Monday, March 16, 2020
Eminent Shakespearean actor Jonathan Slinger has taken on some of the playwright’s weightiest roles, from Hamlet to Richard III. He talks to
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With credits including the National Theatre’s Exit the King and Netflix series The Crown, as well as two shows now in the
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Everything is coming together at the same time for in-demand performer and theatremaker David Cumming. Tom Wicker talks to him about developing
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After cutting her teeth on big West End shows such as Dreamgirls and Memphis the Musical, Carly Mercedes Dyer wanted to step
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A new theatre is opening in Soho this week, the brainchild of Fawn James, granddaughter of Paul Raymond, and a dream realised
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Doctor Who and ER star Alex Kingston tells Tom Wicker about struggling to get into the ‘closed’ New York theatre scene, never
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Pulitzer Prize finalist Branden Jacobs-Jenkins speaks to Tom Wicker about mourning Toni Morrison, his love for London and how his play Appropriate
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The Star Trek actor – originally from Hackney – is returning to the UK stage in a play about a former TV
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Angry protests have led to a greater urgency over our collective response to global warming. Industry figures tell Tom Wicker what theatre
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Creating a musical is a little like sex, according to Tony award-winning writer and director James Lapine, possibly with his tongue in
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At 84, grande dame of the stage Eileen Atkins continues to seek out challenging roles in the theatre, with the latest in
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For more than two decades, director Michael Boyd and designer Tom Piper have worked together on a series of audacious, award-winning productions.
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This year marks the 250th anniversary of the first modern circus, but the contribution of many female performers has been written out
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It starts with a breath, a beat and a vein pulsing in the neck. And then the ensemble for BAC Beatbox Academy’s
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Imagine. That’s basically the edict of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, with its candlelit lack of modern technology. The best shows in the
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After directing the mediocre Dry Powder on Hampstead Theatre’s main stage earlier this year, Anna Ledwich heads downstairs to helm this weightier
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By the end of this production of John Webster’s Jacobean tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi, the stage is swamped in blood. Initially
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Performing in Ramps on the Moon’s revival of Our Country’s Good, Garry Robson is a passionate advocate for disabled performers and theatremakers.
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After a ‘semi-feral’ childhood in Dartmouth, Stephen Beresford has never been one for the rule book. He bypassed fringe venues and in
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Nuffield Southampton Theatres opens NST City, its second, state-of-the-art venue in the heart of the city’s regenerated cultural quarter, with The Shadow
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Since starring in 2013’s The Pride, Hayley Atwell has become one of the best things about the all-conquering Marvel Cinematic Universe, as
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How do you tackle a Shakespeare play that people consider a problem? One answer, at least for the Globe’s outgoing artistic director
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When it was published in 1924, EM Forster’s A Passage to India was provocative. Now, its metaphysical musings about existence feel naive
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Pearl Mackie, who played the first openly gay Doctor Who companion, will be returning to theatre in Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party.
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This wry, spry little adult panto in the upstairs space of the Canal Cafe Theatre is a refreshing antidote to the sugary
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Everyone remembers that distinctive off-kilter pattern of notes. You’ve probably hummed them when something strange happens. That oscillating tinkle has become a
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The Orange Tree Theatre isn’t doing an explicitly Christmas show this year, but there’s definitely something of the panto about Misalliance, which
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Over time, Simon Gray’s Cell Mates has become most famous as the play Stephen Fry disappeared from during its West End run
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David Edgar’s adaptation of A Christmas Carol is a tale of two men: Ebenezer Scrooge and Charles Dickens. It opens on the
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Hamish Pirie’s latest production for the Royal Court, which examines life in Syria, features real goats, but the director has no fear
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Bereaved, divorced parents She and He meet at the cemetery in which their son is buried. He’s received a letter about toxic
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