Wednesday, March 11, 2020
Since it began in 2010, NTW has been through ups and downs. In a new decade, with a new artistic director, what
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 10, 2020
More than 20 years ago, theatremaker Kaite O'Reilly met a former Second World War codebreaker, Molly Schuesselle. After a half-century of silence,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:25AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Founded in 2014, the Welsh pub venue won The Stage award for best fringe theatre just two years later. Its artistic director
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 12, 2019
Cardiff's New Theatre has marketed Cinderella as "the godmother of all pantomimes" and the creators of this year's festive offering have gone
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:22AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 4, 2019
The Sherman's Christmas show is a Cardiff tradition and this year the company turns to the versatile Conor Mitchell to provide script,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:31PM[SHARE]Friday, November 8, 2019
It speaks volumes of the tumultuous times in which we live that so many new plays are set in dystopian near-futures that
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:42PM[SHARE]Friday, October 11, 2019
Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru (Wales' Welsh-language national theatre company) tackles a seminal piece of European drama in this new translation of Brecht's The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:40PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 25, 2019
A premiere of an Ed Thomas play is a rare event. It's been 15 years since his last play and three decades
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:26AM[SHARE]Friday, September 20, 2019
As the Rugby World Cup gets underway in Japan, the National Dance Company Wales is going the extra mile to support its
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 19, 2019
The Clink is one of Cardiff's best restaurants and, attached to the city's prison, it's staffed by prisoners in the last phase
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 10, 2019
Twelve months after an open letter protested at National Theatre Wales' apparent disregard for Wales-based artists, Nicholas Davies looks at the progress
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 20, 2019
As one of the first countries to have equal gender representation at parliament level, Wales has a cultural history of equality, reflected
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AM[SHARE]Monday, June 17, 2019
When, three years ago, Kully Thiarai was named artistic director of National Theatre Wales, she immediately signalled her intention to work with
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Katherine Chandler's play is, for the most part, a gripping three-hander. Three people's lives hurtle towards the sweet release of a booze-filled
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:10AM[SHARE]Friday, March 15, 2019
After 10 years of creating outdoor plays involving D/deaf and physically disabled actors (performing in spaces as unlikely as woodland and castles),
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:26AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Jo Clifford takes on one of Shakespeare's more troublesome plays in this re-imagining of The Taming of the Shrew, co-produced by Sherman
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 12, 2019
Blue is the first fully-fledged new production for young theatre company, Chippy Lane Productions. It's a classic premise: a very domestic drama
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:02AM[SHARE]Monday, February 4, 2019
Sherman Theatre's artist development programme bears fruit in this gripping new play by its most recent graduates, writer Elgan Rhys and director
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 12, 2018
The New Theatre's panto combines genuine musical and comedy talent with affable rugby hero, Gareth 'Alfie' Thomas. Alfie's slowly becoming a stage
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 5, 2018
The Other Room pub theatre has created a Christmas tradition of offering a grown-up ‘anti-panto’ as an antidote to the usual family-oriented
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:25AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Jason Robert Brown's glorious 2001 musical, exploring a couple's passionate yet doomed relationship from each partner's perspective, has seen a number of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:08AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 1, 2018
Kevin Jones' one-man play, Cardiff Boy, is a love letter to the 1990s " a spirited monologue that plays to an evocative
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:11PM[SHARE]Friday, October 19, 2018
It's unlikely that a play exploring such diverse themes as unemployment, suicide, deprivation and Brexit will ever evoke as much as joy
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:08AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 19, 2018
The Other Room’s latest season kicks off with a stripped-back, one-woman play that is both funny and unsettling. Lily (Lauren O’Leary) is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:20AM[SHARE]Friday, July 13, 2018
This new play by Alan Harris is one of National Theatre Wales' five Love Letters to the NHS. Its location could not
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 12, 2018
National Theatre Wales' The Stick-Maker Tales is one of five monologues " Love Letters to the NHS " each performed in different
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:38AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 21, 2018
Quarantine and National Theatre Wales are natural bedfellows, two trailblazers in representing their communities as much as the performing arts sector. Their
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:48AM[SHARE]Friday, May 25, 2018
For its first ever production, new company OtherLife tackles Jack Thorne's 2012 two-hander. Marian and David are a young middle-class couple, seemingly
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:35AM[SHARE]Monday, April 30, 2018
Love, science, trust and ethics all collide in Lucy Prebble's intelligent 2012 play, The Effect, set in a pharmaceutical trial facility. It's
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:17AM[SHARE]Monday, April 9, 2018
After a proud 200-year history of shipbuilding at Pembroke Dock, it's a curious fact that the last vessel to be constructed there
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:54AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 31, 2018
The question of whether forbidden love can survive the ravages of dementia places Matthew Trevannion's new play squarely at the centre of
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