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
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:01AMScarborough in March is an unlikely place to find the Caryl Churchills, the Jamie Lloyds and the Antony Shers of tomorrow. But
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:40AMIn 1961, when Tennessee Williams turned 50, he had two Pulitzer prizes and four New York Critics’ Circle awards under his belt,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMAside from Broadway invasions, long-dead Greeks and Chekhov, it’s rare to see work by non-British playwrights in London. Florian Zeller is an
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMJulius Lester was effusive in his praise: “Her effect on others was like the seepage of rain into the earth, nourishing roots
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMLike Simon McBurney at the beginning of each performance of The Encounter, I took a photo of the audience to prove that I
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:20PMThe legacy of Jean Genet endures in many forms – from novels and poetry to political activism and petty crime – but
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:06AMJon Haynes is only semi-serious when he describes his work as “just an excuse for us to fart about”. With David Woods,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMDespite the onslaught of ancient Greek drama across the country, fringe theatre was anything but a tragedy this year. Both the Yard
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMIn association with Nick Hern Books. In this episode, we take an in-depth look at the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting, which celebrates its tenth anniversary this year. Presenter Tim Bano f…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 06:34PMIn association with Nick Hern Books. Visit nickhernbooks.co.uk/exeunt for exclusive discounts on books by many of the playwrights featured in this podcast. This month we talk to nine playwri…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 08:02PMThis month with a comprehensive look at European theatre! Annegret talks to Andrew Haydon, Lee Anderson and Megan Vaughan at Theatertreffen in Berlin. Tim talks to Selma Dimitrijevic, the ar…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 10:45PMThis month it’s political. We have reviews and discussions of the latest in political theatre including…. Reviews of Lampedusa at Soho Theatre, Fight Night at Unicorn Theatre and…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 07:39PMThis month’s endearingly ramshackle offerings: reviews of Little Light at Orange Tree Theatre, A Stab In The Dark at Lyric Hammersmith, The Eradication of Schizophrenia In Western Lapl…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 08:14PMAlice In Wonderland is a creepy piece of literature, but that creepiness is magnified exponentially in Fourth Monkey’s immersive promenade production. We are thrust into a liminal world, t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:27AMIn this whistlestop musical of The Importance of Being Earnest the pianist did not play any wrong notes. Wilde’s script has been savagely gutted so that, although the most famous lines rem…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:51PMTestosterone is splashed across the stage from the very beginning of Mikey Burnett and Joseph McCann’s play. Teddy, who has trained his brother Stuart to box for ten years, is arguing with…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:45PMCrystals, signs of the Zodiac, the alignment of planets or whatever other methods superstitious people use to determine the order in which they open boxes in Deal Or No Deal are obviously co…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:32PMDig beneath the surface and Nick Cassenbaum’s weird play has a great deal to say about modern life, but it is said obliquely and cryptically. Pairs of characters take it in turns to play o…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:31PMTom Cruise’s best role is as the motivational speaker in Magnolia. Edward Davis as inspirational seminar leader Tom Rodgers in Winky channels some of the same colossal arrogance and brashn…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:10AMSex sells. Rachel Lincoln knows this, which is why she has created this show about it. It begins in darkness, Lincoln shining a headtorch onto an inflated condom and zooming it around the ro…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:03AMConnection breeds disconnection. Pinky creates an online persona, a superhero called Penelope, through whom she meets a guy and falls in love. But Penelope is not her; she is an avatar, an a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:00AMIf once there existed an ancient glen, verdant and calm, with a cool stream running through that nourished grazing sheep, if once there existed this Arcadian ideal, then Return To The Voice …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:54AMRob Hayes’s comedy will strike a chord with anyone who’s had a one night stand with a dog. Or a cat. Or a goat, a monkey or a bear. Standing in his vest and undercrackers, Jack Holden fe…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:44AMTumbledown stacks of books in wooden boxes comprise the set for Clara Brennan’s fierce, fast-paced monologue. In it, Brennan follows Amy, a hot headed teenager from Willesden who meets an …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:22AMOnce upon a time there was a girl called Sophie and her brother Andy. They were called into the dream land Somnia to get the dreamstone and save the world. It is now 20 years later; Sophie …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:01AMOn the night of his death Grigori Rasputin, the mad monk, was poisoned with petits fours and shot in the heart and the back. He did not die. After going outside into the snow he was shot in …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:22AMTo be greeted by a cup of coffee and a croissant as you take your seat in the theatre is not a bad start to the day. The friendly actors come and chat to audience members, sticking to Shakes…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:29AMWho would choose to relive their mother’s death every night on stage? Not just talk about it, but fully confront it, watch video footage of her in the late stages of cancer, re-examine ove…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:35PMF Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald were celebrities. They peppered the gossip pages with stories of extravagance and glamour, just as addicted to the high life as characters from Scott’s novels.…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:46AMSometimes it’s the little things that make a show, like a party bag on arrival or the splendour of an old wooden lecture theatre. Sometimes it’s the big things, like a show that fiercely…
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