Friday, March 2, 2018
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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Set to a text by German writer Falk Richter, director Jude Christian’s inventive, occasionally bamboozling show, Trust, is like watching a huge
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It’s a worry when Euripides is thanked in a play’s acknowledgements. In a way, the brutal, blindsiding climax to Dennis Kelly’s monologue,
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Peter Gill’s 2002 play is a masterpiece of subtext – appropriate for a play about directors and actors since subtext is their
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As Nuffield Southampton Theatres prepares to open a long-awaited second site in the city, its artistic director tells Tim Bano how the
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Duing the gay marriage debate a few years ago, opponents kept trotting out the word ‘complementarity’. It was supposed to privilege the
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In his production of Eugene O’Neill’s 1956 magnum opus, which started life at Bristol Old Vic in 2016, Richard Eyre shows how
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Quiet and considered, John R Wilkinson is the antithesis of the domineering director stereotype. He tells Tim Bano how his next project,
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The second British musical about superheroes to open this month, after Bananaman at Southwark Playhouse, Eugenius has the same fond mockery, super
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00PMGeorgia Christou’s debut play is fighting on two fronts. Hampstead Theatre’s downstairs space opened in 2010 but has only recently started inviting
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The loveliness, and ultimate uselessness, of wit: Tim Bano reviews Kathy Burke's take on Oscar Wilde.
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In this collection of 12 short sketches by Russian playwright Mikhail Durnenkov, we’re left to figure out quite a lot as an
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Actor and playwright Asif Khan is passionate that British Muslim voices be heard on stage, so in order to tour Hassan Abdulrazzak’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:50PMEvery moment of former fashion journalist Glenn Waldron’s taut little play is a tease. The biggest and the smallest ideas – from
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Originally appearing in Nutty Comics, then the Beano, and best known as a 1980s cartoon series voiced by the Goodies, Bananaman is
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Last Christmas, after dominating the West End with three productions running simultaneously, the endearing chaos of Mischief Theatre made its first foray
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Theatre is all about the craft, excellence and… awards ceremonies. Ahead of the Olivers and after the Evening Standard Awards, Tim Bano
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Continuing the increasingly frequent trend for televised theatre, Channel 5 has programmed the stage adaptation of the consummate Christmas film Elf. Recorded
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For two years, musical theatre lovers, the in-crowds, the quick and the dead-lucky ticket holders have all had the same words on
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When Andrew Lloyd Webber’s adaptation of Wilkie Collins’ 19th century mystery novel premiered at the Palace Theatre in 2004 it was not
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London’s New Diorama Theatre has formed a three-year partnership with entertainment company Underbelly to help emerging and mid-career artists and companies take
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Annie Fox, Sonya Hale and Tatty Hennessy have been named as winners of the inaugural Heretic Voices competition, a writing prize that
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:54PMPlans for a 500-seat theatre in Bishop’s Stortford have been published as part of a bid to increase arts and culture provision
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:33AMBackstage and front-of-house workers in the West End have voted to accept a pay increase that is less than half of what
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Secondary ticketing websites suspected of breaking the law will face enforcement action, including court action, the Competition and Markets Authority announced today.
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This year’s Royal Variety Performance, returning to the London Palladium for the 41st time, in the presence of Kate and Wills, is
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The Hope Theatre in London has announced that actor and The Stage columnist Paul Clayton will become its new patron. Clayton, who
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:06PMNatal’ya Vorozhbit’s exploration of women in war takes a while to get going, but escalates into something frightening, excruciating and abhorrent. Translated
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The cobwebs are finally being blown away from some of those old West End theatres. It feels like something’s changing. And that’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:53PMA celebration of musical theatre by former politician Ed Balls and an exploration of stage lighting from Harry Potter actor Fiona Shaw
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