Eminent Shakespearean actor Jonathan Slinger has taken on some of the playwright’s weightiest roles, from Hamlet to Richard III. He talks to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMWith 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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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:33AMAfter cutting her teeth on big West End shows such as Dreamgirls and Memphis the Musical, Carly Mercedes Dyer wanted to step
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:20PMA new theatre is opening in Soho this week, the brainchild of Fawn James, granddaughter of Paul Raymond, and a dream realised
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:06PMDoctor Who and ER star Alex Kingston tells Tom Wicker about struggling to get into the ‘closed’ New York theatre scene, never
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMPulitzer Prize finalist Branden Jacobs-Jenkins speaks to Tom Wicker about mourning Toni Morrison, his love for London and how his play Appropriate
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMThe Star Trek actor – originally from Hackney – is returning to the UK stage in a play about a former TV
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMAngry protests have led to a greater urgency over our collective response to global warming. Industry figures tell Tom Wicker what theatre
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMCreating a musical is a little like sex, according to Tony award-winning writer and director James Lapine, possibly with his tongue in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMAt 84, grande dame of the stage Eileen Atkins continues to seek out challenging roles in the theatre, with the latest in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMFor more than two decades, director Michael Boyd and designer Tom Piper have worked together on a series of audacious, award-winning productions.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:33AMThis year marks the 250th anniversary of the first modern circus, but the contribution of many female performers has been written out
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:26AMIt starts with a breath, a beat and a vein pulsing in the neck. And then the ensemble for BAC Beatbox Academy’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:09AMImagine. That’s basically the edict of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, with its candlelit lack of modern technology. The best shows in the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AMAfter directing the mediocre Dry Powder on Hampstead Theatre’s main stage earlier this year, Anna Ledwich heads downstairs to helm this weightier
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:58AMBy the end of this production of John Webster’s Jacobean tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi, the stage is swamped in blood. Initially
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:55PMPerforming in Ramps on the Moon’s revival of Our Country’s Good, Garry Robson is a passionate advocate for disabled performers and theatremakers.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:13AMAfter a ‘semi-feral’ childhood in Dartmouth, Stephen Beresford has never been one for the rule book. He bypassed fringe venues and in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AMNuffield 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
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:23AMSince starring in 2013’s The Pride, Hayley Atwell has become one of the best things about the all-conquering Marvel Cinematic Universe, as
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:47AMHow do you tackle a Shakespeare play that people consider a problem? One answer, at least for the Globe’s outgoing artistic director
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:58AMWhen it was published in 1924, EM Forster’s A Passage to India was provocative. Now, its metaphysical musings about existence feel naive
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:47AMPearl Mackie, who played the first openly gay Doctor Who companion, will be returning to theatre in Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMThis wry, spry little adult panto in the upstairs space of the Canal Cafe Theatre is a refreshing antidote to the sugary
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:37AMEveryone remembers that distinctive off-kilter pattern of notes. You’ve probably hummed them when something strange happens. That oscillating tinkle has become a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:59AMThe Orange Tree Theatre isn’t doing an explicitly Christmas show this year, but there’s definitely something of the panto about Misalliance, which
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMOver time, Simon Gray’s Cell Mates has become most famous as the play Stephen Fry disappeared from during its West End run
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:34AMDavid Edgar’s adaptation of A Christmas Carol is a tale of two men: Ebenezer Scrooge and Charles Dickens. It opens on the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:41PMHamish Pirie’s latest production for the Royal Court, which examines life in Syria, features real goats, but the director has no fear
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AMBereaved, 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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