25 stories by "Lauren Paxman"
The Bussey Building, Peckham: Pure Fluke Theatre aims to "produce provocative comedies that playfully re-imagine classic texts," and its latest effort, Abandon, superimposes the cr…
King's Theatre, Edinburgh: Those heading to Edinburgh International Festival show, Histoire D'Amour, expecting a nice little French love story are in for a surprise. This adaptation of …
International Conference Centre/Edinburgh International Climbing Arena: <a href="http://www.gridiron.org.uk/">Grid Iron</a> is one of Scotland's boldest and most r…
Drayton Arms Theatre, London: Juggling the roles of writer, director and lead actor - all in the same production - is never easy. And Raymond-Kym Suttle unfortunately doesn't quite pull…
Trafalgar Studios, London: Australian playwright Brendan Cowell's Happy New enjoyed a sell-out run at London's Old Red Lion last year which was extended to an unprecedented eight w…
King's Head Theatre, London: Liz Lochhead's most successful, acclaimed and wordily-titled play had only been performed in London once before this week - it toured through the capital mo…
The Old Red Lion Theatre, London: Telling ghost stories might sound to many children like something that happened before The X Factor was invented. But Theatre of the Damned are doing its da…
Riverside Studios, London: "Lights up (fade) � three soldiers from three countries are sitting in the belly of a whale." So begins Nineveh, Theatre Temoin's allegorical a…
Charing Cross, London: Billie Holiday's iconic voice dripped with life experience, and with good reason. The jazz and blues star's 44 short years were littered with rape, child pro…
Corinthia Hotel, London: If you like You Me Bum Bum Train you'll love Above and Beyond. The one-on-one show takes you on a secretive solo journey around parts of the uber-swanky five-st…
The Bussey Building, London: Edinburgh Fringe award-winning comic Adam Riches sold out a five-week run at Soho Theatre last year. So it must make a change to be performing to crowds of about…
The Rose, Bankside, London: A 90-minute Hamlet which manages to keep in all of the best bits might sound totally unrealistic to some Shakespeare fans. But few of them will be disappointed by…
Tristan Bates Theatre, London: Anorexia is notoriously tricky to treat. But in Isley Lynn's new high tension drama, Tessa (Laura Hanna) thinks she has found a speedy solution. She won&#…
Tabard Theatre, London: The 1836 Battle of the Alamo was the USA's version of Dunkirk. But if you are after a history lesson, you'd do better to hit up Wikipedia than Mark Giesser&…
Royal Festival Hall: It is possible to have a white Christmas this year afterall - inside the Royal Festival Hall. And the millions of pieces of paper which fall from the sky in Slava's…
Bloomsbury Theatre, London: Philippa Pearse's 1958 children's fantasy novel was an instant classic. And in the Birmingham Stage Company's capable hands the story stands the te…
Arts, London: For many families, reading A Christmas Carol is as much of a December tradition as decorating the Christmas tree. But however good your dad happens to be at putting on a Tiny T…
Theatre Royal Stratford East: Martina Cole's uber-popular crime novels have spent more time at the top of the original fiction chart than the works of Dan Brown, John Grisham and Lee Ch…
National, London: Damned By Despair, Tirso de Molina's Spanish Golden Age drama about religion and forgiveness was always going to struggle to get National Theatre audiences excited. Ev…
Union Theatre, London: With three new, big-budget jukebox musicals opening in the West End this autumn, it is really refreshing to watch an old school musical being performed just how Irving…
Riverside Studios, London: Chemistry and dramatic theatre are not an obvious combination. Sure, we talk of chemistry on stage, but that doesn't generally mean overflowing beakers of bub…
Lowland Hall, Royal Highland Centre, Ingliston, Edinburgh: Theatre du Soleil had to wait nearly five decades for the Edinburgh International Festival to find a space huge enough to stage one…
Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler's Wells, London: It may be fashionable to have a good moan about the Olympics, but Tom McNab's new drama puts our G4S and 'Zil lanes' fiascos firm…
The Scoop at More London: The Scoop celebrates 10 years of free, open-air theatre this summer and the quality of 2012's Oresteia trilogy shows just why audiences keep on turning up - ev…
Leicester Square Theatre: After transporting Kafka's The Trial to a country full of suicide bombers in Failed States, you would have thought writing a musical about the financial crisis…
