Saturday, November 2, 2013
The UK's National theatre is celebrating its half-century with a star-studded gala, live on BBC2. Andrew Dickson is your underdressed hostAndrew Dickson
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:47PMTuesday, October 15, 2013
The National Theatre's new boss has an eclectic CV, and strayed off the beaten theatrical track. So how will he fare at the heart of the establishment?Interviewed by the Guardian almost exac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00AMMonday, October 14, 2013
The announcement is happening on Tuesday 15 October, and the bookies have closed their book – who's in the running to follow Nicholas Hytner to the top of Britain's leading theatre?Rufus N…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:43PMTuesday, September 3, 2013
As well as acting in Sherlock, Louise Brealey is now writing plays. She explains why her first subject is a female pope from the ninth century"I'm of the opinion," says Louise Brealey, balan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PMSunday, August 18, 2013
Royal LyceumThe unpigeonholeable creator returns with an 'ecological artwork' that is less avant garde than it is new ageWhat with Philip Glass and Patti Smith channelling Ginsberg, and alt-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:31AMFriday, August 16, 2013
Andrew Dickson thought he'd seen everything at the festival – but he reckoned without Gangnam-loving soldiers, kilted pipers from Oman and a directorial concept that encompasses the dawn …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMMonday, August 12, 2013
Royal Lyceum theatreIt begins undramatically: an actor ambles on stage and announces that we're going to watch footage of Richard Burton's 1964 Broadway version of Hamlet. But things begin t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:47AMTuesday, August 6, 2013
China's most controversial director is bringing Shakespeare's Coriolanus to Edinburgh – with two heavy-metal bands in tow. Andrew Dickson went to Beijing to hear t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMSunday, August 4, 2013
The story of the young Delhi woman who was gang-raped and left for dead is being brought to the stage – starring an actor who was once dowsed with kerosene and set alightOn 17 December las…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00AMWednesday, July 17, 2013
The star of stage and screen will be joining us live online on 20 July to talk Macbeth in Manchester. So what do you want to know?Since he burst on to the scene as an impetuous Henry V at th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:21AMThe star of stage and screen answered your questions from the Manchester festival. Here's what he had to say for himself Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:21AMTuesday, June 11, 2013
In our latest @GuardianStage tweet night, we're discussing political theatre live at London's Young Vic. What would you like to ask?In the six years since they first burst on to the British …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:47AMWednesday, June 5, 2013
Punchdrunk are staging their biggest show yet – a descent into the Hollywood dream factory – in a vast west London building. But have the interactive mavericks reached theatre's outer&nb…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PMFriday, May 31, 2013
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonThe last Dream to touch down at the Globe was the Yohangza theatre company's deliciously redefined Korean production: Puck was transmogrified into a double-act, an…
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMMonday, May 20, 2013
Share with GuardianWitness short video clips of you performing your own material, whether it's a couple of original gags or a brief stand-up routineAndrew Dickson
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:59AMMonday, May 6, 2013
Theatre types are agog at the arrival of a David Hare parody account on Twitter. Who's behind it?Forget Helen Mirren getting regally stroppy with drummers interrupting her West End play. The…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMThursday, April 11, 2013
Royal Court, LondonIn his final days at the Royal Court, you couldn't accuse Dominic Cooke of playing it safe. Before Christmas, he directed Martin Crimp's dizzyingly experimental In the Rep…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:02AMWednesday, April 10, 2013
From an opera about Jerry Springer to Helen Mirren appearing live in cinemas around the world: 10 landmark productionsAndrew Dickson
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:56AMMonday, February 18, 2013
'I decided I wanted to be a director at university. So I sold my granny's piano to take a show to the Edinburgh festival'Job: Incoming artistic director and chief executive of the Royal Cour…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:23AMSunday, February 17, 2013
Theatre has just gone through an extraordinary changing of the guard – with almost a dozen bosses at top institutions moving on. So are their young replacements planning a big shakeup?You …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:30PMWednesday, February 6, 2013
A spot of table dancing and some pressing questions about chickens were among the highlights of this post-show session discussing a spectacular new exploration of Yoruba cultureThere was on-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMFriday, February 1, 2013
Sadler's Wells, LondonThere's a shipwreck on an unknown island. Struggling ashore, the crew fall under the spell of a mysterious, godlike ruler who has power of life or death over everything…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:07PMMonday, January 28, 2013
Arcola, LondonLeyla Nazli's first play, 2007's Silver Birch House, attempted to cram a good chunk of 20th-century Turkish history into a realist family drama. Her new work is both more troub…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:53AMWednesday, December 12, 2012
Elevator Repair Service's epic, eight-hour adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby was a triumph of wit and theatrical ingenuity – and a heroic achievement2012 was a year of th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:31AMTuesday, December 11, 2012
This summer's new incarnation of the immersive theatre sensation didn't just live up to the hype – it blew it away. (Alert: contains spoilers)Perhaps it seems perverse to choose a show tha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:22PMThis summer's new incarnation of the immersive theatre sensation didn't just live up to the hype – it blew it away. (Alert: contains spoilers) Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:22PMFriday, November 16, 2012
'I've definitely done my best work when I've been able to spend a lot of time on it. I don't come to a rehearsal room knowing what to do.'tlksMichael Boyd remembers his first day as artistic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:43AMTuesday, November 13, 2012
Post your questions for the Mock the Week host and superlative funnyman, who'll be joining us on Wednesday 14 NovemberMaybe you want to ask him about what Alan Sugar is like when the cameras…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:28AMTuesday, October 30, 2012
The media are often accused of using a megaphone – we wanted our coverage to be a conversation. Thanks to your participation, that's exactly what happenedIt's over. The curtain has fallen,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:22PMFriday, October 19, 2012
Some theatregoers seem so anxious to post their reactions instantly, they tweet before the curtain falls. Isn't that missing the point?Midway through the post-show Q&A I was hosting at the W…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:58AM 
