“There was a feeling that people all around me turned from fear to ‘We will win’” The first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine affords a rare opportunity to get the in…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMIt’s not that Sarah Kane had magical powers, but that she was with total integrity exploring her question. And there were a lot of amazing questions at that time.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM'In terms of the future, we want 503 to be resilient and it feels like our community of audience and artists believe in the necessity of an organisation such as ours. At the same time, there…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThe more you think about the invitation to the audience – as you say ‘come, be blocked off behind screens, we will spray you and present shows where actors stand apart, and we will try t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM'It feels to me like, with The Great Gatsby, we had an opportunity, and resulting from that a duty, to use the show to work out some of the key things that might help the industry as a whole…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM'We’ve spent seven years building to this point and three years to open the thing, changed the area and culture of the place, and in the snap of the fingers, it’s a ghost town.'
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM'The major question is that the majority of theatres cannot open with social distancing in place – it’s impossible, for economics, for the business case let alone the experience, it just…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM'The real unknown is when people are going to want to go back into the theatres, regardless of government advice. We don’t know that. It will be a long road.'
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM'I actually managed to be quite philosophical about it in the end. There’s a sense that we’re all in it today, and there are much bigger things at play, like people dying and getting sic…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM"As soon as the theatres closed in the week of 16 March 2020, we thought ‘we need to remember we’re a theatre and think about what our role in relation to the city might be in this stran…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMAs the weeks of lockdown continue, with theatres up and down the country and around the world closed for the foreseeable future, I caught up with another artistic director, Anthony Biggs of …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWeeks into lockdown, with theatres up and down the country and around the world closed for the foreseeable future, I caught up with the artistic directors of Cirencester's Barn Theatre, Bela…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMOn the weekend of 14 March 2020, following the closure of theatre on Broadway (on 12 March), it became clear that something overwhelming was about to happen to British theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMAn American classic right royally revived! The garlands belonging to the ensemble (all 43 of them), dancing on the spot as if gliding on ice, wind-milling arms furiously yet gracefully.
SOURCE: Telegraph at 12:38PMJames and Jack Fox show great tenderness in this occasionally strained stage version of the hit book, says Dominic Cavendish
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 07:16AMSimon McBurney and Robert Lepage discuss their Edinburgh Festival show
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 02:00AMBen Whishaw is self-possesed but the atmosphere is more WI party than blood-soaked tragedy, says Dominic Cavendish
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 07:00AMAlan Bennett's monologues - which won awards when they were broadcast on the BBC - transfer to the stage with mixed results, says Dominic Cavendish
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 07:18AMPatrick Marber turns out another gem during Rufus Norris's impressive honeymoon period, says Dominic Cavendish
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 06:00PMA Samuel Beckett festival provides a unique opportunity to combine sightseeing with thoughts of loneliness and death, says Dominic Cavendish
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 07:25AMDominic Cavendish found himself wading through this production
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 06:50AMThis revival of Jerry Herman's 1974 musical is irresistibly entertaining
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 07:44AMUbu Roi still holds sway, almost 120 years after its notorious Parisian premiere, says Dominic Cavendish
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 02:00AMGenerations of actors deliver the goods, says Dominic Cavendish
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 07:07AMBacharach could make anyone's teardrops fall, but his material is drained of pathos in this project, says Dominic Cavendish
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 06:35AMStephen Merchant proves his acting chops, even if the ticket prices are insane, says Dominic Cavendish
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 06:00PMHenry Goodman's Volpone is a thoroughly recognisable rogue but the skimpy plot's accumulated contortions create diminishing returns, says Dominic Cavendish
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 07:49AMBrought boldly into the 1920s, Oliver Goldsmith's enduring comedy deserved louder laughs, says Dominic Cavendish
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 06:05AMThis is a hard-hitting, new play about the lives of three soldiers after they return from Afghanistan, says Dominic Cavendish
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 07:33AM'So much theatrical potential and so much technological innovation produces a new musical lacking the wonder stuff', says Dominic Cavendish
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 06:08PMThere's glory in sweating it out in tight period costume and spouting Shakespeare, says Dominic Cavendish
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 07:45AM