This, to be clear, is not a play about the Yorkshire Ripper. That story has been told often enough, his name is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:33AMAs is so often the case with the children of immigrants, Zara presents different versions of herself to the world. There’s the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:19PMThe Panopticon – Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh The National Theatre of Scotland brings Jenni Fagan’s novel about a 15-year-old girl in a young
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFirst staged at the National Theatre in 2002, Roy Williams’ dissection of racism and xenophobia feels chillingly timely in Nicole Charles revival,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:48AMAs her groundbreaking show Hard to Be Soft opens in London after a global tour, choreographer Oona Doherty tells Natasha Tripney how
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:18AMMatthew Parker has a proven way with the strange, as demonstrated in his productions of Lovesong of the Electric Bear and Dennis
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:06AMThere are some committed comic performances in this new stage version of 1951 Ealing comedy The Man in the White Suit. But
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:47AMPatrick Hamilton could never have imagined his 1938 drama would give today’s world such a powerful term. A wave of revivals suggests we still have a lot to learn from its insights The term…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PMVasily Shukshin was a Russian film-maker and writer whose short stories detailed life in a Siberian village in the Altai region during
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:37PMGaslight – Watford Palace Theatre Richard Beecham directs a 21st-century re-imagining of Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 study of psychological abuse, performed by an
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMAt this year’s BITEF, Belgrade’s festival of international theatre, I found myself watching Sebastijan Horvat’s staging of the Fassbinder’s 1974 film Ali:
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:27AMIt’s easy to see why the late Peter Nichols’ play was considered ground-breaking in 1967. It confronts, with humour and honesty, the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:25AMThe Watsons – Menier Chocolate Factory, London Samuel West’s production of Laura Wade’s inventive play, based on an unfinished novel by Jane Austen,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMOn Bear Ridge – Sherman Theatre, Cardiff Rhys Ifans stars in Ed Thomas’ semi-autobiographical play about two people holed up in a remote
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMOne of the tenets of artistic director Milo Rau’s manifesto for Belgian theatre NTGent is that at least one production every season
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:12AMAs she takes on the title role in a gender-swapped Macbeth, her second time starring in a Shakespeare play and her latest
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:18PMA stream of Southern Gothic runs slow and hot through Lisa D’Amour’s play, first performed in Texas in 2001. A tang of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:04AMFaith, Hope and Charity – National Theatre, London Following Beyond Caring and Love, Alexander Zeldin completes his trilogy of plays about life
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMRoxana Silbert begins her artistic directorship of Hampstead Theatre in an adventurous fashion, with the premiere of Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s complex, harrowing
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:41AMHaving moved to the London venue after revitalising the Sherman Theatre in Cardiff, Rachel O’Riordan launches her first season as artistic director
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AMHighTide Festival – Aldeburgh, Suffolk The Suffolk festival of new writing features a line-up including The Stage Edinburgh Awards winners Nigel Barrett
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMCordelia Lynn has taken Ibsen’s most famous creation, Hedda Gabler, the bored and volatile young woman stifled by marriage, and re-imagined her
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:38AMIt’s 1988. Margaret Thatcher is prime minister and Princess Di is still alive. Tory MP Robin Hesketh (Alex Jennings), educated at Eton
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:45AMTwo Trains Running – Royal and Derngate, Northampton Nancy Medina directs a revival of August Wilson’s play set in a diner in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMBen Jonson’s 17th-century city comedy Bartholomew Fair is a sprawling play. It’s stuffed with characters and teems with London life; it’s not
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AMOn the last day of this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Bryony Kimmings tweeted that the “Edinburgh comedown is real. Be extremely kind
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMThis has the feel of a victory lap. Following two series on the BBC, Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag is now a fully-fledged cultural
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39PMThere’s a structural elegance to Ben Hart’s 2018 show The Nutshell. While many magic acts conclude with a routine that satisfyingly ties
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:24AMTim Etchells’ new monologue for Forced Entertainment takes the form of a thought experiment about time travel. Created with and for the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:35AMIn a grimy, isolated hospital, three nurses are going stir crazy. There are no patients. Clearly, there have been no patients here
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:38AMOh my God they’re back again. Eleven years since they debuted with School of Pop and a good while since they last
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