Saturday, August 4, 2018
In Le Gateau Chocolat’s raggedy makeshift world, ugly ducklings don’t turn into beautiful swans. Life isn’t that simple if you’re ‘different’. Instead
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:31PMOriginally performed by its author David Leddy, this monologue has to be one of the most stylish productions at the Edinburgh Fringe.
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Everyone would be a lot happier if they had Julie Hesmondhalgh to tell them bedtime stories. Her husband Ian Kershaw’s lightly sci-fi
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:33PM‘Active shooter’ is a term with which most people don’t have to be familiar. But American playwright Martin Zimmerman’s monologue, responding to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:31PMIn a career spanning three decades, John Partridge has been in countless West End musicals and the long-running BBC soap. But in
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There are a lot more laughs here than Othello usually provokes. In their latest team-up, director Claire van Kampen and husband Mark
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Nothing much has changed for Les Miserables over the past 33 years. The orchestrations have been tweaked to get rid of a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:57AMOne of the more eyebrow-raising shows at the Edinburgh Fringe plays out a controversial game in which American schoolchildren re-enact the Civil
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Intimacy and intensity sold audiences and critics on Ian McKellen’s King Lear in Chichester last year. Jonathan Munby’s regal production was squished
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Unlike Gerard Alessandrini’s revue show Forbidden Broadway, which takes popular songs from musical theatre, reworks their lyrics and lampoons their singers, his
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One of Alan Bennett’s best bits of writing is set in a hospital. It was a 1982 Play For Today called Intensive
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There’s not much light in the story of a 13 year old boy watching his mum die of cancer. But, in Sally
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Having found his role in The Stage, technical manager Jason Wescombe has overseen 100 Almeida productions and is now working on Machinal.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMBefore he created the Eden Project, Tim Smit came across a thousand acres of bramble and broken masonry on the Cornish coast,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:09AMAlthough The Muppet Show was filmed in the UK at Elstree when it started life in 1976, Jim Henson’s creatures have never
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It’s imaginary. That’s the genius of Sam Mendes’ staging of this epic play, charting the history of the Lehman brothers, the three
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Cirencester’s newly opened Barn Theatre is really getting into its stride. A powerfully performed revival Jim Cartwright’s classic marks the end of
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Musicals theatre is no strangers to strange subjects – but this is something else. Back in the 1930s a German eccentric living
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A medieval romance set to rock songs sounds a bit silly on paper. But instead of leaning into that silliness, and embracing
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Dusty, Forever Dusty, Son of a Preacher Man and now Dusty again. The allure of Dusty Springfield jukeboxers is seemingly limitless. This
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It’s taken a long time to exorcise the ghost of Yul Brynner from The King and I. He played the King of
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With a remit covering vocal techniques, teaching dialects and interpreting text, Kate Godfrey coaches the Royal Shakespeare Company’s actors to make the
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In this musical queering of American history Taylor Mac goes to some strange places. In essence the 24-hour show – which earned
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Two arpeggios start Fun Home, like a tune a child would play after their first piano lesson. Suddenly they attach themselves to
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It was always going to be hard to separate Jerusalem from memories of Mark Rylance. In Jez Butterworth’s contemporary classic the part
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In her book Lesbian Nation, Jill Johnston explained her conflict at taking part in a now infamous debate about feminism in 1971.
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Cole Porter’s 1948 musical is one of those shows with backstory and baggage. Supposedly based on wife and husband acting duo Lynn
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Acis has one of the less glamorous transformations in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Other characters become birds or lions, but he is squashed by
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August Strindberg’s classic, in the hands of Polly Stenham and Carrie Cracknell, updated and enriched, is a piece that pulls in polar
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Rather than a monologue, Rona Munro’s adaptation of Elizabeth Strout’s novel feels like 90 minutes of epilogue. The wistful tone, the crushing
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Fourteen years before he won the Pulitzer Prize for August: Osage County, Tracy Letts made his playwriting debut with Killer Joe, a
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