For Spider’s Web, author Agatha Christie weaves a rather unexpected thread of comedy through one of her traditional murder mysteries. Originally created
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:49AMA one-man musical is a risk. There’s little or no opportunity for dialogue, and every chance the score may be limited in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:37AMIris Theatre’s season of plays at St Paul’s Church in Covent Garden has grown both in popularity and ambition year on year.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMSan Francisco is host to the world’s longest-running queer theatre company. Paul Vale finds out about its fight to give gay voices a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMThere is a fine line between character comedy and drag. Both Barry Humphries and Paul O’Grady gave their drag persona such a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AMIt makes perfect sense that Michael Booth and Alistair Powning’s Thirty Three is due to be turned into a movie later this
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:15PMThe Heather Brothers are perhaps best known as the authors of the affectionate pastiche of 1960s nightlife A Slice of Saturday Night.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:49AMAs Anthony Biggs’ tenure as artistic director of Jermyn Street draws to a close, his final production mirrors both the venue’s commitment
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMWill Mauchline Training: RADA technical theatre and stage management course Organisation: Birmingham Royal Ballet CV: Opera company assistant at the Royal Opera
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMIrene Bohan Training: BA in fashion and textiles, Goldsmiths College CV: National Theatre, London: The Madness of George III, The White Devil,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMIn a dimly lit office, a frustrated private investigator Jackie Straker awaits another phone call from Chummy. It’s a hideously one-sided relationship
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:33AMWith the heady smell of incense, challenging acoustics and sombre choral music, the church makes a rather excellent venue for Scena Mundi’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:35AMPerformance artist Tom Marshman has devised theatre on a diverse range of subjects – but his work is always rooted in community
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:53AMIt’s hard to believe Don’t Dress for Dinner was only written in the 1980s. There is something about its rampant misogyny, ambivalent
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:56AMA couple are thrown together by chance and then drift apart. Blink was an Edinburgh fringe hit for Phil Porter in 2012
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:11AMWhen Emma Donoghue was writing the novel Room, she was already considering how it might be adapted for the stage. While the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:21AMWinnie Holzman, who wrote the book of hit show Wicked, was also the creator of the ground-breaking television series My So-Called Life.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:10PMAge is all about perspective. When Michael Aitkens’ sitcom Waiting For God originally aired in the early 1990s, the public had a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:38AMStephen Unwin’s unsettling new play explores the public euthanasia program in Nazi Germany that led to the execution of thousands of disabled
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:53AMMake no mistake, circus is big business in the entertainment industry. From the major shows of Cirque du Soleil to the sheer
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMPlays commemorating the First World War are commonplace at the moment, so Clapham Omnibus associate writer Victoria Willing’s new piece comes as
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:06PMOne of the more fascinating facts about the Kray twins was their association with the rich and famous of their day. Frank
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:34AMNoel Coward’s one-act play Still Life and the subsequent film adaptation Brief Encounter have provided a springboard for several alternate versions on
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:32AMAlan Ayckbourn’s Improbable Fiction was originally commissioned to celebrate 50 years of the Stephen Joseph Theatre. But unlike enduringly popular pieces such
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:34AMMatthew Bugg’s wartime musical Miss Nightingale began life in 2011 as a chamber musical, with a run at the King’s Head and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:47AMThere’s something about Le Gateau Chocolat’s rich, velvety baritone that penetrates the soul. His voice commands attention. And while his flamboyant visual
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:55AMThe much-loved story of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Ugly Duckling is an elegant fable about bullying and acceptance. George Stiles and Anthony
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