878 stories by "Ian Foster"
McCraney is now an Oscar-winning writer after the phenomenal success of Moonlight (based on one of his unproduced plays) and RuPaul has dragged drag into the mainstream
There was a special currency for Sarah Daniels' Neaptide being the opening play in the #ntQueer season as this 1986 drama was actually the first by a living female playwright at the National…
it is the complexity of this sensory overload that Alistair Wilkinson captures evocatively in his dance-led devised piece Man-Cub. Trailed as a queer adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's The Jung…
Khalil has turned her focus to the experience of female detainees at the notorious Yarl's Wood detention centre and the many, many indignities suffered by those trying to work their way thro…
Part of the problem that faces writers trying to satirise Brexit is that the daily influx of tragic, comic and tragicomic headlines are more outlandish than they could surely have ever imagi…
Ahoy sailors! If what you thought the world of musical theatre was missing was the opportunity to be trapped on a boat for four days with a load of wealthy musical theatre fans, then worry n…
Yank! was written by the Zellniks as a deliberate homage to the musicals of the 1940s but it is a Second World War love story with a difference.
Among the many themes raised by Bj McNeill's is nature versus nurture, questioning if there's an inescapable genetic legacy carried down by parents whether they're a part of one's life or no…
Belonging is a public debate with poncy performance chaired by Scottee. Together with a committee of prominent queers he will explore where queer people sit in our society. A boozy, loose-to…
There's a rather lazy trope around 'unlikely subjects' for a musical which accompany any show that deviates from the apparent norm. Yet given that the Best New Musical Olivier award winners …
The solo musical is a rather under-used genre, perhaps a sign of how difficult it is to construct a musical monologue. But between them, lyricist Richy Hughes, composer Joseph Finlay and boo…
Taylor Mac's Hir comes loaded with worlds of contemporary resonances, particularly in its exploration of the disaffection of the American working class and its probing into multiple layers o…
Julian Fellowes' book undulates gently rather than creating any particularly dramatic waves " Rat and Mole's growing friendship is quietly but effectively done, Toad is characterised as a Bo…
A monthly micro-review from There Ought to be Clowns.
In an abandoned building in a grim area of town, Eva and Huinca seem to be suffering the hangover from hell. She's a lame prostitute and he's dying of cirrhosis of the liver and with just a …
"We could see this was a bad one immediately. The sky was glowing."Touted as an evening of song, dance and poetry, Songs anA fundraising gala evening pulled together in the space of a week b…
There's something a little depressingly predictable about my inability to resist a neat bit of star casting - Marcia Gay Harden's long-in-the-making UK theatrical debut being the guilty part…
Booking an interactive show in which we the audience get to play the role of the jury?
Using a gimmick to cover the business of reviewing the play....?
I was rather seduced by The Quentin Dentin Show's charms when I saw it last year - riding post-Edinburgh enthusiasm, this sci-fi musical slotted into the late-night berth at the Above the Ar…
A Theatre Trip for Every Child, Lewisham is a new giving scheme to provide a free theatre ticket for every 5-year-old in the Borough of Lewisham. 'Every Child' enables businesses and individ…
Truth be told I hadn't intended to see Gloria, my own little act of protest at the Hampstead's continuing gender imbalance - six shows straight on their main stage both written and directed …
Elliott & Harper Productions have announced their first West End show in the form of Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle, a Simon Stephens play which will take up residency at the Wyn…
Ovalhouse and BraveNewWorlds' Trinity describes itself as a design-led performance and it does feel more art installation than conventional theatre. And like much of modern art, it benefits …
Camden Stands with Grenfell Tower: An evening of music and poetry in aid of Grenfell Tower Fire Fund.
Hosted by Ché Walker, Friday 23rd June sees a night of music and poetry in honour of t…
Adding to the fundraising efforts already established, actor Giles Terera and producer Danielle Tarento have put together a theatrically inclined evening of song, dance and comedy in aid of …
