Monday, February 19, 2018
Isobel Rogers’ solo show sees her sitting on a stool with her guitar in one of the more oppressively damp spaces at
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Philip Ridley’s new play consists of a sextet of monologues. These have been written to be gender neutral and Georgie Henley and
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Anna is contemplating leaving home. She craves independence. She wants to go to university. She is 18 years old and that’s what
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What do you get if you lock Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Allen Poe in a room together? Frustratingly little,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:57AMElliot and Robin were in a relationship for four years. It didn’t last but they had some good times. Now Robin is
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Time looms large in Simon Longman’s play. The seasons change and the years roll past while the characters remain rooted in place.
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Barrie Rutter clocks off from Northern Broadsides, the company he co-founded 25 years ago, with a relocated version of John Dryden’s Restoration
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Ahead of Marianne Elliott’s hotly anticipated gender-swapped version of Sondheim’s musical, Aberdonian director Derek Anderson presents a more conventional staging in his
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This is the season of Caesar. Last year Robert Hastie started his reign as artistic director of Sheffield Theatres with the play
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00PMIn her prizewinning play, Kendall Feaver charts the relationship between a young woman with mental health problems and her motherWhen Kendall Feaver was going through her old school reports,…
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It’s been over a decade since Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brothers Size was first staged at the Young Vic. It was a
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Images of flying lovers run through Emma Rice’s work. It crops up again and again, in Nights at the Circus, in Romantics
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Fans are versatile things. They provide their holders with a way of conveying emotions that cannot be expressed in polite company with
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Harold Pinter’s early play The Birthday Party is a famously murky piece of work, by turns sinister and absurd. Ian Rickson’s production
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Last September, when I went to Bolton’s Octagon Theatre to catch the opening performance of Out of Joint’s Andrea Dunbar’s Rita, Sue
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:32AMIn 1992 actor and playwright Anna Deavere Smith created a verbatim piece about the LA riots. She interviewed over 300 people for
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This really shouldn’t work as well as it does. Girl from the North Country takes songs from throughout Bob Dylan’s career –
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Love stories between two women remain a rarity on our stages. For this reason alone, Lucy Foster’s Lobster is a welcome addition
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Billed as “an unreliable version of a true story filtered through a hazy memory and vivid imagination”, Anoushka Warden’s debut play, My
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Now that pantomime season is almost behind us (“Oh no it isn’t” etc), here’s The Stage’s list of pantomimes that scored the
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2017 was a pretty dispiriting year all round, but it was a particularly dismaying one for women. As if it wasn’t enough
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The Waterloo arts festival is bigger and more diverse than ever, with shows performed underground and in a bookshop, a car and two shipping containersA warren of tunnels lies underneath Wate…
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Alongside politically charged dramas about race and gender, standout works this year have included searing, re-imagined classics and a menagerie of onstage
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There are moments in John Tiffany’s stage version of Pinocchio that seem engineered to seep into your dreams – and not always
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It’s that time of year again. The time of year when I start to question whether some psychotropic substance has found its
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Mike Poulton is the go-to man when it comes adapting plot-dense novels for the stage. Having successfully adapted Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell
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Sally Cookson, more than most directors, is able to capture that moment of magic when a child opens a book for the
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Phineas Taylor Barnum lived a large life. The salesman, showman, promoter, impresario and would-be politician – who probably didn’t say “there’s a
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Lost children populate JM Barrie’s work. Not just the motherless boys of Peter Pan, but the vanishing daughter of Mary Rose too.
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Syrian writer Liwaa Yazji’s play about the conflict in her county, a war that makes young men into martyrs, features six live
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When the first branch of Dishoom opened in 2010, it was one of the few places where you could get a decent
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