Friday, February 24, 2017
The producer of Horrible Histories and David Walliams’ Gangsta Granny has pulled all future shows from Leeds Grand Theatre in protest at
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:06PMSienna Miller and Jack O’Connell are to star in a new Young Vic production of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof. The
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Theatre workers have come together to launch a campaign that hopes to combat the “inexcusable” lack of recycling in the West End.
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A new verse play by Luke Wright leads the theatre programme for this year’s Norfolk and Norwich Festival. Frankie Vah is set
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Skins and Game of Thrones actor Hannah Murray is to lead the cast of an all-female production of Laura Wade’s Posh. The
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A new production of George Stiles and Anthony Drewe’s musical Honk! is to run at the Union Theatre in London, marking the
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This condensed version of The Tempest for young people, touring schools around the country, begins with some friendly introductions. “Good afternoon Prospero”,
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In Max Gill’s aleatoric update of Arthur Schnitzler’s 1897 classic, it’s up to luck whether a particular character be a lady or
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For the Romans the month of March – named for Mars, the god of war – marked the start of the season
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Dementia. It’s when we become children again, but slowly and painfully and with enough awareness of it to feel the helplessness, the
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This contemporary drawing room comedy by David K Barnes might not break new ground but it is a properly funny. Birthday Suit
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What once was an underground car park has now firmly established itself as a trendy and artistically shrewd fringe theatre, but after
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Pantomime is already quite self aware as an art form. There’s barely a fourth wall, and shows can expand and contract, reacting
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High up in the warren of the National Theatre’s offices, Patrick Marber, blue eyes blazing and shoulders characteristically hunched, seems excited. He’s
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With Linda Robson in 2014’s panto and Pauline Quirke this year, all the Beck Theatre needs is Lesley Joseph for a Birds
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It may not be the biggest Wind In The Willows to open this year – that honour goes to Stiles and Drewe’s
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To most it’s called Platonov; to Michael Frayn this early untitled Chekhov play, which Frayn adapted in 1984, is Wild Honey. It
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We don’t get a happy ending in the Globe’s Christmas show, adapted by Joel Horwood from stories by Hans Christian Andersen. Instead,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39PMRoald Dahl’s 100th anniversary year comes to an end with a colourful adaptation of his farmyard yarn, Fantastic Mr Fox, set to
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No man is an island, even if he’s named after one, but in Somerset Maugham’s 1932 play Joseph “Sheppey” Miller feels the
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Back in 1979, US producer Alexander Cohen observed: “The theater is going in a different direction. Buried Child just won the Pulitzer
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The expanse EV Crowe’s play covers is dazzling. A mother destroys herself as she measures her successes and faces up to her
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This rambling, fractured narrative by bestselling Swedish author Jonas Hassen Khemiri, following a young man in the 24 hours after a bomb
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There’s little of the anarchy of The Young Ones and Bottom here, Adrian Edmondson’s most famous TV creations. Instead, in this adaptation
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After plays about office politics and dockers, Zoe Cooper has delivered an adolescent drama that finds magic in the mundane. She says Jess and Joe Forever is the most honest thing she’s wr…
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Kenneth Branagh doesn’t make life easy for himself. After a 13-month residency of six plays at the Garrick Theatre, whose stars have
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It’s the ultimate Edinburgh Fringe fairytale: in 1966 a student company called the Oxford Theatre Group mounted a one-act play by a
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Chichester Festival Theatre’s revival of Frank Loesser’s classic musical seems to be in several places at once, splitting into a West End
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Virtual reality is nothing new. The term was, in fact, coined in 1938 by legendary theatre director Antonin Artaud. He used it
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If Shakespeare were alive today, what sort of playwright would he be? A James Graham, taking the temperature of the nation with
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Buzzcut Festival, Glasgow When: April 6-10 What: A pay-what-you-can melting pot of the finest performance art in the country, now in its
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