Monday, 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 02:28PMThursday, January 8, 2015
Twenty years ago, a critic caused a storm by declaring a dance piece ‘victim art’. Disabled dancers and choreographers who work with drug addicts and ex-prisoners reveal what has changed…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:30AMThursday, December 11, 2014
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonMining conversations with the disabled and non-disabled dancers, Hetain Patel’s Let’s Talk About Dis tackles physical difference with wit, guile and confidenc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:11AMFriday, November 28, 2014
A juicy piece by Israeli-Dutch duo Ivgi and Greben, and Darshan Singh Bhuller’s tender work about his father, are highlights in programme that plays it safe Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMFriday, October 24, 2014
With its incest and gore, John Fords 17th-century tragedy was not an obvious choice for the director of Constellations. He explains the allure of the play and of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:17AMSunday, October 5, 2014
From helming £4,000 plays straight out of Oxford, the prolific young director with a brain the size of a planet has grown bolder with each production. But what will she choose next? Continu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:30AMMonday, September 22, 2014
This classic musical is schmaltzy and shadowy and the role of Tevye the milkman continues to reward a star turn Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:22AMFriday, July 25, 2014
English National Ballet, LondonStriking rising talents bring added vim to this sugared-up tale of an inventor and his sexbot Almost human: why is art so obsessed with lifesize dolls? Contin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:51AMTuesday, June 10, 2014
Acting? It's weird. Lyndsey Turner? She's a 'grafter'. Brian Friel's Fathers and Sons? It casts her as the Hotel Inspector. Sort of. The star of TV's The Paradise on her return to the stage&…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMWednesday, May 21, 2014
Regent's Park theatre, LondonThis revival of Arthur Miller's 1947 war-imbued drama doesn't quite hit home, but intensifies as night fallsA plane growled over Regent's Park during the opening…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:46AMMonday, April 28, 2014
Crescent theatre, BirminghamChoreographers Kit Holder and Alexander Whitley made their mark in this intimate space at the International Dance festival, BirminghamSmall spaces have proved the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:09AMSunday, April 27, 2014
Sadler's Wells, LondonCrystal Pite and Kidd Pivot's take on The Tempest has an intriguing repeating structure, and probes keenly into Prospero's character, but feels somewhat held backShakes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:00PMThursday, April 17, 2014
The dark and panoramic Three Sisters has been relocated to the Middle East and set among British diplomats and military. The play's adapter and star explain why"The play has turned out …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMThursday, February 27, 2014
Rattigan's spin on La Dame aux Camélias was slated when it was first staged in 1958 and then vanished from view. Actor Rachael Stirling and director Michael Oakley explain why they've broug…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:20AMMonday, January 6, 2014
How do writers come up with character names? Some raid their emails, some plunder their school days – and some take inspiration from Psycho. Stephen Poliakoff, Abi Morgan and more talk to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:25PMWednesday, August 14, 2013
Costume designer who began her career in acting but won acclaim with her designs for the theatre and operaA baggy cardigan; a battered fedora; a starchy dress fastened high at the neck. The …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:55AMMonday, September 10, 2012
Barrowland Ballroom, GlasgowA decade ago, who would have predicted that the uniquely wayward Michael Clark would become one of Britain's most reliably pleasurable choreographers? Fierce cont…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:20AMWednesday, August 17, 2011
Innovative stage designer with a love of baroque opera and a painterly sensibilityIn 1972 Thomas Allen was a young baritone preparing to sing Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd for…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:52PMThursday, April 7, 2011
Gifted Australian ballerina and inspirational educator for ballet teachersIn Britain, few did more to keep the fragile art of classical ballet alive than the gifted dancer and supreme educat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:23PMThursday, February 24, 2011
Writing convincingly about theatre is the trickiest of arts. Does Simon Callow's prizewinning autobiography make the grade?Simon Callow is currently playing a nasty Toby Belch in Twelfth Nig…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:11AMTuesday, February 1, 2011
After the triumph of its Shakespeare history cycle, it seems that the RSC's once-great ensemble has lost its wayThe cycle of Shakespeare's history plays performed by the RSC (2007-8) was one…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PMFriday, January 14, 2011
Why are theatre rehearsal rooms such mysterious spaces? And why are dance rehearsals so different?To most theatregoers, the rehearsal room is a mysterious space: a crucible, sealed off to th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:58AM 
