Monday, June 4, 2018
Fourteen years before he won the Pulitzer Prize for August: Osage County, Tracy Letts made his playwriting debut with Killer Joe, a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00PMEuripides’ tragedy, a long wail by the women left behind after the sacking of Troy, has seen innumerable adaptations but none, perhaps,
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No one really knows what “glaukopis Athena” means in Homer’s Iliad, a text quoted frequently in Brian Friel’s masterpiece. Friel translates it
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:28PMSpectacle and subtlety meet in this rare revival of Kander and Ebb’s 1984 musical, set across one day in a dilapidated roller
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This production’s done the rounds. After starting life at Leicester Curve in 2014 and flying around the UK several times with several
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:04AMAndrew Lippa and Brian Crawley’s adaptation of the beloved Frances Hodgson Burnett novel consists almost entirely of slushy ballads. The result is
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Having started out as a junior costumier at Covent Garden four decades ago, Fay Fullerton has risen to lead the department. She
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There’s always something ingenious in productions by fringe opera company Pop-Up Opera. In this double bill of jaunty Mozart singspiele the company
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:22AMJM Barrie’s character has become a watchword for eternal youth. But that youth is often selfish, a desire to defy death, a
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The National Theatre’s production manager Tariq Rifaat has been getting his hands dirty, literally, while working on the set for Brian Friel’s
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This is only the third play at the Bridge Theatre – and the third configuration, from end-on in Young Marx, promenade in
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While a number of companies offer accessible performances for learning-disabled children, few are aimed at over-18s. The designer of Frozen Light’s latest
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Music is, maybe, the most human thing there is and the music industry, possibly, the most inhuman. And it’s not had its
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There are as many permutations of Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus’ Cold War metaphor musical as there are moves in chess. Since
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06PMThe award-winning director of The Mountaintop has helmed Nine Night at the National. He tells Tim Bano how a chance trip to
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Baz Luhrmann’s warm and silly 1992 debut Strictly Ballroom, the first of his ‘Red Curtain’ Trilogy – followed by Romeo + Juliet
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How can anyone resist the iconic climax from An Officer and a Gentleman, with Up Where We Belong blasting and love finding
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:22PMIt’s good to be back in Jim Steinman’s world, a world full of too much leather and picaresque songs in which the
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Yes, it’s a jukebox musical. And no, it’s not imaginatively told, galloping straightforwardly through Tina Turner’s life and works from childhood to
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It’s hardly Chicago’s fault – more a consequence of the show’s success and longevity – but there’s something about that black and
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For a long while it’s not clear what Chelsea Walker is trying to do here. The director, who won the RTST Sir
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This cult show, which premiered Off-Broadway in 1992 is an admirable act of self-defeat; a show that points out its own pointlessness.
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When it premiered 18 years ago, Vincent River was seen as a departure for Philip Ridley. Moving away from the slightly fantastical,
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It has been a novel, a play, a film, another play and a musical. Now Manuel Puig’s love story has been adapted
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:01PMIn 2016 the Abbey Theatre in Dublin staged Sean O’Casey’s 1926 masterpiece to mark the centenary of the Easter Rising, an event
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The idea of a Sondheim revue is both a huge temptation and a folly. As magnificent as so many of his songs
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Every so often one of those plays comes around whose existence is just completely baffling. Not because it’s no good – far
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“Rarely-performed Tennessee Williams play” are words that can make the heart sink. There’s usually a reason something is rarely performed, and Williams
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As Kneehigh’s multimedia staging of Brief Encounter returns to a London cinema, the show’s projection designers tell Tim Bano explain how they
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMHooked on Nigerian elders’ stories from childhood, Joan Iyiola swapped a potential law career for performing. The Mono Box founder tells Tim
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As well as being a play about war, John Ward’s adaptation of the Ancient Greek story of Electra is a production at
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