The National Theatre’s response to Brexit, My Country; A Work in Progress, feels like something commissioned in a panic in the dazed
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:20AMWhen The Jazz Singer announced the arrival of the talkies in 1927, a corner was turned. While this adaption of Paul Auster’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:33PMPointing through the Bush Theatre’s newly installed windows towards the street, Shepherd’s Bush Market and the railway bridge, artistic director Madani Younis
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AM“The Labour Party is fucked.” Steve Waters’ intelligent and timely new play of debate, Limehouse, open with this line before embarking on
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:37AMDebbie Tucker Green has a way of making the spaces between words scream. Her latest play, which she also directs, A Profoundly
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:31AMRichard Bean’s boisterous new comedy, set in an England about to be riven by Civil War, is one of the flagship productions
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:28AMRobert Icke understands the power of a pause. His production of Hamlet contains a lot of them. Not just the two intervals
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:14PMFor the second production in his Philip Ridley double-bill beneath Shoreditch Town Hall, Jamie Lloyd turns off the lights. While his revival
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:33PMTwelfth Night has always been a play of abandon. Characters slip on different costumes, different gender identities, they shuck off their solemnity,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:47PMIs Hedda Gabler a feminist text? Can it be? Should it be? Selma Dimitrijevic’s adaptation of the Ibsen play comes close on
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:31AMSee Me Now is genuinely eye-opening theatre. It puts the stories of real-life sex workers up on stage and invites the audience
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:14AMA spin of the wheel. A toss of a coin. The striking of a match. Chance is part of what makes the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMIt started the way these things always start. A venerable figure in the theatre industry said a controversial thing. Then other people
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMFor its first few minutes this immersive version of The Great Gatsby feels like a fancy dress party with some theatre tacked
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:05AMPreviously glimpsed at last year’s Latitude festival, Brad Birch and Kenneth Emson’s This Must be the Place weaves two separate stories together.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:24AMTim Foley’s giddily ambitious Astronauts of Hartlepool is like the theatre equivalent of one of those origami fortune-tellers that children make wrapped
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:57AMIn Jenny Sealey’s production of The House of Bernarda Alba words wrap around the stage. Graeae co-production with the Royal Exchange uses
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:43PMStoryteller and performer James Rowland describes himself “a child of Richard Curtis.” His debut show, Team Viking, opened with a funeral. His
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:59AMFew solo shows are as well suited to the murk and lung-fug of the Vaults as Greywing House. With its dripping brickwork
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:53PMOlivia is a writer. Ethan is a writer. They meet at a conveniently snowed-in-and-internet-free cabin for a writers’ retreat. She’s still smarting
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:21AMSkelmersdale in Lancashire was meant to be a place of hope. One of the experiments in urban planning of the 1960s it’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:25AMLondon’s Vault Festival, which has been cooking up new and experimental work in the warren of tunnels beneath Waterloo railway terminus since
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:26AMA knife thuds into a plank of wood, millimetres from a man’s hand. Despite its often leisurely pace, this two-hander by French
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:59AMOn one level Danai Gurira’s The Convert plays out a twisted reworking of Pygmalion. A man reshapes a young girl, putting words
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AMThe walls of London’s Leake Street are covered in graffiti. A face stares down from the intricately decorated brick ceiling and there’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:05AMThe announcements are not helping. Five minutes to go, the tannoy says. Three minutes. One minute. It’s the interval of In the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMYou came to playwriting relatively late. What was it about writing for the stage that appealed to you? I was running a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:18AMAndrew Maddock’s previous work includes The Me Plays and The We Plays, both double bills of short plays. His new piece, He(art)
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:25PMWith the infant year tottering around on unsteady legs, it feels like the right time, not for resolutions exactly, but for a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:20AMLe Gateau Chocolat solo show is a celebration of the music that shaped him. Icons is a cabaret show with a very
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:08AMGemma Arterton is the only woman on stage amid a sea of men. As the Maid of Orleans – the illiterate young
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