Friday, 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 04:58AMTuesday, October 16, 2012
A big thank you to everyone for getting involved in our open journalism project – and it isn't over yet. As well as our tweet night, we're doing a webchat with Zoe Boyle and Jamie Parker, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMMonday, October 8, 2012
The debate we held after a performance of Three Sisters raised some fascinating points about criticism in the age of social media – what do you think?Sign up for our next tweet night, at W…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:41AMThursday, August 16, 2012
Standup Russell Kane talks to Andrew Dickson about issues with echoes, the lesser stresses of books, and biological clocksSo you've just arrived in Edinburgh, and your show is already beset …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:43PMMonday, August 13, 2012
Watch timelapse behind the scenes as the set for TR Warszawa's spectacular production of Macbeth is constructed in a vast warehouse near Edinburgh airportAndrew DicksonCameron Robertson
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:22AMSunday, August 12, 2012
A mosque is stormed, its inhabitants are butchered … Andrew Dickson on a Macbeth set in today's Middle EastIt is, in fairness, the Scottish play. But rarely has Macbeth been so inescapable…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PMFriday, August 10, 2012
'I hate the word "production". It's a ceremony, a ritual - you should go out of the theatre more human than when you went in'Beyond the péripherique, a short drive through the Bois de Vince…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:31AMAt the 2012 Edinburgh festival, Springsteen obsessive Sarfraz Manzoor talks about his one-man comedy show The Boss RulesAlex HealeyAndrew Dickson
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:08AMMonday, August 6, 2012
To mark the beginning of the Edinburgh festival, we're giving the blog a makeover – and bringing one of our critics centre stageBig day for us today. Not only is the Edinburgh festival ju…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMComedian Alex Horne tells Andrew Dickson about improvisation, Tellytubbies and the terrible dangers of Beyoncé dancesOK, so what's with all this Horne Section malarkey? It's comedians mucki…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:30AMFriday, August 3, 2012
Our crack team – plus a host of comedians – are poised and ready to deliver daily reviews, news, interviews, videos, podcasts and insider tips from the very bowels of the festival. Join …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMMonday, July 30, 2012
Mike Pearson and Mike Brooks are constantly pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved in site-specific theatre. So what have they got planned for their mash-up of Shakespeare and Brecht…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:01PMThursday, June 7, 2012
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonThough there's been plenty of error in Afghan politics in the past few decades, we've seen precious little comedy – as the most recent news, a triple suicide bom…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:22AMSaturday, May 26, 2012
Young Vic, LondonFor a director who once threw everything he could at the stage – Japanese bunraku puppetry to Hindu epics – Peter Brook has latterly discovered the art of the exquisite …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMFriday, May 25, 2012
As his version of The Suit based on a township short story by the South African dissident Can Themba reaches the Young Vic in London, legendary director Peter Brook meets Andrew Dickson to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:11AMWednesday, May 23, 2012
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonA gaunt and arthritic king totters on stage, his head a thatch of matted white hair – then, grinning, he springs up like a jack-in-the-box and whisks off the wig…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:13PMFriday, May 11, 2012
National Theatre of Scotland head takes job described by one predecessor as theatre's equivalent to England managerAn American producer may have once joked that British theatre was entirely …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:02PMThursday, May 10, 2012
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonWhat's Titus Andronicus really about? On one level, it's Shakespeare's most conspicuously show-offy tragedy: an earnest homage to Seneca and Ovid that reads, on th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMWednesday, May 2, 2012
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonOne's heart goes out to the National Theatre of China, hit by a calamity of Shakespearean proportions as they prepared to make their British debut in the Globe to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:53AMMonday, April 23, 2012
Shakespeare's GlobeNo one could accuse Shakespeare's Globe of lacking nerve. Not only does their contribution to the World Shakespeare festival include almost every work in the canon, each i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:53PMFriday, April 20, 2012
The World Shakespeare festival, with performances from across the globe in nearly 50 languages, begins this weekend. Andrew Dickson travelled to India to watch rehearsals for a Bollywood ver…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:15AMWednesday, April 4, 2012
Novello, LondonThis revival of Michael Frayn's farce to end all farces was extravagantly garlanded when it first opened at the Old Vic. With two Olivier award nominations safely in the bag, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:29PMMonday, March 26, 2012
I was half-expecting a 'Rooster' Byron-style hellraiser. Instead, the playwright treated us to reflections on theatre full of modesty and dry humourAfter a week or so living inside the world…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:30PMFriday, March 9, 2012
'I kept thinking, I should be playing that part, but then I'd remember that the actor doing it was posh'On the looming cliff-face of Dean Clough mill in Halifax there sits an enormous sign, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:55PMWednesday, February 29, 2012
What kind of a man was Shakespeare? A cold husband and a cruel father – or quite the party man? Patrick Stewart and Simon Callow recreate his life in two very different productions'I've al…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:31PMTuesday, January 31, 2012
What can an all-black production add to Waiting for Godot? Andrew Dickson finds outIn what used to be a warehouse in Leeds, two men are waiting for something – anything – to happen. One …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:01PMFriday, November 18, 2011
'The skills involved in working with a musical score and lyrics are every bit as particular as the skills required in putting on a Shakespeare play'When Trevor Nunn was about to take over at…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:05AM'The skills involved in working with a musical score and lyrics are every bit as particular as the skills required in putting on a Shakespeare play' Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:05AMSunday, November 13, 2011
Michael Sheen's take on the Dane is getting all the attention – but could director Thomas Ostermeier's radical version blow it away?Thomas Ostermeier's production of Hamlet is a shambles �…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:28PMMonday, October 24, 2011
Comedian and Beyoncé impersonator Russell Kane is in at 3pm today to answer your questions. Waddaya wanna ask?There are few male comics of whom you could say that it's a close call which is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:21AMSaturday, October 22, 2011
Royal Shakespeare, Stratford-upon-AvonPeter Brook's notorious staging of Marat/Sade in 1964 may be one of the landmarks of British drama – the moment when the newly formed RSC went S&M –…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07PM 
