Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Royal and Derngate, Northampton: James Dacre's inaugural season as artistic director at the Royal and Derngate continues with Tamsin Oglesby's new version of George Feydeau's …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:01AMThursday, April 17, 2014
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon: Continuing his journey through the First Folio, Gregory Doran's excellent productions of Parts I and II of Henry IV for the Royal Shakesp…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMWednesday, April 16, 2014
Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon: The RSC's Roaring Girls season begins, appropriately enough, with Dekker and Middleton's city comedy of 1611 inspired by the life of Mary Frith, …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:50AMTuesday, April 15, 2014
The Maria, Young Vic, London: Inspired by a trip that writer and director Amir Nizar Zuabi and German-Syrian actor Corinne Jaber took together to the Syrian refugee camps in Jordan, Oh My Sw…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:36AMMonday, April 7, 2014
Theatre 503, London: Alex and Andreea, two homeless Romanians, have taken up residence in a derelict London public toilet. For reasons that are not immediately apparent, they have decided to…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:26AMFriday, April 4, 2014
Soho Theatre, London: You might want to think hard about sitting in the first couple of rows of Told By an Idiot's homage to the anarchy of 1970s kids' TV. There are quite a lot of…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:44AMMonday, March 24, 2014
Southwark Playhouse, London: Even the most avid fans of Sherlock Holmes would probably agree that the first of Arthur Conan Doyle's four Holmes novels is not his strongest. The characte…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:39AMFriday, March 21, 2014
Shoreditch Town Hall, London: One of the most magical moments in Philip Wilson's collection of classic Grimm Brothers fairy tales - as distilled by Philip Pullman - comes right at the e…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:46AMWednesday, March 12, 2014
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds: Anya Reiss' update of Frank Wedekind's 1891 play for Headlong successfully transplants its troubled teenage characters from repressive turn of the …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:10AMMonday, March 3, 2014
Theatre503, London: There's an odd, time-warped quality to Annie Hulley's debut. The old-fashioned sitcom-like tone, the stiff, unbelievable dialogue, even the faintly cardboardy, …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:26AMFriday, February 28, 2014
Arts Theatre, London: Steeped in cinematic and televisual references that include the Amicus anthologies and classic horror films such as Dead of Night, Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman's tr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:13AMWednesday, February 26, 2014
Royal and Derngate Theatre, Northampton: This hugely handsome production of Dickens' classic is James Dacre's first here as artistic director. Mike Poulton's adaptation is a f…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:04AMMonday, February 24, 2014
Park Theatre, London: This funny, inventive, near-wordless piece, devised by Hot Coals, a new ensemble made up of graduates from RADA's Theatre-Lab MA, is - very - loosely inspired by C…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:04AMFriday, February 21, 2014
Ovalhouse, London: Originally written in Romany and then translated into English, Dan Allum's play explores the Gypsy way of life as well as the prejudices to which the traveller commun…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:25AMMonday, February 17, 2014
Southwark Playhouse, London: As the film version of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer-winning play, August: Osage County opens in cinemas, Southwark Playhouse stages the UK premiere of Superior Don…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:31AMArcola Theatre, London: Set in late 19th-century Alaska, at the tail end of the gold rush, Karen Ardiff's debut play focuses on a quartet of women left behind in a dying town after the …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:25AMThursday, February 13, 2014
Set to play in a Virginia Woolf adaptation at Manchester's Royal Exchange, the former Coronation Street star talks gender, Scott & Bailey and stomach muscles"I've never worked harder in my l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:28AMFriday, February 7, 2014
St Leonard's Church, Shoreditch, London: St Leonard's in Shoreditch is an imposing building, awesome in the truest sense. National Art Service's meditation on the end of the world …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:04AMMonday, January 27, 2014
Theatre503, London: There's an air of the familiar to Alan Franks' play about life at Oxford University in 1968 - a pivotal, turbulent year in so many ways. Anxiety about the war i…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:06AMThursday, January 23, 2014
The Shed, National, London: Opening the day after athlete Beth Tweddle was subjected to vile, sexist abuse during a Sky Sports Q&A - an all-too commonplace occurrence - this devised piec…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:12AMMonday, January 20, 2014
Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court, London: John Donnelly's new play about the insanely pressurised, hermetic world of professional football charts the career of Jason, played by Rus…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:36AMFriday, January 17, 2014
Tristan Bates Theatre, London: Jeremy Kingston's retelling of the Oedipus story takes the form of two separate but complementary plays. The first is Oedipus the King, his new translatio…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:53AMThursday, January 16, 2014
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London: It quickly becomes clear why Dominic Dromgoole has picked John Webster's tragedy to open the first season in Shakespeare's Globe's new indoor …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:34AMTuesday, January 14, 2014
Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, Royal Court, London: This trio of short works by Samuel Beckett - which is playing for a brief run at the Royal Court before transferring to the <a href="…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:03AMMonday, January 13, 2014
Marylebone Gardens, London: Wilderness' evocative and often feverish immersive dance theatre piece draws on the early works of Tennessee Williams and the reportage of Studs Terkel to co…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:56AMSunday, December 29, 2013
Some venues faced funding cuts, while others welcomed new leaders. Natasha Tripney looks back on a time of change and a memorable festival in Manchester
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:35AMMonday, December 16, 2013
Battersea Arts Centre, London: This building is full of stories and secrets. Returning for a second run, this collaborative show allows its young - and not so young - audience members to exp…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:41AMFriday, December 13, 2013
Southwark Playhouse, London: There are playful echoes of Noises Off in Goat and Monkey's meta-panto for Southwark Playhouse. Split neatly into two halves, the first has the company of f…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AMSoho Theatre, London: Returning to Soho Theatre after a brief run at the Jagriti Theatre in Bangalore, India, Phil Porter's subversion of the romantic comedy remains a bittersweet and t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AMWednesday, December 4, 2013
Arcola, London: Neil LaBute's 2001 play - which explores many of the themes to which he would later return - remains one of his most popular. It's easy to grasp the appeal of this …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:47AMFriday, November 29, 2013
Finborough Theatre, London: The Finborough's revival of this 1953 play by RC Sherriff - the first time it has been staged since its premiere - is a very odd cocktail indeed. It's e…
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