Danish author Karen Blixen’s life was as fantastic as her fiction. A baroness who married one twin brother after the other died,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:35AMIt’s been 40 years since Mike Leigh’s formidable Beverley first metaphorically skewered her hapless house guests with a cheese and pineapple stick.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:41AMFor many people Dodie Smith’s 1949 novel I Capture the Castle exists in a place somewhere between fact and fond memory. Set
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:56AMFor Chris Stafford, chief executive of Leicester’s Curve, the ever-open door to the rehearsal room epitomises why he enjoys working with the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMIf you dropped David Brent from The Office into a dystopian alternate timeline where capital punishment has been reinstated, you might end
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:55AMThe one-night performance has its roots in variety. And one of the venues with the most extensive history in this area is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMBlood, spit, tears and cum. That’s what theatre-maker Scottee’s latest show, Bravado, boils down to. It’s a memoir of a north London
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:12AMHow do you live in the shadow of a parent’s fame? That’s a question asked by Halley Feiffer’s I’m Gonna Pray for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:11AMThis isn’t Othello’s production, nor Iago’s. It opens with Michelle Cassio tying back her hair. She already seems weary, apprehensive, as she
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:23AMThe circle of life is an irresistible metaphor. Combine that with the circus ring – with the idea of life as a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:35AMA 2007 play inspired by a set of Republicans is now reflecting a wave of political and social issues buffeting a post-election
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMBy his own admission, Mathew Horne isn’t a big sleeper. By the time most of have arisen, bleary-eyed, he’s often been awake
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMAnyone who has seen the Feeling live will know that Dan Gillespie Sells is a theatrical performer, he explains with a light
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMHow do you try to re-capture the now-ness of the material verbatim theatre draws upon? The Listening Room adds chance to the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:46AMWith outlandishly outsized buttocks, Euripides Laskaridis sits on a chair, wearing teeteringly high heels. His beige bodysuit – which also covers his
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:47AMIt’s 1981 and London’s gay club scene is a refuge for stage electrics student Joseph and the only place ambitious would-be DJ
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:39AMIt’s a wonder that Jamie Lloyd hasn’t directed Philip Ridley’s work before. Recognised for his signature in-your-face directorial style, here he’s tackling
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:28AMA chill permeates Ashes. It’s a melancholic, mournful portrait of obsession that doesn’t try to explain the destructive acts it depicts. Instead,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:21AMDirty Great Love Story has got bigger and bigger. Starting out as a short poetry two-hander in a pub backroom, it grew
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:17AMBudget-slashed local authorities continue to tighten their belts and Arts Council funding has either levelled off or been reprioritised in the face
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMExtra Yarn is the Orange Tree Theatre’s first in-house show for young people under artistic director Paul Miller. Elinor Cook’s adaptation of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:55AMWitches and wizards are flying high, post Harry Potter. Kiki’s Delivery Service, adapted for the stage by Jessica Sian and based on
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:55AMIt’s a welcome return for All the Angels. Nick Drake’s choral play about the first public performance (in Dublin) of 18th-century composer
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:16AMThis new production of playwright David Wood’s adaptation of Dick King-Smith’s much-loved children’s story, Babe the Sheep-Pig, gets a lot right. Director
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:06AM“Yeah, well, ancient history,” says one character in Anders Lustgarten’s new play, The Seven Acts of Mercy. Not so for Lustgarten, whose
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:54PMScrooge and the Seven Dwarves won’t win awards for its slickness. But its festive mash-up of Father Christmas, Dickens, Snow White and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:11AMUnderneath is a tale from the crypt that brings new meaning to the term corpsing. With a rumbling laugh, Pat Kinevane –
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:18AMPutting Words in Your Mouth is a verbatim show that gets messier and more complicated the more you grapple with it –
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:12AMAt a time when people are being priced out of the London housing market, Teatro Vivo (co-producing with the Albany) serves up
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:50AMAfter two hours, the stage was strewn with foil curtains, roadie paraphernalia and dry ice. “I’ll never forget my first Forced Entertainment
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMChristian Parker, chair of the graduate theatre programme at Columbia University School of the Arts, notes how times have changed. “Culturally, we’re
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