Death of a Comedian Soho Theatre, until 16 May As his career takes off, the stages get bigger and so do the compromises. Exploring the highs and lows of the comedy world, this darkly funny a…
An exclusive ticket offer for £12 tickets to The Bombing of the Grand Hotel at the Cockpit Theatre for young people when using our promo code. Find out more below or skip the blurb to …
Photo credit Bill Knight Some years ago I attended a playwriting course with Stuart Browne, a playwright and teacher, who introduced me to the concept of the Generative Image, first floated …
The solo piece, My Stubborn Tongue, began as a poem I wrote for my grandmother during a Solo-Workshop Class at the Barrow Group Theater in NYC. My grandmother was an extraordinary woman who …
Win tickets to see Beats + Elements new hip-hop inspired theatre piece, No Milk for the Foxes. Two security guards. One night shift. Zero hours contracts. Is it important to aspire to a high…
Photo: Steve Green directing rehearsals for Fourth Monkey’s The Elephant Man. Note to self: This is what it's all about, being in the rehearsal room. This is where the fun is at! As…
TheatreCraft, the careers fair for theatre, took place at the Royal Opera House on 17 October. Here our writers reflect on the opening speeches and workshops that took place throughout the d…
Creating a sustainable career in the arts is by no means an easy goal. If, like me, you don't have family connections, access to vast sums of money and equally vast amounts of luck, the barr…
Southwark Playhouse's ‘tiny’ space plays host to Kate Lovell and Alison Neighbour's, together known as Bread & Goose, intimate and interactive play Lost In The Neuron Forest,…
I'm sitting in a bank of empty seats at Half Moon Young People's Theatre, watching two actors leap through lines of dialogue more like performance poetry than speech. Their rhythms and tempo…
It is very ambitious of the National Youth Theatre REP Company to stage one of Shakespeare’s most prominent plays with such a young cast of performers, but I thoroughly applaud their e…
Oscar Wilde’s cautionary tale of The Picture of Dorian Gray is well known and loved by generations of literary, film and theatre fans. This updated setting performed by The National Yo…
RIVE Productions presents THE DOG, THE NIGHT AND THE KNIFE by Marius Von Mayenburg, Translated by Maja Zade Sep 18 2014 – Oct 18 2014 Arcola Theatre ‘Do something and something w…
The Print Room opens at its new venue the Coronet with Notes from Underground, starring Harry Lloyd (Game of Thrones, Doctor Who), running 6 Oct " 1 Nov. For their weekday 9.15pmÂ�…
UNCLE VANYA St James Theatre 8 Oct " 8 Nov Exclusive Student Offer " Tickets just £20 (usually up to £39.50) Valid student ID required, one ticket per ID A beautiful autumn day, rural …
With their 2014 edition coming up this week, CASA Latin American Theatre Festival's Artistic Director Daniel Goldman talks about the challenges " and joys " of putting together a major inter…
We are just entering the final week of rehearsals for our production of Shakespeare’s Henry V. This project marks the first of Cyphers’ collaborations with student theatre …
Best of BE Festival Barbican 8-11 October, 7.45pm Crossing geographical borders, BE (Birmingham European) FESTIVAL champions the work of original and daring theatre makers from across the co…
Blue Boy Entertainment presents The Five & the Prophecy of Prana Barbican Theatre 2-4 October An action-packed hip-hop adventure of superhuman proportions. Set in modern Tokyo, The Five …
Karaoke Battersea Arts Centre 29 Sep – 18 Oct | 8.30pm Catatonically deadpan, gratuitously vapid and gleefully strung out, KARAOKE follows the critically-acclaimed AMUSEMENTS as t…
Cian Binchy, a recent graduate of Central School of Speech and Drama’s Performance Making Diploma for adults with learning disabilities, talks about what inspires him, his career so fa…
I discovered what costume design is by watching the extras on a Mighty Boosh DVD. There was an interview with the designer talking about putting tights on a coat-hanger to make a snake mask …
I have to admit I had my reservations when my publisher first broached the idea of transforming my poetry collection The Shipwrecked House into a show. Firstly, the collection wasn't designe…
A Younger Theatre is back at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for 2014 with its Edinburgh Young Critics Scheme. Below you’ll find all the reviews from our young critics compiled by …
What do a dirty weekend, violent hallucinations and a deportation room have in common? According to Rashid Razaq – a pair of handcuffs. The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes, directed by…