Life has a way of carrying on, even in the face of catastrophe. With the world quietly coming to an end offstage,
Linked From The Stage Registration at 09:41AMGuildford Shakespeare Company has made some bold choices with its 40th production. This stripped-down Measure for Measure highlights both the striking modernity
Linked From The Stage Registration at 12:03PMTelling the story of two survivors of the Armenian genocide forging new lives in America, Richard Kalinoski’s 1992 play Beast on the
Linked From The Stage Registration at 06:15AMSet in the aftermath of the Second World War, as a new normality grew awkwardly from Europe’s ashes, The Orchestra is an
Linked From The Stage Registration at 05:59AMWritten at a time when US politics seemed merely infuriating rather than numbingly awful, punk outfit Green Day’s American Idiot brimmed with
Linked From The Stage Registration at 05:28AMMurder trial meets gameshow in Trial TV, the latest piece from immersive performance-makers Secret Theatre. With the audience cast as jurors in
Linked From The Stage Registration at 05:30AMIn October 1943 more than 7000 Jews were evacuated from Nazi-occupied Denmark, many being saved or sheltered by ordinary citizens. Examining the
Linked From The Stage Registration at 08:20AMGetting its first UK production in nearly 30 years, Arthur Miller’s adaptation of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People certainly feels prescient
Linked From The Stage Registration at 07:11AMLight, tight and cheerful, Barbara Evans’ boisterous staging of JM Barrie’s much-loved adventure might have had its story stripped to the bare
Linked From The Stage Registration at 05:51AMAdapting their 2011 movie Killing Bono – itself an adaptation of music critic Neil McCormick’s only-slightly-bitter memoirs – writers Dick Clement and
Linked From The Stage Registration at 04:16AMBenefiting from a serious dose of kids’ TV nostalgia, Sleeping Beauty at Wolverhampton’s Grand Theatre is a warm-hearted pleasure. Director Ian Adams
Linked From The Stage Registration at 06:02AMWildly uneven in terms of tone, Aladdin at the Orchard Theatre, Dartford, is more fantasy adventure than traditional panto, despite sticking close
Linked From The Stage Registration at 06:18AMCapping off the Barn Theatre, Cirencester’s first season with an enthusiastic musical revival, Just So puts a warm, light-hearted spin on Rudyard
Linked From The Stage Registration at 07:20AMThere’s a fine line between embracing tradition and going through the motions. Stripped back to the barest plot beats, this glitzy but
Linked From The Stage Registration at 07:36AMSmartly shifting the focus of the familiar fairytale, New International Encounter’s Snow White unfolds as a playful but unusually nuanced storytelling session.
Linked From The Stage Registration at 06:45AMLight, bright, and cheerful, Andrew Pollard’s Robinson Crusoe is a breezy adventure with a few subversive twists. After a boilerplate first half
Linked From The Stage Registration at 05:54AMBursting with energy and colour, Liam Steel’s Wizard of Oz in an inventive but faithful take on L Frank Baum’s beloved yarn.
Linked From The Stage Registration at 09:57AMFinding the tricky balance between spectacle and sincerity, the Marlowe Theatre’s Cinderella is a finely-tuned fairytale. Written and directed by Paul Hendy,
Linked From The Stage Registration at 05:59AMPieced together from what author and poet Nick Makoha describes as fragments of “memory and imagination,” The Dark is a richly textured
Linked From The Stage Registration at 07:26AMDaft and rambling though it is, the Watermill Theatre’s madcap crack at the story of Robin Hood has a certain chaotic appeal.
Linked From The Stage Registration at 03:22AMThe Big House is gaining a solid reputation for making raw, powerful work with at-risk young people, and Bullet Tongue is no
Linked From The Stage Registration at 03:05AMThe need to find meaning in the face of mortality is at the heart of Love-Lies-Bleeding, a swaggeringly bleak story of assisted
Linked From The Stage Registration at 11:41AMHighly successful in its own time, George Farquhar’s The Recruiting Officer is a wry restoration sex comedy with a subversive streak that
Linked From The Stage Registration at 12:47PMMarking the centenary of the Armistice, Return of the Unknown is a clumsy but undeniably ambitious interrogation of the act of remembrance.
Linked From The Stage Registration at 12:13PMActor, puppeteer, and author Charlotte Charke was an intriguing but often overlooked historical figure, a woman who, in the early 1700s regularly
Linked From The Stage Registration at 07:52AMFar more than any supernatural scariness, the simple inability to move on from the death of a loved one is at the
Linked From The Stage Registration at 11:29AMBeneath the war-torn fields of France, a desperate soldier becomes trapped in the mythic labyrinth of The Trench in this dark, compelling
Linked From The Stage Registration at 05:29AMExploring the limitations of language and the vacuity of political discourse, Summit imagines an unlikely, optimistic butterfly effect which begins when international
Linked From The Stage Registration at 09:54AMSprawling, cerebral, and at times unflinching in its dissection of radicalism at both ends of the political spectrum, Maydays tells an epic,
Linked From The Stage Registration at 09:02AMStuck on an international flight when she learns that her life has been spectacularly derailed, data analyst Lisa grapples with overwhelming feelings
Linked From The Stage Registration at 09:36AMChafing against retirement and a lingering alcohol problem, Ian Rankin’s maverick detective John Rebus cracks open a cold case in this latest
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