325 stories by "Jake Orr"
Stories are the foundation of our society. They weave themselves into the everyday, from childhood tales at night time, to the hushed whispers of gossip between neighbours. Stories fuel the …
Media has consumed our everyday living. We can’t walk down the street without being inundated with headlines and advertisements and stories and news and products and media, media, medi…
They’re sprawling across the streets, their voices raised in alcohol-fuelled exchanges as they stumble blindly home through the night. In this perfectly timed production at Downstage T…
There is no denying that War Horse has found a place within the hearts of the British people. Now in its sixth year, including a worldwide tour, this National Theatre production shows the…
Marking its twentieth production, Kooza by Cirque Du Soleil at the Royal Albert Hall brings together two of the company’s foundation blocks: the arts of clowning and acrobatics. …
A magic piano that, when played, makes everyone around dance uncontrollably. A tramp lends this piano to a couple of young lovers who are desperate to escape parental control. Cue a town …
In November we introduced the Top 5 Theatre Trailers of the month, but for December we’re opening this out beyond trailers into the widespread area of general theatre related videos. S…
As a child of the 90s The Spice Girls played a huge part in my upbringing. It wasn’t just the music, it was the momentum and power behind the message and global reach of the British gi…
Opening the newly-formed Michael Grandage Company’s 15-month-long residency at the Noël Coward Theatre, the former artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse directs the first of fiv…
Give the theatre collective Shunt a space and it will create a spectacle in it. From its first incarnation in the railway arches in Bethnal Green, to the Shunt Lounge in the tunnels undernea…
Christmas spirit might be invading every corner of London, but at the Camden People’s Theatre an altogether alternative take upon the December cheer is taking over. It’s not Chri…
Trailers for theatre shows are becoming important tools for arts marketers. Here is a roundup of the five best trailers that we’ve found for November – from the dramatic and high…
You can feel the bass rumbling beneath your feet, passing up your legs and reverberating in your chest. The lights are glaring, dazzling, mesmerically addictive. Swaying from the drink that …
Want to play at the Monkey House? Award winning Fourth Monkey are back in London, following another critically acclaimed sell-out run at the Edinburgh festival and would like to work wit…
What if there were an infinite number of outcomes for our lives, where every action and moment realigned us subtly but indefinitely. Nick Payne’s Constellations first appeared at th…
Iara Solano Arana stands in a black dress and dons a blonde wig. Lit from the side she is bathed in a yellow hue as she presses her lips against the microphone that crackles and sparks at th…
The Finborough Theatre, under the direction of Neil McPherson, has produced and presented high-quality plays of all shapes and sizes. But in Khadija is 18, by newcomer Shamser Sinha, somethi…
In 2010, contemporary Polish theatre company TR Warszawa brought to the Barbican Centre their version of Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis, a gripping, emotional piece that had me root…
A pile of rugged rocks stretching up into the ceiling of the Soho Theatre Upstairs makes it look as if the roof above has fallen in. The combined weight of the rubble and the dust that still…
Under the title of London, Simon Stephens’ short solo pieces T5 and Seawall are placed side by side in a Paines Plough, Live Theatre and Salisbury Playhouse production current…
Since it began in 2010, BE Festival (Birmingham European Festival) has flourished, now bringing an abundance of European theatre and performance to the city of Birmingham. This year, the fes…
Headlong Theatre’s Medea, written and directed by Mike Bartlett (whose previous Headlong collaboration, Earthquakes in London, won the company critical acclaim), features a troub…
Jonathan Lewis' Our Boys is set in a military hospital in Woolwich occupied by soldiers injured in the Falklands and the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Following great success at the Derby Pl…
I’ve held off writing up a review of Little Angel Theatre’s production of The Tear Thief for nearly a week now. It is the sort of production that is best enjoyed over time, a …
Considered as one of the greatest pieces of religious literature, John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Process is given a playful and artful adaption by Carl Heap in Beggarsbelief&#…
