Wednesday, August 12, 2020
This rambunctious fringe musical serves up a fascinating true story with charm and pizazz
In a purgatorial summer, this boisterous, camp and chaotically charming musical is a tonic. It’s a…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:24AMThursday, July 16, 2020
Physical-theatre company Gecko's debut feature film is compelling and technically skilled
Missing the office? Or are you dreading the day you have to return? What’s your relationship to th…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 03:54PMThursday, March 26, 2020
A stinging duet from 'A Little Night Music' has a savagely funny power
“Whipped cream with knives” is how Harold Prince, who directed the Broadway premiere of A Little Night Music in 19…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 09:06PMTuesday, February 11, 2020
Since receiving acclaim for playing Hamlet with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Paapa Essiedu has appeared in the West End and on TV.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMWednesday, November 20, 2019
The heroine seizes the mic in this Shakespeare-inspired jukebox musical
It’s bright, it’s brash, it’s a gazillion times camper than Christmas: but is it such stuff as theatrical hits a…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:18PMMonday, October 21, 2019
Claire Foy and Matt Smith elevate Duncan Macmillan's rather toothless parenting drama
Playing our monarch and her husband in The Crown has made actors Claire Foy and Matt Smith into TV drama…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:06PMWednesday, August 28, 2019
As she makes her directorial debut as artistic director of the Lyric Hammersmith, Rachel O’Riordan talks to Sam Marlowe about her unorthodox
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMFriday, August 23, 2019
Much happens in this ingenious drama by African-American playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins that is far from appropriate. And the play itself is an
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:03AMWednesday, June 19, 2019
Director and playwright Lynette Linton stepped into Madani Younis shoes as artistic director of the Bush last year. She tells Sam Marlowe
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMTuesday, April 9, 2019
This drama about political protest in Chinese-oppressed Tibet, written by the Bangalore-based playwright Abhishek Majumdar, has had a difficult journey to the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:45AMTuesday, March 5, 2019
Full disclosure: I haven’t read Harriet Lane’s debut novel Alys, Always, so I can’t tell you if it’s any good. What I
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00PMWednesday, December 5, 2018
Women, as everyone knows, have no body hair. We are naturally smaller, quieter and more polite than men. We like nothing better
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:59PMWednesday, November 28, 2018
With a reputation for tackling tricky texts, the director is about to open the rarely performed Timon of Athens in Stratford-upon-Avon. As
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMThursday, November 1, 2018
Debbie Tucker Green doesn’t so much write plays as construct intricate theatrical architecture out of language. With Ear for Eye, she goes
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:36PMTuesday, October 2, 2018
How far would you go for your friends – and what if you suspected everything they’d ever told you was a lie?
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AMWednesday, September 26, 2018
It’s a twilight romance wrapped in a bloody fist, and an epic tragedy of avarice, exploitation and thirst for power. Simon Godwin’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:50PMFriday, September 14, 2018
Sharp of tooth and riddled with a clawing dread, Dawn King’s 2011 rural drama is a fierce and fabulous beast. An intriguing
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:28AMTuesday, August 7, 2018
After a gore soaked Duchess of Malfi at the RSC, Maria Aberg is bringing the ‘very silly’ Little Shop of Horrors to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AMWednesday, July 25, 2018
Indira Varma says success is ‘just fucking luck’. Currently appearing in Ionesco’s Exit the King at the National, the actor, best known
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMThursday, June 28, 2018
Dread explodes into horrific reality. Two bombs – one in a club,another outside a bar – rip bloody holes in London. We
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:24AMWednesday, June 13, 2018
Most of us know her, with her crisp Morningside accent, her lemony aphorisms and her elegant eccentricity, from Maggie Smith’s Oscar-winning performance
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:24AMMonday, June 11, 2018
Since her five-year tenure as co-artistic director of London’s Gate Theatre, during which she championed women writers, the director has forged a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMTuesday, May 15, 2018
“The world’s gone nuts, so best of luck!” trill the seductive quartet of performers in this captivating cabaret – a message of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:24AMWednesday, May 2, 2018
The chameleon actor made her mark with a string of lauded lead performances including Lady Macbeth and Medea. Ahead of starring in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMWednesday, April 25, 2018
Here’s a prospect to make you blush, giggle and squirm. We’re ushered into a boudoir, a sugar-pink Barbara Cartland confection of cushions,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:59PMSunday, April 15, 2018
“Hello!” chirps Max and Harry’s son, as they remove him from his packaging and boot him up for the first time –
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:25AMThursday, April 12, 2018
Turning her back on a career in medicine to pursue a drama degree, the director rose rapidly through the ranks to take
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:41PMTuesday, April 10, 2018
Shakespeare’s tempestuous late romance of loss and exile has both fairytale allure and modern resonance, its action spanning years and oceans, with
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:11AMFriday, April 6, 2018
Money can’t buy you love – but it can certainly get you a temporary imitation of it. In William Congreve’s dazzling, intricately
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:12AMWednesday, April 4, 2018
What could be more British than a drama of wartime heroism and the weather? At times David Haig’s Pressure, first seen in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:03AMTuesday, March 20, 2018
Sometimes the story transcends its telling. And so it proves in The great Wave, a new play by the Japanese-Northern Irish writer
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