Thursday, June 15, 2017
In New York, musicals were the talk of this year's Tonys. Even if there was no stand-out best new musical nominee "
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Monday, June 12, 2017
Phyllida Lloyd's production, which places Shakespeare's tragedy in a prison, to open Brit-heavy season at St Ann's WarehouseThe Donmar Warehouse's all-female Julius Caesar will get a New Yor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 18, 2017
'Inhumane' proportions, nightmarish sightlines, minuscule playing space … Top theatre figures discuss the perils " and joys " of the Swan, Lyttelton, Wanamaker Playhouse and Royal Exchange…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AM[SHARE]Daniel Craig stands up to Michael Gambon: a tough, tousled young man in a white T-shirt. His face isn't the same one
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 11, 2017
Boozy function rooms were once theatre's radical heart. Rising costs and the changing face of the fringe threatened all that " but pubs around Britain are pulling in audiences with their spi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 3, 2017
As Tony Kushner's masterwork reopens at the National Theater, creators of the first British production recall the intensity of working in a small space.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 20, 2017
It's been ages since I wrote a real stinker: an all-out, one-star assault. When I was younger " still indignant, still stupid
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 23, 2017
Back in January, I wrote a love letter to the Barbican's doors and the swish that seals the space shut. Turns out
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 28, 2017
George Brant's electric monologue Grounded was one of the first plays to explore a new form of war. The playwright, actor Lucy Ellinson and director Christopher Haydon recall creating a frin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 23, 2017
I have of late " but wherefore I know not " lost all my critical faculties. Well, not all of them. It's
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 19, 2017
After famously revealing that he saw his father's ghost when playing Hamlet at London's National Theatre in 1989, Day-Lewis has now denied the claimsDaniel Day-Lewis has put paid to one of t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 14, 2017
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 10:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 9, 2017
He's played Sam Cooke, an EastEnders bad boy and a closeted footballer in The Pass. Now, Arinzé Kene has returned to writing plays " and to the violent summer of 2011 " with a searing accou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AM[SHARE]Monday, February 6, 2017
Cult US theatre group 600 Highwaymen are putting on their first UK show with a gang of strangers who have rehearsed individually and never met each otherWhen they take the stage this week, t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 1, 2017
After six years in 'retirement', Staines's finest is set to return in Ali G: Rezurection, on Fox network's FXX comedy channelAli G is back in da house " at least, if your house is in the US …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 26, 2017
One of my favourite things in theatre is the moment the Barbican shuts its doors, pre-show. You catch it out of the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 25, 2017
He brought sex dolls to Measure for Measure and a food fight to The Changeling. As his Midsummer Night's Dream looms at the Young Vic, the director discusses the dark truth to fairy storiesN…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AM[SHARE]Monday, January 16, 2017
Nina Dunn, 37 Video Towards the end of The Mountaintop, history began to unspool. Nina Dunn's handsome, greyscale projections for the Young
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 12, 2017
Less than a year ago, the Bunker was a storage space beneath the Menier Chocolate Factory in London. It held occasional one-off
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AM[SHARE]Monday, January 9, 2017
In his play Winter Solstice, Roland Schimmelpfennig seeks to explore how rightwing rhetoric can ambush even the liberal-mindedAs Michael Rosen's poem insists, fascism doesn't come in fancy d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 20, 2016
Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam, NetherlandsJean Genet's symbolist crime drama seems all too tense and real in this contemporary setting, with a trans victim who forgot to check her privilegeJean …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 17, 2016
Former Royal Ballet principal ballerina to replace Alesha Dixon on BBC show's judging panel in autumn 2012Darcey Bussell might have hung up her pointe shoes, but she's set to dish out scores…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 15, 2016
Whatever became of theatre blogging? Maybe it's just me, but a scene that seemed so vibrant a few years ago seems to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who is reviving the one-woman stage show that inspired her Amazon series, said she admits to feeling "a certain amount of whiplash."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:18PM[SHARE]Pinter classic proves the second biggest non-musical hit of 2013 in New York, grossing $17.5mDaniel Craig and Rachel Weisz have proved box-office dynamite on Broadway. Betrayal, wh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 8, 2016
Kate Pakenham is showing me round the Donmar Warehouse's new hub on Dryden Street " a converted warehouse five minutes from the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 24, 2016
It's crucial for the theatre's coffers and must entertain audiences of all ages. No pressure then … Panto veteran Susie McKenna and rookie Ellen McDougall on staging a festive spectacularT…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 17, 2016
Somewhat guiltily, I find myself gripped by The Crown " the new Netflix nostalgia-fest that falls on bended knee and drools at
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Friday, November 11, 2016
For his new Roundhouse show, Putting Words in Your Mouth, the artist interviewed 400 LGBT people around the UK. Their views are staged in a 'lip-sync marathon' designed to catch audiences of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 2, 2016
After a quarter-century in politics, the Oscar winner, at 80, will play one of the most challenging roles in theater in a production at the Old Vic.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 1, 2016
Australian director reveals desire to follow Romeo + Juliet and The Great Gatsby with a third DiCaprio-driven film adaptationLaurence Olivier, Kenneth Branagh and even Mel Gibson have done i…
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