When I teach criticism, one of the first things I tell students is that it’s impossible. The very process of translating a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThere’s a car in Lord of the Rings, racing around Middle-earth. Gladiator has at least one gas-powered chariot and, going by a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMOnce based in a rundown boozer, DryWrite nights encouraged risk and giddy game-playing – their spirit is felt in Killing Eve and across British theatre today When Phoebe Waller-Bridge perf…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMEvery year, the cry goes up: the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is in mortal danger. It has sacrificed its soul on the altar
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFrom Othello to Oedipus via Richard III, Dutch actor Hans Kesting has played some of the biggest roles in theatre. He tells
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMTheatre company Kandinsky explore the city’s political identity and the legacy of luddism in an age of austerity and automation On 8 April 1812, there was a riot at the Royal Exchange buil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMMy friends – mes amis – I think we might have Molière all wrong. There are bigger problems, true, but I think
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMSoho Theatre’s programme is a unique mix of live performance, moulded by collaboration between producers and associate artists. As the venue eyes
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMWhat’s the secret of success in theatre criticism? In my experience: Microsoft Excel. Forget carving out that neat turn of phrase. Don’t
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMIs it just me or are we losing lone voices? Read the review round-ups that roll out after big openings and, more
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMAmy Letman, the creative brains behind the Leeds event, talks to Matt Trueman about her mission to make the city a thriving
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThe son and grandson of journalists aims to complicate the “pantomime villain” he portrays in “Ink.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:41AMTom Mothersdale has played ‘lots of villains, lots of creeps’ and now he’s taking on the granddaddy of stage villainy: Richard III.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMRising designer Frankie Bradshaw has created deeply atmospheric onstage worlds for shows such as Orca and Sweat. She tells Matt Trueman how
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PMFrom Enda Walsh’s disembodied voices to a Royal Court escape room, experimental theatre is being made without performers ‘I don’t know if it is theatre,” Enda Walsh says of his new s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMEvery year, eyebrows are raised over the Olivier Awards’ eligibility criteria. What Theatreland’s top prizes boast in prestige, they sometimes seem to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMExperimental playwright Eve Leigh is becoming an increasingly intriguing voice in UK theatre. She talks to Matt Trueman about her new play
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:36PMThe show Inside Bitch, made by women with experience of the penal system, dismantles Bad Girls stereotypes, while new play The Jumper Factory explores fear behind men’s bravado ‘Deeply d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMAllow me, momentarily, to hold a candle for C Venues. Last week, the Scotsman revealed that the Edinburgh Festival Fringe operator had
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMHe lit up An Octoroon, had a cult smash with Pomona and let loose deadly bunnies in Buggy Baby. Now the director is set to stun audiences with Peter Shaffer’s psychodrama Equus‘You have …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PMWhile German theatre design has no single defining aesthetic, its exponents are known for being less reserved than their British counterparts. They
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMCo-produced by Talawa Theatre and the Royal Court, Superhoe is a one-woman play bringing east London to west London. Matt Trueman meets
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThe Olivier winner has become the National Theatre’s go-to designer, creating the world of some of its most groundbreaking productions in the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMAs David Dimbleby called the result of the EU referendum, I was watching from a Travelodge toilet in Birmingham. How fitting. A
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMIn a tough funding climate, arts organisations are seeking to boost their finances with private donations and corporate sponsorship. Matt Trueman warns
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMLast month, after more than eight years at the Royal Court, Chris Campbell left his job as literary manager to join indie
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMIn two contrasting stagings of the novel, one renders it ridiculous while the other confronts the debate head onHeart of Darkness is, to use today’s parlance, problematic. More than 40 yea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AM“There are two elephants in this room”, the Polish director Jan Klata said to the audience assembled at the Alexandrinsky Theatre in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWith a series of well-received plays behind her, writer Moira Buffini deserves a heavyweight reputation but, as she tells Matt Trueman, she
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMA decade of austerity is, apparently, almost over. Believe it when you see it. Arts funding won’t go up any time soon.
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