Wednesday, December 12, 2018
First staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company last year, David Edgar’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol returns with cast changes
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:18AMFriday, November 9, 2018
As a Holocaust survivor, the Italian-Jewish writer and chemist Primo Levi bore witness to the horrors of Auschwitz in a series of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:31AMFriday, October 5, 2018
The first major revival of Mike Bartlett’s Cock shows it to be even more relevant now than when it was first staged
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:24AMWednesday, September 19, 2018
Albert Camus’ seminal 1942 existentialist novel The Outsider (L’Etranger) has been given the first major UK stage adaptation by Man Booker Prize-winning
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:23AMMonday, September 10, 2018
Tony Harrison’s anti-war verse drama Square Rounds is an interesting curiosity. Premiered as a technical extravaganza on the National Theatre’s huge Oliver
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:42AMMonday, July 23, 2018
Complex ideas and striking symbolism: Charlotte Jones makes a successful return to stage-writing with this nineteenth-century drama.
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Despite its title, Alan Bowne’s 1987 one-act play Beirut is set in a dystopian future America ravaged by a plague. New York
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:08AMThursday, May 31, 2018
'Lacks any sense of jeu d’esprit': Neil Dowden reviews Christopher Haydon's relocation of Molière to Trump's America.
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Gregory Evans’ Shirleymander is an entertaining satire on 1980s local politics with a dark contemporary resonance. Successfully adapted from his 2009 radio
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:46AMThursday, April 5, 2018
Weathering the storm: David Haig's D-Day drama is old-fashioned and expertly acted.
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No museum piece: Sean Holmes' self-aware modern-day Sean O'Casey revival doesn't feel revolutionary.
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A Christmas Carol at Windsor Castle seems a perfect match for a Victorian-style Christmas family show. ‘The man who invented Christmas’ in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:57AMMonday, December 18, 2017
The bizarreness takes over from the brutality: Blanche McIntyre's production can't balance the horror and the humour of Shakespeare's bloodbath.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 07:06PMVery much a character study, not a spy drama: Neil Dowden reviews the Hampstead Theatre's revival of Simon Gray's play about an unlikely friendship.
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Dripping with blood and sweat: Neil Dowden reviews the opening production of the RSC's Rome Season at the Barbican.
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It seems appropriate that after 18 years running Nottingham Playhouse, Giles Croft’s final production is Anton Chekhov’s 1904 valedictory masterpiece The Cherry
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Leo Tolstoy’s masterly 1886 novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich has been successfully adapted by Stephen Sharkey into a one-man show for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:48AMThursday, September 14, 2017
New artistic director Tom Littler opens the first season of Jermyn Street Theatre as a fully producing venue with the world premiere
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:58AMFriday, August 11, 2017
A defence, not an apology: Neil Dowden reviews Stockard Channing in Alexi Kaye Campbell's dinner party drama.
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Guildford Shakespeare Company’s 12th open-air season begins with a sunny, swinging sixties take on A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This site-responsive show is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:27AMSaturday, June 17, 2017
Creative Cow’s touring show of Graham Greene’s comic spy novel Our Man in Havana is slickly staged. Like their previous revival of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:22AMMonday, June 12, 2017
Lacks real poignancy: The flaws in this little-performed Tennessee Williams are exposed in Jonathan Kent's laboured production, says Neil Dowden.
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First staged in 2003, Debbie Tucker Green’s Dirty Butterfly is not an easy play to watch. Its subject of domestic abuse, and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:24PMWednesday, April 5, 2017
TW Robertson was a pioneering playwright and director who helped to modernise mid-Victorian theatre by bringing a new quality of realism to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:33AMMonday, March 6, 2017
Moira Buffini’s delightful Olivier-winning comedy Handbagged imagines what may have happened in the weekly meetings between Queen Elizabeth II and prime minister
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:43AMWednesday, February 8, 2017
In these times of extreme turmoil in global politics, Guildford Shakespeare Company’s contemporary spin on Julius Caesar is highly appropriate. Shakespeare’s Roman
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:20AMTuesday, January 10, 2017
American political writer Donald Freed made his reputation as a sharp critic of the US establishment. His 1989 play Veterans Day, written
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:59AMFriday, December 16, 2016
Parody can be a form of homage, and this affectionately comic adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles by
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:26AMTuesday, November 29, 2016
Scottish playwright James Bridie had a string of West End hits in the 1930s and 1940s, but this is the first English production
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Eugene O'Neill's four one-act dramas at the Old Vic . . .
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This finely controlled production by Ian Rickson does full justice to the play's emotional complexity. . . .
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