With a capacity of 4,000, a computer-generated Neverland and a pirate ship bigger than a double-decker bus, the ‘world’s biggest panto’ is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMDarlington Hippodrome has reopened to the public after a £13.7m restoration project. The theatre, which has been dark for 18 months, was
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:19AMLast night’s performance of Young Marx at the new Bridge Theatre in London was cancelled at the interval after technical difficulties. According
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:07AMThe scheme set up to bring the “most exciting contemporary dancers” to rural areas around the UK is to extend its work
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:42AMThe long-running campaign to save Scarborough’s Futurist Theatre has failed, after Scarborough Borough Council announced that the demolition of the theatre was
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:36AMFour years ago director Maggie Norris launched the Big House, a charity using drama to work with people who had left the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:19AMThe casting of Kelsey Grammer in Big Fish, a slight musical about tall tales, is quite a coup for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMBertolt Brecht’s 1939 play has been called the best play of the 20th century. That’s not immediately evident in this production, which
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:16AMPerformance artist Taylor Mac and a new opera by playwright Enda Walsh feature as part of the Barbican’s 2018 theatre and dance
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:47AMIn her lacerating, latter-day Greek tragedy, French writer Magali Mougel takes Yerma, holds it up to a mirror and shows us its
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 05:37PMThe case for a revival of Terry Johnson’s flight of fancy on the nature of fame is clear. More so than in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:19AMDirector Alice Hamilton brings her characteristic light touch to this debut play by novelist Judith Burnley. Hamilton’s previous work has embraced stillness,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:15AMReal-life tragedy in Tracy Brabin’s hometown catapulted the former theatre and TV actor into the political spotlight. A year after she was
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMIt’s been a busy week for Simon Stephens with a show opening in the West End and now this new Chekhov adaptation
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:07AMEngelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel is full of catchy ditties and an easy-to-follow plot. It’s already one of the most accessible operas
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:41PMWhen two theatre-lovers set up a cloud-based ticketing platform 10 years ago, most venues were using outdated box-office technology. Tim Bano investigates
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:43AMChris Thorpe is one of the sharpest philosophers and most beautiful poets in playwriting today. In Victory Condition those two talents meet,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:35AMFew living playwrights get to see two of their new plays run concurrently in the West End. Fewer still can boast a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMThree years ago, when this adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s novel premiered in Bristol before transferring to the National, it stood on a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:27AMSophie Wu’s second play, Ramona Tells Jim, contrasts adolescent coming of age with what comes after the end of adolescence. In 1998,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:53AMThe concept behind Ryan Scott Oliver’s song cycle – 15 songs based on 15 photographs – is that each picture captures a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:47AMNobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago hides a great deal of wisdom and complexity behind the simplicity of his short story, The Unknown Island.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:20AMGeorg Buchner’s unfinished 1836 play is one of bizarre, staccato episodes – like the army captain mocking foot soldier Woyzeck for his
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:29AMAfter working with writer Tim Firth on several shows, including Calendar Girls, Rachel Lumberg is now playing the lead part in Take
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMRegularly topping lists of all-time best shows, Stephen Sondheim’s 1971 musical has spawned some of the composer’s biggest hits, songs employed with
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:05PMAfter working as a director with Max Stafford-Clark and Ian Rickson, Shabnam Shabazi began to move into live art, creating a series of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMBen Forster has been announced as the host of The Stage Debut Awards 2017. The actor and singer is playing the lead
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:24AMSarah Lancashire has pulled out of the world premiere of James Graham’s Labour of Love “on doctor’s advice”. She will be replaced
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:46AMDouglas Henshall will join the cast of Network at the National Theatre. He plays Max Schumacher in the production, alongside previously announced
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:52AMSuranne Jones and Jason Watkins are to star in a revival of Bryony Lavery’s play Frozen. The psychological thriller, which runs at
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