203 stories by "Andrew Dickson"
Andrew Dickson thought he'd seen everything at the festival "Â but he reckoned without Gangnam-loving soldiers, kilted pipers from Oman and a directorial concept that encompasses the dawn …
Royal Lyceum theatreIt begins undramatically: an actor ambles on stage and announces that we're going to watch footage of Richard Burton's 1964 Broadway version of Hamlet. But things begin t…
China's most controversial director is bringing Shakespeare's Coriolanus to Edinburgh " with two heavy-metal bands in tow. Andrew Dickson went to Beijing to hear the…
The story of the young Delhi woman who was gang-raped and left for dead is being brought to the stage " starring an actor who was once dowsed with kerosene and set alightOn 17 December last …
The star of stage and screen will be joining us live online on 20 July to talk Macbeth in Manchester. So what do you want to know?Since he burst on to the scene as an impetuous Henry V at th…
The star of stage and screen answered your questions from the Manchester festival. Here's what he had to say for himself Continue reading...
In our latest @GuardianStage tweet night, we're discussing political theatre live at London's Young Vic. What would you like to ask?In the six years since they first burst on to the British …
Punchdrunk are staging their biggest show yet " a descent into the Hollywood dream factory " in a vast west London building. But have the interactive mavericks reached theatre's outer l…
Shakespeare's Globe, London Continue reading...
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonThe last Dream to touch down at the Globe was the Yohangza theatre company's deliciously redefined Korean production: Puck was transmogrified into a double-act, an…
Share with GuardianWitness short video clips of you performing your own material, whether it's a couple of original gags or a brief stand-up routineAndrew Dickson
Theatre types are agog at the arrival of a David Hare parody account on Twitter. Who's behind it?Forget Helen Mirren getting regally stroppy with drummers interrupting her West End play. The…
Royal Court, LondonIn his final days at the Royal Court, you couldn't accuse Dominic Cooke of playing it safe. Before Christmas, he directed Martin Crimp's dizzyingly experimental In the Rep…
From an opera about Jerry Springer to Helen Mirren appearing live in cinemas around the world: 10 landmark productionsAndrew Dickson
'I decided I wanted to be a director at university. So I sold my granny's piano to take a show to the Edinburgh festival'Job: Incoming artistic director and chief executive of the Royal Cour…
Theatre has just gone through an extraordinary changing of the guard " with almost a dozen bosses at top institutions moving on. So are their young replacements planning a big shakeup?You wa…
A spot of table dancing and some pressing questions about chickens were among the highlights of this post-show session discussing a spectacular new exploration of Yoruba cultureThere was on-…
Sadler's Wells, LondonThere's a shipwreck on an unknown island. Struggling ashore, the crew fall under the spell of a mysterious, godlike ruler who has power of life or death over everything…
Arcola, LondonLeyla Nazli's first play, 2007's Silver Birch House, attempted to cram a good chunk of 20th-century Turkish history into a realist family drama. Her new work is both more troub…
Elevator Repair Service's epic, eight-hour adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby was a triumph of wit and theatrical ingenuity " and a heroic achievement2012 was a year of thea…
This summer's new incarnation of the immersive theatre sensation didn't just live up to the hype " it blew it away. (Alert: contains spoilers)Perhaps it seems perverse to choose a show that …
This summer's new incarnation of the immersive theatre sensation didn't just live up to the hype " it blew it away. (Alert: contains spoilers) Continue reading...
'I've definitely done my best work when I've been able to spend a lot of time on it. I don't come to a rehearsal room knowing what to do.'tlksMichael Boyd remembers his first day as artistic…
Post your questions for the Mock the Week host and superlative funnyman, who'll be joining us on Wednesday 14 NovemberMaybe you want to ask him about what Alan Sugar is like when the cameras…
The media are often accused of using a megaphone " we wanted our coverage to be a conversation. Thanks to your participation, that's exactly what happenedIt's over. The curtain has fallen, t…
