Gemma Arterton is the only woman on stage amid a sea of men. As the Maid of Orleans – the illiterate young
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:56PMIt’s not as if I haven’t tried. But I still find panto a puzzle. I just don’t understand the appeal. Okay, maybe
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMAlexander Zeldin’s follow up to the painstakingly directed, Beyond Caring, is an even more emotionally devastating piece of theatre. Love explores the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:03PMHedda Gabler is one of those roles: she is slippery and difficult, brilliant and appalling; she digs her own holes with her
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:24PMThis year’s Theatre Royal Stratford East is a treasure. It’s funny, smart, accessible and big-hearted. It also has a lot of fun
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:14AMJB Priestley’s early novel, Benighted, was filmed by James Whale as The Old Dark House in 1932. In his stage adaptation, playwright
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:20AMGeorge S Kaufman and Moss Hart’s 1930 comedy is set in a time of great change in the entertainment industry. It takes
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:49PMNear the beginning of Aleksandar Popovski’s fascinating production of Hamlet for Belgrade’s Jugoslovensko Dramsko Pozoriste, Hamlet – played by awesome Serbian actor
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMSally Cookson’s 2012 production of JM Barrie’s Peter Pan, revived and revised at the National Theatre for Christmas, sees her reuniting with
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:21PMBuried Child is the antithesis of a memory play. First produced in 1978, but not staged on Broadway until 1996 when it
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:37PMHaving grown up in a Tamil community in Sri Lanka, Rani Moorthy describes herself as a minority within a minority. Natasha Tripney finds
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMThe villain gets all the best lines in this year’s Lyric Hammersmith panto. Vikki Stone revels in her role as green-faced, purple-quiffed
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:15PMLucy Kirkwood is really good at pushing buttons. She follows NSFW and Chimerica, both provocative in their way, with The Children, an
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:08AMLucy Kirkwood is really good at pushing buttons. Really good. She follows NSFW and Chimerica, both provocative in their way, with The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:08AMOne of the many joys of the Donmar Warehouse’s all-female Shakespeare trilogy is not just that it gives some great actors a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:22PMThis third production in the Donmar Warehouse’s all-female Shakespeare trilogy is the one where, in many ways, the women’s prison setting makes
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:50PMStephen Daldry’s 1992 National Theatre production of An Inspector Calls is a fascinating theatrical artefact, simultaneously a thing of its time and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:16AMHow long must you live in a place before you belong? How many months, years, decades? This is the second of Battersea
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:22AMMatt Grinter’s Orca, this year’s winner of the Papatango Prize for new writing, is full of promising nods to folk horror. The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:21AM“We’re going to need more chairs.” I think this might be touring theatre’s equivalent of a Jaws moment. I’m at Leintwardine Community
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMMichael Rudman’s 1985 revival of Death of a Salesman won a Tony. He clearly knows his Arthur Miller and his production of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:28PMHow do you create theatre in village halls? “We tell people we’re based on a farm, but I don’t think they believe
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMGutted. That’s how I and – looking at Twitter – many others felt on hearing that Emma Rice would be stepping down
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:08AMThe UK Theatre Awards, presented on Sunday October 9 at London’s magnificent Guildhall, always provide an excellent snapshot of the richness and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:19AMIt’s 100 years since the birth of Roald Dahl, master of the revolting rhyme, and there are various events and performances taking
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMAfter the flood comes the flood. The Edinburgh Fringe has disappeared like a half-dreamed thing, like Tom’s Midnight Garden, and the autumn
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMHaving fringe withdrawals? Feel like your day is incomplete if you haven’t seen three pieces of Belgian theatre by lunchtime or had
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThe topography of Edinburgh Festival Fringe shifts every year. Venues close, others spring up in their place. The streets subtly rearrange themselves.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMWe’re in the final stretch now: coffee for blood and eyes like tar pits. I’ll sleep for a week when I get
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMRashDash’s Abbi Greenland is raging. She’s fed up of being labelled, sometimes she’s a man-woman, sometimes a woman-man. She’s as strong as
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWe’re hitting the midpoint now. A lot of shows have been watched. A lot of stars doled out. A lot of gin
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