Tuesday, August 29, 2017
There are French windows in Alex Marker’s splendid set, but they are not the kind through which someone is likely to burst
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:07AMFriday, August 25, 2017
Brassed Off is a heart-warming story with a tough streak, not unlike this production. The first in-house show for almost 40 years
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:57AMSaturday, August 5, 2017
Forget the holiday airport hassle. Instead, take a good-natured trip around the world without leaving Chelsea, or somewhere nearer you on this
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:27AMWednesday, July 5, 2017
Shakespeare’s youthful romance acted full-throttle on a balmy summer evening in the flowery surroundings of London’s garden squares – what could be
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:53AMTuesday, July 4, 2017
F Murray Abraham crackles as a temperamental playwright German writer Daniel Kehlmann’s light-touch 90-minute comedy is a chic satire on the slippery business of making art – and especia…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 10:32PMWednesday, May 31, 2017
Emma is a challenge for the Jane Austen adaptor. Capturing the essence of the novels – witty, humorous, a touch acerbic –
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:27AMWednesday, May 24, 2017
This Twelfth Night opens in a jazz-age speakeasy and never really leaves there. Paul Hart’s playful production centres on the considerable musical
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:36AMWednesday, May 17, 2017
Reason versus dogma under the starsNever mind breaking the fourth wall, Joe Wright and the Young Vic have smashed the other three as well. This isn’t simply because their engaging producti…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:33AMThursday, April 6, 2017
Revival of Edward Albee's gripping late play echoes Greek tragedyAsked in an interview if there remained any taboos in the theatre, Albee answered, “Yes. I don’t think you should be…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:06AMMonday, April 3, 2017
On days when Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are not wandering in confusion among the clouds on their Old Vic set, the stage transforms
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:03PMFriday, March 31, 2017
This one-acter, written quickly by Arthur Miller in 1964 when the ANTA Washington Square Theater in New York City needed another play
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:48AMTuesday, March 28, 2017
She's been Sally Bowles, Lady Macbeth and Elizabeth Darcy. Now for a gritty courtroom drama about rapeShe was Lyra in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials at the National, she has shar…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:36AMThursday, March 9, 2017
Humour and vitriol contend in a tightly orchestrated production of Albee's celebrated playMartha is described in the script of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as "a large, boisterous wo…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:54PMWednesday, March 1, 2017
On directing Othello at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, and taking over at the GateIn a few days' time, Ellen McDougall will become artistic director of the dynamic little Gate Theatre in Notti…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:48PMTuesday, February 21, 2017
So much remains unchanged. While that might be the first reaction to Clare McIntyre’s 1988 play, Low Level Panic, here getting its
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:34AMMonday, February 6, 2017
Old enemies have become allies in this poignant version of Henry V originally performed in 2015 to mark both the 600th anniversary
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:30AMMonday, December 5, 2016
The Attic Theatre Company has been going for over 20 years – its last outing was with Beacons, a new play, at
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:15PMSaturday, December 3, 2016
Sally Cookson brilliantly reinvents a Christmas favourite to hook in all agesThe cry "Let's pretend" must have been heard often when J M Barrie played with the Llewelyn Davies boys in Kensin…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 12:48PMThursday, December 1, 2016
What could be more apt during the panto season in this politically farcical year than a play about the House of Commons?
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:04AMMonday, November 14, 2016
The RSC stalwart, Gloucester in Gregory Doran's production of King Lear, talks politics, blinding and cricketDavid Troughton (b.1950), a familiar face on television and a Royal Shakespe…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:54AMSaturday, November 5, 2016
Glenda Jackson returns to the stage as an authoritative Lear, gender irrelevantThe signs were there early in Glenda Jackson's career that she would one day have what it takes to "ascend the …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 12:02AMFriday, November 4, 2016
'I AM DISMAYED BY THE TONE OF THE DEBATE' A member of the Globe's Council sees both sides in the Emma Rice furoreA member of the Globe's Council sees both sides in the Emma Rice furoreT…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:36AMWednesday, August 10, 2016
"In such a night as this..." begins Lorenzo's beautiful speech in Act V of The Merchant of Venice. Watching Shakespeare's play in the Campo del Ghetto Nuovo on a balmy evening under a darken…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:27AMSunday, October 4, 2015
At the press night curtain call for Richard III, about eleven-and-a half hours after the beginning of this anniversary three-play production, Trevor Nunn stepped in front of his impressively…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:10PMMonday, September 28, 2015
Jane Lapotaire's distinguished career on stage and screen was cut sort in 2000 when she collapsed in Paris with a massive brain haemorrhage. She was giving a Shakespeare masterclass at the t…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 02:54AMWednesday, September 16, 2015
The Trojan War has been going on for nine years when Homer's account begins in The Iliad. Mike Pearson and Mike Brookes have been developing their version of the story, using Christopher Log…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 10:32PMFriday, July 17, 2015
Families. Whether it's the House of Atreus, the court at Elsinore or the Archers, they tend to be of compelling interest. For most of us, loyalties, guilty secrets, truths that will out, pet…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:18PMThursday, May 14, 2015
The premise might seem familiar: a famous photograph, taken by a Western journalist in fraught military and political circumstances, has repercussions many years later. The subject of the pi…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:27PMSaturday, March 14, 2015
Mustapha Matura's 1974 play is a celebration of liberation, both social and political, and a sly warning about the possible pitfalls of sudden freedom. Mas (or Masquerade) is the Trinidadian…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 02:05PMTuesday, February 24, 2015
The big news was that dashing Greg Wise was returning to the London stage after an absence of 17 years. Still best remembered as the handsome cad Willoughby in the film of Sense and Sensibil…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:40AMFriday, February 6, 2015
Jermyn Street Theatre, London : Artistic director Anthony Biggs' determination to rediscover forgotten plays is admirable, but they can't all be winners. St John Hankin's acco…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:52AM 
