As the NT’s senior armourer, Paul Wanklin is in charge of the firearms and blades used on its stages, but he is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMWith every role that Sheila Atim aces – and she aces every role she takes – she reaffirms that she should, and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMThe obvious way to stage a play like Richard II, about power grabs, backstabbing and loss of authority in the highest political
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:20AMIn the absence of attention-stealing shows such as Hamilton, there was a stunning mix of old-fashioned classics, innovation and some new British
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMAlun Armstrong’s Edward is retiring after 45 years at the same comprehensive school – a career which included doling out strokes to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:59PMPatrick Barlow’s work has always managed to undercut the artifice of theatre while remaining immensely theatrical. That’s certainly true for this reworking
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:25PMThere’s a paradox at the heart of Fiddler on the Roof. While the show keeps coming back to this idea that progress
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:11AMThere’s still no better, or more bitter, attack on austerity and inequality than A Christmas Carol. Returning after its success last year
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMAt first this looks like it might be a musical about feeling sorry for a very rich guy because he doesn’t have
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:34AMIt’s based on a good idea – to take the books and worlds of Dr Seuss and mash them into a musical
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:38AMAlmost 10 years and four revivals after its inception, Jonathan Miller’s light-touch take on the Puccini classic is still doing good business.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:49AMDesigner Terry Parsons is back where it all began, at Belgrade Theatre, five decades after getting his first job there. He tells
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:18PMFollowing Bananaman and Eugenius, here’s another in what’s becoming a trend: the comic book-based musical. But while those two shows focused on
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:11PMIt’s no surprise that the Orpheus and Eurydice myth has so often tempted songwriters. It’s a brilliantly tragic story about the power
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:26AMThe magician wowed TV audiences with spectacular feats then took to arena tours, before Crohn’s disease laid him low. Now he’s back,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AMIt’s 12 years since Gavin and Stacey’s Ruth Jones was last on stage. This play by William Gaminara, touring ahead of a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:17AMThere must have been a reason why this didn’t open the newly done up Kiln Theatre in September. Parts of Zadie Smith’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:59PMLike The Pillowman, Martin McDonagh’s supreme 2003 play, his latest work is also about a storyteller – in this case Hans Christian
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:30PMThe Royal Albert Hall has done musical spectaculars before. The 10th anniversary production of Les Mis, the 25th anniversary of Phantom, the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01AMMusicals before Company tended to have more of a plot. Maybe someone fell in love with a member of a rival gang,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30PMThis is the first time English National Opera has done Porgy and Bess, It’s a tricky show to pull off: written by
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:28AM‘Running’ has a double meaning in this new play by David Hare: both the political sense of running for office and the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:09PMGods know where the idea came from, but Marcus Stevens and Oran Eldor’s pop musical uses the Greek pantheon and its myths
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:51PMAngel-voiced Ramin Karimloo always seems genuinely humble. It’s an incredibly endearing quality, but doesn’t always aid this kind of evening when the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:15AMNine million Londoners. That’s a lot of stories to tell. Writer James Graham and director Thomas Hescott have attempted to collect some
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:25PMAs her all-female Much Ado About Nothing hits the stage, the artistic director of Watford Palace Theatre talks to Tim Bano about
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:25PMHere’s art not for art’s sake, but for very little sake at all. Nick Dear’s portrait of a young, horned-up William Hogarth,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AMAs the company celebrates its 25th anniversary, the award-winning director tells Tim Bano the occasion is giving him a chance to take
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMTo use only simple elements was Jean Cocteau’s aim for La Voix Humaine. “Not to rely too heavily on the production to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:58AMHeather, Heather and Heather. Not only supercool high school megabitches but, thanks to Daniel Waters and Michael Lehmann’s 1989 cult film, style
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06PMThe idea with Carl Miller and Christopher Ash’s willfully weird show is that the Brontes were like a rock band. The musical
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