The past invades the present in Maya Arad Yasur’s play Amsterdam. A pregnant Israeli violinist living in modern-day Amsterdam receives a mysterious
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:41AMPremiering in 1932, Somerset Maugham’s interwar drama, For Services Rendered, captures the changing fortunes of an extended country family all concealing various
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:43AMFor his final production as associate director of the Almeida Theatre, Robert Icke dissects the bloodied, grisly subjects of medical ethics, identity
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:12PMLucy Roslyn describes her one-woman show as “an act of communion”. Not, she stresses, the kind of communion that involves bread and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:40AMLife is No Laughing Matter opens with performer and creator Demi Nandhra listing common (and contradictory) things known about depression. She then
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:58AMLike all Manual Cinema’s work, this version of Frankenstein is a super-skilled endeavour. Using a mixture of silhouette work, live performance, music
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:18AMAdapted from a novel by Kim Kyung-wook, Spray is a delightfully surrealistic tale of exhaustion, urban living, petty thievery and cats. Directed
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:32PMMelissa (Heather Wilkins) likes glitter. I mean, really likes glitter. She also likes dancing routines to Spice Girl tracks, sparkly bum bags,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:33AMFatty Fat Fat is Katie Greenall’s debut full-length production. It recounts the creator and performer’s history as a woman whose body is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:45AMSwim is a show about grief, friendship and wild swimming. It’s also about miscommunication or the inevitable barriers existing between one person’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:17PMFrom the fairytales of the Brothers Grimm to the creations of Roald Dahl, the best children’s stories always have a healthy dose
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:52PMFilling the vast, cavernous space of the new Troubadour White City Theatre is no easy task. But Sally Cookson’s Peter Pan, which
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:20AMWhen Jean Paul Gaultier was a little boy he gave his teddy bear a makeover. Nana, as the bear was named, got
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:21AMJasmine Lee-Jones’ blistering debut play Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner takes place in two worlds: the Twittersphere and the ‘real world’,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:35AMEmploying almost the exact opposite approach to Sean Holmes’ fluorescent festival staging at Shakespeare’s Globe, Dominic Hill’s production is a delectably dark
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:09AM“I want more,” says Nadia (Claire Lams) to Daniel (Jon Foster), the man with whom she is having a long-term affair. Specifically,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AMOn the back wall of the shabby Ladbroke Grove flat that Hester Collyer (Nancy Carroll) shares with Freddie Page (Hadley Fraser) hang
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:27AMFollowing his very successful production of Terence Rattigan’s French without Tears in 2015, Paul Miller brings another of the playwright’s comedies to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:35AMAmerican playwright Sophie Treadwell, who died in 1970, wrote 39 plays in her lifetime. Her most famous work is Machinal, revived by
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:57AMOkwui Okpokwasili’s solo show, inspired by her memories of growing up in New York’s Bronx, starts with a prolonged period of shaking.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:09AMThough much was made of the fact that Samuel Hodges’ revival of Peter Morgan’s The Audience would feature Theresa May, the outgoing
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:33AMJulia Pascal’s Blueprint Medea loosely transposes Euripides’ tragedy to modern day London. In her version, the title character (Ruth D’Silva) is an
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:06PMShows by Cornwall’s Kneehigh theatre company can by roughly divided into two categories. There’s the balladic, heart-breaking ones such as Tristan and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:11AMBella Heesom’s autobiographical show employs a long, eye-catching title – Rejoicing at Her Wondrous Vulva the Young Woman Applauded Herself – to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:41AMCreated by Camden People’s Theatre’s artistic director Brian Logan, with Shamira Turner and Tom Adams, the genre-blending piece confronts the upheaval caused
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:41AMWhen she left school at 18, Katherine Chandler had never been to the theatre. Today she is one of the most vital
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWilliam Nicholson’s 1989 play, Shadowlands, opens with a lecture on love, pain and suffering. The half-buried joke is that this is precisely
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:27AMFew actors could make the line “We watched a documentary about mass-produced corn” sound instantly quotable, but Maxine Peake is one of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:38AMThe ‘glass delusion’ is a psychological disorder causing sufferers to think their body is made of glass and needs to be prevented
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:05PMArt about depression – whether that’s theatre, literature or music – often shares characteristics with the condition it seeks to represent: low-energy
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:17AMThere’s been an accident. Something terrible the press are calling “The Natural History museum incident”. It’s unclear what exactly has happened, except
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