Mike Bartlett’s Love, Love, Love premiered in 2010. Revived precisely a decade later, its central premise of the white boomer middle classes
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:58AMCheek by Jowl’s collaboration with the Piccolo Teatro di Milano opens with a blast of high church, high-camp bravado. The Duke (Massimiliano
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:20AMThere’s a wedge of discord between text and performance running throughout Hester Chillingworth’s production of Trainers, or The Brutal Unpleasant Atmosphere of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:40AM“Must” is the first word Thibault Delférière writes on a large cloth at the back of the stage, before continuing to drag
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:59AMLayla (Nicole Ansari) is up to her neck in it, literally. Condemned to death by stoning, the English Literature professor in an
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:28AMAlina Cojocaru’s curated programme is, as the saying goes, a game of two halves. Pre-interval, a selection of three contemplative, tender works
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:27AMAlistair McDowall’s All of It is like Sally Rooney written by Samuel Beckett. Or Samuel Beckett written by Sally Rooney. Either way,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:05AMStill fondly remembered as Fresh Prince’s butler Geoffrey in the US sitcom, actor Joseph Marcell also has an impressive stage CV, with
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:18AMThe Taming of the Shrew is one of the most notoriously difficult Shakespeare plays to stage. Director Maria Gaitanidi’s production, unfortunately, does
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:41AMIn her essay Shakespeare’s Sisters, Rachel Cusk examines the knotty ties between a woman’s domestic situation and her literary output, quoting Virginia
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMFor Irish director Caroline Byrne, it’s the non-verbal world of theatre, and not the spoken one, that captivates her most. She tells
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:03AMConor McPherson’s musical, based around the songs of Bob Dylan and set in the musician’s birthplace of Duluth, Minnesota, is not a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:25AMMatt Harrison’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the National Youth Theatre relocates Shakespeare’s original to Athens-on-Sea: a land of grab-a-bear
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:56PMThe Egg’s Christmas shows are consistently a delight and this year’s Rapunzel, written by Annie Siddons and directed by Nik Partridge, is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:16AMThis year’s pantomime at the Theatre Royal Bath has two elements to it: the Disney-fied tale of the impoverished Belle (Clare Maynard)
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:24AMMatilda Ibini’s Little Miss Burden is a gem of a play. Set in 1990s Hackney, it manages that rare feat of being
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:27AMIncommunicability is frequently identified as an aspect of chronic pain. Indeed, this was precisely the topic of Rachel Bagshaw’s previous work, The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:07AMThis year’s Christmas offering from the Theatre Royal Stratford East is a joy-filled mash-up of Dick Whittington and The Pied Piper, with
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:35AMThe most famous fraternal relationships of mythology, Cain and Abel or Romulus and Remus, end with bloodshed. Bijan Sheibani’s The Arrival, a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMShe has tackled plays exploring trauma and state corruption, and now Tinuke Craig is turning her hand to a boldly re-imagined panto
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:39AMAnupama Chandrasekhar’s When the Crows Visit is a haunting beast of a play, one that persistently claws away at expectations and comforts
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:05PMWith her focus split across different areas, Yarit Dor tells Rosemary Waugh why ‘movement practitioner’ is the term that best describes her
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PMAr the turn of the last century, long before Gwyneth Paltrow promoted alkaline water on her Goop well-being brand, ‘Doctor’ Linda Hazzard
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:12PMTwo men meet in a private hospital ward. They have been assigned adjacent rooms and are being looked after by the same
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:32AMNancy Harris’ The Beacon trades on stereotypes. Beiv (Jane Brennan) is a smock-wearing female artist who’s been through her sculptures-of-tampons stage, opened
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:10AMRichard Beecham’s update of Patrick Hamilton’s play boasts a simple but clever premise: a group of women living in a safe house
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:08AM“This is the script. It’s what I’m meant to say,” explains Agamemnon (Brian Doherty) before he sacrifices Polyxena (Zara Devlin) in exchange
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:38AMMám opens with low-hanging clouds of smoke hanging over the stage and extending into the auditorium. With them comes a smell, a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:06AMTwo Ladies opens with an arresting scene. The First Lady of the United States (Zrinka Cvitešić) is drenched in blood and being
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:02PM“Lunatic”, “insane”, “mad” – synonyms for crazy pop up regularly in Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s version of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:49AMThe past invades the present in Maya Arad Yasur’s play Amsterdam. A pregnant Israeli violinist living in modern-day Amsterdam receives a mysterious
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