Wednesday, April 18, 2018
With hit shows including Derren Brown, Impossible and The Illusionists, the capital’s theatreland has some new tricks with which to lure audiences Walking through the West End of London an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMSaturday, January 27, 2018
The actors, directors and producers changing theatre• The campaigners shaking up film and TV• The MP activists cleaning up Westminster• Fighting the supermarkets for equal pay• Sport…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMWednesday, December 20, 2017
The racially diverse musical based on America’s founding fathers loses none of its power in its transfer from BroadwaySince Hamilton debuted in New York in 2015, the hip-hop musical, which…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PMFriday, December 8, 2017
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s smash musical makes transition from Broadway with a new cast, offering an antidote to Trump’s America and ‘closed-minded’ gloomThis week, the West End of London …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:04PMThursday, November 16, 2017
London theatre says ‘cult of personality’ existed around Spacey during his time as director that prevented people from speaking out The Old Vic has received 20 personal testimonies of in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04AMTuesday, September 26, 2017
Award-winning British playwright, who is currently director of Baltimore’s Center Stage, will take over role next yearKwame Kwei-Armah, the actor turned award-winning British playwright, h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMMonday, September 11, 2017
Sam Steiner’s Kanye the First, which opens at the HighTide festival, imagines West’s reincarnation as a middle-class BritWhat would you do if one day you woke up and you were Kanye West?…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMMonday, August 21, 2017
Comedian who quit Cambridge University for online poker says both his careers are based on ‘extreme punishment or reward’They say comedy can be found in the most banal of subjects, and t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42PMFriday, August 18, 2017
Performed by people dressed as bananas, Break Up is a marathon improv show about a relationship in crisis. Our writer sits down to watch – and wishes she’d brought along a bottle of whis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48PMThursday, August 17, 2017
Nearly a quarter of the performers have had their visas denied more than once and one show has been cancelled completelyThe first showcase of Arab arts at the Edinburgh Fringe has been force…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMMonday, August 7, 2017
Edinburgh fringe play Last Resort reimagines the notorious detention facility as a package holiday destinationIt could be a package holiday destination like any other: tropical climate, beau…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PMFriday, August 4, 2017
Wild Bore was born out of conversations about absurd, sexist and ignorant ways three comedians, as female performers, were described by reviewersThere is one unwritten rule of theatre: do no…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PMThursday, August 3, 2017
Liz Richardson’s show about living with bowel disease ulcerative colitis aims to challenge people’s embarrassment of ‘a woman talking about poo’Toilet humour is never hard to come by…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMMonday, July 17, 2017
New play from writer of King Charles III will explore ideas of British identity against backdrop of a country house A new work by Mike Bartlett, the writer behind hit play and BBC drama King…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AMTuesday, July 11, 2017
Speaking to a Labour arts diversity inquiry, The Good Wife actor says she repeatedly hit the ‘exotic best friend ceiling’ when auditioning in the UKActor Cush Jumbo has accused the Briti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PMWednesday, June 7, 2017
Lily Cole wants a green century, Girli wants a housing revolution, and Liam Williams wants to boot out the billionaire club … some of Britain’s most talented young artists spell out the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMFriday, May 26, 2017
The much-loved actor has conquered radio and TV, comedy and drama. Now she is heading to the West End stage – the realisation of a childhood dream The name Miranda Hart has become synonymo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMTuesday, May 9, 2017
Tom Morton-Smith’s The Earthworks, set just before the LHC was switched on at Cern, is the latest collision between science and theatreTom Morton-Smith was never any good at physics at sch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48PMTuesday, January 24, 2017
Producers of a new version of George Orwell's classic suggest his dystopic fiction is chillingly relevant• Michael Billington's four-star review of 1984• Top five theatrical dystopiasOn …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMThursday, January 19, 2017
James Graham’s Fleet Street play part of season which includes the return of Ben Whishaw and a series of films in which actors perform famous speeches, available on the Guardian websiteThe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12PMMonday, January 16, 2017
Less than two hours after tickets for musical’s London run went on early sale, Viagogo lists several at £999-£2,500 eachTickets for the London run of hip-hop musical Hamilton, the most a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMSunday, January 15, 2017
Ringling and Barnum & Bailey circus won’t be coming to town any more as ticket sales fall and pressure over animal rights mounts One of America’s oldest circuses, the Ringling Bros a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PMThursday, December 1, 2016
Playwright who also wrote Privacy, about the surveillance state, will focus on the campaign that led to vote to quit EUPlaywright James Graham, known for his political plays tackling surveil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMWednesday, November 30, 2016
Play loosely based on the Bullingdon Club will be performed as it was initially written, using the male names and the ‘he’ pronounPosh, the play depicting the privileged world and debauc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PMWednesday, October 26, 2016
One Tower Bridge development will be the flagship home for London Theatre Company, the group set up by Hytner and Nick Starr when they left the NationalA 900-seat theatre is to open close to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:56AMTuesday, October 11, 2016
My Country: A Work in Progress will draw on interviews about the referendum compiled across BritainThe National Theatre is to take on Brexit as part of its new season, in a verbatim work com…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:19PMFriday, September 16, 2016
Morris minors, spitfire pilots and ‘endless surprises’ to descend on Welsh capital in remembrance of city’s beloved storytellerFiremen, spitfire pilots, a parade of bald men and one hu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00AMMonday, August 22, 2016
When he was sexually assaulted, Richard Gadd was plunged into fear, shame and self-doubt. Now he’s turned the experience into a standup show that explores who he is – and what it means t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:15AMTuesday, August 9, 2016
Simon Jay’s show aims to highlight the ridiculousness of the US presidential candidate through the power of satireWith his orange face and distinctly odd hair, Donald Trump stands gleefull…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:15PMComedians kick off Iraq Out and Loud, the reading of all 6,000 pages of the Iraq war report in a small shed at the fringeThe most talked about performance at the Edinburgh festival fringe ki…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMSunday, August 7, 2016
Come Look at the Baby turns the focus on audience by putting a seven-month-old baby on stage for half an hourA baby sits on the floor, surrounded by a comforting pile of cushions, books and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:55PM 
