Thursday, December 12, 2013
The Old Red Lion, London: Gregory Skulnick has done that rarest of things - produced a funny new farce. The Upstanding Member is sharply written, deftly performed and genuinely droll; what a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:02AMWednesday, December 11, 2013
Last Friday, nestled amongst the fabric sellers and fishmongers of bustling Deptford market, The Albany borrowed a trick from its neighbours. From a bright pink stall, they sold £1 tickets …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:11AMTuesday, December 10, 2013
Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage: Rebecca Tyson, as Cinderella, marries a West End singing voice with a feisty presence that has much more gravitas than most goody two-shoes heroines. She als…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:48PMMonday, December 9, 2013
The Lion and Unicorn Theatre, London: "That was really freaky," a child affably exclaims at the interval of The Jungle Book, seconds after getting hissed at by Yiltan Ahmet's …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:07AMSaturday, November 23, 2013
The tiny Bike Shed Theatre in Exeter won the My Theatre Matters! most welcoming theatre award. Honour Bayes talks to director David Lockwood about how this was achieved
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:41AMFriday, November 22, 2013
St James Theatre, London: What a delight to have this sparkling Ustinov Studio production at the St James Theatre. This is a comedy that is knowing but not patronising; a delicate examinatio…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:20AMMonday, November 11, 2013
Southwark Playhouse, London: Taking as her starting point Sophocles' Ajax, Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Ajax brings old and new worlds together to interrogate the psychological cos…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:29AMThursday, November 7, 2013
Unspecified location, London Zone 1: Secret Theatre follows much the same form as Secret Cinema - where audiences buy tickets to an unspecified location/film, which is then revealed on the d…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:42AMMonday, October 28, 2013
Southwark Playhouse, London: Deafinitely Theatre reinvent Jim Cartwright's Two into a dynamic four-hander that cleverly entwines sign language and spoken text. Paula Garfield and Matthe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:08AMWednesday, October 23, 2013
Theatre Royal Stratford East, London: There's a lot of swagger to <a href="http://stratfordeast.com/home">Somalia Seaton's Crowning Glory</a>. Seven women tak…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:23PMFriday, October 18, 2013
Tabard Theatre, London: After impressing with Good Morning, Alamo! at this venue earlier this year, writer and director Mark Giesser's Code of the West came with expectations high. But …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:15AMWednesday, October 16, 2013
Southwark Playhouse, London: This is the first production of The Love Girl and the Innocent to be done in London for 30 years. It's easy to see why many would be daunted by Aleksandr So…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:13AMFriday, October 11, 2013
Park Theatre, London: Adult Supervision marks Jez Bond's Park Theatre debut and is a world premiere for writer in residence Sarah Rutherford. It is a bold start and a polished productio…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:55AMMonday, October 7, 2013
Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London: Traffic Of The Stage's upbeat take on this Shakespeare comedy is fluffy and enjoyable but the finer nuances of the play are often lost. The cast have …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:08AMFriday, October 4, 2013
Finborough Theatre, London: In a cramped office under a whirring fan two avenging angels eyeball each other. Gabriel Chibamu is a war criminal. Eunice Ncube is on the new Truth and Justice C…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:24AMTuesday, October 1, 2013
The Shed, National Theatre, London: The ambition on display within Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's expansive new play - both from her characters and the playwright herself - is extraordinary. T…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:36AMMonday, September 23, 2013
Theatre 503, London: Land of Our Fathers is a meaty debut from a playwright Howard Brenton has called 'a brilliant talent'. Commissioned as part of 503Five 2012/13 Chris Urch has w…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:29AMMonday, September 2, 2013
Platform Theatre, London: Inspired by the short stories of Anton Chekhov and Ivan Bunin, Sunstroke examines forbidden love from two different perspectives. Chekhov's The Lady with the D…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:43AMTuesday, August 27, 2013
The Edinburgh Playhouse: Black Swan choreographer Benjamin Millepied's new artistic collective, L.A. Dance Project, present an evening of dance that is as moving as it is provocative.
R…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:01AMFriday, July 19, 2013
Park Theatre, London: Gary Henderson's Skin Tight turns romance into a gladiatorial contest. Two reminiscing lovers violently spar before tenderly taking care of the resultant wounds. T…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06AMFriday, July 12, 2013
Finborough Theatre, London: Originally written in 1976, Pam Gems' feminist classic Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi has held up remarkably well. As an exploration of female social roles and pers…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:27AMWednesday, July 3, 2013
Jermyn Street Theatre, London: Spoonface Steinberg is a gregarious little girl who likes to play with toys, listen to her walkman and dream about the future. She's also severely autisti…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:44AMMonday, July 1, 2013
King's Head Theatre, London: It seems remarkable that Thorton Wilder's sentimental look at small town America still plays at least once somewhere in the US every day. In its 75th annive…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:21AMWednesday, June 26, 2013
Lion and Unicorn, London: Part brash comedy, part tale of redemption, part soap opera Ali Salem's The Comedy of Oedipus is a beast of a play. In Ahmed El-Alfy's overwrought product…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:19AMMonday, June 24, 2013
Old Red Lion, London: Part of its Summer of Love season, Grassroots Shakespeare London's Romeo and Juliet is a straightforward, pared down production. But although it doesn't bring…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AMThursday, June 20, 2013
Old Red Lion, London: Grassroots Shakespeare London are giving us a Summer of Love at the Old Red Lion, presenting two plays in repertory - the Bard's most famous love story, Romeo and …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:08AMThursday, June 13, 2013
Daniel Radcliffe has revealed that he would “definitely” like to appear in a Shakespeare production, and that he hopes to one day play the roles of Hamlet and Romeo. Radcliffe, who is be…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AMSaturday, June 8, 2013
With a growing worldwide audience and technological advances, the prospects for filmed theatre have never looked brighter. Honour Bayes finds out whether a recorded stage show can be as good…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:02AMMonday, June 3, 2013
The Drayton Theatre, London: The idle love games and sexual machinations that power Playing with Fire are not a million miles away from those keeping E4 viewers hooked on Made in Chelsea - w…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:40AMThursday, May 30, 2013
Finborough, London: Plugging into society's obsession with all things youthful as well as our current interest in dystopias, Bekah Brunstetter's new play is perfect for the MTV gen…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:37AMWednesday, May 22, 2013
Southwark Playhouse, London: Southwark Playhouse has moved to a temporary new home between Elephant and Castle and Borough - a deceptively nondescript shop front that opens up into a shabby …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:07AM 
