Saturday, May 23, 2015
The Stage has, as you may be aware, recently launched its Critic Search to unearth new writing talent. It is, I believe,
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Festival season is still in full swing – in Brighton, Norwich and Bristol – but the main event of the week is
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This week is full of festivals. The Brighton Festival and Fringe enter their second week, as does the Norfolk and Norwich Festival,
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“We need to find a way of focusing on parents working within the arts,” David Mercatali insists. Having separate conversations about the needs
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In the first in my weekly round-ups of new writing and work from the subsidised sector, there’s a double dose of political
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“What we’re doing here is world-building,” says Oliver Lansley. Together, with co-director James Seager, his company Les Enfants Terribles is in the
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Now a major milestone in the international cultural calendar, the Brighton Festival – complemented by the Brighton Fringe, one of the largest
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The 2015 Olivier Awards felt like a solid reflection of the excellent work that has been filling our stages – albeit a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AM“It felt like I was writing from the subconscious,” Ross Sutherland explains over black coffee in the Electric Elephant cafe in south
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“This year is our 10-year anniversary so we thought, ‘lets do 10 shows’, which is obviously a very sensible thing to do
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At 4.20pm on Friday March 21, exactly a week, to the hour, after the fire broke out which consumed most of the
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When you speak to Ruth Mackenzie it’s her zealousness about the role of artistic director she is about to step in to
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On Friday as I stood on the platform at Clapham Junction station and saw a sudden uprush of flame redden an already
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It’s really pleasing to see the Young Vic being recognised at this year’s Olivier awards for its bold, smart programming; scoring 11
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:03PMEvery performance of Jess Thom’s show Backstage in Biscuit Land is a relaxed performance. Thom, who has Tourette’s syndrome, a neurological condition
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Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London: This production has moments that are utterly transporting: the combination of the human voice at its most dizzyingly pristine and the glitter of candlelight …
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Royal Exchange Studio, Manchester: Since Anna Jordan won the Bruntwood Prize back in 2013, she's had two other plays staged, Freak and Chicken Shop (in London, at Theatre 503 and the Pa…
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Barbican, London: Rimas Tuminas' staging of Pushkin's epic poem by the Vakhtangov State Academic Theatre of Russia - currently on a global tour - is full of thrilling imagery. It i…
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Unicorn, London: Although written with a family audience in mind, Joy Wilkinson's play about the life and career of Vesta Tilley, the celebrated music hall star and male impersonator, i…
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Old Vic, Bristol: There's a sense of timeliness to this staging of John Cleland's notorious and oft-banned novel of sexual pleasure, first published in 1748. Playwright April de An…
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Watford Palace, London: Timberlake Wertenbaker's intricate play about the nature of freedom - receiving its premiere at Watford Palace - is set during the years of American Revolution, …
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Studio 2, Trafalgar Studios, London: Clara Brennan's tender, reflective two-hander sees a couple looking back on their long relationship, on the years they have spent with one another, …
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Arcola Theatre, London: Kay Adshead's triptych of short plays about the impact of the events of the Arab Spring on the women in the Middle East is not without moments of potency. But th…
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Theatre Royal, Brighton: Last year saw Blanche McIntyre make her Shakespeare's Globe directing debut with a bright, broad Comedy of Errors, helm an elegant, painterly triptych of Noel C…
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Theatre503, London: Richard Molloy's debut play, originally staged at Dublin's Project Arts Centre, breaks into a gallop at its halfway point only to end oddly abruptly.
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Vaudeville Theatre, London: This is the third incarnation of Amelia Bullmore's bittersweet play. It debuted in Hampstead Theatre's Downstairs space in 2011, transferred to the main…
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Theatre Royal Haymarket, London: Mark Hayhurst's fascinating and intelligent play - which premiered in Chichester in October - makes a smooth transition into the West End. If anything, …
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Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon: Tom Morton-Smith's engaging account of the life and legacy of the 'father of the atomic bomb', J Robert Oppenheimer, walks a fine line. Mort…
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Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London: The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, the Globe's indoor Jacobean space, is a magical venue even when it is flecked with red, when it is tainted by madness and l…
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Bush, London: Caroline Horton's latest devised piece is a bloated, grotesque and distended thing. But that's kind of the point. Horton's exploration of tax havens drips; it r…
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Park Theatre, London: Michael Kingsbury's tepid, creaky sex comedy begins as one thing but ends up as another. Matthew and Naomi, a middle class childless couple - he's a psychiatr…
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