65 stories by "Laura Turner"
Hull actress Laura Elsworthy on the 'BookEnds' rep season currently at the Brockley Jack Theatre, featuring Shakespeare's first and last plays.
In the heart of Hackney Wick, the Yard Theatre has established itself as an exciting - and sustainable - home for new work in London. Deputy Artistic Director Tarek Iskander tells Laura Turn…
As The Table continues its celebrated run at Soho Theatre, Laura Turner had the privilege of asking its infamous star, Moses, a few questions.
A Lincolnshire girl myself, I was mightily excited at the prospect of The Bush Theatre’s Chalet Lines, a new play by Lee Mattinson set at Butlins, Skegness. In case you’ve not…
The pairing up of two short plays always requires a delicate balance. Hull Truck Theatre has selected two monologues that address questions of life, loss and mortality for its latest offe…
I have fond memories of a summer spent delving in and out of Arthur Ransome’s classic children’s novel, Swallows and Amazons, so it was with fairly high, nostalgia-charged expect…
This Easter week, Sheffield Theatres is taking audiences on an action-packed adventure as Bristol Old Vic’s hit musical Swallows and Amazons sails into the Lyceum Theatre from Tuesday …
Curious Directive’s acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe 2011 show, Your Last Breath, comes to the Pleasance Theatre next week, and here’s your chance to get your hands on some cheap…
artsdepot announces its exciting programme of youth theatre productions at the end of April as part of NT Connections.
Find out more about Sheffield Theatres' National Theatre Connections Festival - with events until Wednesday 4th April.
Witty, worldy and wildly funny, Oliver Goldsmith’s 1773 comedy of manners is brought to life with aplomb and enthusiasm in this lusty, joyous production at the Olivier Theatre. Complet…
Romeo and Juliet is the ultimate whirlwind romance. Taking place over the course of just five days, generations critics and directors  have struggled to accept the sheer speed with which …
The best of Nick Hern Books' recently published playtexts, and something for writers from Oberon Books.
Commissioned for Shakespeare Globe’s 2011 summer season, The God of Soho is a dark, debauched frolic through playwright Chris Hannah’s disturbing vision of heaven and the eart…
It’s not often that you go to see a musical knowing the subject matter but having no idea what to expect. As with other new musicals based on well-known stories (think Tony! The…
One of Shakespeare’s earliest comedies, Love’s Labour’s Lost precedes the hilarity of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Much Ado About Nothing, but there are foreshadowin…
Girls tasting their first illicit sip of vodka in the backroom of a smoky club or house party; young women getting tipsy with their friends, celebrating birthdays, hen nights, anniversaries;…
The Paper Birds' Jemma McDonnell chats about new show Thirsty, which features real women's stories of boozy nights out, sore heads and brusied knees.
A gigantic Scottish cat named Angus, a thong-wearing arch-enemy and so much snogging that there’s a Snog-o-meter on stage just to help you keep track. In short, Angus, Thongs and Ev…
A countrywide round up of what to see this week whether St Valentine has got you loved up or fed up.
William Congrave's Restoration comedy The Way of the World is vibrantly brought to life in a fun and frolicsome production by Lyndsey Turner for the Sheffield Crucible. Everything about this…
Sixty-five miles is the distance between Sheffield and Hull. It is also the distance, door to door, between Pete and his estranged daughter Jenny. In an exciting collaboration between new wr…
Young assessor Jo Eliot reveals why The Offies are such an important collection of awards for young theatremakers everywhere.
Propeller has a reputation for re-imagining Shakespeare through an innovative approach to the text and a physical aesthetic. Artistic Director Edward Hall’s interpretation of …
Old Vic New Voices (OVNV) has launched its season of work for 2012. The education and community department of The Old Vic Theatre, the new season focuses on the department’s core princ…
