A decade of austerity is, apparently, almost over. Believe it when you see it. Arts funding won’t go up any time soon.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMAs the currency exchange firm ends its sponsorship of the National’s tickets scheme after 15 years, Matt Trueman looks at the colossal
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:30AMFor Emma Rice, the title of Angela Carter’s novel was the perfect expression of where she was post-Shakespeare’s Globe. She and the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMThe British playwright Leo Butler believes that taking acid can have beneficial effects. His new play explores how he thinks it can help.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMSometimes I think blinking is the most important thing in theatre. Maybe more than anything else, artists need the ability to shut
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMAfter dropping live art a decade ago, the multidisciplinary venue’s performance programme is experiencing a renaissance under director Stefan Kalmar. He talks
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMAs Theatre Royal Stratford East marks the start of a new era with The Village, a revamp of Lope de Vega’s classic
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:18AM“Change is uncomfortable,” Nadia Fall tells me in this week’s big interview. She’s overseen quite a shake-up at Theatre Royal Stratford East.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThe Belgian director has blazed his way into the British theatre scene. Who’s next? A French marathon man and an Austrian politico among othersSusanne Kennedy turns actors into avatars and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24AMGeoff Sobelle riffs on cramped city living in his festival production Home by building a two-up, two-down from scratch and inviting the audience insideWhen Geoff Sobelle went to lay a new ki…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:04PM‘Sold Out’ notices are springing up in Edinburgh. Show titles are being chalked on to venue blackboards and celebratory tweets are doing
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMCreated by film classifier and artist Ming Hon, Chase Scenes explores Hollywood action clichesThe drums kick in and a pair of brown Reebok Classics pound the pavement on Princes Street. Ewan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMThe award-winning designer Miriam Buether is taking audiences into the heart of The Jungle at London’s Playhouse Theatre after last year’s sell-out
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:51AMWorking across genres and styles, the sought-after designer has become particularly known for her collage-based approach to new writing. She tells Matt
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMAnother London International Festival of Theatre has come and gone, and with it, some of the most inspiring theatre we’ll see all
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMBlack Books star claims to have become the first professional English-speaking comedian ever to perform in Russia after two St Petersburg gigs last weekDylan Moran, the Irish standup and sta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMThe Anglo-German theatre collective considers itself ‘a bit like a blob’ – ‘morphing’ to meet its members’ needs. Founder member Sarah Thom
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMLeeds bike champion Beryl Burton's remarkable story will play in home city to coincide with Tour de France's opening stagesFor most actors, playing Hamlet would be enough for a single year �…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMThis year’s Edinburgh Fringe programme has landed with a millennial pink plop, and, as usual, it’s stuffed with solo shows. Fringe runs
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThey might seem simply a way for actors to bask in audience appreciation, but is there something more going on at the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMInjuries allegedly caused by faulty rigging spark latest lawsuit to beset Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the DarkEvery superhero needs a suit, but not the kind that beleaguered Broadw…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32AMThe actor Alex Beckett, who died suddenly last month, was a pleasure to watch. I don’t mean that politely, but literally: watching
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMScenes of 'filth and depravity' in Anthony Neilson's revival of notorious 60s play provoke mass exitsThe Royal Shakespeare Company's 50th anniversary revival of Marat/Sade in Stratford-upon-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:33AMJoe Penhall’s new play, “Mood Music,” has real-world echoes in its story of a battle between a young singer-songwriter and her record producer.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12PMThe theatrical impresario Caro Newling’s production company Neal Street, which she founded with Sam Mendes and Pippa Harris, boasts a vast portfolio
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMDavid Eldridge, Simon Stephens and Alecky Blythe have all been moved by watching non-professional productions of their plays. They explain the appealDavid Eldridge’s romcom Beginning has j…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:29AMHave you ever seen a murmuration of starlings? If not, google it. Get it up on YouTube. It’s an extraordinary sight to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMiranda may well start penning his speech but choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler has the misfortune to land in a year of super-duper dance theatre head to head with RANDY SKINNER's dazzling "…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:21AMPurni Morell has been artistic director of London’s Unicorn Theatre for six years and in that time she has changed the shape
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMSome, it seems, have a Baz Bamigboye in their bonnet. Every Thursday night, regular as clockwork, the Daily Mail’s longstanding entertainment reporter
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:20AMGet to know the playwright Hammaad Chaudry, the 13-year-old actress Rileigh McDonald and the actor Andrew Burnap.
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