Friday, August 22, 2014
Writing a monologue about bestiality is certainly arresting, but does it deliver more than shock value? Yes, says playwright Rob Hayes its the closest thing to a love story hell ever write …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:50AMThursday, August 21, 2014
If you want to see Breaking Bad, Star Wars, Fawlty Towers, Doctor Who and Downton Abbey at Edinburgh you can, thanks to condensed parodies. Are they satisfying to perform and do the perform…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMWednesday, August 20, 2014
The Edinburgh festival show applies the techniques of immersive theatre to an indie gig, resulting in something genuinely groundbreaking Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMTuesday, August 19, 2014
The comic on making gags about your partner, artistic paranoia and whether comedy can ever be an agent of social changeReview: Sara Pascoe takes lively tour of her magpie mind10 questions fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:34AMMonday, August 18, 2014
Paxo combines clips, opinions, anecdotes and audience Q&A to make one of Edinburgh's most sought-after tickets Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:23PMFriday, August 15, 2014
Though its an unflattering portrait of the pop-culture columnist, Tim Fountains sequel to his Burchill play reminds you of her rhetorical force Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:41PMMusician Michael Burdett describes how he travelled the UK inviting strangers to listen to an unreleased recording by the cult British folk singerListen to Nick Drakes Cello Song from a John…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:38AMThursday, August 14, 2014
Underbelly, EdinburghCarefully concealing his masterful control of the show, the former Perrier winner explores the interzone between comedy, theatre and spoken word Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMTuesday, August 12, 2014
Both seasoned and new performers at the Edinburgh festival acknowledge the influence America's master of crazy comedy had on their lives and their acts Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:04PMSaturday, April 12, 2014
The new staging of Baz Luhrmann's film ladles on the glitz, but drowns out the simple human core that made the movie so well-lovedWith its motto "to live with fear is a life half lived&…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:22PMThursday, March 6, 2014
In this spoken-word show, the Pope of Trash signals his intentions to remain subversive into old age – and beyond, says Alex NeedhamAlex Needham
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:15PMFriday, February 28, 2014
David Sefton, the director of the South Australian arts festival, gives us his picks, from six-hour interactive Shakespeare to a career retrospective of avant garde legend John ZornAlex Need…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:59AMThursday, March 14, 2013
Dunstan theatre, AdelaideHaving played recently in London, where it got the garlic and crucifix treatment by the critics, Nosferatu has chased the sun to the Adelaide festival. This version,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:44PMMonday, March 11, 2013
The German Club, AdelaideA couple of days after The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart exits the Adelaide festival, another poetic adaption roosts amongst the tables, chairs and steins of Wei…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06PMFriday, December 21, 2012
David Eldridge's resonant and richly populated play put England's postwar paradoxes on stage – and it was funny, tooDavid Eldridge's In Basildon did many things. It proved that it was poss…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:08AMWednesday, December 19, 2012
In the second of a series of interviews with the newsmakers of 2012, Alex Needham speaks to the star who shocked the ballet world in January Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00PMWednesday, December 12, 2012
'Charmless, messy, lacklustre,' 'scrappy, lazy, inconclusive,' 'I wanted it to stop' ... The reviews are in for Jennifer Saunders' Spice Girls musical, and they don't make pretty readingOn T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:11AMSunday, October 28, 2012
It was a Scarborough theatre's budget Christmas show. Twenty five years on, The Woman in Black remains one of British theatre's biggest – and scariest – hits. Yikes, says Alex NeedhamRob…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:59PMMonday, October 1, 2012
In my humble, non-reviewer opinion, no single actor dominates this radical yet perfectly balanced production at the GlobeThanks to the World Shakespeare festival, one of the Cultural Olympia…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:13AMIn my humble, non-reviewer opinion, no single actor dominates this radical yet perfectly balanced production at the Globe Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:13AMMonday, May 14, 2012
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonWhat is probably Shakespeare's first play is not frequently performed – it was once on an RSC list of works believed to be guaranteed to lose money – so stagin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:44PMMonday, April 30, 2012
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonAccording to Ben Johnson, Shakespeare had "small Latine and lesse Greek" – but how would a viewer with no Greek at all cope with Pericles, hardly the Bard's most…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:19AMFriday, April 6, 2012
Actors' union Equity enlists famous names, including Antony Sher, to support gay actors who choose to be openWhen Antony Sher started acting with the pioneering Gay Sweatshop theatre company…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00AMFriday, March 30, 2012
Reece Shearsmith, Mark Gatiss and Steve Pemberton are performing in three of the most celebrated shows in LondonOn Halloween 2002 The League of Gentlemen's third and final series came to an …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33PMReece Shearsmith, Mark Gatiss and Steve Pemberton are performing in three of the most celebrated shows in London Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33PMTuesday, March 27, 2012
Variety of London theatre scene embodied in starry line-up, with theatrical comedy and musicals enjoying landmark yearThe Theatre Royal Haymarket has seen its share of glitzy West End talent…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:08PMThursday, March 22, 2012
Ten years after he first applied for the job, Doran becomes only the fifth artistic director in the RSC's five-decade historyGregory Doran has been named artistic director of the Royal Shake…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:30AMWednesday, March 21, 2012
The playwright with 40 years' experience at the cutting edge of British theatre will be online to answer your questions ahead of his Guardian Open Weekend event on Sunday 25 MarchSir David H…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:09PMTuesday, March 20, 2012
Cymbeline to be performed in Juba Arabic as part of Globe to Globe strand of World Shakespeare festivalTheir country is less than nine months old and still coping with the aftermath of decad…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:19PMTuesday, March 6, 2012
Ukrainian who stunned the dance world by quitting the Royal Ballet says he is bored of rehearsals and wants a normal lifeHe had been compared to Nureyev and Baryshnikov by critics and was ma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:23PMUkrainian who stunned the dance world by quitting the Royal Ballet says he is bored of rehearsals and wants a normal life Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:23PM 
