65 stories by "Laura Turner"
Opening this week at the Unicorn Theatre is a new play by Hollyoaks writer Suhayla El-Bushra, whose play Pigeons recently ran at the Royal Court Theatre. Cuckoo is, in her own words, “…
Pantomime season is well and truly upon us but amidst the mince pies and mulled wine lurks a challenge for the creatives behind today’s festive theatrical treats. How can they make the…
Laura Turner speaks to writer Katie Hims about Clean Break's new show Billy the Girl, informed by workshops conducted with female prisoners. The post Billy the Girl: getting to know Clean Br…
This October, the TakeOver Festival returns to York Theatre Royal, once again giving young people under 26 the chance to take to the helm of one of the most exciting regional theatre events …
Small Plans is a play about the small things in life that mean so much: fleeting decisions, stolen moments, the tiny grains of possibility that gradually build up to bigger things. This is e…
There is an affectionate familiarity about Hull Truck’s latest in-house production on the theatre’s main stage. Sign of the Times is a revived Tim Firth play and it bears the tra…
Grassroots Theatre tells Laura Turner more about their Summer of Love season of Shakespeare plays.
Laura Turner goes behind the scenes of new musical Part A playing at the Roundhouse's Accidental Festival.The post House parties and beer goggles: Part A the Musical appeared first on A Youn…
Laura Turner caught up with co-Artistic Director of Invertigo theatre company, Sion Alun Davies, ahead of the company’s residency at HighTide Festival the weekend of 7 – 8 May. D…
It’s not often that a play combines gags about anything and everything from food poisoning to dildos with one of the most significant political movements of the twenty-first century. Q…
Blowing stuff up, playing music and being inspired by the city you're from: three artists taking part in WYP's Transform season of new work tell Laura Turner about what theatre means to them…
Examining the lives of serving and ex-servicemen, Second Shot Productions developed Glory Dazed in collaboration with HMP Doncaster to reveal the difficulties of readjusting to normal life. …
Billy Barrett meets Mark Ravenhill to talk Brecht, RSC residency and not having a 'process'.
Charles Dickens, vintage records and a soundtrack spanning Elvis to Prof Green. Welcome to Theatre Alibi's Curiosity Shop.
Sex, money and the world wide web: Border Crossings' Consumed is a unique love story set in a virtual, global world.
Performance, installation, soundscape and landscape: Ellen Carr discovers the art of interdisciplinary company Fevered Sleep
A unique, fun and challenging look at our current economic climate, MONEY the gameshow is the creation of writer and theatremaker Clare Duffy. Inspired by the real global events that h…
Playwright E V Crowe tells Laura Turner about prequels to King Lear, seeking the truth and eating Haribo sours with new play Liar Liar.
Jessica Wilson discovers how the Othello Peckham Theatre Company's new Othello focuses on the powerful quest for love.
Story-telling, eating cake and the sex lives of the over 65s: Gruesome Playground Injuries director Justin Audibert reveals more about the show and his ambitions.
With AYT exhibiting at this year's TheatreCraft, Features Editor Laura Turner finds about more about this unique event for non-performance careers in theatre.
South-West company Idiot Child tell Laura Turner more about current show at Pleasance Islington, working with friends and dreaming big.
Power, ambition and control: the King Lear sequel that's tackling today's world in a collaboration between the Almeida and Talawa Theatre Company.
Michael Buble, Andrew Lloyd Webber and a spot of Barry Manilow. Not what you'd expect from Dracula, but Last Chance Saloon are turning the gothic stereotype entirely on it's head.
As Morgan Watkins prepares for his leading role in Desire Under the Elms, the actor speaks to Sarah Williams about adultery, infanticide and bloody good drama.
