Friday, 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…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:53AMMonday, November 25, 2013
Arcola, London: Jeremy Green's biographical drama about the life of the Pre-Raphaelite muse - the model for Millais' Ophelia - depicts her as a complicated, creative woman with amb…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:21AMFriday, November 22, 2013
Covent Garden, London: Look Left Look Right's festive adventure designed for an audience of two people at a time takes its participants through the shops and streets of Covent Garden on…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:24AMFriday, November 15, 2013
Landor Theatre, London: The first London revival of <a href="http://www.thestage.co.uk/tag/polly-stenham/">Polly Stenham's</a> debut play, written when she was jus…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:52AMSunday, November 10, 2013
Director Loveday Ingram talks to Natasha Tripney about staging the first production of Richard III since the discovery of the notorious monarch’s remains in Leicester last year
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:50AMFriday, November 8, 2013
Soho Theatre, London: Monsters are a recurrent cultural trope - Lecter, Dexter, Dracula - men who can rip you to pieces, who can make you bleed. Hattie Naylor's monologue dives deep und…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:39AMTuesday, November 5, 2013
Studio Theatre, Sheffield: There's an awful lot going on in Robin Hooper's new play, split between Helmand province and Hackney. On the surface it's a play about contemporary …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:03AMMonday, November 4, 2013
Trafalgar Studios, London: Martyn Hesford's claustrophobic play focuses on the relationship between LS Lowry and his domineering mother. Though ailing and bedridden in later life, she f…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:34AMSoho Theatre, London: Katie Hims' new commission for Clean Break - the campaigning company which tells the stories of women and the prison system - is a warm-hearted, tender and gently …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:54AMFriday, November 1, 2013
Finborough, London: Luke Owen's play, winner of the Papatango New Writing Prize, is an intelligent piece about the psychological ramifications of being exposed to disturbing imagery on …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:57AMWednesday, October 23, 2013
Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham: This Out of Joint production of Dawn King's new play sees her reunited with Blanche McIntyre, who directed the award-winning Foxfinder. Where that earlier …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:21AMMonday, October 21, 2013
Theatre 503, London: This selection of work from the Hotbed new writing festival takes the form of three one-act pieces. The first and longest of these, Why Can't We Live Together?, is …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:37AMFriday, September 27, 2013
Jermyn Street Theatre, London: Anti-Semitism and the Jewish experience connect all five of the one-act plays in this night of new work by Steven Berkoff. This theme is most explicitly expres…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:11AMTuesday, September 24, 2013
The Door, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Birmingham: As a London-wide tour of Brand New Ancients, her euphoric and award-winning show, is announced - kicking off at the Royal Court in Novembe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:58AMMonday, September 16, 2013
Old Laundry, Bowness-on-Windermere: Victoria Wood's BAFTA award-winning TV play of one woman's wartime experience was based on the diaries of Nella Last, a married mother of two fr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:25AMWednesday, September 11, 2013
Royal and Derngate, Northampton: Ansu Kabia - performing with his arm in a sling following a recent bike accident - plays Ricky Braithwaite, a highly educated former RAF officer who ends up …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:52AMMonday, September 9, 2013
Finborough Theatre, London: Inspired by the legend of the Wild Man of Orford, Elizabeth Kuti's new play - first presented as part of the RADA Festival earlier this year - takes the form…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:12AMFriday, September 6, 2013
Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon: Mark Ravenhill's five act response to Voltaire takes the form of a journey through a series of possible worlds. Inspired by the classic French philoso…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:51AMMonday, August 19, 2013
Out of the Blue Drill Hall, Edinburgh: The Forest Fringe's old home, the former Forest Cafe, has this year been colonised by Assembly, branded and absorbed into the cacophony of Bristo …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:32PMMonday, August 12, 2013
Lyceum, Edinburgh: In its hypnotic take on Hamlet, the Wooster Group uses Richard Burton's famous 1964 Broadway production of the play as the basis for an exercise in theatrical ghostin…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:16AMSaturday, August 3, 2013
Natasha Tripney talks to Game of Thrones actor Gemma Whelan as she stars in two very different roles at the Edinburgh Fringe
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:28AMMonday, July 22, 2013
Shakespeare's Globe, London: Created with the talented trumpet soloist Alison Balsom in mind, Samuel Adamson's new play for the Globe takes the form of a series of vignettes linked by t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:23AMThursday, July 18, 2013
Temple Studios, London: To say the new London production by Punchdrunk was eagerly anticipated would be an understatement. The company, which formed in 2000, is a pioneer in the field of imm…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:24AMWednesday, July 17, 2013
Young Vic, London: Filmmaker Joe Wright made his stage directorial debut at the Donmar earlier this year with a bright, light Pinero comedy. His second stage production sees him tackling Aim…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:37AMMonday, July 15, 2013
Campfield Market Hall, Manchester: The ideas behind Matt Charman's play about chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov's famous defeat by IBM's Deep Blue computer are fascinating - qu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:22AMAlbert Hall, Manchester: Maxine Peake's recital of Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem, written in response to the Peterloo Massacre, is an electrifying experience, one made all the more p…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:14AMFriday, July 5, 2013
Shakespeare's Globe, London: Eve Best's directorial debut at the Globe begins with a burst of drums, a driving primal sound. It's an exhilarating opening, the whole cast united on …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:50AMThursday, July 4, 2013
AE Harris building, Birmingham: The act of eating together, of artists and audience sharing a meal, is central to the experience of this year's BE Festival. It's the ultimate act o…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:43AMWednesday, July 3, 2013
John Gielgud Theatre, RADA, London: The RADA Festival, which launched this year, is a public festival designed specifically to showcase the work of RADA alumni and staff. The festival, which…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AMSunday, June 23, 2013
Friday, June 21, 2013
Soho, London: Katherine Kressmann Taylor's slender epistolary novel about the malignant creep of Nazism was written in 1938 and subsequently banned in Germany. In bringing it to the sta…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:37AM 
