After 17 years in the role, David Lan is to step down as artistic director of the Young Vic. He began his
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:06AM"Who is torturing whom?" Natasha Tripney crafts a cut-up poem from the fever dream that is the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe programme. The post Fringe Programme Poetry appeared first on Exeunt Maga…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 03:38AMAlice Birch’s new play is scored like a piece of music. Her latest collaboration with director Katie Mitchell, after Ophelias Zimmer, explores
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:59PMThe 2017 Edinburgh Festival Fringe programme has landed. We’ll be diving in to its pages deeper at a later date, once we’re
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:51AMSet in six different cities – Lagos, Kampala, Harare, Johannesburg, Accra and London – Inua Ellam’ latest play for the National Theatre
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:33AMDC Moore’s huge, bamboozling play, Common, is strangely unengaging for something that features folk horror, lesbianism, human sacrifice and an animatronic crow.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:32AMStephen Jackson’s Verity Bargate award-winning debut play-with-songs, Roller Diner, resists easy categorisation. Set in an American-themed greasy spoon in Birmingham that has
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:38AM"Appealing pyromaniac tendencies" - Natasha Tripney reviews Gorčin Stojanović's production of Don Juan. The post Review: Don Juan at Jugoslovensko Dramsko Pozoriste, Belgrade appeared fir…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 04:20AMIt’s not always easy to see the stars in London, but Joe Wright’s engaging new production of Brecht’s Life of Galileo makes
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:54AMThere are two competing registers at work in Mark Wienman’s promising debut play, Dyl. While certain scenes bring to mind a flat-share
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:46AMThis is both a homecoming and a reclamation. Twenty-five years ago Northern Broadsides made its debut in Hull with a production of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:41AMBefore Rory Stewart became a Tory MP he was deputy governorate co-ordinator in Iraq in 2003, an experience he documented in his
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AMKate Tempest, poet, performer, musician and novelist, opens this year’s Brighton Festival, of which she is guest director, with a 20-minute set
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:54PMBrighton comes alive in May. The Festival stretches across the city, spilling on to the beach and stretching into its suburbs. There
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMInterviews are weird. They occupy a very strange social space. They require a degree of performance from interviewer and interviewee both, some
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMWith a West End transfer already nailed down long before it even opened, this one was always going to be big. And
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:32PMIf you thought the Donmar Warehouse was one of the few theatres where you could absolutely guarantee that you wouldn’t encounter audience
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:29AMBarney Norris is a heartbreaker. He excels at writing minor-key stories full of regret and unvoiced longing. His new play, While We’re
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:11AMDeath permeates Daniel Kramer’s opener for Emma Rice’s second – and last, before she steps down amid circumstances that might kindly be
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:27AMWhen the slow ascension of a projector screen from the floor of the stage is the most exciting thing to happen in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:53PMWhile Simon Stephens prolificacy as a playwright can lead to, shall we say, occasional wibbles in quality, his willingness to experiment, to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:01AMWhile there’s a measure of wit to Christopher Hampton’s 1969 play The Philanthropist, Simon Callow’s production conspires to hide it. This is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00PMAfter 12 years as artistic director at London’s Theatre Royal Stratford East, Kerry Michael announced last year that he would be stepping
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMThe Bush Theatre reopens after a major facelift – it has a second entrance now, a studio space, and, yay, allocated seating
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00PMCheek by Jowl’s production of The Winter’s Tale pairs irreverence and inventiveness with emotional clarity and power. Orlando James’ Leontes is a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:13AMSlovenia’s Mladinsko Theatre exists on the periphery in more ways than one. As Goran Injac, artistic director for the past two years,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMEdward Albee’s taboo-torpedoing play The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, combines the sweep of a tragedy with a thought experiment. It’s a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:11PMNina Raine knows her shit. Or, rather, her shits. She excels at writing charismatic, intelligent, affluent, articulate shits. But her new play,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:39AMThe Suffolk coast is almost a character in its own right in Tallulah Brown’s play. The salt-smack of the air, the wash
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:50AMFirst staged on Broadway in 2011, David Henry Hwang’s Chinglish is an amusing, if slightly flimsy, comedy about cultural and linguistic difference.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:15AMThe National Theatre’s response to Brexit, My Country; A Work in Progress, feels like something commissioned in a panic in the dazed
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