Hope Theatre, London: A sweltering drama set to the backdrop of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, and an unsettling piece about an abusive relationship complete the dynamic HopeFull re…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:16AMHope Theatre, London: A terrific mini-season of plays gives the Edinburgh Festival a run for its money from the comfort of one pub theatre. Read the full review
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:12AMPark Theatre, London: Praise to the Park Theatre for hosting another all-female cast. Following the recent Shutters and World Enough and Time a few months ago, the Finsbury Park venue is cer…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:15AMSwan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon: The RSC's stuttering Roaring Girls season at the Swan continues with another contemporary of Shakespeare's updated with mixed results. Read the f…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:28AMKing's Head Theatre, London: Three years ago the Royal & Derngate theatre in Northampton staged a four-strong, all-male production of George and Weedon Grossmith's comic novel. The …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:28AMPark Theatre, London: The lack of good parts for women is being slowly redressed as old works (the Donmar's Julius Ceasar) and new ones (The Shed's Blurred Lines) have recently fea…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:58AMPark Theatre, London: Opening a year ago with a real mixed bag across its two spaces the Park Theatre has raised its game over the past few months as a host of new plays - including The Man …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:09AMAmbassadors, London: Our former prime minister is given a tragedian's tribute in this one-man production by the cracking coalition of writer Kevin Toolis and actor Ian Grieve. Read the …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:05AMThe Park Theatre, London: Considered one of the greatest of western films, starring two icons - Jimmy Stewart and John Wayne - at the top of their game, any stage version of Dorothy M Johnso…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:23AMPark Theatre, London: So what if Othello was right about Desdemona being a "strumpet", and what if his wife was far more feisty and independent and petulant and crude than Shakespe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:22AMFinborough Theatre, London: A fascinating companion piece to the First World War commemorations, Jean-Jacques Bernard's 1920-set play is a languid daydream of the tumultuous events of t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:39AMPark Theatre, London: Produced three years ago in Spain, Coromina's tale of a swimming instructor who may or may not have inappropriately touched a child receives its UK premiere. Read …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:39AMPark Theatre, London: A 'bomber's moon' meant a good night for bombing because the ground could be clearly seen - the only problem was that the planes were also easy to spot, …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:16AMTrafalgar Studios, London: A journalist in the midst of a midlife crisis, having been recently divorced, Jasper Rees one day came across his old French horn in the attic. He'd grown tir…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:45AMArcola, London: British audiences might know fiery, youngish German playwright Marius von Mayenburg from a small cluster of his plays performed here. Read the full review
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:48AMPark Theatre, London: Time for some intelligent, witty, thought-provoking theatre - easily the best example of new writing I've seen at the Park. Read the full review
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:57AMUpstairs at the Gatehouse, London: The opening is a humdinger - it's when the actors start talking that problems arise. Read the full review
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:31AMPark Theatre, London: "It's a fantastic venue," director Jonathan Miller was overheard saying in the interval - and The Park is, indeed, a fine-looking addition to the capital…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:16AMCourtyard Theatre, London: The corrosive commercialisation of art is explored in this double-bill of plays by Doug Lucie - enterprisingly put together by Triple Jump Productions. Read the fu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:18AMPark Theatre, London: The toy iguana and the black hat perched on top of a large radio indicate this might be a somewhat incongruous evening's entertainment. Read the full review
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:54AMMillfield Theatre, London: With the Hackney Empire panto looking a bit cream crackered this year, it's the Millfield's turn to give 'Larrnden' a new favourite cockney pan…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:02PMChickenshed, London: This is a talismanic show for the Chickenshed. Nearly 20 years ago it launched a new era at the Shed's brand new theatre, and a decade ago its performance marked ex…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:51AMHackney Empire, London: The Hackney Empire and Susie McKenna celebrate 15 years of festive gold together during which time the writer/director has helped build this previously condemned musi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:20AMYoung Vic, London: We enter to a Sisyphean nightmare - two prisoners are constantly shovelling sand into wheelbarrows, wheeling the barrows around, emptying their loads, and filling them up …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:31AMPark Theatre, London: Out of the horror of the Angolan Civil War is fashioned an unlikely buddy story that is surreal as it is gruelling and leaves us with a remarkable final image. Read the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:05AMOld Red Lion, London: This is an extremely fresh and funny show. Read the full review
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:40AMKing's Head Theatre, London: Punctuated with contemporary songs, written for the stage in 1935, based on the novel of 1859, it's no wonder that this production induces a slightly queasy…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:11AMPark Theatre, London: It's still in its infancy but Park 90 - the smaller space in the relatively new Park Theatre - should probably review its quality control. Read the full review
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:35AM17-20 Parr Street, London: "Sooner or later you have to cross boundaries..." from comedy to menace, light to dark, real to surreal and commonplace to bold, imaginative theatre. Rea…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:37AMPark Theatre, London: The new season at Park90 - the smaller of the two spaces in the daily buzzing Park Theatre - opens in unspectacular fashion with Rosalind Adler's light comedy dire…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:17AMVarious venues, Henham Park, Suffolk: Fewer big named theatre companies, perhaps, but more bespoke shows and more premieres suggest Latitude's theatre element is growing in confidence a…
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