Tuesday, April 1, 2014
This new dance-theatre adaptation of the film is a terrific crowd-pleaser
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 07:44AM[SHARE]Friday, March 28, 2014
For all its profound metaphors, Inner Voices is a bumbling comedy motored by a magnificent double act, says Matt Trueman
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 02:09PM[SHARE]Monday, March 24, 2014
Richmond, LondonThis show sincerely explores military careers and never forgets that it's putting humans on stage, not heroicsThe stage fills up with men and women in uniform, falling in as …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:26AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 23, 2014
Arnos Vale Cemetery, BristolHaunting and austere, but it never feels like the audience are trespassing on death's territoryArnos Vale is no drab, municipal cemetery, but a jumble of gravesto…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:17PM[SHARE]Friday, March 21, 2014
Shoreditch Town Hall, LondonSleeping Beauty chic meets the online generation for this plush stage version of Pullman's bestseller, but more love should have been lavished on the actingA muse…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:22AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 20, 2014
From War Horse to The Weir, international success is surprising playwrights in a market that can be remarkably lucrativeDo you remember Tribes, Nina Raine's play about deaf seclusion? It pla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:50PM[SHARE]Mercury, Colchester By playing the material with a bit of truth, Daniel Buckroyd and the cast make something of its heart, if not its cheekWho shot JFK? Where is Lord Lucan? Why did Betty Bl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Murder, She Wrote star receives near-universal acclaim for her first theatrical appearance in London since 1975You didn't need a mystic to see this one coming: Angela Lansbury's return to th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:19PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 18, 2014
The Two Worlds of Charlie F, a play performed and inspired by injured British servicemen and women, is on a tour of dutyBefore joining the British Royal Marines, Cassidy Little trained as a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:28AM[SHARE]Nottingham PlayhouseThis tubthumping update of The Beggar's Opera seems, at times, unfocused despite its powerful casting"What keeps a man alive?" The cri de coeur at the heart of Bertholt B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM[SHARE]Monday, March 17, 2014
Alan Parker's show is made for kids and shot through with innocence " and that's what makes it truly charmingSome of the best musicals were written for kids. Joseph and the Amazing Technicol…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 12, 2014
New Vic, Newcastle-under-LymeThis knockabout family drama is also a delicate treatise on human natureWhat do you leave behind after death? In Vi's case, there's a wardrobe full of dresses, a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:31PM[SHARE]Monday, March 10, 2014
West Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsJohn Steinbeck's affecting story of two Depression-era farmhands carries too much dramatic dead weight in this low-testosterone productionIt's time for a new a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:11AM[SHARE]Friday, March 7, 2014
Much-lauded Headlong adaptation of dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four will offer 101 seats at special price each dayHeadlong's production of 1984 will transfer from London's Almeida theatr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AM[SHARE]The British actress starred alongside legendary baritone Bryn Terfel in a New York concert performance
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 09:04AM[SHARE]Curve, LeicesterThis adaptation of the 1988 film can be giddy and gutsy, but tends to replicate its high-school attitudes rather than warp themAlready a big Broadway and West End hit, Marc S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:44AM[SHARE]For Told By An Idiot's new show, actor-director Paul Hunter decided to write about his childhood appearance on Tiswas. And then Jimmy Savile hit the news…When Told By An Idiot first worksh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:59AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 5, 2014
The controversial artist Theo van Gogh and the far-right politician Pim Fortuyn are an odd couple bound together in death in a new play for young audiencesPim and Theo are not your everyday …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:35AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Royal and Derngate, NorthamptonJames Dacre's production keeps this tale fresh, as Parisian riots trip into English promenades with the pace of a political thrillerBest of times, worst of tim…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:02AM[SHARE]Monday, March 3, 2014
Revival of 1997 musical wins four awards before US launch on Broadway, and pub theatres go home empty-handedThom Sutherland's fringe production of Titanic has picked up four Off West End awa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:45AM[SHARE]Rupert Goold will direct at the Adelphi theatre with the former Bond girl taking a role played by Sally Hawkins in the 2010 filmGemma Arterton is to star in a West End musical version of the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:30AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 2, 2014
Royal Exchange, ManchesterSuranne Jones is superb as Woolf's epoch-hopping hero turned heroine in this carnivalesque, tumble-turning productionRead interview with Suranne JonesOrlando is a y…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:30AM[SHARE]Friday, February 28, 2014
Olivier award-winner will return to West End after three years away when she takes up role of Mrs Wilkinson in MayOlivier award-winner Ruthie Henshall is to join the cast of Billy Elliot the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 27, 2014
30 Million Minutes, directed by Michael Grandage, will be 'somewhere between a monologue, a play and an autobiographical slide show …'Dawn French will embark on her first solo tour this su…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:20AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 26, 2014
This mauling of Mozart's life work was wilfully sacrilegious and mostly awful, says Matt Trueman
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 08:12AM[SHARE]Success for play that mixes US-Chinese culture clash with Tiananmen Square mysteryAnother day, another major award for playwright Lucy Kirkwood. Her smash hit Chimerica has picked up the pre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:14AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Musical about the Profumo affair will end its run on 29 March, four months after it openedViva Forever lasted seven months. From Here to Eternity will have survived for five by its last perf…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:30AM[SHARE]Got a tenner to spare? Forget buying a ticket - these days, producers want you to invest in a West End showReckon you can tell a Wicked from a Which Witch? It might be time to put your money…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM[SHARE]Monday, February 24, 2014
Director tells the Guardian that he has moved on from his star-led revivals despite winning four WhatsOnStage awardsMichael Grandage has ruled out a second season of West End shows, despite…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:01AM[SHARE]Friday, February 21, 2014
Innovative theatre company aims to put audiences to sleep " and then wake them up " in new site-specific performance"Sleep no more! Macbeth doth murder sleep." So rings the voice in Macbeth'…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:57AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Opus is a Shostakovich-meets-the-circus show so astonishing that Matt Trueman wonders why no one ever runs away to join a string quartet
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 12:00PM[SHARE] 
