Friday, July 7, 2017
Hot Ice is celebrating its 81st season with a spectacular new show entitled Dreams. But this year's skaters are noticeably youthful, as
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We're led into a heartless immigration screening room. Here, young Mohamed, who we have seen enter illegally from Syria with no identity
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If you could rate smugness, the middle-class family gathering around the dinner table at the start of Nina Raine's play, Tribes, would
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:54AM[SHARE]Friday, June 30, 2017
Sarah McDonald-Hughes' play makes for an impressive opener to Paines Plough's fourth annual season for its perky, pop-up Roundabout theatre. The first
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 22, 2017
"Deeds not words" was Emmeline Pankhurst's militant motto. So when you are caught up in a melee outside York Minster involving placard
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A few days before we meet to talk about putting together his first Manchester International Festival as artistic director, John McGrath has
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Right now there's a lot of trauma in Manchester following the recent terror attack. Both out in the city and inside Home,
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Did the gentry frolic semi-naked at foam parties in Jane Austen's day? They do in Jeff James' radically rejigged version of her
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If there's any comparison to be made between Charles Dickens' 1854 novel and Stephen Jeffreys' 1982 stage adaptation, it's that one is
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Now that China is a major UK commercial investor, this stirring piece of verbatim theatre is a timely reminder of the generations
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:22AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Timberlake Wertenbaker's last play, Jefferson's Garden, was set in 1780s America. Her new play is set closer to home: atop Winter Hill,
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Right from the start, Richard Fitch's youthful production of The Importance of Being Earnest looks and feels like freshly de-cluttered late Victoriana.
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Ken Dodd once told an interviewer that laughter is just noise that comes out of a hole in your face. Anatomically, Doddy
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The Graduate has graduated. It's about time a woman director grabbed hold of Terry Johnson's stage adaptation and shook something more satirically
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Blitzed Britain. A ship transporting 90 child evacuees to the safety of Canada is sunk by German U-boats. Most of them drown.
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As a denunciation of apartheid, there's surely nothing in theatre as consciousness-raising as the re-enactment of the Antigone-Creon trial scene at the end of
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The growth of social media might suggest we are all closely connected, but the premier of Alan Harris' play explores social disengagement
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The rain it raineth very hard during the shipwreck opening of Jo Davies' joyous Royal Exchange production. But there's nothing wet about
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The twisted realism of Melbourne playwright Declan Greene's two-hander makes for unsettling viewing. Moth is partly a schoolboy's fantasy about a robot saving
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:32AM[SHARE]"It shouldn't be a battle, dad, bringing up a family." This is one of many barbed home truths aimed at Rafe Compton
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Rat poison in the wine? Blood on the rug? Bodies in the cesspit? Nazi assassins on the loose? Psychopath husband bumps off pregnant
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This National Theatre Wales collaboration with the residents of Rhyl begins with a guided stroll through the town centre taking in short
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Mikron Theatre embarks on its 46th annual tour with a show that takes a scenic hike through the history of the Youth
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This is hardly an English idyll. With a parish priest abducted by elemental spirits and replaced with a replica, the local WI
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Was Giacomo Casanova just an 18th-century sex addict, or a man of many colours? He was a trainee cleric, gambler, writer, violinist,
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When it premiered off-Broadway in 1972 Grease already reeked of nostalgia for the teen culture of 1950s America, when greased-up hair and
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Hot-headed youth doesn't only take a bow at the start of Amy Leach's thrilling production when rival teen tribes break out in
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Lyrics don't come much snappier than in classic football anthems. Even Tim Rice might struggle to coin as catchy a phrase as
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Aphra Behn, one of the first professional female playwrights, once described Nell Gwynn as "made on purpose to put the whole world
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Apart from the non-stop talk of sperm counts and ovary tests, or watching graphic genital examinations and practical demonstrations of the sexiest
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:56AM[SHARE]Friday, February 24, 2017
Agatha Christie and Margaret Rutherford would surely spin in their graves if they knew the secret sorrows of Britain's "queen of crime"
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