Monday, September 4, 2017
From mapping the journey of The Curious Incident’s teen hero to putting Shakespeare in prison and erecting a towering newsroom for Ink, Bunny Christie talks through five of her creationsBu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMTuesday, July 25, 2017
Royal Opera House, LondonThis cape-swirling, fan-clacking production is full of enthusiasm and excellent dancing – but where has our heroic knight gone?Traditional Russian ballets can be b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMWednesday, July 12, 2017
Hacktivists in ball pools, teenagers riding unicorns and a world powered by actors on bikes … Chloe Lamford’s playful sets take audiences by surprise. She explains how she creates them�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMThursday, June 15, 2017
Assembling a distinctive programme of work is a balancing act for directors. The team at Richmond’s Orange Tree theatre explain how they pair revivals of quirky classics with bravura exper…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AMThursday, May 4, 2017
From a play about Edward Snowden to an opera about Anna Nicole Smith, Miriam Buether’s stage designs always astonish audiences. She talks through six of her greatest creationsEnter the the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AMTuesday, March 21, 2017
As she becomes the first black woman to play Cleopatra at Stratford, Josette Simon explains why there is so much more to the queen than a strumpetAs Josette Simon neared the end of her drama…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32PMFriday, January 20, 2017
Designer whose stagings of classic ballet created an atmosphere of delicate enchantmentBy the time he came to design an elegantly Edwardian Nutcracker for English National Ballet in 2010, Pe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PMThursday, January 12, 2017
Coliseum, LondonCojocaru brings exquisite precision to her performance in English National Ballet’s atmospheric and richly picturesque productionThis is an inspired piece of curation. Engl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMMonday, January 2, 2017
Don’t expect to be in control, never stop looking for the next role: Siân Phillips, Timothy West and Janet Henfrey on how they turned acting into a life’s workActors don’t retire, the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMThursday, December 15, 2016
Sadler’s Wells, LondonAn aspiring ballerina falls under the spell of a charismatic impresario in a vivid stage version of the classic tale of artistic ambitionsWhen Powell and Pressburger�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36PMFriday, November 18, 2016
‘I’m surprised when people recognise my work,’ says Tim Yip. ‘I change my style all the time.’ His notion of ‘new orientalism’ in films, dance, theatre and opera is about commu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMThursday, July 21, 2016
Coliseum, LondonLeanne Stojmenov’s tomboyish vigour transforms Cinders into a resilient and exuberant heroine in this deliciously designed productionCinderella is a story about building a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:15AMFriday, June 24, 2016
Birmingham HippodromeJessica Lang’s rippling Wink, inspired by the sonnets, leads a set of pieces paying tribute to the great playwrightBirmingham Royal Ballet will unveil a full-length Te…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:34AMWednesday, June 22, 2016
She helped Scott shake his hips like a rock god in Birdland and set Fiennes boogying in A Bigger Splash. For actors, Ann Yee has all the right movesRalph Fiennes struts like a chicken, shimm…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48AMTuesday, April 19, 2016
Millennium Centre, CardiffValery Gergiev hares through Alexei Ratmansky’s brain-fizzing dance of dejection before plunging into Sasha Waltz’s ash-filled end of daysRussia’s great balle…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMWednesday, March 16, 2016
Rarely cast for frivolity, the star of Intimate Apparel is now seizing the role of Gertrude opposite Paapa Essiedu in the RSC’s Hamlet. She talks about going ‘cross-eyed with concentrati…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMThursday, February 4, 2016
Theatre director who brought Brechtian principles and puritanical rigour to his productionsProductions by the theatre director William Gaskill, who has died aged 85, were praised for their r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:46AMThursday, October 15, 2015
Theatre directors and writers’ estates do not always see eye to eye. As a new generation seeks to reinterpret Arthur Miller’s work, we lift the lid on the scandals, bans and breakthrough…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMSunday, August 30, 2015
National TheatreAn expansive production of Timberlake Wertenbaker’s penal colony play bristles with hope and indignationWelcome to Australia, so far from home. In the late 18th century, Br…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:04AMTuesday, August 18, 2015
Coliseum, LondonThe evil sorcerer looks as if he has escaped from a Cher tribute act and Tchaikovsky’s stirring score loses its pulse in the St Petersburg Ballet Theatre’s desperately or…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:20AMFriday, June 19, 2015
Birmingham HippodromeDavid Bintley’s sleek and gleaming new piece captures the moment, at the court of young Louis XIV, when classical ballet came of ageIn 1653, the teenaged Louis XIV pla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:31AMWednesday, June 17, 2015
Welcome to the worlds of Es Devlin, who has dreamed up domed catwalks for Louis Vuitton and arena spectaculars for U2, and won an Olivier award for bringing The Nether’s digital landscape …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMMonday, May 25, 2015
Critics and creatives may snort at our obsession with stories, but the need to know is what keeps us alive ... and in the theatre
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMWhy are theatre rehearsal rooms such mysterious spaces? And why are dance rehearsals so different?
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMWriting convincingly about theatre is the trickiest of arts. Does Simon Callow's prizewinning autobiography make the grade?
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMWriting convincingly about theatre is the trickiest of arts. Does Simon Callow's prizewinning autobiography make the grade?
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMWednesday, May 13, 2015
Line by line, step by step, how do performers prepare for a show? And how does it differ in the dance and theatre worlds? David Jays watches the warm-ups for King John, A Damsel in Distress …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:47PMSunday, April 26, 2015
London ColiseumJean-Christophe Maillot’s production is fresh and uncluttered but the lovers are sidelined in this flawed interpretation of Shakespeare’s tragedy Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00AMMonday, April 13, 2015
Margate Winter GardensFramed by looming white industrial foam walls, Jasmin Vardimon’s performance is enthralling – but falls short of its Cocteauesque inspiration Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:13AMSunday, April 12, 2015
Sadler’s Wells, LondonThe curiosity of choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui is a smart fit with NYDC’s 38 young performers in a challenging large-scale project Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:27AMMonday, February 16, 2015
Scuttlers, the playwright’s latest drama, is about the gangs of street-fighting kids who terrorised 19th-century Ancoats with belts and blades“After the 2011 riots,” says Rona Munro, �…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:28PM 
