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 07:37AMThursday, June 20, 2013
Theatre Royal, Bath: Bath's Theatre Royal launches its summer season with a starry production of Noel Coward's comedy of class and status.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06AMFriday, June 14, 2013
Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon: For his RSC debut, Sean Foley has dropped Thomas Middleton's exceptionally bawdy comedy into a seedy 1950s Soho setting. On a basic level this update …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:16AMTuesday, May 28, 2013
Finborough, London: Two schools of thought about Scottish independence are aired in David Hutchinson's contemplative, if tangled, new play.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:12PMPlayhouse, Norwich: Nature Theater of Oklahoma's Life and Times is an epic exploration of a single suburban American life formed from hours of telephone conversations with one of the co…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:08AMThursday, May 23, 2013
Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: The concluding production in the Crucible's Sheffield Season, a revival of Alan Bennett's celebrated play, makes a fitting companion piece to the first…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AMSunday, May 19, 2013
Emma Rice, joint artistic director of Kneehigh talks to Natasha Tripney about her projects for 2013 and how she has managed to bring the Cornish atmosphere to the city
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:24AMSaturday, May 18, 2013
Founded more than 35 years ago, Tara Arts the cross-cultural London venue is now creating a new, enhanced site. Natasha Tripney explores.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:22AMTuesday, May 7, 2013
Various venues, Halesworth, Suffolk: The HighTide Festival, held in a picturesque corner of Suffolk, is now in its seventh year. With a focus on new writing and the championing of emerging p…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:48AMThe Albany, London: Bola Agbaje's engaging play about faith and family has a tendency to swing between outright comedy and something more questioning, never quite settling on a tone of …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AMFriday, April 19, 2013
BAC, London: The crackle of the gramophone gives way to the thunder of drums as the Little Bulb company, in the opulent surroundings of Battersea Arts Centre's Grand Hall, begins to tel…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:16AMThursday, April 18, 2013
Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon: The stage of the Swan has been designed to resemble the London docks, a place of arrival and intersection, for Tanika Gupta's new play, which sees her…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AMWednesday, April 17, 2013
Nuffield, Southampton: There's a pleasing, playful quality to Blanche McIntyre's reworking for Headlong of what is perhaps Chekhov's best play. John Donnelly's expletive-…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:41AMMonday, April 15, 2013
Barbican, London: Declan Donnellan's inventive reframing of Alfred Jarry's attack of a play captures something of its adolescent ferocity.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:13AMThursday, April 11, 2013
Playhouse, Liverpool: Written in 1967, Peter Nichols' play still has the power to devastate. Its potency comes in part through the juxtaposition of the heightened theatricality of the s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:27AMWednesday, April 3, 2013
Arcola, London: It's impossible not to admire the chutzpah of a company who follow up an adaption of the German expressionist film, the Cabinet of Dr Caligari, with a stage version of H…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AMTuesday, April 2, 2013
Finborough, London: Caryl Churchill's previously unperformed play - written in 1972 but only now receiving its world premiere - is based on the Wretched of the Earth by the psychiatrist…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:21PMWednesday, March 27, 2013
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon: There are times when <a href="http://www.rsc.org.uk/buy-tickets/p/hamlet" target="_blank">Jonathan Slinger's Ha…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:08AMWednesday, March 20, 2013
Royal and Derngate, Northampton: Alan Ayckbourn's homage to the silent movie era is one of the prolific playwright's less frequently staged works. Written in 1963, it was a flop in…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:53AMFriday, March 15, 2013
Lemn Sissay tells Natasha Tripney about his play Refugee Boy, a stage version of Benjamin Zephaniah’s novel
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:52AMMonday, March 11, 2013
Rose Bankside, London: House on the Hill's production of Christopher Marlowe's first play is solidly done, if a little frayed at the edges. Taking place above the archaeological re…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:11AMSaturday, March 9, 2013
Gemma Bodinetz, artistic director of Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, tells Natasha Tripney why the city’s cultural heart beats so strongly despite the cuts
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:27AMFriday, March 8, 2013
Hampstead Theatre, London: William Boyd's play takes two of Chekhov's later short stories, My Life - one of his longest - and the less well known A Visit to Friends, and fuses them…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:40AMWednesday, March 6, 2013
Gate, London: Written in the wake of 9/11, Bruce Norris' 2002 play - here receiving its UK premiere - is set in the Midwest in the 1970s and explores similar emotional terrain to Norris…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:35AMThursday, February 28, 2013
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds: For the West Yorkshire Playhouse and Citizens Theatre co-production of Christopher Marlowe's play of one man's damnation, two of the original acts …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:37AMWednesday, February 27, 2013
Soho Theatre, London: Arinze Kene's new play is set in Deptford in the early 1980s, in the wake of the Brixton riots. Chima returns home after a ten-year stretch in prison to find that …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:36AMMonday, February 18, 2013
BAC, London: The first feature-length work by Paper Cinema, returning to BAC for a second run, blends elements of animation, film, music and puppetry to create a kind of living pop-up comic …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:16AMThursday, February 14, 2013
Arcola Theatre, London: Part of an ambitious double-bill of productions which includes a stage version of Moby-Dick, Simple8's reworking of the hugely influential German expressionist f…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:45AMWednesday, February 13, 2013
Swan, Stratford-upon-Avon: The RSC's A World Elsewhere season - which set out to explore events and developments happening in the world during Shakespeare's lifetime - concludes wi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:36AMWednesday, February 6, 2013
Royal & Derngate, Northampton: The first production in the Royal & Derngate's Made in Northampton season is also the last that current artistic director Laurie Sansom will direct be…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:20AMFriday, February 1, 2013
Finborough, London: Tricia Thorns' charming and wholly satisfying production of John van Druten's infrequently performed play explores what it was like to be a woman in the workpla…
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