We’re hitting the midpoint now. A lot of shows have been watched. A lot of stars doled out. A lot of gin
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMLas Vegas and Edinburgh have a lot in common. If you’ve ever had a beer upended in your lap in a stuffy
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMThe Edinburgh International Festival and the Fringe are both well underway now. It’s easier to see how the land lies. Summerhall, more
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThe Stage’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe team – Paul Vale, Stewart Pringle, Nick Awde, Gerald Berkowitz, Brian Cooper and myself – will be
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMLittle ripples. That’s how it starts. Little ripples getting bigger. And then suddenly you’re eye to eye with a dinosaur. The Edinburgh
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMThe Ragnar Kjartansson exhibition, currently at the Barbican Centre in London, says more about the nature of performance than any number of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThe Edinburgh Fringe is not far away and that’s reflected in the work opening this week. But amid the previews there’s a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTo call it the theatre event of the year would be an understatement. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the eighth chapter
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:36AMA crowd of approximately 8,000 people is standing in a square in the Polish city of Poznan. A stage has been erected alongside
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMBelow you’ll find the reviews written by all 12 of the regional finalists in The Stage Critic Search 2016, our competition to find
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMAs August approaches so do the Edinburgh Fringe previews. That play about the wizards also finally opens. Harry Potter and the Cursed
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMA relatively quiet week in London this one, as a reasonably sizeable chunk of the UK theatre community migrates to a field
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThere’s life after the London International Festival of Theatre. Even with the inevitable pre-Edinburgh slow-down there’s a lot of interest happening during the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMIt’s a surprisingly difficult thing to look someone right in the eyes. I’m sitting in an anonymous office block in Poznan, Poland,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWe’re about to enter the season of the Edinburgh preview, but beyond the (owl-shaped) shadow of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, there’s plenty
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThe summer festival season continues this week with the continuation of LIFT and the BE Festival alongside Greenwich and Docklands International Festival
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMichelle Terry is midway through rehearsals for the Open Air Theatre’s production of Henry V, in which she will play the title
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMThere’s something very familiar about the house of mouse’s latest import from Broadway, based on its 1992 animated film, Aladdin. It contains
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWhile LIFT continues to fly the flag for exciting international work in the capital, there’s a whole raft of interesting new openings
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMEach year, there is one day which fills our Edinburgh Festival Fringe reviewing team with a sense of anticipation, excitement and mild
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:26AMThe London International Festival of Theatre continues to fill the city with theatre, dance, live art, and things that don’t fit into
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThe London International Festival of Theatre opens this week with a one-off gig by Taylor Mac at Hackney Empire on June 1
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMIt’s a quieter week in London because of the bank holiday, but around the country it’s a different story, with the festival
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMIn addition to the continuing festivals in Brighton, Bristol and Norwich, the next seven days features a slew of new openings in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMBike Shed Theatre artistic director David Lockwood has called for the industry to encourage “renewal and rebirth” to protect its future. He
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:07PMJulia Farrington, head of arts at Index on Censorship, has raised concerns that the cancellation of recent shows because of their content
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:07PMDirector Rebecca Atkinson-Lord has claimed “obsolescence” should be built into new theatres, so that future generations do not “have to save them”.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:58PMTheatre 2016 – billed as the largest ever UK-wide theatre conference – continued today (May 13) at the Piccadilly Theatre, with sessions
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:47PMBarbican Centre director of arts Louise Jeffreys has admitted that the venue “failed audiences” when it cancelled a performance in 2014 following
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:25AMFestival season gathers steam this week with the opening of both Bristol’s Mayfest, and the Norfolk and Norwich Festival. Brighton’s Festival and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMBrighton Festival Every year the Brighton Festival has a different guest director. This year, it is performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson
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