The marriage of Yael Farber with Marina Carr should be a transcendent thing – and, mostly, it is. But, like the eponymous
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:45PMWhy does it feel like we’ve been here before? Let me count the ways: the zillionth beloved-film-to-banal-musical adaptation the West End has
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:54AMIt seems as if there’s no blockbuster Disney doesn’t own now that its properties include Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars. It has
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:19AMLike the crash of chords that opens Rachmaninov’s second piano concerto, this piece by Dave Malloy (of Natasha, Pierre and the Great
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMLucy Prebble has turned a very serious story into a very silly play. In 2016, the Guardian’s Luke Harding wrote a book
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:12PMDirector Lysanne van Overbeek muddies things a bit by starting this production of Bellini’s bel canto with Giulietta reading the opening lines
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AMPrisons these days are just like holiday camps, argues Gary Keegan in this piece of documentary theatre from Irish company Brokentalkers. Comedian
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AMAs fringe musicals go, this is proper. It has a complete plot, strong characters, fully orchestrated songs, a nice bit of choreography.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:13AMAfter his friend died from an undiagnosed heart condition aged 24, Tom Machell decided to write this monologue to raise awareness about
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:18AMIt’s not an easy watch, this, especially by the time CCTV footage of Christopher Alder’s death is projected into the room in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:28AMThere’s something reassuringly nostalgic about the panic we felt for the millennium bug. Computers thinking it was 1900 was just such a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:25AMThe two men on stage look identical. Both in police uniforms, with identical moustaches, they stand side by side. The only difference
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:20AMBy Barrie Kosky’s standards, his take on Tchaikovsky’s downbeat classic is a restrained affair. It premiered in 2016 at the Komische Oper
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:13AMOne of the many strengths of Scots Makar Jackie Kay’s poetry is its accessibility, and that’s a quality Tanika Gupta borrows in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:27AMAt the age of 30, Sephie is back in the Girl Guides. After three failed attempts she’s finally hoping to get her
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:39PMIf you can bear to sit through 35 minutes of very testing, very incomprehensible movement and sound, the payoff for Ontroerend Goed’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:24AMIn her concept album on stage, Zoe Ní Riordáin uses sound and symbol, rather than story, to create connections with the audience
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:30PMJohan Harstad’s Norwegian novel, on which this show is based, is all about the deliberate quest to be second best – to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:15PMWhen Harry Josephine Giles catches the whining drone at the beginning of their multimedia cabaret, it’s like they’re squashing an insect, and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:57PMA woman walks into a bar. It’s not the start of a joke, but the end of Richard Gadd’s comedy career. In
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:29PMThe story behind this American musical is fascinating, but the way it’s told is less so. Henry Brown was a slave who
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:26AMGuy Masterson and Nick Hennegan have long form at the Fringe, separately and together. But here, with Masterson as producer and Hennegan
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:05PMFolklore and myth are brought dizzyingly up to date in Finn Anderson and Stewart Melton’s live-layered musical, using just two voices and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:54AMIt’s never unimportant to have unconscious bias made conscious. In this solo piece, Jack Britton – 5ft 4 3/4in – takes us
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:45AMAlongside Emma, Tilda and John is a different guest performer each day for this thrilling new show from YesYesNoNo. The guest’s job
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:55PMWith its latest offering a raunchy, late-night blend of cabaret and circus, Spiegelworld’s founder tells Tim Bano why Edinburgh Festival Fringe is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMBecause winning an Olivier award, being cast in the Game of Thrones prequel series, composing incidental music for theatre, dabbling in a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:46AMSorcha lives on the west coast of Ireland, she’s wanted to marry Marty since even before the Debs ball – he’s a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:31PMDoug Crossley has landed the role of Doug Crossley, ‘the part of a lifetime’ he calls it, in this complicated and funny
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:55AMFrom the off, Eve Nicol’s play, based on Belle and Sebastian’s beloved 1996 album, is fiercely sure of what it is. It
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AMIn millenarian movements, when the end comes and when salvation hopefully follows, it will be total, immediate and collective. It is always
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