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Friday, December 30, 2016

This week’s best theatre and dance by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

Hedda Gabler | Going Viral | La Soirée | Wild Honey | The Railway Children | Beauty & The Beast | Hansel And Gretel | The Snowman Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM
Friday, April 8, 2016

This week’s new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

Don Quijote | Show Boat | With A Little Bit Of Luck | Folk | Constellation Street | Another World: Losing Our Children To Islamic StatePart of HOME’s ongoing Spanish and Latin American fes…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:13AM
Friday, April 1, 2016

This week’s new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

Buzzcut | Clybourne Park | Boy | Goosebumps Alive | Men & Girls Dance | Laila: The MusicalThis experimental performance festival boasts an unrivalled programme of radical work hailing fr…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AM
Friday, March 25, 2016

This week’s new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

The Caretaker | Forever Yours, Marie-Lou | Smoke And Mirrors | Sunset Boulevard | King Lear | InvincibleAfter Jamie Lloyd’s tinkering with The Homecoming last year, one wonders whether Old…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AM
Friday, March 11, 2016

This week’s new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

People, Places & Things | Somewhere In England | Jackie The Musical | Hamlet | The Truth | JumpyDenise Gough’s performance in People, Places & Things at the National Theatre was ci…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:04AM
Friday, March 4, 2016

This week’s new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

1972: The Future Of Sex | The Nap | The Painkiller | Cosy | Miss Atomic Bomb | JinnyThe Bristol-based Wardrobe Ensemble pinpoints 1972 as a pivotal moment for sex: the pill had brought freed…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:31AM
Friday, February 19, 2016

This week’s new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

The Maids | A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Play For The Nation | The Destroyed Room | Beyond The Fence | Chip Shop Chips | Right NowThree women who have made a big impact on TV line up for t…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:46AM
Friday, February 12, 2016

This week’s new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

Husbands & Sons | The War Of The Worlds | Hand To God | Betrayal | Chwalfa | HamletDH Lawrence’s early plays A Collier’s Friday Night, The Widowing Of Mrs Holroyd and The Daughter-In…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:22AM
Friday, February 5, 2016

This week’s new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

Mrs Henderson Presents | Doctor Faustus | The Broke ‘N’ Beat Collective | The Herbal Bed | Motown The Musical | Any Means NecessaryWithout the movies as source material, it seemed the mu…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM
Friday, January 29, 2016

This week’s new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

Nell Gwynn | Endgame | Manipulate Festival | Cat On A Hot Tin Roof | Queer Contact Festival | The End Of LongingQuantum Of Solace and St Trinian’s star Gemma Arterton returns to the West E…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:10AM
Friday, January 22, 2016

This week’s new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

A Girls Is A Half Formed Thing | Wit | Jeepers Creepers | Rabbit Hole | The Master Builder | A Raisin In The SunFirst seen in Dublin and then in Edinburgh last summer, Annie Ryan’s stage v…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AM
Friday, January 15, 2016

This week’s new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

The Mother | The Solid Life Of Sugar Water | The Train | Escaped Alone | Jane Eyre | Push 2016Florian Zeller’s The Father was, for many, the West End play of last year, a heart-rending por…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:01AM
Friday, January 8, 2016

This week’s new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

The Rolling Stone | Partus | Holy Mackerel! | The Girls | London International Mime Festival | Rehearsal For MurderIn this context, Rolling Stone has nothing to do with the ageing rock group…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AM
Saturday, January 2, 2016

This week’s new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

Jane Wenham: The Witch Of Walkern | Can’t Buy Me Love | Grey Gardens | Justin & The Argonauts | Hard Working Families | The 39 StepsThere are echoes of one of the finest plays in the E…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:07AM
Friday, December 18, 2015

This week’s new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

The Sound Of Music | Peter Pan Goes Wrong | Ben Hur | Nutshell Nutcracker | A Christmas Carol | FlownChristmas is the one time of the year when many families splash out and go to see a big s…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:34AM
Friday, December 11, 2015

