Friday, January 16, 2015
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…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AMTuesday, January 13, 2015
Gate, London: Aditi Brennan Kapil's contribution to the Gate Theatre's Who Does She Think She Is? season begins intriguingly enough. A girl in school uniform is being interrogated …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:28AMThursday, January 8, 2015
Tristan Bates, London: This double-bill of infrequently performed short plays by George Bernard Shaw sets out to showcase two of his less well-known female characters, though both are as muc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:58AMFriday, December 19, 2014
Tricycle Theatre, London: Following a successful national tour in 2013, Complicite's first dip into children's theatre - an adaptation of Zizou Corder's popular trilogy of boo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:34AMWednesday, December 17, 2014
Cliffs Pavilion, Southend: Over recent years, David Hasselhoff's Captain Hook has become something of a fixture of the panto landscape. Here he is again, looking oddly waxen alongside C…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:44AMTuesday, December 16, 2014
Hampstead Theatre, London: Hampstead Theatre ends the year by revisiting Nina Raine's popular 2011 play set in a busy London hospital. The production feels a little tighter than on firs…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:27PMMonday, December 15, 2014
Young Vic, London: 1927's previous show, The Animals and Children Took to the Street, was outstanding so Golem comes with a considerable weight of expectation. It turns out to be an oft…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:31AMThursday, December 11, 2014
Olivier, National, London: My, but this one's beautiful - Lizzie Clachan's design of the National Theatre's big family Christmas show is both ambitious and magical. It makes f…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:24AMWednesday, December 10, 2014
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon: The RSC marks the centenary of the start of the First World War with Phil Porter's play about one of the most moving passages of that con…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:25AMMonday, December 8, 2014
Theatre 503, London: The Sleeping Trees' rather frantic festive show for family audiences is not a panto in the traditional sense but rather a mash-up of familiar tropes and characters …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:45AMFriday, December 5, 2014
Vaudeville Theatre, London: Will Tuckett's balletic version of Kenneth Grahame's classic children's book returns to the West End with Alan Titchmarsh reprising his role as the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:45AMTuesday, December 2, 2014
Bush Theatre, London: Barney Norris' tiny knife of a play was staged to acclaim at the Arcola earlier this year and now transfers to the Bush Theatre. Tender, unexpectedly funny and war…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:14AMMonday, December 1, 2014
Lyric Hammersmith, London: The Lyric Hammersmith won't be officially reopening until April, but until then there's a chance to see Tom Wells' new panto, his second for the the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:54AMRoyal and Derngate, Northampton: The Royal and Derngate's Christmas show takes the form of an Arthurian origins story.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:16AMFriday, November 28, 2014
Festival Theatre, Chichester: Rachel Kavanaugh's rather starry production of Oscar Wilde's play of scandal and blackmail is a decidedly unsprightly affair, a bit blunt in the tooth…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:17AMThursday, November 27, 2014
Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, London: Earlier in the year, in the warren of rooms beneath Shoreditch Town Hall, Philip Wilson adapted a series of Philip Pullman's versions of the Grimm B…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:12AMTuesday, November 25, 2014
Gate, London: The Gate Theatre's Who Does She Think She Is? season continues with Suli Holum and Deborah Stein's cerebral solo show, which premiered at the 2012 Under the Radar Fe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:16AMMonday, November 17, 2014
King's Head, London: Norris Church Mailer was Norman Mailer's sixth and last wife, the Catherine Parr to his Henry VIII, the one who would outlive him. She worked as a model but was als…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:25AMFriday, November 14, 2014
Old Red Lion, London: Stewart Pringle's first season as artistic director at the Old Red Lion gets off to a very impressive start with Max Barton's revival of Philip Ridley's …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:24AMTuesday, November 11, 2014
The Drum, Theatre Royal, Plymouth: The new play by DC Moore for the Theatre Royal Plymouth sees him stretching himself as a writer.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:03AMMonday, November 10, 2014
Theatre 503, London: Stuart Slade's first play boldly uses Operation Yewtree as inspiration for a comic and unexpectedly tender two-hander. The play explores the relationship between Je…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:53AMFriday, November 7, 2014
Park Theatre, London: Tricia Kelly gives a rich and physical performance in this intense one-woman play by the German director and playwright Manfred Karge. She plays Max Gericke, the widow …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AMWednesday, November 5, 2014
Crucible Studio, Sheffield: The Studio space at the Crucible has been transformed to accommodate Bryony Lavery's new play about the legacy of the 1984/85 miners' strike. Designer M…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:08AMWednesday, October 15, 2014
Studio 2, Trafalgar Studios, London: Based primarily on the transcripts of the libel and criminal trials of Oscar Wilde in 1895 (the former only recently discovered), this play by Merlin Hol…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:29AMTuesday, October 14, 2014
St James Theatre, London: Anya Reiss' third Chekhov modernisation - following her takes on Three Sisters and The Seagull, both previously staged at Southwark Playhouse - lacks the fizz,…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:56AMFriday, October 10, 2014
Barbican Pit, London: This is the fourth year that the BE Festival - the Birmingham Festival of European Theatre - has sent a selection of its work out on tour. Made up of three pieces from …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:54AMThursday, October 9, 2014
The Print Room, London: The Print Room has taken the decision to christen its new home, in Notting Hill's atmospheric old Coronet Cinema, with an intense solo piece adapted and performe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:15AMFriday, October 3, 2014
Minerva Theatre, Chichester: Chichester Festival Theatre concludes its Hidden Histories season with the premiere of Mark Hayhurst's play about the life and death of the German lawyer Ha…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:27AMTuesday, September 30, 2014
Gate, London: The Gate Theatre begins its 35th anniversary Who Does She Think She Is? season with the UK premiere of Adam Rapp's almost-monologue. Shannon Tarbet plays Bernadette, an el…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AMFriday, September 26, 2014
Jermyn Street Theatre, London: Before this revival by Anthony Biggs, John Van Druten's pacifist play had been all but lost and hasn't been seen on stage since the Second World War.…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:08AMThursday, September 25, 2014
Old Red Lion, London: Miran Hadzic's play begins promisingly enough. Ridley Smith is a sharply suited businessman, whose increasing disillusionment with his life and job is intensified …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:59AM 
