Dominic Dromgoole’s Classic Spring season, a year-long celebration of the plays of Oscar Wilde, began with a production of A Woman of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:40PMA number of actors have recently called out reviewers for commenting on their bodies rather than their performances, The Stage’s lead critic
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:24AMRhys Ifans follows up his very human Scrooge in A Christmas Carol at the Old Vic with the title role in Eugene
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AMSophie has been friends with Sarah for years. She’s going to be a bridesmaid at her upcoming wedding. Naturally Sophie’s keen to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:17AMSpamilton – Menier Chocolate Factory, London The Menier Chocolate Factory presents the UK premiere of Gerard Alessandrini’s Spamilton, a spoof of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:29AMA Monster Calls – Old Vic, London Based on Patrick Ness’ bestselling novel about grief, A Monster Calls is directed by Sally Cookson.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThe opening scenes of Max Webster’s bubbly production of Shakespeare’s comedy suggest we might be in for an environmentalist take on the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMMe and My Girl – Chichester Festival Theatre Matt Lucas, Caroline Quentin and Clive Rowe star in Daniel Evans’ new staging of Me
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWritten in 2001 and set during the 1990s peace process, Martin McDonagh’s play is saturated in blood. It’s as red as, well, a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:26PMSam Kenyon’s musical tribute to the great Joan Littlewood, radical theatremaker and passionate believer that art should be for everyone, is more
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:57AMKelly and Neil enjoy hot chips, walks on the beach and each other’s company. Kelly likes Iron Man, Neil thinks he’s the
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:52AMWith its enchanted statues, its lurches from tragedy to an improbably happy ending and its actual bears, Shakespeare’s late play The Winter’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:05AMTen years ago the Bush Theatre staged a series of short plays under the banner the Broken Space season. The leaking roof
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:06AMSince her debut in BBC sitcom Dinnerladies in the late 1990s, the actor and writer has emerged as one of the UK’s
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThere’s been a catastrophe. Thousands are dead. But grief hits everyone in different ways. The first production to be staged in Nottingham
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMIn an annual Exeunt tradition, Natasha Tripney condenses the contents of the entire 2018 Edinburgh Fringe programme into a single poem. The post Into the Unknown appeared first on Exeunt Mag…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 05:59AMHow do you solve a problem like McMurphy? Let’s face it the protagonist of Ken Kesey’s 1962 counter-cultural novel is not all
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:28AMWritten in 1928 and inspired by the true story of the first woman to be executed by electric chair in New York,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:46AMMachinal – Almeida Theatre, London The Almeida follows The Writer with a revival of Sophie Treadwell’s 1928 play. Considered an expressionistic masterpiece, Machinal
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMKiller Joe – Trafalgar Studios, London Orlando Bloom plays the title character in this inky comedy about a cop who moonlights as a
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