Friday, August 16, 2019
By Barrie Kosky’s standards, his take on Tchaikovsky’s downbeat classic is a restrained affair. It premiered in 2016 at the Komische Oper
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:13AMOne of the many strengths of Scots Makar Jackie Kay’s poetry is its accessibility, and that’s a quality Tanika Gupta borrows in
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At the age of 30, Sephie is back in the Girl Guides. After three failed attempts she’s finally hoping to get her
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:39PMIf you can bear to sit through 35 minutes of very testing, very incomprehensible movement and sound, the payoff for Ontroerend Goed’s
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In her concept album on stage, Zoe Ní Riordáin uses sound and symbol, rather than story, to create connections with the audience
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:30PMJohan Harstad’s Norwegian novel, on which this show is based, is all about the deliberate quest to be second best – to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:15PMWhen Harry Josephine Giles catches the whining drone at the beginning of their multimedia cabaret, it’s like they’re squashing an insect, and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:57PMA woman walks into a bar. It’s not the start of a joke, but the end of Richard Gadd’s comedy career. In
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:29PMThe story behind this American musical is fascinating, but the way it’s told is less so. Henry Brown was a slave who
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Guy Masterson and Nick Hennegan have long form at the Fringe, separately and together. But here, with Masterson as producer and Hennegan
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:05PMFolklore and myth are brought dizzyingly up to date in Finn Anderson and Stewart Melton’s live-layered musical, using just two voices and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:54AMIt’s never unimportant to have unconscious bias made conscious. In this solo piece, Jack Britton – 5ft 4 3/4in – takes us
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Alongside Emma, Tilda and John is a different guest performer each day for this thrilling new show from YesYesNoNo. The guest’s job
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:55PMWith its latest offering a raunchy, late-night blend of cabaret and circus, Spiegelworld’s founder tells Tim Bano why Edinburgh Festival Fringe is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMBecause winning an Olivier award, being cast in the Game of Thrones prequel series, composing incidental music for theatre, dabbling in a
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Sorcha lives on the west coast of Ireland, she’s wanted to marry Marty since even before the Debs ball – he’s a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:31PMDoug Crossley has landed the role of Doug Crossley, ‘the part of a lifetime’ he calls it, in this complicated and funny
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:55AMFrom the off, Eve Nicol’s play, based on Belle and Sebastian’s beloved 1996 album, is fiercely sure of what it is. It
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AMIn millenarian movements, when the end comes and when salvation hopefully follows, it will be total, immediate and collective. It is always
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:31AMWednesday, August 7, 2019
One of four Swiss shows at the Edinburgh Fringe, Mercimax’s abrupt, intense experience takes us quickly into a stranger’s soul. Eight people
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:20AMIt seems like everyone’s a bit sick of true crime, including this true crime show. On the surface, it’s about the semi-true
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:48AMIt’s really, really difficult to fathom what this is and why. Stopping in Edinburgh on a UK tour, it claims to be
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:11AMAs well as the fun stuff that the 1990s brought – “He dun a poo! He dun a poo!” one girl squeals
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:25AMFor nearly two decades, playwright Tim Crouch has brought experimental work to the nation’s biggest stages. As his latest convention-busting piece opens
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We’re shamefully late to The Secret River in the UK. Kate Grenville’s 2005 novel is a high water mark of Australian literature
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Like a mirror image of A Star is Born, this one-man musical set in 1960s America follows Ash Phoenix as his hopes
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Whatever magic made Paula Hawkins’ thriller such a huge success – millions sold, bestseller records smashed – has been stripped away for
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Olivier award-winner Jenna Russell has built an impressive career playing funny, bright, complex women, but at 51 she fears the work could
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Tristan Baker and Oliver Royds brought theatre – and a real steam train – to London’s King’s Cross. Now, the Troubadour duo
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As resident company manager at London’s Royal Court, Joni Carter offers pastoral care and practical solutions to cast, crew and occasional live
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So, this is where it all began. Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, the dream team, wrote their Dream musical more than
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