Thursday, February 13, 2020
The defiant lyrics to the classic Les Misérables track are reverberating through uprisings in Hong Kong and China
It has soared during an airport sit-in, united street protests and drowned …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:03PMTuesday, January 28, 2020
The playwright’s son used to find it excruciating when people called him ‘Tom’. Now he’s embracing his heritage in the deeply personal family drama Leopoldstadt
It must be a nightmar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMSunday, January 26, 2020
In 1833, Britain took out a loan to compensate slave owners – only recently paid off. Juliet Gilkes Romero reveals the shameful history that inspired her play The Whip
‘This gives me goo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PMThursday, January 2, 2020
Can dancing digits really move an audience as much as real actors? Absolutely. Enter the miraculous, miniature world of Cold Blood, a dance and film show by Kiss & Cry Collective
It’s …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMMonday, December 30, 2019
With its defiant, irresistible, glitter-ball spirit, the La Cage aux Folles showstopper has been embraced at Pride marches and the Paralympics – and defined many a diva
I was leaving a wed…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMTuesday, December 3, 2019
What if Shakespeare’s evil king was a scheming, disabled high school student? The creator and star of a new play talk sexuality, shame and why being teenage sucks
Like its title character…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PMWednesday, October 23, 2019
The theatre designer on creating a family dinner at Agamemnon’s, an election night Oedipus and the night Fiona Shaw got stuck
‘You never know anything, you can only do your best.” Hild…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMFriday, September 6, 2019
This West End musical, featuring a barmitzvah and the song Four Jews in a Room Bitching, deserved greater representation – and raises other questions about identity
If this summer’s spat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24PMSunday, June 30, 2019
After a string of hits, the writer and director are collaborating again but The End of History, a drama based on Thorne’s parents, is filling him with anxiety
When Jack Thorne’s wife rea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36PMMonday, June 3, 2019
What’s the scene like in the rehearsal room in the third week? At fringe play J’Ouvert, injury leads to a frenzy. At the RSC, the actors scour footnotes. And on Captain Corelli they’re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMTuesday, May 21, 2019
These late 17th-century plays – with their sea of unfamiliar words – can be daunting for actors. But this disillusioned world speaks to our own age of uncertainty
‘It’s the most ter…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AMWednesday, March 13, 2019
The US has a rich tradition of Jewish theatre – but in the UK it’s been more circumspect. Artists from Hofesh Shechter to Tracy Ann Oberman explain why
I ask the Israeli-born, British-ba…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMMonday, March 4, 2019
The ghostly showgirls of Follies, Wayne McGregor’s spellbinding Raven Girl and the madcap world of The Cat in the Hat have all been realised by the designer, who looks back at five of her …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMMonday, January 21, 2019
They have always lost out on romantic lead roles. But while glamour fades, talent endures – letting these supporting stars win the long gameWhen the actor Paul Chahidi was leaving drama sc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:04AMFriday, December 7, 2018
As the director and playwright reunite to stage The Cane at the Royal Court, they talk about their friendship and the passion and pain behind their playsAn artistic director has no secrets f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMMonday, September 24, 2018
Leading dancer Laurretta Summerscales has said the endless repeats of crowd-pleasing classics is one reason she left the ENB. So why is it so keen on Swan Lake and The Nutcracker?How many sw…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06PMSunday, August 12, 2018
Sadler’s Wells, LondonBizet and Hammerstein get a Cuban makeover, played out here with charm and flairCarmen, the heroine of Bizet’s opera, is restless. She won’t be stilled or silence…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMWednesday, June 13, 2018
Barbican, LondonRhiannon Faith’s urgent show uses dance and participatory theatre to raise awareness about domestic violenceThis isn’t your usual game of pass-the-parcel. The silver-pape…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMThursday, June 7, 2018
When Rebecca Hall read it she couldn’t breathe. After Fiona Shaw played the role she got letters full of loneliness. This is the true story behind Sophie Treadwell’s trailblazing playIn …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PMMonday, May 21, 2018
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonValda Setterfield, doyenne of the New York dance scene, plays the ageing monarch in a collage of movement and textAnyone who has done time watching a theatrical k…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32AMFriday, March 23, 2018
Superbly expressive dancer who went on to be a choreographer and movement directorA lost man and a feral swan: it’s an unlikely romance. Yet the dancer and choreographer Scott Ambler creat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMMonday, March 12, 2018
Home, ManchesterDirected by Bijan Sheibani, Baker’s play follows five acting students whose role play reveals more than they expect‘I would like to say that I write for everyone,” the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMMonday, January 8, 2018
From gleaming crowns to bubbling cauldrons, from pink flamingos to forklift trucks, the Royal Shakespeare Company’s gigantic prop store is a place of jaw-dropping theatrical alchemy. Our w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMFriday, December 29, 2017
Crucible, SheffieldThis delightful production boasts a wonderful, wide-eyed Dorothy, a riotous bunch of munchkins – and a scene-stealing turn from Toto the dogPublished in 1900, Frank Baum…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMFriday, December 8, 2017
Tanya Moodie attacks the script with her highlighters, Pétur Jónasson starts at the end of a score and Sarah Lamb gets a good sleep. They explain how to avoid the moment all performers dre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMColiseum, London Aided by partner Natalia Osipova and designer David LaChapelle, Polunin throws himself into a trio of precise, deeply felt dances about himselfSergei Polunin is a dance star…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AMFriday, November 24, 2017
Tchaikovsky’s ballet of betrayal has inspired Darren Aronofsky’s psycho-horror, Matthew Bourne’s feral males and a shocking tale of Irish clerical abuse. Beneath the sparkle, why does …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMMonday, November 20, 2017
Playing Thatcher? Dab on Bluebell. Got a part in Hairspray? Reach for the Madame Rochas. We lift the lid on how actors use smells – from the finest fragrances to cheap tinned mackerel – …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24AMFriday, October 6, 2017
West Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsReece Dinsdale is increasingly nasty as the predatory architect heading for catastrophe in Zinnie Harris’s sharp rebootSomeone texts the master builder: “I…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMTuesday, October 3, 2017
The brainbox of British dance is creating choreography from his own genetic code in an adventurous new show. It’s the latest experiment at his hi-tech dance HQ, where the lift changes colo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AMMonday, 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 10:54AM 
