Thursday, September 6, 2012
BAC, London: There's a pulse in the air, palpable, as Kate Tempest circles the stage. For this, her first full length, solo theatre piece - a modern parable cooked up in collaboration w…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AMMonday, August 13, 2012
Edinburgh International Festival: Deborah Colker's modern dance version of Pushkin's verse novel Eugene Onegin is full of striking imagery. During the first act the stage is domina…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:15AMFriday, July 27, 2012
Mark Rylance delivers a captivating if idiosyncratic performance as the title character in this Shakespeare's Globe production.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:50AMTuesday, July 24, 2012
Theatre on the Fly, Chichester: The second production to be staged in Chichester's pop-up Theatre on the Fly demonstrates just how versatile a space it is. The slatted back doors have b…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:38AMFriday, July 20, 2012
Finborough, London: "It's not a war, it's a massacre." Zoe Lafferty's verbatim production, a compilation of stories from the people of Syria, is designed to cut deep…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:32AMWednesday, July 4, 2012
Edward Hall's stage version of the Oscar-winning film about two very different runners is physically exciting, but too slick to be genuinely uplifting.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMMonday, July 2, 2012
Theatre on the Fly, Chichester: Anna Ledwich's production of the 1973 television play by Dennis Potter launches Chichester's ambitious Theatre on the Fly project. A temporary space…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:50AMSouthwark Playhouse, London: Sebastian Barry's 1995 play - here receiving its UK premiere - is episodic in structure, unfolding in a series of short scenes, its narrative fragmented and…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:06AMThursday, June 28, 2012
Riverside Studios, London: Monadhil Daood's reworking of Romeo and Juliet - presented by the RSC in collaboration with the Iraqi Theatre Company, and brought to London as part of LIFT 2…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:03AMFriday, June 22, 2012
Soho, London: A series of blueprints for the future adorn the walls. Steve Marmion and Max Roberts' new production takes the form of a collection of riffs on the idea of a perfect world…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:04AMThursday, June 21, 2012
BAC, London: There are six performers on stage - and a single microphone. In Forced Entertainment's latest devised work - presented as part of LIFT 2012 - each performer takes turns to …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:17AMWednesday, June 20, 2012
Playhouse Studio, Liverpool: What remains after a child is lost? How do those left behind survive, how do they continue to live? Frank McGuinness's new play, here receiving its world pr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:22AMMonday, June 11, 2012
Malthouse Estate Warehouse, Brighton: It takes a while for your eyes to adjust to the dark. Following its ambitious and inventive rethinking of The Cherry Orchard in Brighton's old Co-o…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:53AMJerwood Upstairs, Royal Court, London: Vivienne Franzmann's second play sees her comfortably exceed the potential shown in her award-winning debut, Mogadishu.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AMFriday, June 8, 2012
Donmar Warehouse, London: When Friedrich Durrenmatt's satiric play was written, in 1961, the nuclear threat was terrifyingly real and the questions the play raised - about the rapidity …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:49AMThursday, June 7, 2012
Barons Court, London: A sense of disquiet and creeping dread underscores Neil LaBute's early and oft-performed trilogy of short plays. Violence and atrocity are never far from the surfa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:24AMSaturday, June 2, 2012
Polly Findlay's new production of the classic Greek tragedy is potent and powerful.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AMFriday, June 1, 2012
Soho Theatre, London: Ella Hickson's compelling new play is no less ambitious than her earlier work but it is bigger in scale if not sweep, and more determined than ever to explore what…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:43AMMonday, May 28, 2012
Soho Theatre, London: Baggage plays a central role in Janice Okoh's occasionally overstuffed comedy.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:56AMFriday, May 25, 2012
Finborough, London: An air of futility permeates John McGrath's play. Based on his own national service experience, it convincingly depicts the affections and tensions that arise when a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:28AMThursday, May 24, 2012
Charing Cross, London: Steven Berkoff's latest play explores what happens to a group of actors after the director shouts 'cut'. It's a waiting game, a limbo-like existenc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AMMonday, May 21, 2012
King's Head, London: Following revivals of Arnold Wesker's The Kitchen and Chicken Soup with Barley, marking the playwright's 80th birthday, the King's Head presents the Londo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:27AMSaturday, May 19, 2012
Danny DeVito gives an impressive and energetic performance is this surprisingly stately revival of Neil Simon's comedy.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMTuesday, May 15, 2012
Lyric Hammersmith, London: The Lyric's trilogy of one-act works by Edward Bond concludes with a production directed by the playwright. Familiar preoccupations run through the piece whic…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:32AMMonday, May 14, 2012
Various venues, Norfolk, May 11-26: There's something undeniably magical about waking up surrounded by the sounds of the forest, the glory of the dawn chorus - and this is one of the ch…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:27AMFriday, May 11, 2012
Caledonian Park, London: A unique collaboration between Wildworks and the BAC, staged in conjunction with the Lyric Hammersmith, Theatre Royal Stratford East and the Young Vic in a north Lon…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:02AMTuesday, May 8, 2012
The Cut Theatre, Halesworth: "Now, more than ever, I believe that all stories are fiction," explains Mike Daisey, the monologist and 'noted fabulist' whose latest work, T…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:27AMWednesday, May 2, 2012
Arcola, London: Though written in the mid-1980s, Manfred Karge's play paints an all too familiar picture. Worn down by their jobless, aimless existence, a group of young men seek a mean…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AMTuesday, April 24, 2012
Lyric Studio, London: Following its acclaimed production of Edward Bond's first full-length play, Saved, the Lyric presents a trilogy of his one act works, with the playwright directing…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:20AMMonday, April 23, 2012
Festival, Chichester: Coming on the - teetering, vermilion - heels of Lyndsey Turner's extravagant Lady Gaga-sound-tracked production for the Sheffield Crucible, Rachel Kavanaugh's…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:04AMFriday, April 20, 2012
Swan, Stratford-upon-Avon: The party's over. Balloons festoon the stage, empty champagne bottles are strewn about the stage - and death comes creeping for the king.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:21AM 
