Five minutes before the end of the press performance of Waste, Roger Michell’s production of the play by Harley Granville Barker at
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AMAlong with the West End transfer of Martin McDonagh’s new play, Hangmen, this week also sees major new productions opening at the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:20AMAs we head towards December, venues across the country are bringing out the glitter guns and snow machines. The coming week sees
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMLucy Bailey’s career has been one of seismic shifts. In a career spanning more than three decades, she’s worked in both opera
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AM“It definitely changed everything,” says Anna Jordan, winner of the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting in 2013 for her fourth play, the vivid,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMFewer major openings this week, but lots of intriguing things happening elsewhere: the Radar festival of new writing continues at the Bush
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:52AMThe Team is not a company to shy away from a grand narrative or an iconic American image. The work of the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:41PMThere’s something pleasingly circular about the fact that As You Like It was one of the first productions Polly Findlay ever directed
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:41PMAs November arrives, wreathed in mist, the prospect of retreating indoors for a couple of hours of an evening to be told
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMThis is the year that theatre went Greek, where the ancient and the modern collided, violently, brilliantly, beautifully. The Almeida Theatre flew
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMAfter a little lull, things kick up a gear this week with a major new opening at the National, plus the third
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMThere’s a sizeable queue of people at the stage door already. Benedict Cumberbatch is in the building, about to perform in Lyndsey
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMThe Royal Court, which has just announced a pretty dazzling 60th anniversary season – including new work from Caryl Churchill, a well-deserved
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMMemories make us, they shape us: they are our narratives, a fundamental part of our sense of self – and, conversely, their
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:13PMWhat I found most striking, when helping to compile the shortlist for this year’s UK Theatre Awards, was just how difficult a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:13AMOn October 13, the Out of Joint co-production of Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s new play Jane Wenham: The Witch of Walkern, based on the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMIt’s not quite as busy this week as it has been of late, certainly not in London, but some breathing space is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AM“Brave New World is full of incendiary, slippery debates which readily adapt to the stage. But the really powerful confrontation is the one between the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:33AMLast time I stood in this space it had a ceiling. Now the Battersea Arts Centre’s Grand Hall resembles an ancient ruined
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:27PMWhile there are major new productions opening both the Donmar Warehouse and the Young Vic in London, one of the most exciting
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMReader, I loved it. Sally Cookson’s adaptation of Jane Eyre for the National Theatre is a thing of riches. First staged at
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMAlongside big openings this week at the Lyric Hammersmith and the Almeida, there’s intriguing new work at the New Diorama and Battersea
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMWhen Laura Wade talks about the Sheffield Crucible her face lights up; it is, she says, her “home theatre”. The opportunity to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:16AM“I think about oxbow lakes a lot.” My conversation with Barney Norris, though contained in time and space, sat on a sagging
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:24AMSeptember continues to be busy with an epic Iliad in Wales, major new productions at the Royal Exchange and an intriguing double
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMSeptember is certainly not showing any sign of slowing. Major opening follows major opening. Nicole Kidman kicks the week off with Photograph
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMThe autumn season kicks up a gear this week with a slew of new openings in London and a major festival of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMThe phrase that keeps recurring is: “Not a vintage year.” That seems to be the consensus. There’s been a lot of solid,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMThe Edinburgh Festival Fringe is over for another and while it’s left me, as ever, feeling slightly smudged at the edges and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMEach Edinburgh Fringe tells its own story. Different themes and narratives emerge every year. One of the threads running through this year’s
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