Wednesday, 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 07:07AMMonday, May 20, 2013
Royal Court Theatre, London: Will Adamsdale's trick is to make his pieces look home-made and rather makeshift, when actually they are anything but.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AMMonday, May 13, 2013
Barons Court Theatre, London: Wow, this play is good. In Blavatsky's Tower, Moira Buffini brings the might of her metaphysical imagination to the soap opera of family life. Blood ties a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AMMonday, April 22, 2013
St Leonard's Church, London: To say that The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is an audacious piece of work would be something of an understatement. Stephen Adly Guirgis' metaphysical Americ…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:32AMFriday, April 19, 2013
The Lion and Unicorn Theatre, London: With the rampant rise of consumerism, envy is a very modern affliction - everybody wants what they can't have, and as such Iago, a great Shakespear…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:34PMFriday, April 12, 2013
Jermyn Street, London: While undoubtedly a frothy affair, Frederick Lonsdale's On Approval provides a very comfortable night out. He may lack the epigramic talents of Wilde or Coward bu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:09AMWednesday, April 10, 2013
Canal Cafe, London: Within today's secular society it should be easy for us to laugh at the religious hypocrisy so deliciously lampooned in Moliere's Tartuffe. What could be more h…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:57AMMonday, April 8, 2013
Old Red Lion Theatre, London: Cited as the father of symbolism, 1911 Nobel Prize winner Maurice Maeterlinck's expressionistic work interrogates the human condition. Beji Sperring and Ta…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:43PMThursday, April 4, 2013
Finborough, London: The way we treat our elderly is an increasingly pressing question so the Finborough Theatre's revival of Stewart Conn's I Didn't Always Live Here is a pert…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:03AMFriday, March 22, 2013
Tabard, London: Glenn Chandler - known around the world as the creator of the police drama Taggart - attempts to reignite the genre of detective thriller on the London fringe with his new sh…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:12AMMonday, March 18, 2013
Drayton Arms, London: In producing a double bill of Shakespeare's least performed plays, Pericles and Cymbeline, Pistachio Choice has set itself a tough task. It is one, with the latter…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:14AMSaturday, March 16, 2013
Leading development directors tell Honour Bayes that collaboration is the key in the harsh environment of funding cuts and
subsidy squeezes
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMWednesday, March 13, 2013
Young Vic, London: Fevered Sleep's work defies easy categorisation. The thought-provoking Above Me The Wide Blue Sky, a multi-disciplinary performance that bears witness to the importan…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:54AMFriday, March 8, 2013
Trafalgar Studios 2, London: A master of dialogue that is both funny and brutally revealing, Jack Thorne is one of the most sharply empathic writers we have in film, TV and on stage today. N…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:54AMMonday, February 25, 2013
Tara Arts, London: Border Crossings' new show explores the role of technology in our understanding of reality alongside the experiences of two generations of a Chinese - from those who …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:24AMThursday, February 21, 2013
Barons Court Theatre, London: Ian Buckley's gently humorous new offering is a touching testament to 20th century British socialism. Based on his father's accounts of retired tailor…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:16AMSaturday, February 9, 2013
Honour Bayes talks to David Greig about Glasgow Girls and Brecht, and his career of eclectic output
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThursday, February 7, 2013
Somerset House, London: With a title that artfully riffs off a verse from the apocalyptic Book of Revelations, it's no surprise that In the Beginning was the End is rather doom-laden. B…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:55AMMonday, February 4, 2013
The Young Vic, London: Part of World Stages London, Feast is a multicultural explosion for the senses. An attempt to document the spread of the Yoruba belief system, its episodic structure c…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:05AMMonday, January 28, 2013
Arcola Theatre, London: With more freedom than ever before, 2013 is surely the best time to be a woman yet levels of female anxiety have never been higher. Leyla Nazli's intelligent new…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:41AMOld Red Lion Theatre, London: The Dreamer Examines His Pillow looks to interrogate how we deal with love. Shot through with a dark humour it is entertaining but John Patrick Shanley too ofte…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:35AMThursday, January 17, 2013
Barons Court Theatre, London: At one point in Xenia Orphanides' pretentious new offering her protagonist, an artistically constipated painter, cries out "This is turning out to be …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:55AMTuesday, January 15, 2013
The Roundhouse, London: Three Cardinals come together in prayer as their stage manager intones "All Cardinals to the stage please, this is the five-minute call". They are about to …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:13AMMonday, December 31, 2012
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Wyllyots, Potters Bar: Harking back to the days of old repertory theatre this production of Cinderella relies on charm and nostalgia more than impressive bangs and whistles. The result is a …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:17AMBeck, Hayes: Emerging out from under the skirt of the expected panto dame, Peter Pan - the Swashbuckling Pantomime Adventure has no such drag act and Peter is played by a boy. This is more f…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:32AMThursday, December 13, 2012
Arts Depot, London: There's a Gruffalo next to me and it's roaring. Luckily it's a very small one so, like the mouse in Julia Donaldson's beloved book, I'm not afrai…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:33PMTuesday, December 11, 2012
Tara, London: "We are all Londonratis!" exclaim the twirling characters - half Punjabi, half Gujarati - in the fabulous Dick Whittington Goes Bollywood, sweeping their audience up …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:40AMMonday, December 10, 2012
Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage: What a fitting time to put on the story of Robin Hood, the valiant hero of the poor pitted against a villain hell bent on bleeding them dry - he should be in…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:08PMFriday, November 30, 2012
The Space, London: Fulfil Me Fully, Phil is another curiosity from author and director Sebastian Rex. Populating the stage with social stereotypes - the Baker, the Husband - Rex's expre…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:49AMMonday, November 19, 2012
The Courtyard Theatre, London: Memories play tricks on you, at least the ones do in Pericles Snowdon's surreal whodunnit. The Cat's Mother sees Snowdon entering the alluring realm …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:11AM 
