When the first branch of Dishoom opened in 2010, it was one of the few places where you could get a decent
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:13AMMatthew Warchus’ staging of Charles Dickens’ never-more-timely morality tale brings the magic of a carol service to the West End. Staged in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00PMThe Lyric Hammersmith panto, now in its ninth year, has never relied on big names or snazzy special effects. Its strength lies
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:39AMIn a year in which we’ve already seen Tamsin Greig as Malvolia in Simon Godwin’s Twelfth Night at the National Theatre and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:05AMWritten in 1983, David Mamet’s lancing of American masculinity and capitalism feels more an indictment than ever. Glengarry Glen Ross’ team of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMEven if you don’t subscribe to film critic Mark Kermode’s view that The Exorcist is a cinematic masterpiece, its power to disturb
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:01PMDespite kicking off with a scene of confrontation, this new stage adaptation of Patrick Hamilton’s 1947 novel of lonely souls thrown together
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AMThe Bridge Theatre – Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr’s shiny new 900-seat theatre near Tower Bridge – throws open its doors with
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00PMLyn Gardner has already done a very good job of covering the meat of last week’s Widening the Lens debate on diversity
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:26AMYou can see why the idea appealed. The council chamber at County Hall, with its pillars and panelling, with its grand galleries,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:24AMIbsen’s The Lady from the Sea is a strange and slippery play. Having been recently appointed as artistic director of the Young
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:49AMDavid Ives’ Venus in Fur is as much about power as it is about sex. More precisely it’s about power in the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00PMLaunching a year-long season of Oscar Wilde’s work along with his new Classic Spring company, Dominic Dromgoole’s production of A Woman on
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:32AMThe party’s over. Laura and Danny are the only ones left. It’s late and they’re both a little drunk – and more
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:40AMThe cavern that is the Olivier is a difficult space to fill. Its size seems to encourage an epic sensibility in the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:15AMReanimation is a tricky thing. Time is a variable you ignore at your peril. There’s a argument to be made that Mel
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:09PMFirst staged in New York in 2015, Simon Stephens’ two-hander, Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle, is an attempt to fuse elements of romantic
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30PMAngus Jackson’s production, the fourth in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Roman season, opens with a drawn-out sequence in which a forklift truck
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:51AMThe whims and wishes of the gods feature prominently in Christopher Marlowe’s early, infrequently performed play. Dido, the Phoenician queen, and her
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:20PMMrs Stilson has been untongued by a stroke. This one-time wing-walker, now in her 70s, has lost her words. In this revival
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:48AMSara Pascoe is a woman who knows funny. Jane Austen is no slouch on this front either. The comedian’s new stage adaption
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:39AMFor a play that chiefly consists of men in suits sitting around tables smoking and talking, JT Rogers’ Oslo is gripping stuff.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:59PMIra Levin’s 1978 play Deathtrap is a simultaneous sends up and salute to the mid-20th century stage thriller. Sidney Bruhl, a has-been
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:01AMShe’s gone by many names – Boudica, Boadica, Bonduca – the warrior queen of the Iceni in her chariot, with her daughters
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:20AMSex is central to Rita, Sue and Bob Too – the film version was released with the tag-line ‘Thatcher’s Britain with her
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:49AMSet in a catholic school in the Bronx in the 1960s, John Patrick Shanley’s 2004 Pulitzer-winning play, Doubt, pits the school’s staunchly
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:52AMWith its depictions of arrogant, feuding politicians accused of contravening the will of the people, Shakespeare’s Coriolanus is highly pertinent to the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:32AMThere hasn’t exactly been a shortage of Hamlets of late, but what marks Tom Hiddleston’s apart is its exclusivity. Directed by Kenneth
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:29AMThe Edinburgh Fringe is over for another year. The streets are free of flyers. Normality has reasserted itself. Here are six of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:10PMThe Edinburgh Festival Fringe may have had its curtain call, but many shows that played there can now be seen elsewhere across
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:49AMDarkness is a canvas. We fill it with our fears. We populate it with monsters of our making. Glen Neath and David
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