Revived show remains significantly more sophisticated than most jukebox musicals
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:42AMThere was a period, two-and-a-bit years ago, when it seemed as if James Graham were on a one-man mission to take over
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:34AMWith theatremaking effectively halted for several months, many creatives are finding themselves out of pocket. Fergus Morgan speaks to people who have
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PMIndividuals and companies across the UK and Ireland have set up online appeals to support people within the creative sector who are
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:30AMRe-gendered Brecht proves a chore If there’s one certainty about the Edinburgh Lyceum’s production of Mrs Puntila And Her Man Matti – and there aren't many in this unsatisfying, ove…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 09:54AMPretty Woman, the rags-to-riches movie starring Richard Gere as a cut-throat capitalist and Julie Roberts as the prostitute he procures to escort
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:53PMCo-produced by Untitled Projects and string orchestra Scottish Ensemble, We Are in Time is a part-lecture, part-opera about the human heart –
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:18AMAnimated film to blockbuster musical: it’s a well-established route to stage success, one previously trodden by Frozen, Aladdin, and, most famously, The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:14AMSize isn’t everything. That’s what Caryl Churchill thinks, anyway. The legendary playwright – now 81 – doesn’t really write things that last
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:24AMSally Abbott’s new play, produced by Frantic Assembly and co-directed by company chief Scott Graham and Kathy Burke, comes straight from the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:33AMPost-modern shows about Shakespeare are almost as common as the real thing these days. Cymbeline has been renamed and reclaimed as Imogen.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMTony Kushner is nothing if not verbose. The Pulitzer-winning playwright has crafted a career out of extensive, intellectually engaging drama, perhaps most
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:30PMAs Ramps on the Moon’s latest show Oliver Twist prepares to open at Leeds Playhouse, director Amy Leach tells Fergus Morgan how
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:15PMTom Stoppard – sorry, Sir Tom Stoppard, knight of the realm – is back. The legendary playwright behind Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:54AMDeath of England started life as a 10-minute micro-play commissioned by the Royal Court and the Guardian in 2014. Six years, three
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:24AMProduced by interdisciplinary company Two Destination Language and presented here as part of Manipulate, Scotland’s festival of visual theatre and animation, Fault
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:02PMDaniel Radcliffe has come a long way since his Harry Potter days. The final film of the franchise was released in 2011,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:02AMModern life is hard. That’s the main message of Drew Taylor-Wilson’s part-poetry, part-performance show, in which the Glasgow-based theatremaker explores everything from
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:26AMDesigner Joanna Scotcher tells Fergus Morgan about balancing simultaneous projects with the Royal Opera House and Lyric Hammersmith, and why more needs
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:06AMAnother year, another star-studded Uncle Vanya. Whereas 2019 gave us Rupert Everett as Vanya in a David Hare adaptation in Bath, 2020
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMPlacing performers’ mental health at the heart of its operation, London’s Vault Festival has thrived since its first shows in 2012. With
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:24AMPlaywright Lucy Kirkwood has had something of a golden touch in recent years. In 2017 she had the widely lauded Mosquitoes at
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:17AMRoyal Shakespeare Company production manager Carl Root left the National Theatre for Stratford four years ago. He tells Fergus Morgan about what
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:24PMDo you hear the people sing? Well, they are singing in the West End again. Les Misérables has returned to its ancestral
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMMischief Theatre is taking over the world. The Play That Goes Wrong is into its sixth year at the Duchess Theatre in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMAhead of a new decade, Fergus Morgan takes a look at the highs and lows of 2019, from unruly infants and an
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:00AMAfter each performance a stage manager writes notes in a show report, detailing technical tweaks needed, actor mishaps and unusual audience behaviour.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:12PMIt’s that time of year again. The nights are drawing in, the mince pies are being scoffed, and the furious fallout from
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PMFrom Nigeria to rural England; the National Theatre’s second opening of the week – after Inua Ellams’ translocated version of Three Sisters
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:39AMChekhov’s Three Sisters has been lifted from its Russian roots and transplanted all over the world over the last century or so.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:10AM“I can go anywhere for something new,” sings The Who’s Pete Townshend in the 1965 single Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere – the Mod
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