Saturday, December 10, 2011
Chocolate Factory, LondonWe are inside cyberspace, at the court of emperor Charlemagne and in a 70s musical – complete with some of Bob Fosse's original choreography remastered by Chet Wal…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMSaturday, November 12, 2011
Imogen Stubbs on why confronting death on stage has made her want to live life to the fullImogen Stubbs has such a youthful face – almost to a Peter Pan degree – it seems far-fetched tha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, October 29, 2011
Harold Pinter theatre, London It's fitting that the new Harold Pinter theatre opens with Chilean playwright Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden: the play was dedicated to him. It was first …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMSaturday, October 15, 2011
Thanks to The Hour, playwright Abi Morgan has enjoyed an incredibly prolific year. Next up, a Thatcher biopic starring Meryl Streep, a Steve McQueen film about sex and a play about GodAbi Mo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07PMDuke of York's, LondonThere is a wonderful moment in Backbeat when John Lennon (Andrew Knott) and Paul McCartney (Daniel Healy) are working on "Love Me Do" and John is tinkering to turn an o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMSaturday, October 1, 2011
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonSaul Rubinek was eavesdropping in Greenwich Village when he realised that giving advice had become an industry. It was 1977 and he was aware that not only was…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMIt's 30 years since Deborah Bull joined the Royal Ballet, and became a dazzling star of her generation. Here she talks about discipline and dreams – and her debt to Billy Smart's circusIt …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMSaturday, September 24, 2011
Crucible, Sheffield; Cottesloe; Olivier, both LondonFor fans of the television series The Wire, it is impossible not to be on patrol, trying to spot detective Jimmy McNulty in Dominic West's…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMSaturday, September 17, 2011
Chichester Festival Theatre; Almeida; Hampstead, LondonSchools are a natural subject for theatre and film – from The History Boys to Harry Potter. Every classroom is a stage of sorts. And …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:31PMThe Waking the Dead star on 'gruelling' Arthur Miller, Antony Sher and being a demon mimicTara Fitzgerald's career divides into two types: broken women (she made her name as an award-winning…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:30PMSaturday, September 10, 2011
Arts, London WC2No wonder Dr Johnson slept badly – he drank enough tea to sink a galleon: "The fragrant leaf, I drink it at all times and at all hours. I have been known to drink up to 14&…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:31PMSaturday, August 13, 2011
Royal Opera House, LondonThe Mariinsky company – formerly the Kirov ballet – unveils the fifth production of its Covent Garden season (celebrating the 50th anniversary of its first visit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, July 16, 2011
Bristol Old Vic; Regent's Park Open Air theatre, London; Young Vic, LondonPirates dominated this week – and because a pirate's life is emphatically not for me, I approached the shows with …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, July 9, 2011
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonPursuing the American dream is hard work as the Mizner brothers (the story is based on real life) discover after their father dies. This Sondheim musical was …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, June 11, 2011
Young Vic, LondonRoyal Court, LondonDuchess, LondonGogol's comic classic, The Government Inspector (1836) is, in Richard Jones's hands, more than theatrical. His directorial approach is tire…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMSaturday, June 4, 2011
The melancholic half of The Mighty Boosh reveals why he's terrified of his first stage role as the mayor in Gogol's The Government InspectorJulian Barratt is looking Russian. He has grown a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, May 28, 2011
Garrick, LondonOne thinks of Pygmalion as about the metamorphosis of Eliza Doolittle. But in Philip Prowse's thought-provoking production, Kara Tointon reminds us that what matters – and m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMSaturday, May 21, 2011
Almeida, LondonThe pleasures of A Delicate Balance, Edward Albee's 1967 Pulitzer-winning play, are close to torment. If, by the end, you are not longing for freedom, the actors have not done…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMSaturday, May 7, 2011
As a bit of a talker herself, Pauline McLynn finds plenty to say to about playing Winnie in Samuel Beckett's Happy DaysPauline McLynn knows she has a marathon ahead. Peggy Ashcroft once desc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02PMAs a bit of a talker herself, Pauline McLynn finds plenty to say to about playing Winnie in Samuel Beckett's Happy Days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02PMSaturday, April 9, 2011
Royal Court; Bermondsey Square hotel; Young Vic; New Diorama, all LondonFasten your seat-belts, as we are about to experience turbulence. Simon Stephens's new play, Wastwater, uses air trave…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMSaturday, March 12, 2011
Sadler's Wells, London EC1Comte de Lautréamont's surreal, nihilistic 19th-century poetic novel Les Chants de Maldoror inspires The Centaur and the Animal: a dance involving four real horses…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMRoyal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonNever open a new theatre with a new production. This is said to be a thespian rule (the ultimate no-no would, presumably, be a new version of "t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02PMSaturday, March 5, 2011
London Palladium; Noel Coward theatre, London; Watford Palace; Young Vic, LondonWe're off to see the Wizard, and whether he is wonderful or not is going to depend partly on Andrew Lloyd Webb…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMSaturday, February 12, 2011
On the eve of Valentine's Day, a selection of the best fictional romancesKate Kellaway
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03PMSaturday, January 8, 2011
Royal Albert Hall, LondonIn the beginning was the Big Top – alias the Royal Albert Hall. And in Totem, Cirque du Soleil's new production, Robert Lepage, the renowned Canadian theatre direc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMSaturday, January 1, 2011
Courageous storytellers from all walks of life are seizing the chance to relate true tales to a room full of strangersIt is 7.20pm. There are minutes to go and I feel speechless with nerves,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02PMSaturday, November 27, 2010
Coliseum, London WC2; Wigmore Hall, London W1Never accept salami from strangers – that must be the moral, at least from the dog's point of view, of Mikhail Bulgakov's satirical fantasy of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PM 
