It is a stage sensation in France – not to mention Kazakhstan and Korea – but Notre Dame de Paris was panned by critics when it first hit London. Now it’s back, in the original FrenchE…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMRoyal & Derngate, NorthamptonMildred Hubble’s misadventures are told with wit and ingenuity in a touring production based on Jill Murphy’s booksJill Murphy was 15 when she invented M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMIskander, a theatre-maker and former NHS executive, succeeds David Jubb, who called it a ‘fantastic appointment’Battersea Arts Centre in south London has appointed Tarek Iskander as its …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMThe Egg, Bath French poodles face a dastardly end unless our swashbuckling heroes come to the rescue in this high-energy kids’ version of the classic adventure story‘Are you here for ze …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMNew show links HG Wells’s sci-fi novel and Orson Welles’s 1938 radio adaptation and explores climate of fear preceding the US presidential electionIt is one of the most famous radio broa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AMHackney Empire, LondonThis show has a dastardly villain in Jacob Peas Bogg and some spirited performances but there is nothing like its dameWriter-director Susie McKenna and composer Steve E…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AMNew drama Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile looks back at the life of the playwright who wrote Rita, Sue and Bob TooA new drama is to revisit the life and early death of Andrea Dunbar, the p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:04AMExclusive: New work created in honour of the late dancer and performed by Vidya Patel and Daniela Maccari, who has taken on his signature stage rolesA tribute performance has been created fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMKnow your strengths and eat boiled eggs … how do a musical-theatre star, a ballerina and an opera singer cope with the demands of their roles – and what we can we learn from them?The lig…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24AMThe actor, who is performing in Shakespeare’s tragedy on the Olivier stage, is to make her National Theatre Live debut with one of her real reptile co-stars When the National Theatre’s A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AMThree shows in London, New York and Los Angeles will be live-streamed in April, on what would have been the choreographer’s 100th birthdaySeventy-five dancers are to perform a total of 300…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMIn her new solo show, Haley McGee values the gifts her exes gave her, while rating how much fun they were – and how good the sex wasImagine an episode of The Antiques Roadshow where the ob…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMUnicorn, LondonFilskit Theatre’s winter warmer for under-sixes is a cracking tale of parenting penguin-styleMy five-year-old daughter Hilda loves penguins, principally Pingu and Peso, the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:04PMBerwick Kaler, who says this year’s show at York Theatre Royal is his last, promises loyal local audience a night of ‘absolute rubbish’After hundreds of frock changes, decades of in-jo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMDante or Die’s 80s-set touring show Take On Me celebrates community fitness centres and gives roles to locals If there’s a drama at your local leisure centre it’s probably no more than…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMSilbert – whose first job was as a Hampstead script reader – will leave Birmingham Rep for her new post in spring 2019Roxana Silbert has been appointed artistic director of Hampstead the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMPlaywright-director will take over from Madani Younis at the west London venue in JanuaryThe playwright and director Lynette Linton has been announced as the new artistic director at the Bus…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMMusical improv elves, cabaret and interactive hijinks abound in these festive shows for familiesRoyal & Derngate, Northampton, 27 November-30 December. Then touring. Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:32PMSuperstar comic will give first UK performances in seven years at the Hammersmith ApolloJerry Seinfeld is to give four rare performances in London when he brings his standup show to the Hamm…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMThe UK tour will visit theatres with a personal connection to the actor and performances will encourage audience members to share the stageIan McKellen is to celebrate his 80th birthday next…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMOriginal music by Imogen Heap features in the ambitious two-part stage playMusic from the triumphant West End play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has been released as a new album by the G…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMInstallation by the stage door honours stars including Bruce Forsyth, Cilla Black and Cliff RichardAndrew Lloyd Webber has unveiled a “wall of fame” installation on the exterior of the L…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:04PMJubb, who has spent 15 years in the role, is to leave the arts centre that has fully reopened after its fire three years agoBattersea Arts Centre, the vibrant London venue that recently full…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMThe Egg, BathWith two turntables, a street’s worth of houses and a German fairytale, performance poet Toby Thompson creates a beautiful show for over-sevensChildren live in the moment but …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMAlmeida director Rupert Goold says Anne Washburn’s new play Shipwreck will ‘wrestle with what Trump is both politically and existentially’A “nightmarish comedy” about Donald Trump,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32AMBritish dramatist, whose plays included Valued Friends and I Just Stopped By to See the Man, is celebrated for nurturing later generationsTributes have been paid to the influential British p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMThe Trills musician is used to her lyrics being used in trailers but her play Songlines puts her in the spotlight with the actors Playwrights don’t usually share the stage with the perform…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMMichael Patrick’s youth was blighted by a bizarre testicular condition and the death of his father. They provided the perfect material for his moving and wincingly funny one-man showWhen M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AMDance Base, EdinburghRamesh Meyyappan’s solo theatre show explores our daily struggle to hold it all togetherYou know the feeling. The alarm clock goes off and for a few seconds it’s all…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12PMDance Base, EdinburghThe four brothers that make up Taiwan’s Chang Dance Theatre share stories of family life in a tender and playful showOne childhood memory recurs in this vivid, bracing…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PMToilet-paper weaponry, cake-baking, nautical adventure and a drag pop concert … here are some of the festival’s most imaginative performances for young peopleSummerhall, 10am, until 26 A…
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