This week’s new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

The Instatiable, Inflatable Candylion | Les Liaisons Dangereuses | The Fitzrovia Radio Hour’s Christmas Special & Around The World In 80 Days | The Witches | The Snow Queen | Show Boat…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:49AM
Friday, December 4, 2015

This week’s new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

Dick Whittington & His Cat | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | Dr Seuss’s The Lorax | Eloise And The Curse Of The Golden Whisk | The Haunting Of Hill House | Snow White And Rose RedIf you like…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:55AM
Friday, November 20, 2015

This week’s new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

wonder.land | Sleeping Beauty | Wendy And Peter Pan | Little Eyolf | The Light Princess | Oliver!Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland is a much visited source for creative types. Damon Alba…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:40AM
Friday, November 13, 2015

This week’s new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

Funny Girl | Contained | The Homecoming | Going Viral | The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe | Queen AnneIf you failed to get tickets for Funny Girl at the Menier Chocolate Factory (the four…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:28AM
Friday, November 6, 2015

This week’s new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

Men In The Cities | The One That Got Away | King And Country | Lovesong Of The Electric Bear | Tipping Point | Flare PathDeath is senseless in writer-performer Chris Goode’s solo show, fir…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:34AM
Friday, October 23, 2015

This week’s new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

Land Of Our Fathers | The Choir | Husbands & Sons | Pomona | The Moderate Soprano | The DistanceWales Millennium Centre revives Chris Urch’s 2013 debut play. Setting out on a tour that…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:22AM
Friday, October 16, 2015

This week’s new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

The Oresteia | Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company Season | The Deal Versus The People | The Edge | The Hairy Ape | The Magna Carta PlaysThose Greeks just keep on flooding our stages. There are …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:15AM
Friday, October 9, 2015

This week’s best new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

Xanadu | Ubu And The Truth Commission | Belfast international arts festival | Coming Up | A Streetcar Named Desire | Circus CityThe 1980 film Xanadu is about as far from Kubla Khan, the epic…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:31AM
Friday, October 2, 2015

This week’s new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

Golem | French Without Tears | A Wolf In Snakeskin Shoes | The Crucible | Brief Encounters At Bradford Interchange | Fierce FestivalJewish folklore becomes a fable about 21st-century technol…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:31AM
Friday, September 25, 2015

This week’s new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

The Rubenstein Kiss | Teddy Ferrara | Monsieur Popular | The Seagull | The Father | Dubin Theatre FestivalEthel and Julius Rosenberg were sent to the electric chair in 1953 after being found…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:41AM
Saturday, September 19, 2015

This week’s new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

Showstopper! The Improvised Musical | The Odyssey: Missing Presumed Dead | Fake It ‘Til You Make It | Jane Wenham: The Witch Of Walkern | Iliad | The Whipping ManA huge amount of work goes…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AM
Friday, September 11, 2015

This week’s new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

Waiting For Godot | By Far The Greatest Team | Tipping The Velvet | The Glass Menagerie | Hecuba | Casa ValentinaAs the Royal Lyceum Theatre Company celebrates its 50th anniversary, Brian Co…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AM
Friday, September 4, 2015

This week’s new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

Photograph 51 | HighTide Festival | The Cheviot, The Stag And The Black, Black Oil | Dinner With Saddam | Dead Dog In A Suitcase | The Stick HouseThe last time Nicole Kidman appeared on the …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:26AM
Friday, August 28, 2015

This week’s new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

Future Conditional | Life Raft | The Family Way | Brave New World | King Charles III | Lela & CoMatthew Warchus starts his inaugural season as artistic director of the Old Vic – follow…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AM
Friday, July 31, 2015

This week’s new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

The Heresy Of Love | A Gambler’s Guide To Dying | Enlightenment | Briefs | Light Boxes | Blake RemixedHelen Edmundson’s work has always featured strong women, notably the Shared Experien…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:08AM
Friday, July 24, 2015

This week’s new theatre by Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

Dear Lupin | Splendour | 946 | The Deliverance | Oliver! | For Services RenderedIn 2012, Dear Lupin, Letters To A Wayward Son won the Sunday Times’ humour book of the year accolade for fat…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AM

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