rival gang,
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This is the first time English National Opera has done Porgy and Bess, It’s a tricky show to pull off: written by
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‘Running’ has a double meaning in this new play by David Hare: both the political sense of running for office and the
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Gods know where the idea came from, but Marcus Stevens and Oran Eldor’s pop musical uses the Greek pantheon and its myths
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:51PMAngel-voiced Ramin Karimloo always seems genuinely humble. It’s an incredibly endearing quality, but doesn’t always aid this kind of evening when the
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Nine million Londoners. That’s a lot of stories to tell. Writer James Graham and director Thomas Hescott have attempted to collect some
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:25PMAs her all-female Much Ado About Nothing hits the stage, the artistic director of Watford Palace Theatre talks to Tim Bano about
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Here’s art not for art’s sake, but for very little sake at all. Nick Dear’s portrait of a young, horned-up William Hogarth,
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As the company celebrates its 25th anniversary, the award-winning director tells Tim Bano the occasion is giving him a chance to take
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To use only simple elements was Jean Cocteau’s aim for La Voix Humaine. “Not to rely too heavily on the production to
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Heather, Heather and Heather. Not only supercool high school megabitches but, thanks to Daniel Waters and Michael Lehmann’s 1989 cult film, style
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06PMThe idea with Carl Miller and Christopher Ash’s willfully weird show is that the Brontes were like a rock band. The musical
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After wading through the daft protests outside the Kiln Theatre, the newly refurbished, rechristened building is beautiful. The auditorium feels wider and
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A few years ago twice Pulitzer-finalist Stephen Karam came across a risible self-help book called Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.
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Tom Wells is master of the adorkable. There’s a lovely, gentle, huggable quality to his plays. And that continues here, although perhaps
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From humble beginnings, the Pleasance has risen to become one of the biggest venues at the world’s biggest arts event – the
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This isn’t a Jon Bon Jovi jukebox musical. Well it is and it isn’t. It’s definitely a very clever deconstruction and fond
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:31PMAlthough Boxless makes physical theatre, the strongest moments in this piece about the impact of music on different generations come from the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:02PMIt’s apt for a show about fake news and the bombardment of information in the digital age that most of the time
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:13AMWhen it’s good, this is what the fringe excels at: a really tightly written, deftly performed monologue. And this is good. Growing
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:41AMIt’s a bit difficult to grasp, this. The idea that nothing has happened until it’s happened. And before that moment, infinite outcomes
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:27AMIt takes brass to tackle Mistero Buffo. Dario Fo’s twisted mystery play was a showcase for the late great man himself, as
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